Healing-centered work
Assertiveness Workbook How To Express Your Ideas & Stand Up for Yourself at Work & in Relationships
Explore how to start and run your own private therapy practice. Learn how to set and maintain personal boundaries without becoming inaccessible. Become more genuine and open in relationships without fearing attack. Defend yourself when you are criticized or asked to submit to unreasonable requests.
Randy J Paterson
Brass Tacks: On Organizational Trauma
Arabella Perez speaks with us about organizational trauma and how best to help teams and organizations move towards healing.
Up With Community
Resources with Norma Wong
Norma Wong, an instructor with the Institute of Zen Studies, applies Zen principles in an experiential and secular practice to support individual, organizational and societal change. Her training and application could equally help with your own personal or organizational growth.
Move to End Violence
Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body from the On Being podcast with Krista Tippett
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences. We call this “trauma” when we encounter it in life and news, and we tend to leap to address it by talking. But Bessel van der Kolk knows how some experiences imprint themselves beyond where language can reach. He explores state-of-the-art therapeutic treatments — including body work like yoga and eye movement therapy — and shares what he and others are learning on this edge of humanity about the complexity of memory, our need for others, and how our brains take care of our bodies.
On Being with Krista Tippett
Guide to Completing the Agency Self-Assessment
The Agency Self-Assessment for Trauma-Informed Care is intended to be a tool that will help you assess your organization’s readiness to implement a trauma-informed approach.
The Trauma Informed Care Project
Family-Care, Community-Care and Self-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma
This toolkit, put together by the Association of Black Psychologists and Community Healing Network–developed by and for people of African ancestry–is meant to comfort and inspire in difficult times. It provides resources to help us take care of ourselves and each other, and strengthen our sense of community for the journey ahead.
The Association of Black Psychologists
Trauma Transformed Tools
This is a set of tools developed by the organization Trauma Transformed, specifically designed for organizations to assess whether their programs and actions follow trauma-informed principles and, if not, to guide them toward more trauma-informed policies.
Trauma Transformed
Breaking Isolation: Self Care and Community Care Tools for our People
This is a personal wellness plan, as well as a set of additional resources, presented by The Audre Lorde Project, to help name the trauma and needs felt by members of the LGBTSTGNC POC community, and to inspire love and resilience to meet those needs.
The Audre Lorde Project
RYSE Center
RYSE creates safe spaces grounded in social justice for young people to love, learn, educate, heal, and transform lives and communities. Check out their website for resources and info about youth programming, antiracism and more.
RYSE Center
Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care
This is the third book in a trilogy by Dr. Sandra Bloom which explores the effect of trauma on human service organizations and explains how organizations can become trauma informed by using a therapeutic approach called the Sanctuary model.
Dr. Sandra L. Bloom & B. Farragher
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
Resmaa Menakem
Dr. Gail C. Christopher
Check out the website of Dr. Gail C. Christopher, a leader on health, wellness, and racial healing. Her comprehensive site may help you discover those requisite elements for personal growth and well-being.
Dr. Gail C. Christopher
Move to End Violence
This online community is building a platform to end violence. Their extensive online resources offer tools, practices, and strategies that could help us collectively achieve the social change we seek.
Move to End Violence
The healing power of reading
“Reading also changed our relationship with each other. It gave us an occasion for intimacy, to see beyond our points of view… When you meet somebody as a reader, you meet him for the first time, newly, freshly.” Michelle Kuo’s engaging TED Talk looks at reading and writing as invaluable ways to engage with others and discover more about ourselves.
TED Talk
What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?
An architect who spent years planning in and revitalizing the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, Liz Ogbu discusses “spatial justice,” and the importance of understanding that justice has a geography. Ogbu argues that this understanding is the jumping-off point for viewing the equitable distribution of resources and services as a basic human right.
TED Talk
How we can start to heal the pain of racial division
“We believe[d] that everyone, both black and white, people in the South, could find a redemptive pathway out of the stranglehold of racism that had gripped them for more than 400 years.” This powerful, first-hand account of activism and struggle within the American Civil Rights Movement looks at how we can move on from a long history of division and adversity.
TED Talk
Growth After Trauma
Richard G. Tedeschi tells us about how to make sure that we derive something positive from struggle.
Harvard Business Review
Free Racialized Trauma Course
This course is designed to help identify, acknowledge and heal from racialized trauma, defined as mental and emotional injury caused by encounters with racial bias and ethnic discrimination.
Cultural Somatics Institute
Making the Body a Home
Wellness offerings that empower people to unlearn racial conditioning and unpack racial trauma.
Making the Body a Home
BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective)
BEAM is a national training, movement building and grant making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.
BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective)
Melanin & Mental Health
Melanin & Mental Health connects individuals with culturally competent clinicians committed to serving the mental health needs of Black & Latinx/Hispanic communities.
Melanin & Mental Health
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
Visit this pathway 
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
Visit this pathway 
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Visit this pathway 
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Visit this pathway 
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Visit this pathway 
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
Visit this pathway 
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
Visit this pathway GROW COMMUNITY
Giving thanks: We share these resources with gratitude to all of our teachers and with appreciation for the value they have brought us.
The field guide is a living resource that we are consistently adding to. We receive no payment or kickbacks from contributors for sharing. Access and use of these resources should be done at one’s own discretion.
If you see a resource you like, we strongly encourage you to reach out to the author and support their work in the world through contributions, donations or by hiring them. One goal of this guide is to expand the circle of connections for powerful justice and equity work in the world.
Coming soon: A searchable list of contributors to make it easier to support members of the Field Guide.
Have a resource to add? We continue to expand the resources we can share. If you have a tool, resource or link you would like to share through the Field Guide, please email us: research@upwithcommunity.org.
Ready to learn?
If it’s time to transform your team so they can transform the world, let’s connect.