RSVP to the 2022 Community Health Village: A Look into Collective Healing
Community Health Village 2022: A Look into Collective Healing
The 2022 Community Health Village is focused on different types of trauma and ways to address them, while helping us imagine how to heal together by looking at individual, community as well as organizational pathways towards collective healing.
The Village consists of educational and experiential sessions which are scheduled for the months of October and November 2022. The sessions
provide knowledge and perspectives from diverse mental healthcare practitioners, and offer different modalities of healing. We encourage you to attend as many as you can, to better understand the scope of healing pathways available.
How to RSVP
You must RSVP for each session individually, noting that some sessions have a limit of participants. Sessions will take place on either Zoom or BigBlueButton, and the link(s) to your session(s) will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Can’t attend?
Don’t worry! The notes of each session will be stored on our wiki, including slide decks and worksheets used.
2022 Community Health Village Sessions
Nawal Muradwij
Wednesday, October 12
Deconstructing Trauma
Speaker: Nawal Muradwij
11:00am to 12:00pm EDT (What time is in my city?)
Trauma has become a commonly used mental health term. However, most people have a lack of understanding of what constitutes trauma, and how it impacts their body and mind.
By attending this session, participants will learn about:
How trauma is defined and its psychological impacts, according to the field of psychology.
How trauma shows up in the body and its effect on psychological health
Critics of the application of Western trauma models, especially for communities in the global south,
How trauma is understood and expressed within a person’s environment and communities.
This session has no capacity limit.
Danisha Baro
Fahad Awan
Thursday, October 13
Trauma & Identity: a deep dive on intersectionality
Speakers: Danisha Baro, LMHC, LPC, and Fahad Awan
10am to 11am EDT (What time is it in my city?)
* Please note that this workshop is capped at 40 people
Each person has unique social and cultural identities that overlap. Intersectionality recognizes this, acknowledging that everyone has unique experiences of discrimination and oppression.It also pushes to be sensitive to the fact that many things can further marginalize specific groups of vulnerable people, leading to specific traumas. By attending this workshop, participants will learn about:
Identity, intersectionality, privilege and marginalization
Gain an understanding of how individuals with multiple marginalized identities experience trauma.
How to center and emphasize people's lived experiences and perspectives when attempting to promote/research/evaluate health through a trauma-informed lens.
Gabes Torres
Tuesday, October 18
Healing in the In-Between: Exploring Migration and Vicarious Trauma
Speaker: Gabes Torres
9:30am to 10:30am EDT (What time is it in my city?)
* Please note that this workshop is capped at 25 people
This session is focused on helping digital rights defenders learn skills and information to enable them to better cope with the abuses and difficulties they regularly witness and/or encounter in their work, helping them to minimize the negative impact it can have on their life.
By attending this session, participants will have an opportunity to:
Collectively hold their experience together with other digital rights defenders, as a way to minimize the impact it can have on their mental, physical and social health. In addition, learn how collective reflection can benefit their own communities.
Gain an understanding the implications of vicarious secondary stress and migration trauma, and how it impacts individuals
Learn about mindfulness tools that engage with healing and medicine
Jehanzeb Baldiwala
Thursday, October 20
Responding to Defeat and Creating Communities of Hope
Speaker: Jehanzeb Baldiwala and Prathama Raghavan
9:30am to 10:30am EDT (What time is it in my city?)
Individuals that work on digital rights do their work in oppressive contexts, usually with minimal resources, that can challenge their sense of self, make them feel demoralized, and question whether their work has any significant impact.
In this session, participants will explore experiences of defeat in their activism, and learn how to create communities of hope. By attending, participants will:
Prathama Raghavan
Explore what defeat and hope means and looks like in their lives/work
Discover visible ways in which their communities and networks are already responding and holding on to hope.
Learn how to create safe spaces to talk.
Gain wisdom on how to build a sense of solidarity and connectedness.
This session has no capacity limit.
Ji-Youn Kim
Tuesday, October 25
Processing Rage 101
Speaker: Ji-Youn Kim
9:30am to 10:30am EDT (What time is it in my city?)
Anger is a mobilizing emotion that helps us confront injustice, danger, and unsafety. However, interlocking systems of oppression pathologize the anger of marginalized peoples to keep them small and passive, feeding them oppressive narratives that their rage is unproductive and/or violent. Black, Brown, and Indigenous folks are further criminalized for their rightful rage.
In this session, participants will delve into their own relationships with anger and begin to explore how to process our loving anger and rightful rage in ways that feel more liberating and empowering.
This session has no capacity limit.
Learn more about how to process your loving anger and rightful rage
Zad ElMakkaoui
Thursday, October 27
Your Own Oxygen Mask First: An Intimate Conversation for Digital Rights Leaders about Burnout
Speaker: Zad ElMakkaoui
9:30am to 11am EDT (What time is it in my city?)
* Please note this workshop is limited to 15 people and it’s at capacity. RSVP to be added to the waiting list.
In this facilitated group coaching session, a limited number of leaders will come together for an intimate conversation about the burnout they are experiencing as leaders in the digital rights space.
Digital rights leaders that participate will have an opportunity to:
Explore their experiences of burnout
Identify contributing factors to burnout and brainstorm solutions on how to address them.
Lean how to set an example and model healthy behavior for their employees, community members, and others.
Connect with and hear from other digital rights leaders on how they have been handling their burnout.
Learn more about how to identify and explore the burnout that you may be experiencing as a leader
Wednesday, November 2
Organizational Accountability Wheel Webinar
Speaker: RJ Williams and Thanh Mai K'Taaya
10:30am to 12:00pm EDT (What time is it in my city?)
This session is designed to help participants think through how to build an organization that is accountable to its employees and the communities they serve, and establish a shared understanding of what accountability means.
Participants will have learn how their organizations can:
Translate their values into practice
Better support practice generative conflict, so that their staff can engage conflict in ways that generate more possibilities, greater connection, and fuller expression.
Increase equity across their teams, and understand what true diversity, inclusion and equity looks like.
This session has no capacity limit.
Stéphanie Janaina
Thursday, November 3
The archives of positive future: dance with a furious smile as you are the future
Speaker: Stéphanie Janaina
10:00am to 11:30am EDT (What time is it in my city?)
*** Please note this workshop is limited to 30 people
Digital rights defenders hold significant memories of pain, injustice, and struggle that they carry with them every day. Many times they forget that smiling is an act of resistance.
This workshop is focused on helping individuals learn how to collectively create joyful muscle memories that can help them shape a better future. Individuals will learn how to create their own resilient and creative tool(s) against their bodies' memories of pain.
In this session, we will defend the importance of expressing fire, rage, what seems to us extremely unfair, but from a care towards ourselves. To take care of wrath and fury is to take care of fire. Not to control them but to be able to continue manifesting them without burning oneself. To embrace our body, our fragility is also to light the fire.