Centering and celebrating Blackness, We Got Soul, We Can Heal calls on us to explore the ways that integrating SOUL (culture) and contemplative practices can deepen our capacity for self-care, healing and restoration. For us both individually and collectively. We Got Soul, We Can Heal offers us relevant and valuable healing resources, cultural and contemplative. In addition to reminding us what we know about race-based stress and trauma, We Got Soul, We Can Heal calls on us to celebrate and embrace our SOUL and its transformative and healing power in order to change what we believe about ourselves and our capacity to change the world. Jeffers-Coly offers us a rich mix of creative, humorous and spirited wordplay along with loving encouragement and the hard-won insights and heart wisdom of a seasoned elder-mentor-teacher living in Senegal, West Africa and the United States.
Bulk orders discounts available via McFarland; also available from Amazon and Powell’s & W.H. Smith (UK).
We Got Soul Book Signing Richard B. Harrison Public Library Raleigh, NC
Copies are also available via Wake County Public Libraries and Cincinnati Public Libraries.
April 2022. “When Grandma Comes to Visit: Exploring How Communion with Our Ancestors & Nature Deepens Our Capacity for Healing, Restoration, Resilience and Resistance. The Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. Special Edition on the Wisdom of Black Contemplatives.
August 2022. “They Are Coming to Get Something: ”A Qualitative Study of African American Male Community College Students’ Education Abroad Experience in Senegal, West Africa” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad.
Forthcoming. “Showing Up Audacious, Bad Ass & Full from the Edges & On the Margins Like My Ancestors. Journal of Contemplative Inquiry. Showing Up in Our Fullness Edition.