Healing Wounds Beyond Ourselves: A conversation on collective trauma & collective healing

Healing Wounds Beyond Ourselves

At this month’s Learning Community Showcase, come and meet two teams who are working at the intersection of personal and collective healing.

In conversation, they’ll share their understanding of the effects of systemic trauma, and in particular how internalized trauma can impede communities from working together for social change. The speakers will also discuss their perspectives on the role of collective healing in larger social transformation.

• Courtney Kirkby and Millie Tresierra are hands-based healing practitioners and co-founders of Community Healing Days, offering specialized and accessible holistic care to marginalized community members. Through collecting data about the healing experience of alternative care, the CHD team advocates for transformation of the public healthcare system towards the integration of accessible alternative healing modalities.
• Leith Hamilton and Elijah Olise are co-leaders of the Collective for Social Change in Black communities. This initiative seeks to bring together organizers from across Montreal’s Black community to address internalized barriers to collaboration and facilitate transgenerational healing through a community of practice.  Their ultimate goal is for the group to coordinate collective action to address the systemic discrimination facing Black families in youth protection.

Open to all, register here in advance or drop by if you are on campus.
Bring your own lunch or come and snack on what we have!

Please note this event is held in person, at the SHIFT space. If, for accessibility reasons, you are not able to join in person but would like to attend the event, please contact emma.harake@concordia.ca and we can work together to see if an alternative solution is possible. A week’s notice will give us the best chance of making something work.