Healing Justice

for Ourselves, our Communities, and our Workspaces

Course Overview

SJPLA’s Healing Justice for Ourselves, our Communities, and our Workspaces is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. Through guided discussion, practices, guest speakers, participants will learn more about the healing justice framework created by Cara Page and the Kindred Healing Justice Collective.

We rarely address the mental, physical, and emotional toll of this work, felt most acutely by BIPOC workers, leading to burnout and attrition. Providing healing practices and tools to care for this workforce helps retain expert employees and renew their ability to care for their clients.

The course takes place over five 90 minute sessions and will enroll 15-20 people per course.

Healing Justice Explained

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Class Schedule

“This session will provide an overview of the wellbeing and healing justice framework.

SJPLA’s Wellbeing Monthly Series
Cara Page, Healing Justice political strategy architect
Prentis Hemphill, teacher, embodiment practitioner, writer, and seasoned facilitator
adrienne maree brown, write and author

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— Week 1: Wellbeing and Healing Justice
“This session will share ways of being rooted in mindful awareness that facilitate a deeper sense of sustainability and connection with yourself and others.

Facilitated by Syd Yang

Organizer, writer, queer healer, and founder of Blue Jaguar Healing Arts”
— Week 2: Grounding and Mindfulness at Work
“Participants will be introduced to elements of Liberatory Workplaces and through a guided exercise begin reimagining a workplace that includes sustainable practices.

White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun
Audre Lorde, feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior (1934-1992)
Kazu Haga on the Finding Our Way Podcast
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— Week 3: Workplace Wellbeing
“This session will introduce participants to the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and discuss how burnout plays a role in their overall physical, mental, and emotional/social state.

Facilitated by dr. shena young

Licensed body inclusive & holistic psychologist, trauma-informed educator & yoga teacher, creative, & writer

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— Week 4: Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
“This session will explore how a workplace without wellbeing and healing justice impacts our community efforts. We will brainstorm sustainable wellbeing agreements that can be supportive for the individual and organizations as a whole.
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— Week 5: Reflection and Action
 

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