Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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Rootwork: Re-membering for Black Liberation
Systems do not transform themselves—people do. This means that who we are, and who we are capable of being, matters in what we design and build. The lived realities of perpetual burnout, in-fighting, conflict, rupture and exhaustion are reflections of…
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FIELDNOTES #1: Speculating / Storying
FIELDNOTES #1: Speculating / Storying “I stand firm on this soil and tell stories… The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination” – Diriye Osman Speculative Storytellers is a self-directed stewardship held by nature writer and founder of Peaks…
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Rootwork & The Resilience Toolkit: Building Capacity to Stay in Relationship (with self and others)
Systems do not transform themselves—people do. This means that who we are, and who we are capable of being, matters in what we design and build. The lived realities of perpetual burnout, in-fighting, conflict, rupture and exhaustion are reflections of…
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Rootwork: Reimagining the Future Starts in the Body
No farmer just casts seeds without care and expects a fruitful harvest. Farmers lovingly tend to the soil so that it can deeply nurture the roots, supporting thriving crops and bountiful fruit. — Nkem Ndefo Systems do not transform themselves—people…
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Rootwork: Like The Seeds of a Pomegranate
No farmer just casts seeds without care and expects a fruitful harvest. Farmers lovingly tend to the soil so that it can deeply nurture the roots, supporting thriving crops and bountiful fruit. — Nkem Ndefo Systems do not transform themselves—people…
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Breathing Spaces: Crisis, Denial, and Building Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics
Breathing Spaces: Crisis, Denial, and Building Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics is a new report which centres the experiences and organising of Covid safer, disabled and clinically vulnerable communities in the UK and Ireland, and what we can…
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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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Dear Comrade…
This is a creative piece of writing that invites folks into thinking about the ongoingness of the Covid-19 pandemic [and the denial of this ongoingness]. In my research and personal experience I have found a lot of movement spaces do…
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Building Collective Power & Preparing to Govern
In the intensity and despair of our times right now, we are being challenged on a level that feels unprecedented. We are on the precipice of real, new possibilities that are being made and fought for through tangible building, creativity…
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So you want to research Palestine?
So, you want to research something about Palestine as a mental health professional? Research interest in Palestine has ballooned in recent years. Certainly, the ongoing genocide contributed to this trend. This piece is a celebration of this zeal, but also…
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No going back
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 there was hope that another world was possible – Covid violently illuminated the longstanding structural inequalities and violence of our society and it felt as though there was broader support than…
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Community Accountability, Research and Ethics (CARE)
What would research ethics look like if it was accountable to communities and movements? As research is increasingly governed by large grant holders and institutions, and funding is sparse and competitive, this question is becoming urgent. When people say ‘research…
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Community Capacity
Strengthening internal resilience and agency within communities.
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Movements
Resourcing and sustaining movements and supporting embodied leadership.
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Sensemaking & Storytelling
Changing public narratives.
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Infrastructure
Building infrastructure to model alternatives.