Heal the Healers
At Nexus, we believe all people deserve joyful and abundant lives filled with the rest that our bodies, minds, and spirits need.
For generations, community healers have supported us through times of joy and times of grief by holding and teaching rest practices. And at ROOT, we are committed to supporting them.
After listening to and engaging healers in our community, ROOT is creating spaces for healers to come together for new rest practices to emerge. The healer convenings are opportunities to learn, grow, and, most importantly, rest.
Becoming a healer is a profound journey that begins with a calling.
This journey is marked by a commitment to lifelong learning, self-improvement, and service to others. Rest is crucial along the way. Constantly providing care can be emotionally and physically draining. These sacred pauses lets healers maintain their energy, support their mental health, and foster creativity.
ROOT is offering a series of engagements including a listening session, two virtual workshops, and a three-day, in-person convening. This series of offerings will craft distinct spaces tailored to our healers in different ways.
Community listening session to help shape and inform the series details.
For those who are tending to others in the community, we offer, “Bearing Witness to the Wounded Healer: Pathways to Well-being and Rest.” A session which integrated storying our journey as healers with somatic practices. Led by Dr. Casandra Clark Mazariegos and Felicia Sy.
A session designed for healers working in any capacity within large systems, we offer a panel discussion, Reclaiming Our Own Time in an Anti-Rest System: Addressing Burnout for Medical Providers, featuring:
- Hadija Steen Mills MPH (Healthcare Reparations)
- Ndidiamaka N. Koka, MD (Hennepin Healthcare)
- Nicole Winbush, MD, (Sankofa Healing Arts)
- Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH (Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity)
This three-day, in-person convening is designed for all healers, wherever they find themselves on the healer’s journey.
