Stories of Care & Control: Practices Towards Building Strategy Webinar Series Episode 2 - Individuals Composting Rate & Organizations/Institutions Bright Star Rate

This workbook is designed to support you in working through the webinar. It is saved as an interactive PDF so you can either choose to work with this electronically or to print it and write on it directly. Here is how this workbook is set up. Each section of the webinar has a section in the workbook. At the end of each section, there will be a space for you to reflect and to create a story. Because we hope you will do this work with other people, you can practice telling each other the story at the end of each section. You will need: a printed version or paper/journal to write on, and access to our Stories of Care & Control Timeline. If you are doing this work alone, then we still invite you to tell the story out loud. It isn’t the same to recite it quietly to yourself. Please tell your stories as loudly and directly as is comfortable.

Welcome to Healing Histories Project's second episode of our webinar series, Stories of Care & Control: Practices Towards Building Strategy. The first webinar went through HHP's Theory of Change and frameworks. This second webinar is focused on praxis, on taking information, and then applying it to reflection, intervention and change strategies to interrupt the Medical Industrial Complex.

This section will talk about building an intervention or a strategy for change. It will unpack what HHP means by an intervention and also will give some historical and community examples. See pages 2 & 3 in your workbook for prompts to guide you in reflection and help you identify your own list of examples you have witnessed or participated in and give you space to name an intervention that you wish for. 

Before diving into the timeline and its reflections on the last 500 years, we will pause in this section to notice where we are in the present moment. See pages 4-8 in the workbook.

In this next section, we will be taking a deep dive on each of the elements of Healing Histories Project's Theory of Change. This will include taking a look at your relationship to Land, Work/Economies, Body, Spirit and Culture, Ending Violence, Coming into the Present Moment and Creating Conditions to Shift Histories. Each video will touch on each component braiding together a full picture of things to consider in building an intervention. See pages 9-47 in the workbook.

When we begin to build interventions, we also have to consider who our supports are and what threats and obstacles may present themselves to interrupt the work. The delicate balance is to hold yourselves in the work with care and respect as you delve into your own “insider” and “outsider” strategies, remembering that as practitioners you are also healers, organizers, abolitionists, and members of the communities you serve. This work requires us to be adaptable and constantly willing to re-assess how we can not repeat the same harm we are fighting against, and how we can remain humble, purposeful, and present for our communities. See pages 48-53 in the workbook.

In the very beginning of this webinar we shared that it is important to reflect on where we are before we begin a process so that we can see what we have learned. Take a moment to look at what you wrote towards the beginning of this webinar. What do you notice that has changed? With these reflections can you chart out immediate steps and things that will take further thinking and research? See pages 54-55 in the workbook.