Liberation-based Healing and Wellness: Practices for Self and Community

CCDA has created an opportunity to renew your spirit and create your own therapeutic toolkit through our Liberation-based Healing and Wellness: Practices for Self and Community class, led by Stephanie Moore, LICSW.

Learn liberation-based healing practices and biblical principles to form a framework to understand how our experiences shape ourselves and our communities. Experience greater holistic wellbeing and the ability to bring their best selves into our work. Utilize skills learned as takeaways and tools for use in your organizations and communities.

Here's what you can look forward to:

Part 1: Understanding Our Brains & Ourselves

We will use both a combination of healing liberation based practices and biblical principles as a framework for how we view trauma in our lives. We will discuss some basic neurobiology principles and explore what is happening cognitively for both ourselves and our community as a result of trauma and/or chronic stress. 

Part 2: Community Implementation

We will build on what we've learned about brains and behaviors to explore how it all shows up in our own communities. Practitioners become equipped with the tools and evidence based practices to address specific needs in their own contexts. 

Part 3: Prioritizing Our Wellbeing

It’s impossible to effectively help others if we don’t help ourselves. Our wellbeing is crucial in this work. We will explore practical tools and participants will create plans to address their own emotional needs so they can experience greater holistic wellbeing and bring their best selves into their lives and work. The tools we use in this class are part of replicable takeaways participants can use individually and in their communities. 

Our spiritual and mental wellbeing is vital to loving ourselves and our neighbors well. When we know ourselves well and are equipped with practical tools and plans for addressing our own emotional needs, we experience greater holistic wellbeing. When we all live into our best selves our communities flourish. We hope you join us!