Sept 8 - 29, 2025
Mondays 10 - 11:30 am (PT)
Fierce Vulnerability
Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
Live Online Course with Kazu Haga
REGISTER NOWWhen injustice and trauma shape our world, how do we create change that truly heals?
Fierce Vulnerability offers a radical approach—merging nonviolent action, trauma healing, and spiritual practice to build movements rooted in connection and resilience. Led by activist and author Kazu Haga, this four-week interactive course explores how personal and collective healing can transform the way we fight for justice.

Dates
Sept 8 - 29, 2025
Meeting Times
Mondays
10:00 - 11:30 am PT
Duration
4Â Weeks
Format
Live Online with Weekly Discussions
Cost
$349
In times of collapse, we need a movement that sees injustice as a symptom of collective trauma—and embraces its role as a catalyst for healing through transformative action.
Division, violence, and destruction have reached a breaking point. As political polarization erodes democracy and the climate crisis deepens racial inequity, we need solutions that heal at both personal and systemic levels.
As harm intensifies, our response must evolve—toward healing, not division. Yet too often, social movements reinforce an “us vs. them” mentality, deepening the very fractures they seek to mend. This binary thinking fuels destruction, driving us further apart when what we need is connection.
The old ways of activism are failing to create lasting change. Fierce Vulnerability offers a new path forward—one that merges the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. We can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we must center relationships in our movements.
Rooted in Kazu Haga’s book “Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse,” this interactive workshop provides the tools to build movements that transform, rather than perpetuate, cycles of harm.
This course runs from September 8 - 29, 2025, with live classes held on Mondays 10 - 11:30 a.m. PT via Zoom. Recordings will be available for registrants who are unable to attend a session.
What You'll Learn
- How trauma and oppression are intertwined—and why healing must be central to social change
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Ways to move beyond an “us vs. them” mentality to foster true transformation
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Strategies to integrate nonviolent direct action with trauma healing and spiritual practice
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Tools for building social movements that center relationships and resilience
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How to embody fierce vulnerability—combining courage and openness in the fight for justice
Who is this course for?
This course is open to anyone seeking to engage in meaningful social change while deepening their understanding of trauma, healing, and justice. It is particularly relevant for:
- Â Activists, organizers, and movement leaders
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Educators and community builders
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Healers, therapists, and restorative justice practitioners
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Anyone navigating social and environmental collapse with a desire for transformation
No prior experience in activism or trauma work is required. All are welcome.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence, restorative justice, and healing-centered activism. A core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network and founding member of the Ahimsa Collective, Kazu has spent over 25 years working with incarcerated individuals, youth, and social movement leaders to integrate healing into justice work.
He is the author of “Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm” and the forthcoming “Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse.” Based in Oakland, CA, Kazu is deeply engaged in community-based efforts to reimagine justice, nonviolence, and collective healing.
Learn more at www.kazuhaga.com.
COURSE MODULES
WEEKÂ 1
Fierce Vulnerability
In this first session, we will begin to build the container through which we will learn to be fierce in our vulnerability and vulnerable with our fierceness. We will explore the context of the times that we are living in, and learn how fierce vulnerability can give us the power needed to stop injustice while cultivating the love necessary to heal it.
WEEKÂ 2
The Fractal Nature of Trauma & Healing
Session two will focus on understanding how trauma impacts our ability to create change at the personal level, and explore how the same pattern repeats itself throughout society.
WEEKÂ 3
Piercing Through the Delusions
What are the collective delusions that we live with that we accept as “real?” How could the work of piercing through these delusions help lead us towards collective liberation?
WEEKÂ 4
Resistance as Spiritual Practice
As we face ecological collapse, the erosion of democracy and rising polarization, resistance to the status quo is critical. And yet, we know that the changes that are needed in these times go beyond what legislation can give us. How do we view social change as a spiritual practice, and see resistance as a modality of collective healing?

Fierce Vulnerability
Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
$349
Join Kazu Haga to explore how nonviolent action, trauma healing, and spiritual practice can transform social movements, fostering connection and resilience in the fight for justice