Black Queer and Trans Collective Care Circle
The Program
The Black Healing Centre invites Black 2SLGBTQIA+ folks to join our Collective Care Circle focused on exploring grief and despair. What does grief mean to you? Within this group, our aim is to deepen our understanding of our unique relationships with grief and the daily experiences of living with it. We explore how states of delight, hope, inspiration, beauty, and joy can serve as valuable resources, making the journey through grief feel more manageable. We don’t believe in positivity for the sake of it. Sometimes it is just not there. It is crucial to recognize that grief and loss follow individual rhythms, and we honor each person's unique timeline. Sometimes, collectively holding space for grief within the community becomes essential, providing solace in contrast to navigating it alone. Our intention is to establish a nurturing group environment for individuals seeking healing, those open to exploring uncomfortable emotions. Through this collective journey, we aim to offer coping tools, support for living through pain, with it or moving beyond it.
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Every Tuesday from February 6th 2024 to April 23rd 2024
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From 6:00pm to 8:00pm
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March 28th-March 31st 2024
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Virtual, via Zoom
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Mostly English, but both moderators are bilingual if English is not your first language.
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$200.00
Facilitators
Dr.Lisa Ndejuru
Dr. Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist, psychodramatist and theatre practitioner. Her practice is about creating accessible, non-medicalized, scalable strategies for healing and change in our communities, impacted by the violence of anti-blackness in all its forms. Violence flattens our lives and creates silences. Lisa works to open pathways to wellness, emancipation, and finding one’s voice in a post-colonial context of everyday oppression, systemic racism, and large-scale political violenceFounder of Omora healing initiative, Dr. Lisa Ndejuru was awarded funding by Canada’s Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council for a 3 year community mental health initiative entitled ‘Centering Community Knowledges: Fostering Black Wellness In Montreal (CCK). In 2023 she received the AMI Québec (Action on Mental Illness) Ella Amir Award for Innovations in Mental Health, and was recognized by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) as a Black Changemaker.
Kat Charles (she/they)
Kat Charles (she/they) is a youth counsellor, community organizer, and artist based in Tio'tia:ke (Montreal). Kat holds a Master’s in creative arts therapy and has experience facilitating safer space for QTBIPOC youth as a counsellor and community worker. Their growing ideology as a therapist is heavily influenced by anti-oppressive practices and an acknowledgement of the systems that support or fail to support an individual. In their practice Kat enjoys emphasising imaginative playfulness as a form of embodied emancipation and resistance.