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As we find ourselves in an unprecedented moment with rebellions across the country, amidst a viral pandemic, the HCC stands with Black people and Black communities leading the charge to bring about the changes we need for a healed and just future. We send blessings and prayers of protection and guidance to our comrades on the streets, to those who are being strategic, and to those who are not. We continue to send love to everyone who has been sheltering in place, working from home or providing essential services, and taking care of their families and communities in new and creative ways.
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We offer encouragement and strength to continue organizing and strengthening the fabric of our collective consciousness by amplifying the leadership of Black communities and Black organizers in Minneapolis, Louisville, Atlanta, Oakland, and the Movement for Black Lives in their demands to #DefundThePolice and #DefendBlackLife!
With the backdrop of this unprecedented moment, the HCC is organizing support for our Network and community:
★ Our first ever online Monthly Support Circles are for HCC Network members to share stories, challenges during these times, wisdom, and prayers in a safe inclusive online space. Each circle will be facilitated by a caring and grounded practitioner in our Network. The first circle gathers this week!
★ Given these times of COVID-19 and widespread uprising, the HCC recognizes the increased need for online healing services, so we gathered a list of HCC practitioners offering remote services to the community and organized a Online Remote Offerings page on our website. Please feel free to forward this link to those who may benefit from such offerings!
★ When we learned that birth workers at Highland Hospital in Oakland were working extra long hours in difficult conditions and in need of self-care items, we teamed up with ICOM (Intergalactic Council of Midwives) to help fund Care Packages for Birth Workers and filled them with salves, herbal tinctures, skin moisturizes, and other nurturing products.
Be safe and be well ❤
☆ Healers that help me heal ☆
a series hosted by la Botánica Azul
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The Healing Clinic Collective has been in conversation with Network member and Founder of la Botánica Azul, Adilia Torres.
You can listen here: ~ HCC Core member Angela Aguilar talks about Grief ~ Former Core member Tré Vasquez talks about Humor & Mental Health ~ HCC Lead Coordinator Carla M Pérez talks about La Salud Mental of Mother Earth. [visit Botanica Azul on Facebook for complete series of talks] |
Healing Sessions Online
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The Healing Clinic Collective coordinates a Network of over 130 natural, holistic, indigenous, and traditional wellness practitioners.
Click HERE for a compilation of some of our practitioners who are providing remote offerings during COVID-19 shelter-in-place. Many of them also offer herbal tinctures, salves, homeopathic remedies, and natural products for purchase along with their remote therapies. Stay connected and be well! |
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Organizing for Healing Justice During a Global Pandemic
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Dearest community ~ we hope you are all well, and that this post finds in good health and in strong Spirit ♡
The HCC extends its deepest and most sincere condolences to anyone who has lost someone to the coronavirus 💔 We know that many people in our community have gone through very stressful and strenuous circumstances either healing from Covid-19 yourself, supporting a loved one who was infected, or supporting other friends & family that need assistance during Safety Solidarity. We know that even a spiritual perspective on this virus doesn’t necessarily reduce the pain and grief losing a loved one. Our heart and love goes out to you, and we send our prayers out for the Spirits of loved ones lost, and for the energy required to continue holding so much personal + community care work 💜
The prophecies are unfolding...the Earth is uprising. When you know something really needs to be done for reasons of integrity and righteousness, and you don’t do it yourself, the spiritual forces will make it happen for you (and sometimes in ways that are truly destabilizing and painful). This is what we believe is taking place at this moment. The global "we" has known for far too long that the modern, western, extractive way of life was burning our collective candle at both ends. A globalized, capitalistic and neocolonial economy combined with severe degradation of Earth’s natural systems & habitats have made it possible for this pandemic to occur and are intensifying and accelerating the spread of COVID-19. Not to mention our inept US government’s response…flailing in an attempt to continue business as usual and uphold the current economic “stimulation” model when it’s clear that capitalism isn’t working. Meanwhile public health is put on the back burner and nurse midwives and grocery store workers become “frontline” workers of this pandemic. And because the globalized extractive economy has set ecological disruption in motion, we can expect more pandemics in the coming years…
We are grateful for the veils being removed see more...
The HCC extends its deepest and most sincere condolences to anyone who has lost someone to the coronavirus 💔 We know that many people in our community have gone through very stressful and strenuous circumstances either healing from Covid-19 yourself, supporting a loved one who was infected, or supporting other friends & family that need assistance during Safety Solidarity. We know that even a spiritual perspective on this virus doesn’t necessarily reduce the pain and grief losing a loved one. Our heart and love goes out to you, and we send our prayers out for the Spirits of loved ones lost, and for the energy required to continue holding so much personal + community care work 💜
The prophecies are unfolding...the Earth is uprising. When you know something really needs to be done for reasons of integrity and righteousness, and you don’t do it yourself, the spiritual forces will make it happen for you (and sometimes in ways that are truly destabilizing and painful). This is what we believe is taking place at this moment. The global "we" has known for far too long that the modern, western, extractive way of life was burning our collective candle at both ends. A globalized, capitalistic and neocolonial economy combined with severe degradation of Earth’s natural systems & habitats have made it possible for this pandemic to occur and are intensifying and accelerating the spread of COVID-19. Not to mention our inept US government’s response…flailing in an attempt to continue business as usual and uphold the current economic “stimulation” model when it’s clear that capitalism isn’t working. Meanwhile public health is put on the back burner and nurse midwives and grocery store workers become “frontline” workers of this pandemic. And because the globalized extractive economy has set ecological disruption in motion, we can expect more pandemics in the coming years…
We are grateful for the veils being removed see more...
Words of Wisdom
The HCC is proud to share an incredibly insightful article written by one of our Core members, Angela Aguilar! Angela, also staff at Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project (MG), wrote a blog piece on behalf of MG that was published by Yes! Magazine. Congratulations Angela! And thank you for sharing your wisdom with the world: Distancing to Reconnect: Possibilities and Parenting During Covid-19
UPDATE: HCC's 2020 Network Gathering
On Saturday, April 11 the HCC held it's 6th Annual Network Gathering - online! We wanted to stay connected to our Network, have an opportunity to see our community and share our updates, as well as spend time together visioning our role as a healing justice force during the coronavirus moment.
Huge thanks to a special Network volunteer, Aima the Dreamer, who blessed us with an amazing spoken word piece that was beyond perfect for these times! Follow our amazing artist friend on Facebook and Instagram: @aimathedreamer.
We enjoyed small group time to connect on a more intimate level using "Breakout" spaces within our online meeting, and came back with 3 pages worth of COVID-19 response ideas from our Network! Again, we will be releasing a set of response activities in May, as well as an update on our previous plans for 2020.
Much love to our Network members!!
Huge thanks to a special Network volunteer, Aima the Dreamer, who blessed us with an amazing spoken word piece that was beyond perfect for these times! Follow our amazing artist friend on Facebook and Instagram: @aimathedreamer.
We enjoyed small group time to connect on a more intimate level using "Breakout" spaces within our online meeting, and came back with 3 pages worth of COVID-19 response ideas from our Network! Again, we will be releasing a set of response activities in May, as well as an update on our previous plans for 2020.
Much love to our Network members!!
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. |
♥︎ Many Blessings to our Beloved Community ♥︎