Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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The Violence of Liberal Racism: What Palestine Reveals About British Mental Health Care
The Violence of Liberal Racism: What Palestine Reveals About British Mental Health Care is a new report examining what the genocide in Palestine has revealed about the racist logics of British mental healthcare. It does so by exploring the experiences…
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Deaths by Welfare
The Deaths by Welfare Project is transforming our understanding of welfare state violence. We evidence, explore and and open opportunities for families and survivors to organise and take action. Deaths by Welfare uses the process of documenting evidence to build…
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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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What It Takes To Heal
In an age when connection is more critical than ever, we’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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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 we’ve been taught to intellectualise, contain, or constrain…
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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…
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Breath Circle for Collective Capacity
Wednesdays, 7-7:30pm / Optional 7:30-8pm Online via Zoom Our Breath Circle for Collective Capacity is a gathering space for grounding. We hold this regular space for light stretching, breathing and meditative practice. It’s a space that scaffolds and staggers levels…
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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. ‘The…
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HJL Aftercare Menu
Here are some approaches to care for yourself in the way you might need following the session/training/workshop/organising. If an approach is working for you, take notice of the internal shifts to help increase the positive effects. If you try one…
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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. What could happen in our spaces together can impact and…
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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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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…
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.