Dieciséis beneficiarios y aliados del Crossroads Fund se reunieron temprano el miércoles por la mañana para hablar sobre la justicia curativa.. Durante los últimos dos años, hemos escuchado cada vez más de nuestra comunidad sobre la necesidad de autocuidado y curación en nuestro trabajo activista., y sobre el creciente movimiento de justicia curativa. Como parte de nuestra serie continua de talleres de asistencia técnica, Crossroads Fund invitó a los activistas locales de justicia curativa Tanuja Jagernauth y Stacey Erenberg de Sage Community Health Collective para facilitar una introducción a la justicia curativa a nivel individual., institutional and city-wide level.Healing justice is “a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds. Through this framework we build… political and philosophical convergences of healing inside of liberation.” As Tanuja and Stacy explained, with help from everyone present at the workshop, healing justice comes from the belief that injustices cause emotional, spiritual and physical trauma in ourselves and our communities. Healing justice involves addressing both individual healing, and also transforming the institutions and relationships that are causing the trauma in the first place.The workshop attendees shared the need for healing from everything from war and colonialism to domestic and community violence to organizer burnout and inter organizational conflicts. Through skits and drawings, they presented examples of healing justice in practice at the personal, organizational and city-wide level. Want to learn more about healing justice? Check out these great resources:More on healing justice from Cara Page: http://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/reflections-from-detroit-transforming-wellness-wholeness/Other groups doing healing justice: http://www.kindredhealingjustice.org/On healing justice and health justice: http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2010/11/just-healing/ On community care: http://nayamaya.wordpress.com/ On transformative justice: http://tjlp.org/aboutwho.html More on transformative justice: http://www.project-nia.org/about-us.phpHave an idea for a workshop that might be useful for grassroots groups in Chicago? Let us know!
