Resources
Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.
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Life-Affirming Research at HJL
Research at HJL directly contributes to the organisation’s long-term strategy and vision by fostering personal, collective, and structural transformation. Our research is life-affirming, participatory, and collaborative, ensuring that it centres the voices of those most marginalised by systemic violence. This…
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Rehearsing Freedoms Festival
In this time of cumulative crises, our communities are facing harms and forms of breakdown that are political in nature but often not addressed this way. How can we dismantle the structures that keep this a reality, building community-based structures…
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Tai Chi & Qigong Session
Join us for a 1 hour recorded session of Tai Chi & Qigong practice with Jalal Afhim. This resource was created to provide support during winter months, and focuses on practices to aid circulation and staying present and connected to…
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Restorative Yoga
Join us for a 1 hour recorded session of Restorative Yoga for Resilience with Lana Homeri, created to provide support during winter months. The practices in this video focus on releasing tension and aiding the down regulation of the nervous…
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Operations in Movement-Centred Organisations
Developing Policies HJL’s approach to developing policy is rooted in inclusivity, transparency, fairness, sustainability and radicalness. Our aim is to create and develop policies that not only align with our values but also reflect our actual needs. We try to…
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Communications as a Site of Transformation
We see how, what, and why we tell stories as foundational practices for transformation. Communications at HJL is about more than increasing our reach. Many health and healing modalities are passed down to us through oral histories, family, cultural, and…
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Experiments in Imagination
“We are living in the imaginaries of those long gone before us, one day people will be living in the imaginaries we’ve created” – Angela Davis The work of imagination opens up possibilities to transform our society – to redesign…
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People’s Medicine: Plant Medicine, Psychedelics & Healing Justice
Psychedelics and plant medicine have vast potential to help us access health and healing. They have been utilised by global majority peoples for millennia. For people with experience of mental distress and trauma, they can serve as powerful tools to…
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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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Life-affirming Infrastructures
We spend our lives navigating oppressive infrastructures like welfare and hostile urban space. How do we build systems that are conducive to life, dignity, safety & joy? In this public conversation organised in collaboration with Kin Structures and RESOLVE Collective, hear from individuals…
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Understanding Welfare State Violence
State violence hides and thrives, harms and disarms, because we’re told it’s for ‘our own good’. The violent bureaucracy, assessments, waiting, being made to feel like you’re undeserving, being told the problem is you and not the system – wears…
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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…
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.