HEALING WITH
COMMUNITIES
healing liveS in relationship!
We believe healing is not only personal or institutional—it is communal. Just as harm happens in community, so does healing. Our neighborhoods, families, faith spaces, and cultural traditions hold deep wisdom and resilience. They are where our thickest relationships live—and where some of our deepest wounds are carried. That’s why community is both the site and source of our collective restoration.
InPower’s community healing work is grounded in ritual, remembrance, and relationship. We hold space in neighborhoods most impacted by personal, ancestral, cultural, and ecological trauma—because we know those are also the places where the medicine is strongest. We partner with community members, leaders, and healers to co-create spaces of care that are rooted in trust, cultural memory, and possibility.
Our long-term community healing initiatives include:
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Healing Houses
Home-based healing sanctuaries where rituals, storytelling, and land-based practices restore wholeness in everyday spaces
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Leading LIBERATION RETREAT SERIES
Seasonal retreats that bring together Black women who are changemakers, healers, and culture workers to imagine and build liberated futures.
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Community Healer Training
A trauma-informed, culturally responsive program that brings emotional wellness tools directly into communities through training and peer support.
Within InPower’s community of practice, the Black Healers Collective (BHC), we invest in the practice of healing itself. Through our Healing Labs, BHC members explore, refine, and expand their offerings by engaging key community groups—elders, youth, and fellow healers. These labs are working spaces for relationship-building, hands-on learning, and collaborative strategy development that strengthens the healing capacities of our communities from the inside out.
From ceremonies and grief circles to disaster response and intergenerational exchange, we are committed to nurturing the soul of community. This is not quick work. It’s slow, sacred, and sustained by deep relationships.
We also respond to collective crisis with care.
Following the May 16, 2025 F3 tornado in North St. Louis, our team mobilized a six-point healing response rooted in community resilience. Through pop-up healing events, wellness drop-ins, sidewalk listening tours, community training and emotional support for healers and organizers, we brought care to where it was most needed—grounded in dignity, reciprocity, and cultural relevance.
