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An embodied approach to community healing and forgiveness | Jori Martinez-Woods | TEDxAntioch

1,348 views · Published 4 November 2014 · 14:53 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. When was the last time you used your entire body to tell a passionate and personal story? Experiencing the world of an embodied storyteller is nothing less than visceral, it grabs at your heartstrings, and it connects you to your life through the other. A powerful testimony of how mirror neurons reach out and capture your mind, body and soul simply by witnessing another’s authentically improvised story. In her performance piece, Jori challenges us to unite through the power of forgiveness.

Jori Martinez-Woods, M.Ed., is an educator, diversity practitioner, social activist, and InterPlay Leader. Jori received her M.Ed. in 1988 from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Teaching, Curriculum and Learning Environments.

She is a certified elementary Montessori directress and an Intuitive Life Coach. She has recently launched a new enterprise, The Plassori Way: where the ARTS, Social Action and Education Converge. This divinely inspired work marries her expertise in Montessori education & InterPlay with her passion for designing home environments that cultivate compassion, creativity and self-reliance.

Jori sits on InterPlay’s National Body Wisdom Board as VP.


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