Dona Hirschfield-White, LCSW 

(she/her)

Dona is a licensed clinical social worker and Trauma-Recovery coach practicing relational politicized liberation psychotherapy with individuals, relationships and groups. She specializes in somatically resourcing social justice activists, leaders, outsiders, immigrants, LGBTQI folk,  people who have harmed, and other resilient survivors to align their values, longings, and actions. She uses a transformative justice framework to support individual, intergenerational and group healing.  She is trained in many lineages of somatics but generative somatics (https://generativesomatics.org/) has been her main training home since 2011. She is an advanced practitioner and trains and supervises somatic practitioners in the GS lineage. She is a cis, queer, white, European immigrant Jewish parent who has been investigating whiteness and embodied supremacy/oppression for the last 20 years. Dona lives and works on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory colonially known as San Francisco, California.

Sue Kuyper, LCSW 

(she/her)

Sue is a bilingual somatic therapist, licensed clinical social worker and organizational consultant who has been working within crossroads of social movements, community-based organizations and healing for the past 30 years primarily in the Mission District in San Francisco, Oakland and Guatemala.  She offers an in-depth multicultural, international and multidisciplinary perspective with an expertise in vicarious trauma.  She has been training with generative somatics (generativesomatics.org) since 2009.  She is also a single mother with co-parents of two teenage young people who teach her to stay committed to transformation every single day. Sue lives and works on unceded Chochenyo and Muwekma Ohlone homeland also known as Oakland, California.

Clare Bayard (they/them) 

Clare Bayard has organized for over 20 years in grassroots multiracial movements for collective liberation, and co-founded Catalyst Project, a movement building center supporting white anti-racist organizing. Clare is a parent, a direct action trainer with the Ruckus Society, a writer, and a somatic healing practitioner/coach who focuses on working with survivors of sexual assault and war. Clare has been in training and practicing with generative somatics since 2012. 

Clare's training comes from coalition and campaign work in many movement sectors, particularly in migrant rights, global justice, housing rights and anti-displacement, Palestinian liberation, anti-imperialist struggles against US wars and G.I. resistance, post-Katrina Gulf Coast Reconstruction, and climate justice.

Demilitarization and connecting struggles against US empire at home and abroad are at the heart of Clare’s political work. Clare is active in the War Resisters International Network, served in board and staff positions at the War Resisters League for over a decade, and has worked closely with About Face Veterans Against war (formerly Iraq Veterans Against the War) since soon after its founding.

Clare’s writing has been published widely including the Guardian UK, Z Magazine, Alternet, Common Dreams, The Hill, and the recent anthology We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st century America.  

Eila Strand (she/her): 

Eila is a white trans woman descended from British and Scandinavian settlers. She was raised in a middle-class family of Evangelical missionaries. She’s been shaped by multiple streams - the racialized violence and striving for holiness in her blood lineage, and also her political lineage of healer-activists and trans radicals working toward freedom and repair. Since 2014, she’s been active in grassroots movements focused on abolishing prisons, redistributing white wealth, and ending deportations. Since 2018, she’s been learning and practicing generative somatics. Some other things that bring her life are carving linocut prints, sharing soup, and looking at blobby tide pool creatures. She lives and works as a somatic therapist on Duwamish land (so-called Seattle, WA).