Start 2023 in Solidarity
Over January and February, we invite you to witness transparent and vulnerable leadership across four liberating open strategy spaces as the Healing Solidarity Advisory Circle reflect in “real time” on the future of this work in conversation with YOU our members and mentors.
Please register for the events using the links below. You can also find more details on the Healing Solidarity collective.
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▶️ 15:30-17:00 GMT ▶️ 21:00-22:30 IST
▶️ 18:30-20:00 EAT ▶️ 10:30-12:00 EST
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▶️ 07:30 – 09:00 GMT ▶️ 13:00-14:30 IST
▶️ 10:30-12:00 EAT ▶️ 2:30-4:00 AM EST
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▶️ 13:30 -15:00 GMT▶️ 19:00-20:30 IST
▶️ 16:30-18:00 EAT ▶️ 8:30-10:00 EST
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▶️ 13:30 -15:00 GMT▶️ 19:00-20:30 IST
▶️ 16:30-18:00 EAT ▶️ 8:30-10:00 EST
Healing Solidarity started in 2018 as an online conference about re-imaging ‘international development’ that to our surprise 1500 people signed up for.
Our online space the Healing Solidarity Collective was created the following year as a place to gather around the work of challenging injustice in our practice & support people working to re-imagining international ‘development’ and to support members to resist the working practices that overwhelm and exhaust us.
Well over 3,500 people have engaged with our work over the past four years.
Healing Solidarity has always been a place for practitioners trying to do things differently, to re-imagine ‘development’.
But we want to ask the question, how can we best do that now in 2022?
We know that many more conferences and events are now centering conversations about transforming the sector and decolonising it, about building anti-racist practice and doing things differently. In a way, the thing we started with, has now been taken up by the ‘mainstream’.
But we still sense a need to support practitioners in the process of actually doing things differently and to help one another undo the working practices that overwhelm and exhaust us which we know are part of what keep us locked in a cycle that works against much needed change.
Since 2018 we have offered annual online conferences, a free collective space and regular events and paid courses and consultancy at the intersections of these questions. We’ve also formed an advisory circle and a group of consultants who support this work and registered Healing Solidarity as a Community Interest Company in the UK.
But we want to ask you, our members and communities more about what you think Healing Solidarity should do, be and offer next – and we are also open to hearing back that our work is done and that we should wind down this initiative.
Please take a seat in the inner circle…
Rather than sitting alone in a ‘board room’ to figure this out we are instead choosing to create the opportunity to step into a liberating collective space of inquiry. Using the fishbowl process where listeners can become participants in the conversations we start, we will seek to draw forth the power of our collective thinking to inform the next steps for Healing Solidarity at this time.
There will be a series of four sessions that make up this alternative process of reimagining the future of this project. You can join as many as you are able to, but joining just one is fine too.
Give what you can..
These will not be ticketed events. Instead we invite you to consider joining us as a sustaining member . Whilst we do not know exactly where we will land from this process as Healing Solidarity – you will be supporting us to resource these intimate and powerful discussions and to sustain our collective healing space . We acknowledge economic insecurity and therefore only ask you to give what you can.
See you there..
Bring your voice to the circle, be part of our decision making and the future wellbeing of the sector. We look forward to the Manthan मंथन, a Hindu word offered by Roshni meaning: churning, stirring, deep pondering, reflection, a hallowed place to create knowledge, molding of minds, brainstorm, introspection, realisation.
If you have any questions, please email us at collective@healingsolidarity.org
With love,
Esua, Swatee, Mary Ann, Roshni and Jennifer The Healing Solidarity Advisory Circle