Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. His work weaves together spiritual practice, trauma healing and nonviolent action to advance social change and move towards collective liberation.
Covered in this interview:
- Teaching Nonviolence in the West Bank, and roots in Buddhism
- Given what is happening in this nation and the world, how long do we wait to heal before we act?
- Are the spiritual and political realms in opposition to another? Can we see them as one? Can we act in both worlds together?
- What does it mean to be mentally and spiritually nonviolent?
- What does it mean to “awaken a sense of moral shame?” in communications with oppressors?
- What does it mean when police officers “take a knee?”
- The role of trauma, and are we all “traumatized?” What do we do about that?
- The potential for societal healing now
- Resilience and insight
- How do we prepare for possible violence against us?
- Plus interviews from Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Santa Cruz, CA
Notes and Resources:
Find Kazu at www.KazuHaga.com and his upcoming program, “Fierce Vulnerability Kinship Lab”
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