What is Healing Activism?
Healing activism unites personal healing and activism in the commitment to deep, enduring, transformative change society-wide.
Why is Healing Activism Needed?
Activists are committed to social change but are often unaware of how they perpetuate their personal conflicts. People who practice personal healing learn to face themselves, because nothing changes on the outside without it, but they often ignore that personal wounds are created by societal structures and -isms.
Who Does Healing Activism?
Many people and organizations do! There’s also a Healing Justice Movement that’s growing. I use them interchangeably here.
What is my approach?
In posting this page I aim to make this information easier to access, start to create a platform for Healing Activists and Healing Justice Movement Builders to be in conversation and share their knowledge as we grow and expand, together.
Video Resources
How can we let our rage transform us?
With Kheri Vance B.A. in Political Science
VIDEO: Are you a Sprinter or a Marathoner?
With Quanita Roberson, M.A. President of Nzuzu Consulting.
What does white male trauma look like?
With Abraham Lateiner, Social Justice Organizer.
What does communal self-care look like?
With Katherine Saviskas, Writer and Documentary Producer.
Contact me if you or someone you know want to join the conversation!
Contact: DrRita@ritafierro.com
Resources
Body and Personal: Healing Resources for activists
Listen (podcast): On Being: How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations Krista Tippett with Rachel Yehuda
Collective Work: Bridging Resources for Healing Justice
Book: Hope and Healing in Urban Education by Shawn Ginwright
Effect: Reveals messages sent to our individual bodies about group oppression and helps problem-solve and store new ways of being in the body.
More Info: click here for trainings
Listen (podcast): On Being: Where does it hurt? Krista Tippett with Ruby Sales
Listen (song): The resistance – Josh Garrel
Systems and Organizing: Social Justice resources for Healers
Article: Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Black Women by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Article: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is By John Scalzi
Description: For people of all backgrounds, this training provides both the basics of how racism happens and helps you find where you can grow.
Effect: Will help you identify your growing edge and connect your mind and heart around issues of race.
Description: A guide of how to recognize oppression and take action.
Listen (video): Leveraging White Privilege to Make Right Joy DeGruy
Listen (video): Post-Traumatic Slave Disorder By Joy DeGruy
Description: For people of all backgrounds, this training provides both the basics of how racism happens and helps you find where you can grow.
Effect: Will help you identify your growing edge and connect your mind and heart around issues of race.
Articles on specific healing practices
Acupuncture: Healing Justice, Acupuncture & Social Change By Tanuja Jagernauth
Rest: Laboring for Rest. Resting for Healing By Kelly Germaine
Reiki: Why I Do Research and Healing together (coming soon) by Rita Sinorita Fierro
Contact me if you have other resources to share! Contact: DrRita@ritafierro.com