Healing Together (2026)

28/09/2026

For power to exist in our movements, healing must be at the center. To center healing, we are called to imagine a world where prisons and punishment are no longer the only tools at our disposal to address and prevent violence. Transformative Justice is the framework that supports us to make this possible. How are you centering healing and transformation in your fight for liberation?

Our next posts will deepen our exploration of transformative justice in practice, restorative justice as an approach to interpersonal harm, and how they can support us in building power founded on healing and collective care.

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Slide 1: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. What is Transformative Justice? Why is it important?

Slide 2: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. We live in a culture of punishment. The global consensus on justice centers on crime and punishment. Almost every sovereign country in the world has a prison system. The standard is to punish harm through imprisonment and isolation.

Slide 3: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. We know that harm is not an isolated incident. We live under systems that perpetuate trauma. Trauma impacts
the way we see the world, the way we see ourselves, the way we relate to one another. Pain that isn’t transformed is transferred.

Slide 4: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. Why the carceral approach doesn’t work.
Much of the violence we see stems from ideas and beliefs shaped by systems of oppression. And choices these systems force people to make to survive within them. Prisons serve as a bandaid to punish survivors of these systems rather than addressing the systems themselves.

Slide 5: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. What is transformative justice? Transformative Justice was created by Indigenous, Black, Immigrant, Poor, LGBTQIA+, and other marginalized communities. Based on ancestral practices and understanding. That prisons and the police are not permanent solutions to violence
It relies on community centered interventions to combat the repression of the carceral state.

Slide 6: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. How it works. This framework views harm as a collective experience that creates a ripple effect and can shape or tear apart entire communities. Therefore justice is a collective, communal transformative process.

Slide 7: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. Justice doesn’t have to create more violence
The goal of this framework isn’t to avoid nor deny harm or its impact. Rather to address harm in a generative way. Through restorative practices and interventions that prevent the violence from happening in the first place.

Slide 8: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. Accountability as the antidote to more violence. Transformative justice invites us to reimagine accountability by centering the needs of survivors. While collectively addressing the underlying patterns and systems that enable harm and violence

Slide 9: Green background with beige front with orange and navy font surrounded by purple squares and purple moose. We don’t have to keep repeating the cycles
Transformative justice is an opportunity for our movements to grow and heal from harm with collective care at the center. *Our next posts will deepen our exploration of transformative justice in practice, restorative justice as an approach to interpersonal harm, and how they can support us in building power founded on healing and collective care.

Slide 10: Green background with beige and purple front with orange, beige and purple font with the Healing Together logo. Unhealed trauma fuels fear, hate, violence, oppression, and injustice. We’re working to change that. We are a global alliance of local organizers working to prevent, disrupt, and heal generational cycles of trauma and violence, and build collective power.
Learn more:
Global: Healing Together WeAreHealingTogether.org
Turtle Island (USA): HealingTogetherUS.org
Nepal: Healing Together Nepal HealingTogetherNepal.org
Uganda: Healing Together Uganda HealingTogetherUganda.org]

24/09/2026

Last week, our team at Healing Together Nepal spent two beautiful days with the women of Sankheshwori Nari Chetana in Dhulikhel, Nepal. The two-day trauma healing and community empowerment workshop was filled with laughter and tears as the participants shared, listened and learned together. Through stories, reflection and practical skills, they explored ways to care for themselves and support other community members in their healing journeys.

Our team reflects on the experience saying, "We did not come together to 'fix' anyone. We came together to connect, learn, and strengthen the wisdom and resources already within the individuals and their communities. Because healing does not always happen alone. Often it grows in the community."

[Image descriptions:
Image 1 of 5: Thirty or so women most of them dressed in kurtha suruwal and shawl are smiling for a group photograph with the workshop facilitator before a one-story building that has the sign that reads, "Shree Shankheshwori Nari Chetana Saving and Credit Cooperative Limited". The women in the front row are seated whereas those behind them are standing in three rows.

Image 2 of 5: Workshop facilitator is standing at the front of a room giving a presentation on how unhealed trauma affects someone on a personal level as the participants seated in multiple rows of brown plastic chairs listen.

Image 3 of 5: Several large sheets white paper are pasted on the walls of the workshop hall, each maintaining a list of effects trauma has on a person's physical, mental, psychological, spiritual and social lives. Six or so women standing in front of these papers are taking turns listing out the effects.

Image 4 of 5: Workshop participants seated on multiple rows of brown plastic chairs are meditating with their eyes closed and hands on their knees making a 'gyan mudra'.

Image 5 of 5: The workshop participants are moving around in a circle dancing in an outdoor environment. The facilitator standing at the center of the circle also seems to be dancing.]

17/09/2026

At Healing Together, we've always felt that access to trauma informed and healing centered care can make a tremendous difference in young people's lives. Our experience last week in Healing Together Uganda's training in Ntungamo put a renewed spotlight on this when a participant recounted seeing a female student in this school experience physical violence years ago in its absence.

In this participant's school, when students returned after a holiday, about four girls in grades 6 and 7 seemed to have gained some weight. A senior woman in the school saw these kids and suspected they might be pregnant. She shared her concern with the headteacher who then had a midwife examine them. After examination, the midwife concluded that one of them was with child.

Later that day, the headteacher took this girl to her parents and shared what he had learned. The parents, trusting the headteacher, asked the girl about the child's paternity. The girl however denied that she was pregnant in the first place. This frustrated the parents and they started beating her. When no amount of beating could make the girl state otherwise, the parents took her to the police.

The police also beat the girl. But she stood firm in her position. Exhausted, one of the officers suggested that they do another test, with urine sample this time. The police then took her to a facility and ran the HCG test. The result? Negative. In disbelief, they ran the test again. Still negative.

By the time everybody realized how mistaken they had been all along, the 14 year old had gone through severe physical and psychological pain which later made it difficult for her to continue education. She ended up dropping out.

This experience affected not only the girl though. The headteacher has been feeling guilty about this for the last 15 years without being able to apologize to her.

This story is heartbreaking, yes. But it also underscores the need for parents and community leaders to understand generational trauma and incorporate healing centered practices when they interact with young people. Our team at has been working tirelessly to help communities build this capability. There's still a long way to go, but we remain hopeful in being able to get there eventually.

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Image 1 of 4: A Ugandan woman dressed in a flower patterned floor length dress with short sleeves is standing at the center of a room and speaking. Other training participants are seated around her on white monobloc chairs with their belongings and stationaries on the tables in front of them. A projector screen to the right of the speaker is displaying a multi-colored infinity logo and text: "Healing Together Uganda".

Image 2 of 4: Training participants are seated on two rows of white monobloc chairs in a mid-sized room in a U shaped arrangement. A Ugandan gentleman dressed in a suit is standing in front of his chair (at a tip of the U) and speaking.

Image 3 of 4: A training participant (a short-haired Ugandan woman wearing a black suit jacket over a patterned dress) is standing in front of her chair holding a notebook and pen in her right hand and making gestures with her left as she speaks. Male participants seated around her are listening.

Image 4 of 4: Training facilitator (a Ugandan woman dressed in a black knee length dress with elbow-length sleeves and white spots) is standing at the center of the room with her hands stretched out to the sides, palms open, as she engages the participants in a physical activity. The participants standing around her are trying to copy her.]

05/09/2026

Many of you asked if Together Nepal is okay. Thankfully, our team safe. But, the people of Nepal are suffering. 💔

It's painful, but true: long after headlines move on and disaster relief ends, trauma remains. That's why we are mobilizing support from you, our community, to stand with Nepal. 🫂

Healing Together Nepal will train teachers, nurses, and Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) in flood-affected areas to provide trauma-informed mental health support in homes, schools, health centers, and community spaces. We will also provide a modest stipend to FCHVs who travel extra distances to reach affected families. 💫

You can learn more & donate to our campaign here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/healingfornepal

Thank your for standing with survivors. Thank you for standing with Nepal. 🙏🏽

26/08/2026

While there's much to be celebrated about women being at the helm of organizations in Uganda, there's no denying that the role can sometimes be emotionally draining. So this past week, Healing Together Uganda created a space where a cohort of female CEOs came together to momentarily step outside of their corporate identities and reconnect with their calm, peaceful and grounded human selves.

[Image descriptions:
Image 1 of 5: A group of casually dressed women is seated in a circle on chairs in a hall with wooden walls and roof, and parqueted floor with a tiled center. One of the women, dressed in a black hoodie and jeans is speaking from her seat while others are listening with a smile on their faces.

Image 2 of 5: The women are standing in a close circle smiling and giving each other a group hug.

Image 3 of 5: A woman wearing a red coat over a teal dress is walking with notebooks and a folded sheet of paper in her hands inside the circle where her peers are seated, as part of a workshop activity.

Image 4 of 5: A white bowl of nine cookies and a sign saying: "This is a safe space" are surrounded by eight brown cups each accompanied by a paper cutout alternating between a heart and a butterfly.

Image 5 of 5: A small decorative tree at the center of a table is covered in a patterned fabric with its bare branches holding several colored paper tags. Scattered on the table around the tree are colorful stones and printed cards labelled gratitude, mindfulness, zen, happiness etc. At the bottom right corner of the table is a case of what looks like spray bottles used to color the stones.]

20/08/2026

Our VIDA program is breaking generational cycles and offering youth opportunities to deepen self-knowing, honor inherent dignity, and build critical skills in collective healing, leadership, and advocacy. You don't have to take our word for it. Here is some of what youth have had to share about their experiences so far.

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Image 1 of 5: Black and White photo of youth sitting around a large sheet of paper that reads “Dignity.” A strip of light blue faded color covers the right side of the image. A Healing Together logo on the top right side. White text over a maroon box in the top left corner reads: “VIDA is a safe space where we can connect with others who are similar and have similar experiences, even though we all have different walks of life."

Image 2 of 5: 2 black and white photos of the youth and facilitators of the VIDA youth cohort stacked one above the other. A strip of fading green color covers the left side. A Healing Together logo sits on the top left corner of the photo on the bottom. A maroon textbox on the bottom right reads in white text: "It's really beautiful that because of this circle we were able to meet. We're able to share things we normally wouldn't—even with our friends."

Image 3 of 5: A photo of VIDA youth and facilitators standing around a collective altar. A strip of light blue faded color covers the right side of the image. A Healing Together logo on the top left side. White text over a maroon box in the bottom left corner reads: “VIDA has become 'a ritual,' almost like Sunday school — a space you're called to, to step into your path.”

Image 4 of 5: A photo of VIDA youth and facilitators sitting in a circle around an altar while making crafts together. A strip of fading green color covers the left side. A Healing Together logo on the top right side. A maroon textbox on the top left reads in white text: “Valores es cuando puedes tener compasión para valorar o entender cómo es una persona con valores.” A maroon textbox on the bottom right reads in white text: “Having values is when you can have compassion to value or understand how another person is in their values.”

Image 5 of 5: Black and White photo of youth sitting around a large sheet of paper that reads “Voice.” A strip of light blue faded color covers the right side of the image. A Healing Together logo on the top right side. A maroon textbox on the bottom left reads in white text: "Even though we haven't been together for very long, we've shared a lot. It made me realize I low-key needed this space. VIDA is grounding, routine feels good, and everybody wants to be here."]

17/07/2026

Our work keeps expanding to reach our people across Turtle Island! We’re excited to offer our migrant BIPOC family in Portland, OR, our upcoming workshop series: Acupuntura para el Pueblo.

𝗔𝗰𝘂𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲
(𝗜𝗻-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻)
𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗢𝗥

Collective healing is in our hands! Learn this powerful tool—inherited from a social justice movement—to bring immense well-being to yourself and your communities. Join us for our BIPOC migrant, healing-centered 5NP training in Portland, OR.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟱𝗡𝗣?
It is a protocol—also known as NADA Acudetox—that stimulates five specific points on the ear. It is a treatment that has been used for decades to alleviate symptoms related to stress, trauma, and addiction, among others. Anyone can learn it to practice on themselves and within a community.

𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟱 & 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝟵𝗮-𝟱𝗽
$𝟭𝟬𝟬-$𝟯𝟱𝟬

TRAINING WILL BE OFFERED IN SPANISH FOR OUR BIPOC MIGRANT COMMUNITY.

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 : 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆𝘂𝗿𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺/𝗽𝘂𝗲𝗯𝗹𝗼𝟱𝗡𝗣
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 : 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.𝗼𝗿𝗴/𝟱𝗻𝗽

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Light Blue background. Top center is the event title in Spanish: “Acupuntura para el Pueblo: Entrenamiento Protocolo 5NP. !En nuestras manos está la sanación colectiva! Aprende esta poderosa herramienta que heredamos de un movimiento de justicia social para brindar a ti misme y a tus comunidades, inmenso bienestar.” Underneath to the left is an artistic presentation of a fetus in cephalic position transforming into plant leaves. To the right, a black font description reads: “Es un protocolo que también se conoce como NADA Aquadetox que estimula cinco puntos específicos en la oreja. Es un tratamiento que se ha utilizado por décadas para aliviar síntomas relacionados al estrés, trauma y adicciones, entre otros. Cualquier persona puede aprenderlo para practicarlo consigo mismo y en comunidad. Costo por escala $100-$350. Para conocer más detalles y aplicar, escanea este código QR.” Beneath this is a QR code. To the left are the dates beside a calendar icon: 15 & 16 de agosto de 2026 9-5p. The location listed below is Q Center 4115 N Mississippi Ave, Portland OR. Logos of sponsoring organizations are below this.

09/07/2026

Returning to ourselves in Community 💫 👣 (Community Care Circle)
with Abuela Lucely Ameyolotli

*The circle will be offered in Spanish with Spanish to English interpretation.

Monday July 20
5:30p pst | 8:30p est
FREE
Register @ tinyurl.com/HTcare
More info @ wearehealingtogether.org/care

[English]

“When you take care of yourself, you teach others how to treat you.” — Rupi Kaur

Over the course of two hours, a safe space will be created where participants can pause, listen to themselves, and truly acknowledge their own presence—not out of the pressure to “do more,” but rather through the opportunity to return to themselves with greater awareness and kindness. We will focus on active listening, presence, and sharing in small groups, allowing each person an authentic space to express themselves and be heard without judgment. Through guided exercises, moments of bodily connection, and meaningful conversations, a process of reconnecting with one’s own emotional and personal needs is facilitated. This space does not seek to teach formulas for self-care, but rather to open up an experience in which each participant can recognize what they need today—and how to begin supporting themselves with greater clarity and care in their daily lives.

[Spanish]

“Cuando te cuidas, le enseñas a otros cómo tratarte.” Rupi Kaur

A lo largo de dos horas, se creará un espacio seguro donde los participantes podrán detenerse, escucharse y reconocerse, no desde la exigencia de “hacer más”, sino desde la posibilidad de volver a sí mismos con mayor conciencia y amabilidad. Nos enfocaremos en la escucha activa, la presencia y el compartir en pequeños grupos, permitiendo que cada persona tenga un espacio auténtico para expresarse y ser escuchada sin juicio. A través de dinámicas guiadas, momentos de conexión corporal y conversaciones significativas, se facilita un proceso de reconexión con las propias necesidades emocionales y personales.Este espacio no busca enseñar fórmulas de autocuidado, sino abrir una experiencia donde cada participante pueda reconocer qué necesita hoy y cómo empezar a sostenerse con mayor claridad y cuidado en su vida cotidiana.

[Image descriptions:
Image 1 of 2: Turquoise background featuring light blue swirl watercolor strokes on the right lower side is a colorful drawing of Black and brown people of color standing over, standing and sitting braiding and weaving into each other’s hair. Top Left corner is the event title: “Community Care Circle: a virtual BIPOC healing space for our tender hearts in these times” in an aqua circle. In the center a circular photo of facilitator Abuela Lucely Ameyolotli with corresponding circle theme: Returning to Ourselves in Community. A yellow bubble above says “Monday July 20th 5:30p pst / 8:30p est.” Yellow rectangular block says, “hosted by xochicoatl bello of Healing Together”. Fucsia paint brushstroke overlapped with white text: “ More info @ wehealingtogether.org; Register .com/HTcare”

Image 2 of 2: Flyer in Spanish. Fondo turquesa con pinceladas de acuarela azul claro en la parte inferior derecha, un dibujo colorido de personas Negras y morenas de pie, sentadas y trenzando sus cabellos. En la esquina superior izquierda, el título del evento: “Círculo de Cuidado Comunitario: un espacio virtual de sanación BIPOC para nuestros corazones sensibles en estos tiempos”, en un círculo aguamarina. En el centro, una foto circular de la facilitadora Abuela Lucely Ameyolotli con el tema del círculo correspondiente: Volver a mi en Comunidad.” Una burbuja amarilla arriba dice “Lunes 20 de julio, 5:30 p. m. PST / 8:30 p. m. EST”. Un bloque rectangular amarillo dice “Organizado por xochicoatl bello de Healing Together”. Una pincelada fucsia superpuesta con texto blanco: “Más info @ wehealingtogether.org; Inscripcion @ tinyurl.com/HTcare.”]

15/06/2026

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The first session of VIDA was a beautiful moment. 🥹 Thank you for being our home. 🏠

I am grateful for everyone who has offered their medicine into shaping this w/us and even more, deeply humbled by the youth who answered the call & trusted us enough to step into this space. Grateful for all the community partners, the relationships & beautiful connections that have believed in me, in us, in this vision n those who continue to entrust us with their young people.

How sacred to witness young people share their stories n honoring the journeys that brought them to this moment. It was beautiful to watch them connect across languages, genders, cultures - the imaginary divides that so often separate us. Ready to watch them unfold.

I am especially grateful to my brother, Ariel .ariel11 for trusting me to hold this seed alongside him—to nurture it, protect it n help it grow. What a blessing to be here w/you after 2 years of finding ourselves in the same circles, returning to the same conversations n dreams n realizing we both were connected to my folks shortly after landing with them. So grateful to build Healing Together Turtle Island with you, bro.

It was never coincidence. “When it’s divine, it will align.” & here we are. We have arrived.

[Image 1 of 6: A short haired man dressed in a dark-blue half-shirt and carrying a backpack is taking a selfie with another man with shoulder length hair also dressed in a blue shirt. Both men are smiling at the camera while making a V sign with their index and middle fingers. Behind them on the wall is a painting depicting a droplet of water and two open palms on a yellow circular background with red circular border resembling sun.

Image 2 of 6: An indoor environment with a small table at the center and chairs arranged in a circle around it for seating. Behind the seating area is a whiteboard on which a man wearing a blue shirt is writing some text from the laptop he's holding on his left hand.

Image 3 of 6: Notebooks with a V.I.D.A branding on the cover, pens, and pouches with Healing Together stickers and other stuff are laid out in two rows on a table. The tablecloth features black, brown, red and yellow lined patterns.

Image 4 of 6: Same as image 3, taken from a different angle.

Image 5 of 6: The table at the center of the classroom is covered by a rainbow-colored serape blanket. On it is a flower filled vase at the center surrounded by a decor labelled "TEPIC NAYARIT" and several figurines resembling turtles. Yellow and pink flowers laid on the sides border the objects on the table.

Image 6 of 6: Closeup of black, white, blue, green and orange pouches each consisting of a Healing Together sticker, small bottle of what could be a perfume or a serum etc.]

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