Episode 23: The Fierce Vulnerability of Beloved Community with Kazu Haga
In this episode of Fierce Compassion, we delve into the fierce vulnerability of Beloved Community with nonviolence and restorative justice practitioner Kazu Haga. Drawing on stories of transformative reconciliation, Haga demonstrates our human capacity to transmute even the deepest harms through fierce vulnerability. Haga explores the fractal relationship between personal and systemic change, and how a stance of curiosity, compassion, and commitment to Beloved Community can sustain us and help us find our place in a diverse ecosystem of social transformation. Join us in this rich conversation as we discover how unhealed trauma impacts our world and how each of us can find our place in the great work of individual and collective healing.
Episode 23: The Fierce Vulnerability of Beloved Community with Kazu Haga
About Kazu
Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core
member of Building Belonging, The Ahimsa Collective and the Fierce Vulnerability
Network, and the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He works with incarcerated people, youth, and activists from around the country.
He has over 20 years of experience in nonviolence and social change work, and has
been an active trainer since 2000. He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community
on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA.
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Mentioned in the episode:
Organizations
Yes!
The Ahimsa Collective
People
Josiah Royce
Mariame Kaba
Chris Moore-Backman
Reverend Nadia Bolz-Weber
Sonya Shah
Shilpa Jain
Lilla Watson