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Love Letter to the Movement:
Using a Coach Approach for Healing, Justice, and Liberation
By Sarah Jawaid and Damon Azali-Rojas
Written by the creators of Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation, Love Letter to the Movement asks how we can move through social justice movements as whole people. Sarah and Damon weave together personal stories with coaching skills to support individuals and communities to connect to what really matters for collective liberation. Love Letter brings in political analysis, centers Spirit, and offers practical examples and exercises to help deepen individual practice. This book is an important resource for those looking for liberatory tools to support social justice movements.
Cover art: Sarah Jawaid and Rehma Ahmad
“This book is the guide to your personal and professional healing journey. The stories are heartfelt, the methods are transformative, and the re-learning is rooted in truth and justice. As an Indigenous mother and educator, I have never felt such deep connection and belonging before.”
— Melissa Alcala, high school teacher and co-founder of So’oh-Shinálí Sister Project
“Through their approach of storytelling and metaphors, a key tenant of critical race theory, Sarah and Damon unpack coaching and create key pathways to not only interrupt white supremacy, but radically imagine something new for BIPOC coaches. Sarah teaches, 'you have the only set of keys to unlock the universe inside of you.' This book is a portal and your ancestors are calling. Will you pick up?”
— Kelechi Ubozoh, co-editor of We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Setting the Coaching Container
Chapter 3 - Liberatory Coaching Skills
Chapter 4 - Bringing in Spirit
Chapter 5 - Needs and Values
Chapter 6 - Parts Work
Chapter 7 - Decolonizing Coaching
Chapter 8 - Liberatory Coaching
Chapter 9 - Re-membering the Body
Chapter 10 - Enhancing Community Organizing with Coaching
Chapter 11 - Resource Interdependence
Chapter 12 - Self-Care for the Coach
Chapter 13 - Coaching Applicability: Interview with Sarah and Damon
Chapter 14 - Futuristic Coaching
About The authors
Sarah Jawaid and Damon Azali-Rojas are the co-directors of Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation. Through years of organizing with the Bus Riders Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros/버스 승객 조합, Ban the Box, and other important struggles, they’ve experienced victories, heartbreak, growth, pain, and so much richness.
These experiences led them to coaching for social justice movement leaders to grow our capacity, resilience, and effectiveness to ultimately win the struggles we are fighting while, at the same time, making sure movement spaces are healing, uplifting, and don’t leave anyone behind.
