2018: Healing From Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
Our Prayer, Healing Clinics, & More
Our Prayer for 2018
The HCC Core Members reflected together and felt the call to focus our collective prayer and love on healing from sexual and gender-based violence during this year, including violence towards Mother Earth. The collective courage and awakening all around us to confront patriarchy and it’s impact on on the bodies, minds, hearts and lives of womyn and gender non-conforming people has been strong, and we chose to meet this awakening with intention and healing.
Healing Our Past, Claiming Our Future
Giving Thanks for Closing Out a Powerful Year With Our Beloved Community Healing Clinic!
Giving Thanks for Closing Out a Powerful Year With Our Beloved Community Healing Clinic!
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During the fall of 2018, on October 13th at Roosevelt Middle School in the San Antonio District of Oakland, we held our 13th Healing Clinic since 2013! What a blessing! This year the clinic was named Healing Our Past, Claiming Our Future, and we came together with People's Community Medics to uplift the prayer of healing specifically from sexual and gender-based violence. We were joined by our elder Simbwala Schultz who led a Healing Circle as well as Hand-to-Hand Kajukenbo who facilitated an emotional and physical self defense training before the healing clinic.
There was an amazing group of practitioners from our network and we also got to connect with new practitioners in community as well! We give thanks for all of the community that came to receive healing, the many many volunteers and practitioners who made this day possible, the organizing committee, and all those who supported this dream along the way!
Recreate Yourself:
Change and Elevate Your Story with Maestra Veronica Iglesias
The Collective Held Our First Ever Healing Retreat In 2018!
Change and Elevate Your Story with Maestra Veronica Iglesias
The Collective Held Our First Ever Healing Retreat In 2018!
We are honored to be able to say that the HCC held its first ever two-day healing retreat for womyn, 2-spirit, trans, and gender nonconforming folks August 2018 in Sebastopol and Resilient Wellness in Oakland! Healer, medicine woman, and long time friend of the HCC, Veronica Iglesias, led a beautiful, fun, and deeply transformative weekend with an amazing group of participants! Using her deep knowledge of the Nahuatl cosmology and indigenous Mexican healing traditions, including holding space for a powerful temazcal ceremony, Veronica guided us through the world of the feminine archetypes of Nahuatl cosmology and how to harness the energy of the archetypes for personal power and healing through sexual and gender-based trauma.
Appreciations and Highlights
of the Black Joy Parade in February!
of the Black Joy Parade in February!
This past February Healing Clinic practitioners and volunteers were invited to run a healing village at the Black Joy parade in downtown Oakland. The parade and energy was filled with Black Joy and the clinic was honored to hold a healing space as part of this vision. Huge thanks to Keena Romano for her work in coordinating this day and to all the volunteer practitioners and volunteers for helping to make this happen!
2018 Healing Clinic Collective Network Gathering
Our Annual Spring Gathering of Practitioners, Volunteers, and Friends of the HCC
Our Annual Spring Gathering of Practitioners, Volunteers, and Friends of the HCC
We had a very sweet and powerful Network Gathering this year! We made offerings to the fire for our prayer of healing from sexual & gender-based violence, shared HCC updates & resources and continued building our relationships. Enjoy this beautiful slideshow of photos from the Gathering made by our lovely core member, Marie!