The Healing and Justice Center (HJC), a worker self-directed non-profit, stands in solidarity with, supports, and actively participates in organizing and advocacy for individuals and BIPOC communities. While also supporting community-based non-profit organizations and community members in developing a collective wellness culture that moves beyond individual self-care to holistic practices that address relational, emotional, mental, and physical well-being, allowing us all to live dignified lives in which we advance social justice for all, not at the cost of our own wellbeing. Our work is founded on dismantling systems of oppression and boldly envisioning a new world of connectedness, inclusivity, and belonging.

HJC acknowledges it takes a lot of intentionality and commitment to create an organizational culture in which those working to create social change also are challenging themselves as staff and change-makers within the organization to unlearn what has been internalized from living and operating within the systems of white supremacy, racism, colorism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, classism, ageism, and anti-Semitism. Unlearning and creating the world we want to live in requires an ongoing practice of self-attunement, healing and wellness tools, and ongoing exploration and support.

A worker-self-directed nonprofit is a nonprofit organization in which all workers have the power to influence the programs in which they work, the conditions of their workplace, their own career paths, and the direction of the organization as a whole.

HJC founders chose to develop HJC as a worker self-directed non-profit to decentralize decision-making power and challenge themselves, future staff, board members, and contributors to intentionally stay committed to creating systems that honor and deepen their ability to practice the organizational values in everyday interactions. With not many models of decentralized power in the nonprofit sector, HJC is committed to exploring and learning different ways of being in relationships, communicating, making decisions, sharing power, and resolving conflict that keeps us in alignment and fulfilling our organizational values.

Healing and Justice Center

Healing individuals & community for sustainable social justice movements