Topic: Movements

  • 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,…

    purple illustration with outline drawings of Marai Larasi, Farzana Khan, Staci Haines, and China Mills
  • 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…

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

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

    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…

    photo of a paper collage with dense forest, above reads where to distribute time, energy, £, allyship?
  • Insight movements

    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…

    silhouette of a person with long hair holding their phone
  • Insight movements

    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…

    illustration by Sabba Khan of a portal with Black and brown hands reaching through to pull a brown woman in a white dress through towards some food