Fierce Vulnerability: Healing Work for a Divided World (Online)

What if the courage to change the world starts with the courage to feel? This three-hour workshop introduces the Fierce Vulnerability framework, a powerful approach developed by Kazu Haga and collaborators that weaves together nonviolent action, trauma healing, and spiritual practice. Designed for activists, healers, and community builders, the session invites us to explore the paradoxes of our time—power and love, audacity and humility, fierceness and vulnerability—while staying rooted in relationship with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. Participants will engage in guided teaching, embodied practices, and both whole-group and small-group dialogue as we explore how movements for justice can also be spaces of healing, renewal, and collective transformation.

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator, and author of Healing Resistance and Fierce Vulnerability. With over 25 years of experience, he works with incarcerated people, youth, and activists across the country. He lives with his family at Canticle Farm on Lisjan Ohlone land in Oakland, CA. Learn more at www.kazuhaga.com.

Cassie Manley, LCSW is a psychotherapist, former hospice social worker, and ex-Montessori teacher who supports high achievers, deep feelers, and those forging alternative life paths. She brings a trauma-informed, spiritually engaged lens to healing and is especially drawn to the intersection of personal transformation and collective liberation. Cassie lives in Houston, TX with her two cats, a stack of half-read books, and a deep love for roadside weirdness and naps. Learn more at cassiemanley.com.

This program is being offered ONLINE only. Recordings will be distributed to registered participants only, and will not be available for individual purchase.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

*The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (TBHEC) has stopped pre-certifying ANY Continuing Education or Professional Development for mental health providers. The Jung Center cannot guarantee that the programs we provide will qualify for continuing education or Professional Development, nor can any other agency. The Jung Center uses high educational standards when selecting to designate events as "potentially appropriate for CEs", and in evaluating the outcomes of our educational services, and we believe them to meet the requirements of state licensing bodies. To find out more about the TBHEC changes to Continuing Education and Professional Development, click here: https://junghouston.app.neoncrm.com/np/viewDocument?orgId=junghouston&id=40288ab689aaa0f10189ada9005e0073