Managing Shock and Awe: Lessons from Root Shock and Collective Recovery

Wednesdays, March 5, 12, 19 and 26
6pm-7pm ET via Zoom

The attacks of the Trump administration have upended the world and this kind of upheaval causes “root shock.” Root shock is the traumatic stress reaction to the loss of some or all of our emotional ecosystem. This four-session course will answer the question: How do we manage root shock and move forward with a collective vision? Drawing on 25 years of work on Collective Recovery, we will look at specific tasks, including staying centered, gathering with others to name the moment, finding what we’re FOR, and building coalitions for the work ahead. The course will include presentations, readings, daily journaling, and interactive activities.

Register for the course here.

Course Director:

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, DLFAPA, Hon AIA, is a social psychiatrist, a native of Orange, NJ, and a co-founder of the University of Orange. Since 1986, she has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities, with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. She has published over 100 scientific papers and eight books. Among her books are the highly-regarded Urban Restoration Trilogy, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It, Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities, and Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. She holds two honorary doctorates and is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In the Fall of 2023 she delivered the Mary Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College based on her new research and forthcoming book on the “Tao of K-drama.”