Transforming trauma history in the present via Embodied Nonviolent Communication into individual and collective grieving, softening and unifying

I cannot trace my origins back more than two generations, since records don’t exist for my enslaved relatives and their prior connections in India and Africa will remain a mystery. My curiosity about my own trauma history and my despair about acts of racial antagonism, of all confrontation using anger to harm other people, draw me to sew a tapestry of hope via Embodied Nonviolent Communication. I offer a walk through our remembrances of all our ancestors, the traumas caused and received, the harms done, the emotions that still live within us and erupt in terrible actions and in bewildered witness. I invite the fierce acknowledgment of rage and shame, that are real reactions to feeling hurt in response to another person, as tools to transform our deep and ancient human emotional being, into individual and collective grieving, softening and unifying. Could we ripple compassion through people we have contact with, collectively grieve for all our losses and nurture ourselves collectively with love for all our needs?