Welcome Home!
As part of the Healing House experience, we can install and staff seven different types of healing spaces in neighborhood and community settings like schools, parks, churches and open lots. Each space is designed to respond to experiences of social need and harm; remind people of their innate capacities to heal; and connect them to resources and relationships that advance their well-being. Community partners work with BHC members to determine which spaces are likely to be the most beneficial to participants.
Healing Houses offer loving spaces that support individual and collective well-being in community settings. Activities within “the house” (which is not a physical dwelling, but rather a series of inviting healing spaces) are self-directed and facilitated, providing opportunities for individual engagement and group participation. They build upon the ways that people often engage in healing work when they are ready – by having meaningful conversations, speaking their truths, moving their bodies, playing with others, getting creative, resting and relaxing, sharing a meal, and connecting to something greater than themselves (ex. community, nature, faith traditions)... Across identities and cultures, these time-tested healing practices bring people into deeper relationship with the many dimensions of themselves that are essential to their healing – their hearts, minds, bodies, voices and spirits – and remind them that they are part of a larger web of life that resources and sustains their existence.
BHC drummers playing at Healing House event in Downtown St. Louis, Mo.
Would you like to learn more about Our Healing Houses?
Contact us at Community@InPowerInstitute.com and we’ll follow up with you.