Healing Our Work

HOW designs both one-time and recurring events to facilitate meaningful engagement, to aid safe and authentic connection, and to nurture healing, pleasure, and collaboration. We also consult with groups who would like support to create and carry out welcoming and values-driven gatherings and events.

2023 Events

Gather with nonprofit and community leaders to explore and practice embodying boundaries to stay aligned with ourselves and our communities.

“Belonging can also be thought of as longing to be…It is the capacity to be present and to discover our authenticity and whole selves. This is often thought of as an individual capacity, but it is also a community capacity. Community is the container within which our longing to be is fulfilled.”
–Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging

Can you imagine what work would feel like if you could show up more honestly?
How might our boundaries help us to push back against systems that require us to ignore our needs and full humanity and allow us to create spaces where it is safe to be authentic?

Huddle Goals
Over FIVE 2-hour emergent learning sessions together we will tap into our collective wisdom and creativity to explore topics including:

Alternatives to white supremacy culture
Safety and authenticity
Self and collective accountability
Care and consent
Collective visioning and action

Click here for Winter 2023 Boundaries for Belonging Huddle dates and registration

2022 Events

Join Healing Our Work for Healing Our Week, a weekly drop-in zoom. In this hour we will create an intentional container for nurturance, creativity, and connection that can build your capacity to face the day and week with integrity and care.

This is a chance to slow down before the whirlwind of a busy week and in the larger context of capitalism and grind/burnout culture. With a mix of grounding activities, reflection prompts, and space to connect, together let’s practice taking the time and space we all need and deserve to check-in with our needs, ground into our values, and breathe — one hour at a time.

Join us on the Mondays you can from 9:30-10:30am ET from November 7th -December 19th.

Click here to register and receive the zoom link.

Are you at a personal or professional crossroads, or in a space of transition, healing, and transformation?
Are you committed to personal, interpersonal, and systemic change toward equity and liberation?
Join us as we celebrate and support you through the often lonely and difficult process of challenging norms, breaking patterns, growing into your radical leadership, and collectively building an abundant future.

Over the course 6 months, Healing Our Work co-founders Julia Terry & Kris Smith will facilitate a monthly space for peer support, accountability, intentional practice, emergence, and radical imagination.

Our inaugural Crossroads Cohort has begun. Please check back in fall 2022 for more information about future Crossroads Cohorts.

PAST EVENTS

2021 Events

Gather with nonprofit and community leaders to explore care as a liberatory and abolitionist practice.

Huddle Goals:

Over five peer support and emergent learning sessions together we will intentionally slow down to tap into our collective wisdom and creativity to:

name and develop shared language for structures and dynamics at play that lead to burnout and decrease morale and mental wellness
reconnect with our bodies, creativity, needs, and values
practice and build capacity for accountability and repair, nurturing leadership and supervision, emotional safety, vulnerability and boundaries, pleasure and rest

Click here for Fall 2021 Centering Care Huddle dates and registration

Gather with nonprofit and community leaders to explore and practice living and embodying your vision for liberation with integrity.

Huddle Goals:

Over five peer support and emergent learning sessions together we will intentionally slow down to tap into our collective wisdom and creativity to begin to build our capacity and our practices of:

uncovering and naming oppressive systemic and relational norms and dynamics
reconnecting with our humanity, values, voices, and bodies
showing up authentically in our workspaces and relationships
modeling integrity through our leadership
creating spaces where people can be safe to be whole and accountable
building relationships for ongoing support for our radical leadership

Click here for Spring 2021 Alignment with Integrity Huddle dates and registration

2020 Events

**Join Healing Our Work to explore, imagine, and create liberatory practices for accountability and repair in our work and lives.**

Gather with nonprofit and community leaders, healing practitioners, artists, organizers, changemakers, and Healing Our Work to explore and practice accountability and repair relationally, institutionally, and systemically as we work to imagine and build a liberatory future.

Huddle Goals:

To build our understandings of structures and systems that perpetuate inequities (race, gender, class, ability, immigration, etc.), and to reflect on our personal/professional roles in upholding and/or resisting these structures
To build tools, skills, and possibilities for naming harm, moving through conflict, and practicing accountable and reparative practices
To move from intellectualizing to embodying
To build an accountable anti-bias anti-racist community of practice

Fall 2020 – Accountability & Repair Huddle dates and registration

Gather with nonprofit and community leaders, healing practitioners, artists, organizers, changemakers, and Healing Our Work to explore practices of liberatory and collective leadership and re-imagine HOW we can lead and build power beyond hierarchy and white supremacy culture.

Huddle Goals: