The Healing Justice Practice Space will be open Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m- 7 p.m. There will be chill space for relaxing, decompressing, lactation, and self-guided mediation. There will also be volunteer practitioners facilitating group skill shares and individual sessions on an appointment basis throughout the day. Please come to room Field A to sign up for sessions and check-out the daily schedule. Morning session sign-ups will take place between 8:30-9:30am and afternoon sessions between 12-1:30pm.
********************************************************************************* At this year's Incite! COV4 conference, we are creating a space where conference participants will access free healing services, offered by Black, Indigenous and People of Color healers working from a feminist of color healing justice perspective.
The Healing Justice Space is an all-gendered, all-bodied space for practicing and receiving healing. We will offer all participants in the INCITE community massage therapy, energy work, community acupuncture, herbal therapy, counseling, first aid, art therapy, dance, yoga, and possibly more! But we need your help to create that space.
Building on the work created by the Healing Justice Practice Space at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum, the Allied Media Conference 2010-2014, Safetyfest and the Bay Area Women’s Healing Clinic, our work uplifts and politicizes the role of health and healing in our movements for racial, gender, economic, and disability justice as a critical part of the world we are building. We recognize that medicine is resistance; how we heal ourselves is directly related to how we engage in individual and collective transformation.
Our vision is that by providing an inclusive space for healing practice that is built in direct linkage with the healing justice, disability justice, and transformative justice communities, we will hold an all-gender, all-bodied, accessible space for the INCITE! COV4 Conference community through the duration of the event. We are building off of the Healing Justice Practice Space experiences and resources developed over the last several years, the collective health and wellness spaces in formation around the country, and the long traditions of understanding and developing healing arts through justice. We want to increase the capacity of developing strategies for wide action-taking by infusing healing into movement work-- creating a just world necessitates wellness on an individual and community basis.
This free and accessible space will emphasize healing practices as a cultural form of resistance to the many harms done upon black and indigenous communities, communities of color, queer and trans folks, sick and disabled communities, sex working and low income communities. We work with the understanding that how we heal ourselves is directly related to how we see and interpret ourselves and the possibility for transformation. We believe that highlighting the connection between healing and ending violence in our communities is vital, necessary, and sacred. Our vision of justice for women of color, queer and trans people of color, reclaims ancestral healing traditions as radical demonstrations of our shared resiliency. We hope to empower organizers around the country to integrate a healing justice analysis into their work and embolden healers around the country to develop collective wellness spaces in their local areas.
