Our Movement Medicine programme looks to grow the capacities, skills and resources of grassroots movements, community health providers and those at the frontlines to become sustainable and adaptive in contexts of oppression that rely on our un-survivability.
Radical social change is only as effective as it is made sustainable. Operating amidst state violence, austerity, rising fascism, imperialism, climate catastrophe and more has left us under-resourced and in constant cycles of burnout, conflict, and under-interrogated change. Through this work, we aim to bring about conditions for meaningful movement making and liberation.
In 2022, we held our first Movement Medicine retreat, taking 27 movement leaders from different fields and generations from the UK on a 4-day retreat led by Staci K. Haines where they explored embodied social change. In 2023, we brought together another 30 organisation leaders, community workers, health care practitioners, and organisers. Later in 2023, the Movement Medicine Practice Labs emerged as ongoing rehearsals of honest and open collaboration.
In early 2024, we started developing a year-long programme and curricula to deepen training for more than 20 facilitators (who had previously been on the introductory course). This cohort will go on to deliver somatic education within their own communities and movements and support ongoing embodied practice.
Resources
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Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Macole
Meet Macole Lannaman – an embodied practitioner, researcher, and community organiser based in Sheffield and a member of the Movement Medicine cohort. Movement Medicine is a multi-year commitment to deepen in embodied practice alongside other organisers, movement workers, cultural workers,…
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Politicised Somatics in Practice, Liberation, and Contradiction
A practice of politicised somatics is central to HJL’s Movement Medicine strategy. In this longread, Movement Medicine practitioner-in-training, dr dima mekdad, explores her lived experience navigating the liberation of Syria after 54 years of brutal dictatorship and nearly 14 years…
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Movement Medicine
Radical social change is only as effective as it is made sustainable. Operating amidst state violence, austerity, rising fascism, imperialism, climate catastrophe and more has left us under-resourced and in constant cycles of burnout, conflict, and under-interrogated change. Trapped in…
Articles
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Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Joon-Lynn
Joon-Lynn Goh is a cultural organiser and co-founding director of Migrants in Culture, and a member of the Movement Medicine cohort.
