The Spirit Knows of Healing in the Bones

"The Spirit Knows of Healing in the Bones: Joy, Hope, and the Neurobiology of Black Healing”

Workshop Description

This interactive session explores how Black Joy and hope, grounded in Radical Healing Theory, can restore balance to the nervous system, countering the embodied effects of historical and racial trauma. Drawing from neuroscience, African-centered wellness traditions, and the lived experiences of descendants of enslaved Africans, participants will discover how joy, hope, and radical healing practices serve as powerful tools for personal and collective liberation. Through storytelling, music, movement, and reflection, we’ll connect cultural resilience to nervous system regulation.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Explain Radical Healing Theory and its relevance for Black communities.
2. Describe how joy and hope influence the nervous system and counter chronic stress.
3. Identify the historical and cultural roots of Black Joy as a form of resistance.
4. Practice culturally-rooted regulation techniques to support nervous system health.
5. Develop a personal and community plan for sustaining joy and hope as healing practices.

✍🏽Certificates of Completion will be provided AFTER COMPLETION of the Exit Survey, with the conclusion of the workshop, and emailed to you within 2 weeks.

We are excited to offer you these 3-hour virtual experiences for just $75 per session.

✅IAB Wellness and Consulting LLC has been providing helpers, healers, learners, professionals and organizations with culturally humble leadership, behavioral health, and social justice services through training, curriculum development, custom programming, workshops, wellness retreats, consultation, and speaking engagements for over 20 years. Certificates of Completion will be provided AFTER COMPLETION of the Exit Survey, with the conclusion of the workshop, and emailed to you within 2 weeks. Please be sure you list your name on the registration EXACTLY as you wish for it to be on the certificate.

Please take a moment to review our Village Agreements below! By purchasing this ticket, you agree to them as we share space with each other.

VILLAGE AGREEMENTS!

1. This is Our Village! We Share Space. TAKE UP SPACE, There’s enough for er’one!
2. Take Breaks as Needed. Honor your body. We don’t own others’ bodies!
3. We prefer connection. If your camera is turned off, we will consider that you are away from the space.
4. Our village is full of valuable knowledge and wisdom, we will learn together and share with each other our insights.
5. Respect is subjective. Let’s communicate our needs and find ways to establish a common understanding of a thang. Rather than accuse.
6. Seek to understand, not respond.
7. We create our safe space, difference is welcome.
8. Establish that we have good intentions AND we recognize Good intentions can still harm.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact: iabconsultingnc@gmail.com

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

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