Resources

Exploring the postures, patterns, and practices that support community-led health and healing.

  • 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…

  • red book sits on paving stone and grass. Cover has colourful round drawing in the centre. Title Tending Grief above it with underneath: Embodied rituals for holding our sorrow and growing cultures of care in community. Camille Sapara Barton. Image has orange filter on it
    Experiment movements, politicised somatics

    Why we need grief in our social movements

    Why we need grief in our social movements The Dagara people see regular grief tending as necessary for the health of the community. Why don’t we do the same? asks Camille Sapara Baron in this excerpt from their book Tending…

  • A four frame instant photo of Evie Muir holding her book Radical Rest sits on the grass with purple flowers in the foreground. Image has blue filter on it.
    Experiment politicised somatics

    Holistic expeditions of a somatic cartographer

    Holistic expeditions of a somatic cartographer The body is a landscape – an exploration by Evie Muir By Evie Muir Commissioned by Micha Frazer-Carroll “The body is a landscape”, my acupuncturist tells me as she reads the crumpled map of…

  • five people sitting with their eyes closed
    Insight politicised somatics

    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…

  • 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. ‘The…

  • white riso-printed zine sitting on a concrete floor
    Insight politicised somatics

    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…

  • hands weave rolled strips of paper into the base of a basket shape
    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. What could happen in our spaces together can impact and…

  • dark orange background with white writing that reads protest regulation and support. We keep the fire, they can't burn us out.
    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…

  • pairs of people stand in a green outdoor space facing each other with a hand extended towards another
    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…

  • person with their back turned looking at the deaths by welfare timeline exhibition
    Insight abolition, surveillance, welfare

    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…

  • Experiment

    In Practice – coming soon!

    We’re very excited to launch our new editorial platform In Practice. We just need a little bit more time… In Practice is a new editorial platform by HJL that spotlights experimental pieces on health, healing and movement-building that wouldn’t get…

  • a brown woman with her eyes closed signing into a microphone in front of a projected graphic that reads Rehearsing Freedoms slightly obscured
    Insight life-affirming infrastructures, movements

    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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