Sisters in Healing (SIH), is a communal healing group specifically for Black women that addresses the beauty and difficulty of sisterhood within Black communities. Historically, Black women have been known to heal in community, whether that may be through conversations at the kitchen counter, at the hair salon, or among aunties at family gatherings, they have learned to lean on one another to find healing and support. However, the healing power of Black sisterhood does not exempt them from its difficulties. Lead by Black women therapists, SIH uses the familiarity of Black sisterhood to address the unique and historical difficulties of Black female friendships. In intimate groups, Black women will unpack narratives surrounding relationships with other Black women, whether rooted in fearful narratives or lived experiences, and discover how they can engage in healthier relationships with one another.

In many Caribbean households, ginger is the remedy of choice; trusted to soothe, strengthen, and heal. We use this symbol to explore the often overlooked role of connection in mental and emotional wellness. This session invites participants to reflect on how relationships and community can reduce stress, support trauma recovery, and restore a sense of belonging. Rooted in Afro-Caribbean cultural wisdom and therapeutic insight, we unpack how systems of oppression, grief, and burnout have disconnected us from others and how rebuilding connection is central to healing. Participants leave with a renewed understanding that healing was never meant to be done alone. Community is, and always has been, the cure.

*This can be delivered as a talk or workshop*

Though often framed as more “tolerant” than other nations, Canada has a long history of anti-Black racism, slavery, and systemic oppression that continues to shape its institutions today. This session uncovers the histories that are often left out of public discourse and connects them to current realities in policing, education, health care, and social services. Participants leave with a clearer understanding of Canada’s racial legacy and its ongoing impact on Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities, and are challenged to consider their role in dismantling it.

*This can be delivered as a talk or workshop*

In Caribbean folklore, the Jumbie represents spirits that linger; the things left unsaid, the pain we carry, the truths we avoid. This session uses the Jumbie as a metaphor for the emotional and intergenerational wounds that often go unspoken. Through the lens of Afro-Caribbean storytelling traditions, we explore how voice, narrative, and shared experience can become tools for healing. Participants are guided through reflective practices that center storytelling as both personal and collective medicine. This session offers space to name what haunts us and the power to release it.

*This can be delivered as a talk or workshop*

Many social service systems were never built with Black communities in mind and often do more harm than good. In this session, we examine how systemic racism shows up in child welfare, healthcare, education, and mental health services. We explore how bias, policy, and institutional culture create barriers to care, safety, and trust. This session is both critical and constructive, offering space for honest dialogue and tangible strategies for equity-rooted, culturally responsive practice. Facilitators draw from both lived and professional experience to support participants in reimagining systems of care that are truly accountable and community-centered.

*This can be delivered as a talk or workshop*

Many of us learn to protect ourselves by shutting down, especially in communities where survival has often required emotional restraint. For Black and racialized communities, systemic racism and generational trauma have shaped how we express or suppress emotion. In this session, we explore how fear of vulnerability and emotional disconnection can weaken relationships and limit our capacity for intimacy, trust, and community. Using culturally grounded frameworks and therapeutic tools, we support participants in developing emotional intelligence and healthy boundaries; what we call turning walls into gates. This session offers a compassionate invitation to unlearn emotional shutdown and reconnect with the power of honest, healing connection.

*This can be delivered as a talk or workshop*

“Bag lady, you gon’ hurt your back, draggin’ all them bags like that.” Inspired by Erykah Badu’s iconic lyric, this session holds space for the emotional and psychological weight that Black communities carry as a result of systemic and everyday anti-Black racism. We name the burdens: generational trauma, microaggressions, the pressure to be strong, and the grief we’re rarely allowed to express. This session offers more than reflection; it offers tools. Participants are supported in exploring practices rooted in rest, emotional regulation, and collective care. Together, we examine what it means to begin putting some of that weight down, and what becomes possible when we do.

*This can be delivered as a talk or workshop*