HBOMax: Atlas of the Heart - 2022
Catch Prentis in Brené Brown’s new special Atlas of the Heart. Episode 5: Places We Go With Others - And The Framework for Meaningful Connection.
HBOMax: Eyes on the Prize - Hallowed Ground- 2021
This documentary special honors Henry Hampton’s masterpiece EYES ON THE PRIZE (1987-1990) and conjures ancestral memories, activates the radical imagination and explores the profound journey for Black liberation through the voices of the movement.
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The Forge - Organizing Strategy and Practice: We have a way to claim the future - May 2021
Black Visions co-executive directors Miski Noor and Kandace Montgomery sat down with Denise Perry, the executive director of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD); Adaku Utah, the organizing director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, the co-director of Harriet’s Apothecary, and a teacher with BOLD; and Prentis Hemphill, the founder and director of the Embodiment Institute and a trainer with BOLD. They talk about the centrality of care, the importance of taking risks and making mistakes, and what it means to invest in Black leadership in this moment. This interview has been edited and condensed.
Loveland Foundation - April 2021
Experience this Instagram Live on the topics of Healing Justice and Embodiment
me too: Survivor Healing Series: Choice, Voice, & Boundaries - December 2020
The fourth session of the 'me too.' Survivor Healing Series explores through the lens of survivorship and discusses how sexual violence disrupts the key concepts of choice, voice, and boundaries while considering how we can restore and come back to our inherent power. We hope this discussion will lead participants to consider: What is one boundary you might want to practice honoring?
M4BL’s Healing, Health, and Resilience during covid-19 - 2020
For many of us, this is the first time we’ve lived through a pandemic. In addition to the social, political, and economic consequences of COVID19, many are grappling with how to best care for ourselves and those we love. Whether you’re living in cramped quarters with little room for quiet or alone time or living with chronic pain or illness and fear leaving the house to see your health care providers, caring for ourselves right now can be a challenge. During this national call, hear from social movement practitioners in healing, somatics, ritual, hoodoo, and yoga about how to care for your physical body, your mind, and your spirit during and beyond COVID19.
Healing Traditions
"Healing Traditions" is a short film produced by Edward Hemphill and Kai Tillman for the Pōpolo Project that explores Blackness, healing, and water through the story of Prentis Hemphill, a healer and activist.
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For the Wild Podcast: Choosing Belonging - July 2021
“There's no magical return. We're not all going to return to an unblemished time in history, and if we know that...what do we have to do? Who needs to have a conversation with whom? Who needs to heal what relationship? Who needs to ask for what permission? Who needs to offer something back?” This week on the podcast, Prentis Hemphill offers us these questions in conversation about how we can be in relationship with each other at this very moment in time.
Lady Don’t Take No Podcast with Alicia Garza - May 2021
Alicia Garza is joined by Tarana Burke, the Founder and Director of the “Me Too.” Movement, and by Prentis Hemphill, the Founding Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative.
CHITHEADS Podcast: Embodied Philosophy: Prentis Hemphill on Healing Justice & Queer Spiritual Purpose - April 2021
This episode explores the questions: What is healing? How do we heal? How does somatics shift the paradigm of traditional therapy? And explores Queer spiritual purpose, supporting repair and stretching the parameters of belonging.
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them. magazine - April 2021
Prentis Hemphill is Forging a Path Toward Collective Healing
Huffington Post: Healing justice is how we sustain black lives
"Healing justice is the how of our movements – it’s the texture, the experience and the vision that guides us."
Black Lives Matter: Tools for Addressing Chapter Conflict
This toolkit was created to offer guidelines and best practices for conflict resolution within chapters.
Black Lives Matter: Healing in Action
This toolkit was created to collate, condense and share the lessons we have learned in ensuring that our direct actions are centered on healing justice.