UPDATE: HCC's Healing Justice Mural!
We are thrilled to share our beautiful Healing Justice Mural with our community! Art and cultural expression
are important elements for healing generational trauma. As one person expressed at our Mural Reveal event,
"I think art is important for healing because it expresses the things we feel but cannot yet speak."
We are thrilled to share our beautiful Healing Justice Mural with our community! Art and cultural expression
are important elements for healing generational trauma. As one person expressed at our Mural Reveal event,
"I think art is important for healing because it expresses the things we feel but cannot yet speak."
For the HCC, this mural is important for many reasons. Not only does it lend to healing, as visual, musical and performance arts do in a way that many treatments and mental processes don't, but it is also an important part of HCC's organizing model. We are engaged in a process of Resilience-based Organizing. In resilience-based organizing we organize our own labor (people, skills and resources) that exist in our communities and apply them to meet our own needs in a way that builds our power, and tells an irresistible story of ways to live and heal that uphold the cultural wisdom, dignity and safety of all communities as well as respect for Mother Earth.
By creating the opportunity for interventions in the cycles of trauma and harm, we open the path for more people to stand in Love, rather than in fear, which contributes to the collective energy of Good and builds our spiritual force. We have also created an opportunity for people to seek healing out from methods that don't carry the dual impact of "help" and "harm", as many biomedical treatments do. And, our bold actions must be visible so that our people can begin to imagine liberating ways of being in community together!
We are SO grateful to Keena "kee" Romano, HCC Core member and Lead Artists, as well as our 3 other amazing muralists, Lesley "Dime" Lopez, Vanessa "Agana" Espinoza, and Jazmin "Shi Shi" Madriz for their incredible artistry, dedication and Loving hard work!
By creating the opportunity for interventions in the cycles of trauma and harm, we open the path for more people to stand in Love, rather than in fear, which contributes to the collective energy of Good and builds our spiritual force. We have also created an opportunity for people to seek healing out from methods that don't carry the dual impact of "help" and "harm", as many biomedical treatments do. And, our bold actions must be visible so that our people can begin to imagine liberating ways of being in community together!
We are SO grateful to Keena "kee" Romano, HCC Core member and Lead Artists, as well as our 3 other amazing muralists, Lesley "Dime" Lopez, Vanessa "Agana" Espinoza, and Jazmin "Shi Shi" Madriz for their incredible artistry, dedication and Loving hard work!
From left to right, Keena Romano, Aquene Azania (Keena's mother), Rachel Bryant (HCC Core member),
Yazmin Shi Shi Madriz, Lesley Dime Lopez and Vanessa Agana Espinoza.
Yazmin Shi Shi Madriz, Lesley Dime Lopez and Vanessa Agana Espinoza.
UPDATE: Understanding & Honoring Gender Identity
A compassionate learning & community building space for the HCC Network and our Healing Justice allies
The Healing Clinic Collective and our friends learned so much at our first workshop on understanding gender identity. As we engage our learning process we are gaining more clarity on how gender plays a role in the way we organize and offer services to our Beloved Community. We talked about our experiences, practices for creating dignified & safe treatments spaces, and language that honors every person's chosen identity and self expression.
We also learned some helpful lessons about how to have this conversation with out Network, and will be be applying those lessons in a second workshop on Understanding Gender Identity in *June, 2020*. Stay tuned for that announcement if you missed our first workshop!
We also learned some helpful lessons about how to have this conversation with out Network, and will be be applying those lessons in a second workshop on Understanding Gender Identity in *June, 2020*. Stay tuned for that announcement if you missed our first workshop!
Help us raise funds for our transformative 2019 programming!
Make a donation to support the work of the collective
and receive a hard copy of the Guide to Organizing A Healing Clinic
or the HCC Practitioner Directory below.
Make a donation to support the work of the collective
and receive a hard copy of the Guide to Organizing A Healing Clinic
or the HCC Practitioner Directory below.
Resource: Guide to Organizing
A Healing Clinic Since our first clinic in 2013, over a dozen large and small-scale healing clinics have been directly inspired by our work and we continue to receive requests to organize similar healing clinics from communities around the state, country, and internationally. Because we are a majority volunteer organization, we do not have the capacity to organize clinics for communities beyond the Bay Area.
To support the growing movement for Healing Justice and closing the gap between sacred and political work, we are thrilled to share our philosophy and planning process with others so that they can envision and recreate healing spaces that serve their communities. |
HCC Practitioner Directory
We are so happy to release a fully designed and carefully curated roster of healers in the Bay Area pooled from our dedicated network of over 130 practitioners of 46 distinct modalities who are here to support the healing of our community. This resource is made possible through longstanding relationships with healers in the Bay Area who are aligned with our values and offer free/sliding scale services to people referred through the HCC network when possible. |
HCC’s 2019 Plans
Expanding our Vision & Building Relationships
HCC TRADITIONAL MIDWIFERY AND BIRTH WORK PROGRAM
The HCC is blessed to house an amazing and visionary group of traditional midwives: The Intergalactic Council Of Midwives (ICOM)!
The Intergalactic Council of Midwives represents a diverse constellation of midwives rooted in traditional values of prayer, ceremony, community-based power structures, and Ancestor-guided midwifery practices. Our responsibilities in our community are to uphold the full spectrum of the blood mysteries, be available for midwifery care from womb to tomb, and to care for ourselves in our Abuelita Temazcal, our ceremonial bathhouse. Our mission is to nourish the spiritual fortitude midwives.
ICOM will continue to nurture the knowledge base and traditional midwifery skill set of its members through a series of workshops around traditional midwifery techniques. ICOM will also support the broader set of HCC birthworkers by hosting them in a monthly temazcal (traditional Mexican bathhouse).
HEALING, LEARNING & RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
Gender Justice
This year the HCC is taking on an intentional process to expand out Network to invite more Trans, Gender Expansive, and Two-Spirit community members to join our Healing Justice family. A small team will lead this big effort to grow our Network to more accurately reflect the communities we work with and serve. This work will include building relationships with and inviting Trans, Gender Expansive, and Two-Spirit folks to join HCC's Network as practitioners and volunteers, educational spaces for the HCC Core and Network, as well as a series of Fireside Forums for the Trans, Gender Expansive, and Two-Spirit community to gather and talk about their experiences in health and wellness settings, our Healing Clinics specifically, and to have the opportunity to connect with ancestral medicine in ways that are unique to them.
Resilience-Based Organizing
We are also excited to collaborate with Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project to bring political education to the HCC Core and Network. The analysis and strategy frameworks of Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project are the “political home” of the HCC and we look forward to sharing MG’s analysis and Resilience-Based Organizing strategy with our community so we can all stand together in a common understanding of the political will we are building through our work.
Look out for an invitation or announcement about these 2 community learning spaces to take place this fall or winter/spring of 2020!
HCC HEALING JUSTICE MURAL PROJECT
We are honored to collaborate with HCC Core member, Keena Romano, an experienced and dedicated artist and muralist, for the completion of this mural. Keena will be contracted to coordinate the project, and has assembled a team of 4 artists to paint the mural. They will design and create a Mural Banner which can be shown/displayed at our healing clinics and other sacred events. Our Mural(s) will depict and honor our history of oppression and colonization, as well as the different indigenous philosophies and healing practices/modalities in regards to spiritual, emotional and physical wellness that address different stages of life: from birth to death. It will also display the beautiful healing tools that support life, all couched in reflections of the political moment we are in and the role of healing through ancestral ways. The Mural will be done in 3 stages, and the project includes one community mural event, as well as a public “reveal” in the fall or spring of 2020.
The HCC is blessed to house an amazing and visionary group of traditional midwives: The Intergalactic Council Of Midwives (ICOM)!
The Intergalactic Council of Midwives represents a diverse constellation of midwives rooted in traditional values of prayer, ceremony, community-based power structures, and Ancestor-guided midwifery practices. Our responsibilities in our community are to uphold the full spectrum of the blood mysteries, be available for midwifery care from womb to tomb, and to care for ourselves in our Abuelita Temazcal, our ceremonial bathhouse. Our mission is to nourish the spiritual fortitude midwives.
ICOM will continue to nurture the knowledge base and traditional midwifery skill set of its members through a series of workshops around traditional midwifery techniques. ICOM will also support the broader set of HCC birthworkers by hosting them in a monthly temazcal (traditional Mexican bathhouse).
HEALING, LEARNING & RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
Gender Justice
This year the HCC is taking on an intentional process to expand out Network to invite more Trans, Gender Expansive, and Two-Spirit community members to join our Healing Justice family. A small team will lead this big effort to grow our Network to more accurately reflect the communities we work with and serve. This work will include building relationships with and inviting Trans, Gender Expansive, and Two-Spirit folks to join HCC's Network as practitioners and volunteers, educational spaces for the HCC Core and Network, as well as a series of Fireside Forums for the Trans, Gender Expansive, and Two-Spirit community to gather and talk about their experiences in health and wellness settings, our Healing Clinics specifically, and to have the opportunity to connect with ancestral medicine in ways that are unique to them.
Resilience-Based Organizing
We are also excited to collaborate with Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project to bring political education to the HCC Core and Network. The analysis and strategy frameworks of Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project are the “political home” of the HCC and we look forward to sharing MG’s analysis and Resilience-Based Organizing strategy with our community so we can all stand together in a common understanding of the political will we are building through our work.
Look out for an invitation or announcement about these 2 community learning spaces to take place this fall or winter/spring of 2020!
HCC HEALING JUSTICE MURAL PROJECT
We are honored to collaborate with HCC Core member, Keena Romano, an experienced and dedicated artist and muralist, for the completion of this mural. Keena will be contracted to coordinate the project, and has assembled a team of 4 artists to paint the mural. They will design and create a Mural Banner which can be shown/displayed at our healing clinics and other sacred events. Our Mural(s) will depict and honor our history of oppression and colonization, as well as the different indigenous philosophies and healing practices/modalities in regards to spiritual, emotional and physical wellness that address different stages of life: from birth to death. It will also display the beautiful healing tools that support life, all couched in reflections of the political moment we are in and the role of healing through ancestral ways. The Mural will be done in 3 stages, and the project includes one community mural event, as well as a public “reveal” in the fall or spring of 2020.
♥︎ Many Blessings to our Beloved Community ♥︎