Our Values

Modeled after the Healing & Health Justice Collective Organizing Principles of the US Social Forum (Detroit 2010) and the Allied Media Conference Healing Practice Spaces and Tracks.

 

We begin by listening.

  • We honor individual and community agency, intuition, and innate wisdom, and therefore honor people’s rights to make decisions about their own bodies.

  • We understand that health and wellness should be determined by the individual or community receiving care, and for many of us this includes the reality of disability, illness, and harm reduction. We accept and encourage individuals and communities defining health, healing, and wellness for themselves, and not based on normative models of healing.

  • We are committed to People of Color & Indigenous leadership, in partnership with our allies, on building healing justice work in ALL THE SPACES WE SHARE.

  • We will lift up the leadership and conditions of Detroit to define the healing justice practice within a national context.

  • We enter this work through an anti-oppression framework that seeks to transform and politicize the role of healing inside of our movements and communities.

  • We are learning and creating this political framework about a legacy of healing and liberation that is meeting a particular moment in history inside of our movements that seeks to: regenerate traditions that have been lost; mindfully hold contradictions in our practices; and be conscious of the conditions we are living and working inside of as HEALTH PRACTITIONERS, healers, and organizers in our communities and movements.

  • We are building national relationships and dialogues to cultivate knowledge and to build reflection and exchange of our healing, transformative and resiliency practices in our regions and movements.

  • We believe in transparency on all levels so that we can have a foundation of trust, openness, and honesty in our vision and action together.

  • We believe in movement building and organizing within an anti-racist and anti-hierarchical framework that builds collective decision making, strategies, vision and action and does not seek to support only one model or one approach over others.

  • We believe that there is no such thing as joining this process too late; as we move forward, anyone who comes in when they come in are welcomed; and we will always remember that we are interconnected with many communities, struggles and legacies who have joined healing and resiliency practices with liberation in their work for centuries.