Stories of Care & Control: Practices Towards Building Strategy is a webinar series to accompany the Healing Histories Project’s Stories of Care and Control: A Timeline of the Medical Industrial Complex designed to understand the stories of medical experimentation, scientific racism, racial capitalism, and ableism as some of the many forces shaping the conditions and evolution of care work in the United States.
This webinar series seeks to deepen healer/health practitioners’ understanding of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC) toward confronting and/or disrupting the harms and abuses of these systems of care as an extension of systemic oppression. In this series, we will also explore the many contradictions of community care spaces that unknowingly perpetuate similar beliefs & models to the MIC. As we grapple with how to find genuine care and safety that addresses our community’s needs, these webinars seek to provide a compass to ensure that collective care and safety are at the heart of every effort to address harm within and outside the healthcare system.
The first webinar will orient participants to Healing Histories Project’s work, including the Healing Justice political framework as a tool to organize collective care & safety strategies; introducing our political and cultural understanding of the Medical Industrial Complex; and our theory of change as a way to grapple with systems of care inextricably linked to our liberation. The second webinar includes an interactive workbook accompanying the video to deepen an exploration and understanding of how to build out a strategy to disrupt the MIC, toward building collective care and safety within our communities. The aim of this series is NOT about finding the right answer. We are hoping you use these tools to work on both individually and with a group of people exploring the questions presented in the workbook and reflect together, toward building action. This could be to lift up new ideas for systems of care, identifying things that you want to practice within your community, and things you want to expand more on in your work. The possibilities are endless.
For more information and to purchase this webinar series visit: https://healinghistoriesproject.podia.com/