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Image description: Founder, Carla Perez and founding member Angela Angel sit outdoors in front of a beautiful altar filled with candles, bright colored flowers & a huge slice of watermelon as they offer tobacco prayers at HCC's 10 year anniversary event in 2023.
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HCC Network Gathering (In-Person) Sun June 22, 2025 | 12-3pm | In-Person in North Oakland (Exact Location Shared With RSVP) Are you a long standing or newer HCC Practitioner or Volunteer? Are you a wellness/ healing practitioner or volunteer interested in joining the Network? You are invited to HCC’s Annual Network Gathering! Network Gatherings are a space that Network members asked for - an opportunity to build relationships and community with the amazing Light Workers that make up our Network✨ including HCC's new staff and Core members. We’ll have games, food & music. Since it is also Juneteenth weekend, we will honor our Black loved ones and Ancestors on a communal altar. Please bring something to contribute to the altar if you are moved to do so. Come learn about what’s on the horizon for HCC and opportunities for practitioners to collaborate in meaningful and gainful ways! We look forward to seeing you! RSVP By Wednesday June 18th |
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BIPOC Self Limpia Ceremony Sunday, June 29, 2025 | 11:00am - 1:00pm PST Location: Oakland/ Huchiun Exact Location Shared Upon Registration A limpia is a traditional cleansing practice & ceremony utilizing plants, prayer, and each of the elements. The limpia can help us encounter our emotional pain so we can face, feel, and integrate. The point of the limpia is also to call our spirit back into our body so we may return to our true selves again. Our time will begin with a platica on the limpia before we go into our community self-limpia ceremony together. Reciprocity: $10-50 Sliding Scale Accessibility Info:
**Class Is Full - Waitlist Is Now Open** |
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Collective Wellness Series: Conflict De-Escalation For Organizers (In-Person) July 26th & July 27th, 2025 | 10:00am - 3:30pm Location: Downtown Oakland Exact Location Shared Upon Registration While conflict is neutral, in times of global and local instability it’s our individual and collective responses to conflict which speak volumes about our values. Join us in gaining tools and “toys” to apply somatic, trauma-informed practices to addressing community ruptures. Participants will leave the learning space with a deeper sense of community, an understanding of ways conflict is linked to history, as well as an assessment of culturally relevant conflict and communication styles. This interactive 2-day workshop is an introductory teaser for a 20 hrs intensive mediation and conflict de-escalation certification training. Reciprocity: $100-$200 Sliding Scale |
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Collective Wellness Series: African Spiritualism Panel (Online) August 11th & September 8th, 2025 | 5 - 7pm Online Via Zoom Link Shared After Registration This offering is for folx who are looking for a safe and Black-led space to connect with and learn from practitioners of traditional African medicine and researchers from different regions of the continent. We will honor African and Black ancestral lineages and practices, dispelling colonial myths that continue to destroy Black families and communities, and explore how to respectfully and responsibly utilize our ancestral healing practices to address holistic needs of our community. Together we will explore ancestral and other spiritual connections from Zimbabwean, Yoruba, and African American Traditions through panel discussion between leading practitioners and researchers in the field. Together we will explore social justice, gender equity, gender fluidity, non-binary, and queer aspects in African Spirituality. Topics To Be Covered: Aug 11th: African Spirituality Intro, Celebrating Differences, Queer & Trans in Precolonial Africa, Spirit Possession Sept 8th: African Spirituality: Nonbinary, Gender fluidity, Gender roles, & Money Reciprocity: $40-$100 Sliding Scale |
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Collective Wellness Series: Building A Business Mindset (Online) Saturdays, May 10th & 24th, 2025 | 11am - 12:30pm On Zoom Link Shared With Registration Building a Business Mindset Workshop brings care practices to the entrepreneurial journey, acknowledging that our past experiences shape how we show up in our businesses today, and providing tools to transform these patterns into sources of authentic strength. In this two-part workshop, we'll explore exercises rooted in care that clear emotional blocks hindering your confidence and decision-making abilities, while also developing energy-aligned marketing strategies that leverage your natural talents and rhythms - creating a business approach that feels genuinely yours. This workshop is especially powerful for neurodivergent entrepreneurs, spiritual healers, and service-based coaches, but welcomes ALL business owners seeking more authentic connection with their work and clients. Reciprocity: $20-$100 Sliding Scale |
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The Healing Clinic Movement: A Workshop for Organizers (Online) Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 12pm - 2pm On Zoom Link Shared With Registration In this workshop hosted by Mujeres De La Maiz & Hood Herbalism, HCC Founder & Lead Coordinator, Carla M. Pérez, will share the philosophy and intention of offering healing clinics based in ceremonial organizing, as well as the nuts & bolts of what makes a healing clinic function successfully for meeting present-time needs, and as a way of seeding long-term prayers. Reciprocity: Free |
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Meet & Greet (Online) For HCC Network Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 10:30am - 11:30am On Zoom Link Shared With RSVP The HCC warmly invites our Network of practitioners and volunteers to come together for an online Meet & Greet. Whether you’re a new face or a seasoned practitioner, this is a wonderful chance to connect with fellow healers in our community and learn about the exciting opportunities within the HCC Network. Come with your questions, your curiosity, and your open heart as we explore our sacred work together. Reciprocity: Free |
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QTBIPOC Self Limpia Ceremony Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 11:00am - 1:00pm PST Location: Oakland/ Huchiun Exact Location Shared Upon Registration A limpia is a traditional cleansing practice & ceremony utilizing plants, prayer, and each of the elements. The limpia can help us encounter our emotional pain so we can face, feel, integrate and let it go. The point of the limpia is also to call our spirit back into our body so we may return to our true selves again. Our time will begin with a platica on the limpia before we go into our community self-limpia ceremony together. Reciprocity: $10-50 Sliding Scale Accessibility Info:
**Class Is Full - Waitlist Is Now Open** |
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QTBIPOC Self Limpia Ceremony Sunday, December 8, 2024 | 11:00am - 1:00pm PST Location: Oakland/ Huichin Exact Location Shared Upon Registration A limpia is a traditional cleansing practice & ceremony utilizing plants, prayer, and each of the elements. The limpia can help us encounter our emotional pain so we can face, feel, integrate and let it go. The point of the limpia is also to call our spirit back into our body so we may return to our true selves again. Our time will begin with a platica on the limpia before we go into our community self-limpia ceremony together. Reciprocity: $10-50 Sliding Scale Accessibility Info:
Join Waitlist by Wednesday, December 4th **Class Is Full - Waitlist Is Now Open** |
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Shedding & Grounding
Tending to Ourselves In This Political Moment Monday, November 18, 2024 | 5:30pm - 8:00pm Location: Oakland/ Huichin Exact Location Shared Upon Registration Regardless of what the official and social outcomes of the upcoming elections are, our communities are holding alot of concern for the future of our collective governance and our collective safety. We don't know exactly what will be occurring in the streets and in our hearts after Nov 5, but we can predict that there will be high emotions and public displays of unrest, no matter the outcome of the elections. In order to nurture our nervous systems and ground ourselves in our cultural resilience, HCC is offering this post-elections space where we will engage an ancestral practice, using clay to shed anxiety and dense energies, and ground ourselves in the Earth's ability to hold us completely. Reciprocity: $5-20 Sliding Scale Accessibility Info:
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Tending Our Ancestral Wounds 2024 Fall Healing Clinic Sunday, October 6th, 2024 | 10:00am - 6:00pm Arroyo Viejo Recreation Center 7701 Krause Ave, Oakland, CA 94605 The HCC is excited to announce our in-person Healing Clinic "Tending Our Ancestral Wounds"! This year's clinic is intended to acknowledge and tend the wounds of colonial trauma passed in our DNA from our Ancestors, and compacted in our current experiences. At the clinic, attendees can receive no-cost healing modalities, such as massage therapy, energy healing, herbal medicine consultations, grief counseling, and more! |
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Meet & Greet (Online) For HCC Network Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm On Zoom Link Shared With RSVP The HCC warmly invites our Network of practitioners and volunteers to come together for an online Meet & Greet. Whether you’re a new face or a seasoned practitioner, this is a wonderful chance to connect with fellow healers in our community and learn about the exciting opportunities within the HCC Network. Come with your questions, your curiosity, and your open heart as we explore our sacred work together. Reciprocity: Free |
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QTBIPOC Self-Limpia Ceremony Sunday, September 15, 2024 | 11:00am - 1:00pm Location: Oakland/ Huichin Exact Location Shared Upon Registration A limpia is a traditional cleansing practice & ceremony utilizing plants, prayer, and each of the elements. The limpia can help us encounter our emotional pain so we can face, feel, integrate and let it go. The point of the limpia is also to call our spirit back into our body so we may return to our true selves again. Our time will begin with a platica on the limpia before we go into our community self-limpia ceremony together. Reciprocity: $10-50 Sliding Scale Accessibility Info: Mask required. The meeting room is ADA accessible but the bathroom is not. This will not be a fragrance free space. Location will have ample parking/close to bus line. Register by Wednesday, September 11th |
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We are excited to host our first in-person Network Gathering since the pandemic began.
HCC Network Gathering | July 13, 2024 | 12-3pm @ the Orchard | 5132 Miles Ave, Oakland 94618 We hope to see long standing + newer Network members at our Annual Gathering this year. ❥ Come meet the amazing and magical members of HCC’s Network of ancestral healers and wellness practitioners ❥ Meet our new HCC Staff and Core members! HCC is welcoming a new Program Coordinator & Resident Herbalist, and two new Core members! ❥ We’ll have games, food & music ❥ Learn about what’s on the horizon for HCC and opportunities for practitioners to collaborate in meaningful and gainful ways! ❥ Aima the Dreamer will be joining us and dropping healing knowledge on the Mic! |
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