Centering wellness in justice work and justice in wellness work is both a timeless and timely issue. The impacts of COVID-19, economic devastation, and racialized violence only magnify pre-existing conditions of inequity as they relate to wellbeing and to the fragility of wellness of those working at the frontlines. This community-based action research and healing justice project aims to highlight and examine this, find and put to use tools and trainings to address it, and provide models for others to use to effectively change our justice organizations and movements to be more trauma- and healing-informed in analysis and practice. This is the moment to build the support, resilience, and tools for wellness that will help us not only survive the injustices of today but actually thrive as we dismantle injustice and build the world we want.
Tessa Hicks Peterson 