healing justice collective
was a project conceived by healers and organizers in the South in 2007, as a response to the crisis of trauma, violence and social conditions in our region. Through conversations and strategy sessions many organizers and healers continue to identify a need to be able to respond to the increased state of burnout and depression in our movements; systematic loss of our communities’ healing traditions; the isolation and stigmatization of healers, and the increased privatization of our land, medicine and natural resources that has caused us to rely on state or private models we do not trust and that do not serve us.
At the 2007 US Social Forum, Kindred southern healing justice collective began building a collective of southern based healers and organizers seeking to deepen the capacity and wellness of our movements.
Our Mission is to honor and resource healing traditions as tools for liberation and individual / collective transformation within our southern movements.
We envision social justice movements and a world free of trauma, violence and abuse.
We seek to manifest and sustain the physical, environmental, spiritual and emotional well being of our movements and communities by resourcing and/or creating healing models that intervene and transform trauma, violence and abuse in our lives to have collective healing responses for sustaining organizers.
We will achieve this by naming and responding to the impact of oppression on our minds, bodies and spirits through transformed systems of wellness, resiliency, and sustainability within a context of political strategies and organizing.
southern healing justice collective