Mobilizing the Power to Stop Harm

Cultivating the Love to Heal It

Weaving spiritual practice and trauma healing with the deep lineage of nonviolent social change.  

Kazu Haga

Trainer Educator Student Practitioner

I have lived in Buddhist monasteries. I have spent the last twenty-five years in social justice movements. I have sat in hundreds of circles with incarcerated people witnessing them do the hard work of healing and accountability. And I have been humbled and inspired by my own, never-ending healing journey. 

My work tries to bring all of my experiences together in a way that contributes to social change and collective liberation. Each day I find myself more committed to fighting injustice. And each day, I learn more that the fight for justice is not a political battle. It is about healing the impact of violence and separation on our souls.

Fierce Vulnerability

Fierce Vulnerability Book Cover

Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse

In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a catalyst for collective healing through transformative action.

  • "Kazu Haga’s new book is a profound invitation to personal and collective awakening in response to our unraveling world. This book is brilliant, compassionate, and powerfully hopeful."

    Tara Brach, author of Radical Compassion

  • "This is not hyperbole: the world has been waiting for this book, and its wisdom is desperately needed. Kazu is an artful surgeon-healer, deftly working to remove a tumor—the delusion of separation—from the body of those seeking transformation."

    —Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times

  • "This book is medicine for those of us on the frontlines of liberation work who long to root our work in an ethic of care and healing."

    ~ Lama Rod Owens, author of The New Saints

  • "Rooted in the wisdom of Earth and ancestors, this text reminds us that it is through our shared tenderness that we find the courage to offer prenatal care to new possibilities."

    ~ Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity

  • “A gift... that can inspire and sustain true conscious activism.”

    ~ Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart

  • ""Fierce Vulnerability invites us into healing at scale, and remembering what it is to be human."

    —Staci K. Haines, author of the Politics of Trauma

The Gift Economy 

The Gift Economy, to me, is a system of managing resources in a way that is aligned with our natural ecosystem. In nature, there is no imbalance, poverty, waste or hoarding - all things that we accept as normal in our current market system. For me, this is about so much more than choosing to “not charge a fee” in any of my workshops.

Upcoming Events

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Fierce Vulnerability Talk
Jun 16
Fierce Vulnerability Talk

Fierce Vulnerability talk & presentation hosted by New Hampshire Peace Action

Fierce Vulnerability Workshop
Jul 19
Fierce Vulnerability Workshop

Day-long In-Person Fierce Vulnerability Workshop

Gift Economy Workshop
Aug 24
Gift Economy Workshop

Day-long in-person workshop to explore the principles and practices of the Gift Economy.

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Blogs

Prayers vs. Demands

The power, potential and gift of leading actions with prayer and how it differs with “demand” energy.

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Jun 4, 2025

Free: Brought to You by Capitalism

How capitalism created the concept of “free,” and how it has tainted the ways we receive gifts

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May 26, 2025

Death Doula to a Dying Empire

A sample chapter of Fierce Vulnerability, originally published in Waging Nonviolence.

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Apr 26, 2025

Faith In the Midst of Collapse

How we maintain faith by acknowledging the life-affirming systems that are sprouting up all over the place.

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Apr 22, 2025