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 approach and you are not feeling a positive shift, give yourself permission to adapt the practice or stop and try something else.
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Communications as a Site of Transformation
Exploring the role of communications and narrative change in HJL’s work.
Movement Medicine
Developing a cohort of somatic practitioners embedded in social movements to support personal and structural transformation.
Building Brave and Beautiful Movements
Exploring the conditions and contexts that shape how we build and organise within social movements. We are ready.
Rootwork: Re-membering for Black Liberation
“We have a felt sense that something’s wrong. Being able to feel it and work through that to get us back to the place of re-imagining: the dream space, connecting with our internal sense of hope and possibility that I feel can only come from the information our body gives us.”
Building Collective Power & Preparing to Govern
Exploring the internal and external work. We offer this space for all of us – organisers, liberation workers, community leaders, healers, and abolitionists – to learn about the embodied competencies we need to cultivate in order to build and tolerate power, and reckon with what it costs us when, instead, we default to shame or making ourselves smaller.
Politicised Somatics in Practice, Liberation, and Contradiction
Movement medicine practitioner-in-training dr dima mekdad explores how somatic practice illuminated and complicated her embodied experience navigating the liberation of Syria.
Tai Chi & Qigong Session
A one hour practice to support presence and connection.
Community Agreements
Guidance for how we show up together in HJL spaces.
Somatic Healing: Therapeutic Touch for Healing Trauma
An introduction to healing trauma through somatic practices