Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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The Power of Somatics for Racial Justice
Changemakers, communities, all people invested in racial justice: explore with us how somatics can help us find new ways to respond effectively to racism, with discussion and insight from visionary racial justice organisers and somatics practitioners. How can somatics be…
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An Introduction to Politicised Somatics
We Are Portals Towards Liberation Healing Justice Ldn (HJL) builds community-led health and healing to create capacity for personal and structural transformation. We work on a community, structural and movement level to repair and build the conditions for health and…
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Unlearning Leadership
Unlearning Leadership is a project by artist and psychologist Dr Dzifa Afonu, as they explore how models of leadership could be reconceptualised from a decolonial perspective. Dzifa examines the colonial and patriarchal views of what it means to be a good…
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Skills & Wisdom of Disabled People
Disability Justice activists Lani Parker and Dzifa Afonu discuss the skills and wisdom that disabled people bring to surviving and thriving during the pandemic and beyond. They draw on their own experiences to share simple, helpful practices and tools. This podcast episode is adapted…
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Anchoring Resilience
In this workshop, Nkem Ndefo draws from The Resilience Toolkit: a culturally responsive framework for reducing stress, addressing trauma, and building embodied resilience. She shares tools and practices that can support us to down regulate, especially during times of crisis and…
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Spilling the T: Trans*(forming) Masculinities
Spilling the T: Trans*(forming) Masculinities was a series of online and in-person sessions held by Raju Rage in the summer of 2022. Our aim was to create a space for trans* masculine people to unpack masculinities and forge their own, through collective…
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Somatic Healing: Therapeutic Touch for Healing Trauma
In this session, Maira Holzmann shares a basic understanding of trauma; how it embeds itself in the body; and how relationships, communities and systems contribute to a lack of safety in a person’s nervous system. Maira explores the power of…
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From Personal Pain to Collective Power
Watch hip hop artist, academic & political campaigner Lowkey discuss his artistic practice, weaving together creativity, personal healing and movement building. In conversation with Sai Murray, he explores the power of music and creative expression to process trauma, critique injustice…
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Masculinity, Mental Health & Creativity
Artists Tsoku Maela and Abbas Zahedi share their creative journeys and practices, exploring the intersections of race, masculinity and mental health. Their discussion is chaired by writer and artist Sai Murray. This video was adapted from an event we ran…
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Herbal Care for Our Times
In this workshop, Rabiah Mali introduces powerful plant allies for physical, mental and emotional challenges that may have arisen or been exacerbated by the pandemic. We learn safe ways to forage and use plants in easy and effective homemade recipes.…
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Lived Experience Mental Health in Times of Covid-19
Akiko Hart, CEO of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), shares user-led mental health initiatives and key learnings from the pandemic period in conversation with researcher China Mills. In response to Covid-19, NSUN launched a fund for user-led groups, supporting diverse and…
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The Healing Alchemy of Five Tastes
In this workshop, Michelle Adams teaches us about the healing benefits of the five tastes according to five-element philosophy. In exploring the five tastes, we can understand how to use them to benefit the integrity of our organ and emotion…
Strategies
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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.