Jacks McNamara Healing Arts

08/15/2024

Hey folks my colleague Bhav and I will be co-facilitating this free somatics group for parents organizing for a free Palestine, please share widely!
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Somatic Practice Group for Parents/Caregivers Organizing for Palestine

Parents and caregivers organizing for a free Palestine: our hearts struggle to span the distance between holding children close and witnessing an ongoing genocide. We will use embodied practice and space for connection in community to ground in purpose as anti-Zionist parent/caregiver organizers, and be in the contradictions of parenting during a genocide.

Wednesday September 18, 2024
9:30-11a PST / 12:30-2p EST
Register: tinyurl.com/palsolparents

08/13/2024

Back by popular demand, but with one extra session, it's Raising Rebels, a super sweet and powerful practice group of parents working on embodiment together! Please share with the parents in your life, this is a really sacred container for community and connection. Starts September 12, all details at tinyurl.com/raisingrebels4.

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08/06/2024

Been spending the afternoon planning my fall professional calendar and there are so many exciting things in the works! Offering my Trans Somatics group as a series to students at the University of New Mexico, offering another round of my Somatics for Parents group over zoom, a solo art show opening at Form and Concept, and speaking on a panel about The Icarus Project at the ISPS conference in Pittsburgh, to name just a few. It's all coming together.

08/05/2024

IDHA’s Transformative Mental Health Core Curriculum is a groundbreaking virtual training for anyone interested in gaining tangible skills to transform mental health practice and shift broader systems of care. I’m so proud to be a faculty member, among 50 incredible experts-by-experience and experts-by-training from around the world.
Centering lived experience and a systemic, historical analysis, this is a unique opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge spanning dozens of disciplines, social movements, geographies, and perspectives. It includes 22+ hours of video content, and is available for 20.75 CE credits.
Between now and August 30, you can enroll in the curriculum’s Learning Experience format, which is only offered twice each year. This format provides the opportunity to move through the otherwise self-guided curriculum with a group. It includes 12 additional hours of live facilitated discussion space – great for those who prefer to learn in community and with a set timeline. These cohorts will run for 4 months, from September-December 2024.
A very limited number of seats are available, so I definitely recommend securing your spot early if you are interested. For more information, visit www.idha-nyc.org/core-curriculum, or email core-curriculum@idha-nyc.org.

07/03/2024

Putting together slides for a presentation I'm doing at Stanford next week on q***r & trans mental health. Thought I would share these core principles. Curious how they'll go over - there are going to be a lot of psychiatrists in the (zoom) room.

05/31/2024

Come hang out with your weird and wonderful gender-creative kin! 5 week somatic practice group, starts June 20th, 9am PDT/12pm EDT. It's going to be splendid. All deets at lynk in comments.

05/21/2024

We’re back! Trans Somatics, a 5 week practice group on embodying gender expansion, launches at 9am PST/12pm EST on Thursdays from 6/20-7/25, skipping July 4th. Join a group where you can meet other trans & enby folks who are working on becoming more embodied and building their capacities to handle stress and find connection. We will learn a variety of somatic practices derived from generative somatics and the resilience toolkit that can support us in caring for ourselves and strengthening our self-responsiveness. We’ll build skills in setting boundaries, navigating triggers, living inside changing trans bodies, and making hard decisions. Sessions will include time for discussion and connection with fellow participants, as well as some journaling prompts. We’ll ground our explorations inside the challenging social, racial, and political contexts we are all inhabiting. All levels of experience with somatics are welcome.

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11/29/2023

Hey folks I'm doing a webinar with the Fireweed Collective on Boundaries and Consent and it would be so excellent if you are there! Please spread the word.

09/11/2023

Hello lovely folks - I am looking for some wonderful new folks to work with in my healing arts practice, both local to NM and around the world over zoom. I work mainly with q***r & trans survivors, as well as other activists and change makers. Please spread the word widely in your networks! More at link in comments.

05/04/2023

Hey beautiful people, I'm going to be offering this continuing ed training on zoom through S*x Therapy New Mexico on Boundaries, Feeling, and Consent and I would love if you could attend and spread the word!!! June 2nd 12-2pm MST. Register at link in comments.

In this trauma-sensitive space, we will gather to explore ways to help our clients respect and care for themselves, including developing their ability to feel and learning to express consent, make requests, and set boundaries. Jacks McNamara will lead us in a combination of somatic exercises, journaling, and group discussion.

We will examine what it means to return home to our bodies and create safety and connection. Participants will leave with a sense of possible paths forward, and concrete tools they can use. Special attention will be paid to q***r and trans clients and relationships.

This training will be recorded. Asynchronous CE credit available.
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09/24/2020

New episode of So Many Wings! Join us for an intimate and far reaching conversation with scholar, educator, and media producer Erica Hua Fletcher where we discuss contemporary mental health social movements, community health and healing, identity politics, and the rise of Mad Studies. On all your favorite podcast platforms, and on the web here: https://www.somanywings.org/2020/09/24/season-2-episode-3-getting-beyond-ourselves-with-erica-fletcher/
Topics we cover include:
-The limits of terms like “madness” and “mental health”
-The many useful lessons learned from researching The Icarus Project and other forms of peer support
-The multiple and complex gifts and traps of embracing identity politics
-The growth of the Mad Studies field in the academy and beyond
-Critical psychiatry and how public mental health care can be radically transformed

09/10/2020

New episode of So Many Wings! Join us for a wide ranging conversation with Dick Schwartz where we discuss everything from the origins of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to the role of Self-Leadership in contemporary social justice movements. On all your favorite podcast platforms, and on the web here: https://www.somanywings.org/2020/09/10/season-2-episode-2-the-i-in-the-storm-a-conversation-with-richard-schwartz/.

Topics we discuss include:
-How it’s the nature of the mind to have multiple parts
-The role of legacy burdens in what gets called “mental illness”
-The visionary history of systemic family therapy
-The potential synergy of Open Dialogue and Internal Family Systems
-Why it’s much easier to train non-therapists in IFS
-The potential role of Self-Leadership the contemporary social justice movements

07/23/2020

We have a really exciting new episode of So Many Wings Podcast out today! Join us for a conversation with Laura Mae Northrup where we discuss her podcast Inside Eyes and the therapeutic use of psychedelics and entheogens in healing sexual trauma.

Topics we cover include:

-Entheogens as a “a spiritual remedy for the spiritual wound” of sexual trauma.
-Understanding sexual violence within a political context.
-The relational nature of healing sexual trauma
-The racist basis of psychedelic exceptionalism and arguments for decriminalization.
-The therapeutic use of entheogens/psychedelics with folks who experience altered states without the use of medicines.

You can find the show on all the major podcast outlets, and on our website here: https://www.somanywings.org/2020/07/23/episode-8-healing-from-sexual-trauma-with-psychedelics-entheogens-a-conversation-with-laura-mae-northrup/

07/09/2020

Hey folks we are launching an exciting new podcast episode with bilingual art therapist Isabel Ribe today! We talk about her work inside and outside of US detention centers, her poetry and painting, and frontline community organizing to build a more just world. Topics include:
-Trauma therapy for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers
-The critical importance of bilingual counselors and therapists
-The trials of navigating grad school and legitimacy in the system
-The importance of recognizing art and creative healing in communities of color
-Santa Fe Dreamers Project
-Working as a counselor for trans folks held in detention centers
-Relationship with the land and painting and poetry as practices of resistance.
You can listen on all your favorite podcast platforms, or at https://www.somanywings.org/2020/07/09/episode-7-art-and-trauma-therapy-for-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-with-isabel-ribe/

05/14/2020

New episode of our So Many Wings podcast is live! Kanchan Dawn Hunter on Urban Agriculture, Racial Justice, Black Herbalism, and so much more. This one is really inspiring. Please listen and share! https://www.somanywings.org/2020/05/13/episode-3-urban-agriculture-racial-justice/

New episode is live! Kanchan Dawn Hunter on Urban Agriculture, Racial Justice, Black Herbalism, and so much more. This one is really inspiring. Please listen and share! https://www.somanywings.org/2020/05/13/episode-3-urban-agriculture-racial-justice/. With Sascha Altman DuBrul

04/16/2020

We did it! Our podcast is live! https://www.somanywings.org/listen/ So Many Wings is a podcast that draws on our backgrounds in transformative mental health and social justice organizing to gather our people and share stories and visions as we struggle for collective liberation. We’re up on all the major outlets, like Apple, Google, Spotify, etc. Our first episode is an interview with the amazing organization Q***r Nature, some gender-variant mystics who are "dreaming into decolonially-informed q***r ‘ancestral futurism’ through mentorship in place-based skills with awareness of post-industrial/globalized/ecocidal contexts." They are incredible thinkers, and so inspiring. Please listen, share, and subscribe if you're interested!

04/02/2020

Hey folks Sascha Altman DuBrul and I are launching a new podcast in the next couple weeks, and it would be awesome if you follow us and share it with friends! About the project: So Many Wings, a flock of misfits and changemakers, is a podcast that draws on our backgrounds in transformative mental health and social justice organizing to gather our people and share stories and visions as we struggle for collective liberation. This project is a node in the growing network of creatively maladjusted folks who are rising up and capturing the imaginations of people who are ready for change. We chose the name So Many Wings because there are so many ways to get free, and because we can only get free together, as a flock of misfits and changemakers moving through the world. We hope you’ll join us.

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