Movement Generation's Rekindle SESSION 4:
if its Not SOulful, Its Not Strategic, Featuring 
The Healing CLinic COllective:

This session dives into how healing and the healing way has always been an integral strategy to get us through structural transitions and transformations. We discuss the role of healing in sustaining movements where harm and grief is ever-present, and introduce vehicles, institutions, and frameworks that commit to collective healing, and that engage healing as a political strategy. ​

Lead Facilitators: Angela Aguilar and Carla Maria Pérez
Guest Presenters: Erica Woodland (National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network https://nqttcn.com/ https://www.ericawoodland.com/) Vanessa Quezada (SanArte San Antonio https://www.sanartecommunity.com/)
Cultural Offerings by: adélàjà simon and Carla Maria Pérez

​WATCH HERE​

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The LIght Ahead Podcast:
​"Kayla's Village" featuring ANgela Aguilar

“Kayla’s Village”,  featured on the "Light Ahead Podcast", is a visionary radical birthing story co-written and read by Angela Aguilar, HCC core member, Collective Member of Movement Generation, Birth Worker and Healer. "The Light Ahead Podcast" is produced by Beloved Economies.
  LISTEN HERE​

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Thrive Panel 

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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

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☆ Healers that help me heal ☆
a series hosted by la Botánica Azul

​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]

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​Keynote Panel: “Bitter Pills: Race, Health, and Medicine,” featuring Carla M. Perez
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies at Lewis & Clark College, Nov 2018

​This is an annual conference organized by Lewis & Clark students on important current issues related to race and ethnicity. This year, Healing Justice was a key focus of the symposium, and HCC founder Carla M. Perez was invited to speak on the the Collective's vision and thinking alongside Autumn Brown, an incredible artist and organizer, and Jerry Tello of National Compadres Network. You can forward to these times to hear more about the vision behind the HCC: 28:30, 57:50, 1:24:10, and 1:42:05.

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August 2018

HCC Featured in the East Bay Express
"Self-Care as a Political Act"

​​We are excited to share with you our feature in The East Bay Express in a beautiful article called, "Self-Care as a Political Act." The article highlights holistic wellness practitioners of color in the Bay Area holding the work as both sacred and political. You'll hear from HCC family like Carla Perez, Rachel Bryant, and Atava Swiecicki Garcia of Ancestral Apothecary, in addition to other folks who inspire us in the Bay like Daisy Ozim of Resilient Wellness, acupuncturist Paolo Flores Chico, and herbalist Elokin Orton-Cheung. 

Link to the full article, here.