Community Agreements

Community care: We are nurturing and rebuilding ecologies. This takes times, is relational, needs all of us at different points, incrementally positioning and repositioning ourselves toward just, generative and thriving communities/ecosystems. What could happen in our spaces together can impact and ripple across many spaces, consider who and what you can impact.

Positionality (privilege/power): If you’re in a dominant identity please consider how you are making space for others in the space /if you are in a marginalised identity consider practicing taking up space with us.

Confidentiality: We share each other’s stories with consent and consciousness. What is said in here stays in here, what is learnt in here grows from here.

Uplift & Honour labour: “Citation is feminist memory” – Sara Ahmed.

Compassion: We are hard on ideas, soft on people.

Comfort and transformation: Comfort and transformation/vulnerability do not live in the same house, how can you come into preparedness to hold and sit with some discomfort or vulnerability?

Process: Be comfortable questioning, moving at the speed of trust and deepening in practice rather than seeking perfection.

Lived experience and trauma: These are not just conversations; they are visceral, tangible, material. It impacts us on many levels. Listen to what your body needs, opt in/out, take time to hydrate and rest where possible.

Equity: Equity is the opposite of extraction. How can our learning travel to invest in and uplift the most vulnerable and marginalised?

Capacity to grow: These are ongoing conversations, not everything will feel resolved or resonate. We commit to growing and creating spaces to do so with curiosity and creativity. Making space for non-performative learning.

Aftercare: If things come up you can check-in with our core team (info@healingjusticeldn.org). Please also utilise our aftercare menu.

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Aftercare Menu

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.

Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Macole

“I’m learning how it also starts from the self and how it is at the cellular level in which we create ripples and changes at a more macro scale. Innerstanding that being in the body, as a site of transformation, simultaneous effects broader structures. So much of the time we are understanding oppression by intellectualising it.”

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.”