Ubuntu Healing Circles are spaces for Black bodies, minds, and spirits to experience safety, love, and strength from each other in times of acute need.

Culture and worldview are important variables to consider when conceptualizing mental health treatment modalities. Most of the models currently used contemporarily, worldwide are based on a linear framework that emphasizes individuality, materialism, and control as tenants for industrialization, the movement of a society away from agrarian lifestyles toward consumer-oriented priorities. This industrialization creates social, emotional, and spiritual blockages that impacts peoples’ intrinsic tendencies towards holistic wellness. Working effectively with Black families requires culturally competent interventions that honor and build upon their strengths and give attention to the intricate dynamics of relationships. Such interventions strengthen the practitioner or healer with increased self – awareness and a motivation to join on an energic level with the client system, to foster a healing environment in which the system can actualize on its needs.

This intensive training program introduces practitioners to modalities for family interventions that are rooted in African Psychology and ancient, Ayurvedic principles for healthy and sustainable living. Together, these philosophies lay the foundation for the self – actualization of healers and the healing capacity of individuals and families, of the Diaspora.

In order to evolve the helping professions to holistic and life affirming intervention and modality, white clinicians require a reorientation to the function and purpose of treatment --one that clearly confronts, challenges, and deconstructs the tenets of white supremacy and reframes the condition, needs, and strengths of black and indigenous people of color. Immersion, openness, and commitment are essential for the willing practitioner, as such an evolution will demand ownership of one’s privilege, dissecting and evaluating the history of racism in our work, and an unwavering resolve to address trauma and prohibit re-traumatization at the hands of the practitioner.  

As such, this certification is designed to comprehensively explore racism in America: how it has and continues to traumatize generations of black people; its impact on traditional modalities of health and healing; and how, despite its pervasiveness, it is possible to establish oneself as a culturally competent, anti–racist helper and practitioner.

The Crisis Clinical Intervention Pool is a stop gap program designed to remove barriers accessing Black healers providing culturally responsive care. Through the program, referrals are provided to Black Providers who have received training in culturally responsive practice. If needed there are funds available to help defray the cost of care. For more info please contact Info@Ubuntuvillageworks.com