How beauty can heal us

We need beauty to survive. So argues Dr. Sheri Parks.

Dr. Parks is a scholar, author, community change midwife, systems thinker, and bridge-builder. In this short video, she highlights the power of beauty to heal us. She focuses in particular on the remarkable ability of dance to transform our experience of trauma by bridging our emotions and actions.

In the video, Dr. Parks shares a powerful story of how dance helped transform female gang members, and recounts a session where a young woman who initially proclaimed herself the "baddest bitch in the room" was, within an hour and a half, dancing, crying, and hugging others.

Dr. Parks also touches on the broader implications of beauty in our lives, arguing that beauty is not just a privilege for the affluent but a fundamental human right.

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