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  • Resource abolition, trans health

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  • Resource politicised somatics, trans health

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  • Resource abolition, movements

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  • Insight movements, politicised somatics, racial justice

    Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Macole

    Meet Macole Lannaman โ€“ 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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    Insight movements, politicised somatics

    Politicised Somatics in Practice, Liberation, and Contradictionย 

    A practice of politicised somatics is central to HJLโ€™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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    Insight movements, politicised somatics

    What It Takes To Heal

    In an age when connection is more critical than ever, weโ€™re often in forms of connection that are surface level; scrolling, liking, watching. We often fall short of fulfilling our deeply human need to be known, understood, and feel empowered…

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    Insight politicised somatics, racial justice

    Making Space for Embodied Rage in our Healing

    Humans are hard-wired to respond emotionally to perceived injustice. This response is anger, and the manifestation of anger is rage. This anger is human and has a function in regulating injustice, but weโ€™ve been taught to intellectualise, contain, or constrain…

  • Yomi Sode, Melz Owusu, Marai Larasi and Josh Rivers sitting on chairs in front of a small visible group
    Insight movements, politicised somatics, racial justice

    Building Brave and Beautiful Movements

    Movement-making is returning to our native state of deeply belonging to one another. In the midst of crisis, trauma, humanity and remarkable creativity – we are each other’s.  National and global fascism structurally and socially instructs and codes that, as…

  • purple illustration with outline drawings of Marai Larasi, Farzana Khan, Staci Haines, and China Mills
    Insight movements, politicised somatics

    The Power of Somatics for Collective Transformation

    How can somatics be used to abolish the structures which keep us dispossessed and sick? Hear from visionary somatics and social justice speakers on how we come together as communities, leaders and changemakers to build the path towards transformation. โ€˜The…

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    Insight

    Community Agreements

    Community care: We are nurturing and rebuilding ecologies. This takes times, is relational, needs all of us at different points, incrementally positioning and repositioning ourselves toward just, generative and thriving communities/ecosystems.ย What could happen in our spaces together can impact and…

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    Insight politicised somatics, protest

    HJL Protest Regulating & Support

    At Healing Justice Ldn we hold that the survival and sustainability of oppressed peoples is resistance. We take this moment to resource and replenish ourselves to stay in the struggle for liberation and to show up in solidarity as our…

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    Insight movements, politicised somatics

    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…


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