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Racial Justice Open Conversation

In unsettling times, it matters even more to nurture the connections that make us stronger as one community.

The present times are exhausting. They hurt. Retraumatise. Yet, they also show how we are much more than this. We are one community, made of incredible human beings from immensely rich ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.

At the London ACEs Hub, we recognise that the significant harm caused by the adverse experience of racism is real. Equally real, nevertheless, is our human capacity to endure, to heal, and to grow, both as individuals and as a community.

Join us as we slow down to face the monsters of prejudice, discrimination, and “cold rage”. Together, we will create a nurturing conversation to engage with a much more powerful truth, and the buffers that enable us not only to resist, but to persist: connection and love.

Speakers; Leroy Logan M.B.E. is a retired Metropolitan Police Superintendent, co-founder of the Black Police Association, Mark Crick works within Children’s Services, where he focuses on addressing the impact of racial inequality and building local anti-racist practice, Dr Muna Abdi, researcher, working at the intersection of leadership, community accountability, racial equity and organisational change. 

Traumatic experiences leave their imprint on the body as well as the mind. Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for healing. The helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma need not be inevitable.

Drawn from more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s global bestseller The Body Keeps The Score showed us that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body – and demonstrated a new approach to recovery, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies to heal mind, brain and body. Fusing insights from the cutting-edge of neuroscience with the weight of decades of experience as an active therapist, Dr van der Kolk will reveal the power of our relationships – whether in the intimacy of the home or in our wider communities – to both hurt and heal.

Join us to discover how both adults and children can reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives.

Traumatic experiences leave their imprint on the body as well as the mind. Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for healing. The helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma need not be inevitable.

Drawn from more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s global bestseller The Body Keeps The Score showed us that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body – and demonstrated a new approach to recovery, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies to heal mind, brain and body. Fusing insights from the cutting-edge of neuroscience with the weight of decades of experience as an active therapist, Dr van der Kolk will reveal the power of our relationships – whether in the intimacy of the home or in our wider communities – to both hurt and heal.

Join us to discover how both adults and children can reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives.

Traumatic experiences leave their imprint on the body as well as the mind. Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for healing. The helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma need not be inevitable.

Drawn from more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s global bestseller The Body Keeps The Score showed us that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body – and demonstrated a new approach to recovery, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies to heal mind, brain and body. Fusing insights from the cutting-edge of neuroscience with the weight of decades of experience as an active therapist, Dr van der Kolk will reveal the power of our relationships – whether in the intimacy of the home or in our wider communities – to both hurt and heal.

Join us to discover how both adults and children can reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives.