Healing Spaces
For Us By Us
This space and community is an invitation to enter the borderlands both within and beyond our skin into the intersections of experiences we share in common. Born out of a mutual longing we each had, for a localized space in which to heal together in community, to address the harm bodies like ours experience in systems that were not made for us, as well as to work together to collectively examine our complicity with systems of oppression, because of our privilege and the anti-Black racism that is rampant in non-Black racialized communities. A space for spirits and beings who identify as Asian womxn, a container for healing, wholeness and accountability, that is co-created by each and every one of us who respond to the invitation to join.
Our
Vision
To co-create a gathering space to:
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Remember our inherent belonging
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Reclaim wholeness and all of its complexities
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Reimagine community– ways of being in relationship with ourselves, each other, our communities and the earth
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Restore – a space where we can continually liberate and be our authentic selves in a supportive and compassionate environment
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Reframe wellness – creating space for a wellness that makes room for the trauma and a way to heal at the speed of trust
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Root into a collective wisdom — we are the medicine (leaning into and sharing our ancestral wisdom traditions to help heal the fractures and trauma within individuals, community and extending into the global context of our joint humanity and rooted in nature)
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Unlearn + learn in communion
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Celebrate where we are in our own journeys of healing (let’s not weaponize how advanced some of us might feel we are compared to others)
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Sense make and ask hard questions — offer them to the center without anyone feeling any specific pressure to answer
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Build our accountability
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Center and practice joy together
“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
Rev Angel Kyodo Williams
Our Invitation
Greetings friends!
Are you longing for a community with fellow siblings with shared intersectional identities that include Asian, Canadian, and womxn-identifying, in which to:
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Build community and solidarity
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Facilitate a healing centred-culture
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Explore and engage in action-oriented discussions focused on systems of oppression
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Hold yourself and your peers accountable for repairing any harm caused in the work of community-building and social justice
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​We invite you to wander the borderlands with us. With an energy of wonderment and solidarity–to heal our wounds, both individual and collective. To share our ancestral wisdom as a form of medicine. To break open together. To sense-make. To confront, acknowledge and denounce the oppressive white supremest culture in our own bodies and communities (which we need to understand, before we can stand with others against it). To do the deep work so that we can show up in a transformative way for all of humanity and for the earth.
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The act of solidarity is fully participatory —embodied—this is the invitation to reclaim wholeness, remember belonging and reimagine togetherness.
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In joy and solidarity,
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Leena and Anjanette
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Seasons of Healing
We invite you to embody the energy of the seasonal shift as it creates space for us to reflect, unfurl and blossom, in a container of healing and solidarity.
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Join us for a three-session gathering starting on Monday March 20th, 2023 to celebrate Awakening: The Spring Equinox.
Acknowledging the Land
We respectfully acknowledge that we are on the traditional ceded and unceded territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Huron Wendat, the Attiwonderon (Neutral), the Métis, and many other Indigenous nations who have stewarded this land since time immemorial. We are grateful for the teachings committed to supporting Indigenous self-determination and working to fulfill our responsibilities, as settlers in Canada, to the calls for Truth & Reconciliation.