Founder & Facilitator - Denise Farai Williams
Daniel Minter, When She Dance 2008 (danielminter.net)
Denise Farai Williams is an somatic facilitator, teacher, coach & antiracist cultural organizer, educator, creative activist and performing artist. Farai is the founder & lead embodied equity facilitator, educator and strategist for Dynamizing Equity™. With a deep curiosity in nervous system-responsive self care, she invites participants to create more mental, physical, spiritual, internal space while employing a variety of cultural, somatic and historical learning prompts, to de-mechanize the body and build its capacity for revealing, feeling, healing and dealing with systemic racism and anti-blackness. Farai’s background in anti-racism, cultural organizing and social equity work brings an understanding of power and privilege to her facilitation. Therapeutic in nature, she boldly holds authentic and compassionate space for people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. She previously served as Program Director for Organizational Equity & Practice with Trinity Boston Connects. She is a teacher with the Strozzi Institute for Somatics and a trainer with the People's Institute for Survival & Beyond (PISAB) as well as, faculty-facilitator with the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Centers’, Racial Reconciliation & Healing Project.
Welcome to Dynamizing Equity, where we specialize in somatics and embodied racial equity training with a systemic lens. Our founder and owner, D. Farai Williams, has extensive experience in embodiment practices, workshop facilitation, and is committed to helping individuals and organizations address the impacts of racial trauma on the body.
At Dynamizing Equity, we believe that true equity and justice can only be achieved when people are able to fully integrate their body, mind, and spirit in the healing process. Our programs are designed to help individuals develop the skills and tools they need to promote healing and wellness in themselves and their communities.
We work with individuals, groups, and organizations who are committed to promoting equity and inclusion, and who want to transform trauma into empowerment. Whether you are dealing with the impacts of racial trauma in your own life, or seeking to create a more equitable workplace or community, we are here to support you.
“In my 20 years of work, engagement and organizing, I’ve never met another artist or educator who is as deeply committed to community authorship and ownership, or who, to quote a young person from our Racial Reconciliation and Healing Program, “just gets it” when it comes to building community and sharing power. Farai took us though a number of activities, expertly increasing in the level of risk, while carefully closing us out each day. Her ability to hold space, was truly magical. As a facilitator/youth worker, I felt utterly safe to fully participate and do some of my own reconciliation and healing work, while Farai calmly managed the affect in the room, guided and celebrated our individual movement and continually brought the participants back into the circle to debrief and make meaning. …As Farai says, “reconciliation and healing is not a neck up activity”. Farai has the ability to laser in on individual processes and connections, but also think and feel systemically, she understands and can work with community as a whole. ”