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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Researching Palestine as an anti-Zionist academic and mental health practitioner situated in the Global North
Making Space for Embodied Rage in our Healing
A space for racialised/global majority people to explore connections with rage through embodied practice.
Breath Circle for Collective Capacity
Our Breath Circle for Collective Capacity is a gathering space for grounding. We hold this regular space for light stretching, breathing and meditative practice.
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.
Rootwork: Like The Seeds of a Pomegranate
When it feels like the world is suspended in a state of permacrisis, community is the root that grounds us, giving us stability and hope. Not only does politicised somatics offer us an alternative pathway to reimagine our liberatory futures, but it also demands that we do it together. Like the seeds of a pomegranate, we nestle tightly against one another, connected by the white membrane that threads us together as one.
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.”
Tai Chi & Qigong Session
A one hour practice to support presence and connection.
HJL Protest Regulating & Support
Tools to regulate and resource us before, during and after protest.
Community Agreements
Guidance for how we show up together in HJL spaces.