Racial Healing Circles

NOTE: Monthly Racial Healing Circles are closed at this time.

To request a Racial Healing Circle for yourself or an institution,

please contact info@ahc-oakland.org.

AHC has held racial healing circles and facilitated racial healing workshops for 30 years. AHC offers a safe space for participants to share their stories about race, culture, color, language and or class.  We express that the concept of race is a social and cultural construction.  We believe as the American Anthropological Association shared, that "Race simply cannot be tested or proven scientifically.  The concept of race has no validity among the human species."  AHC defines racism as a life threatening illness. Our solution is to create healing circles where we can come together to share in a safe space.

"Feelings that are denied cannot be released; feelings imprison us until they are acknowledged." 
-Aeeshah Clottey, AHC co-founder

The following are the two main strategies that will support healing and wholeness:

1.  Racial Healing Circles: Dialogues to promote racial healing utilizing the twelve principles of Attitudinal Healing.  Attitudinal Healing is an alternative mental health modality.  The focus is on story telling and doing inner work.

2. Community Organizing: Reaching out and sharing with the community.  The goal is to educate community members on the concepts of Attitudinal Healing for increased civility and civic engagement.   

Community Healing Circles

To request a Community Healing Circle for yourself or an institution,

please contact info@ahc-oakland.org.

If you are in need of a safe space to engage in personal healing through reflection and sharing with your loved ones, friends, or coworkers, please reach out to schedule a community healing circle!

You can:

• Learn practical tools for choosing inner peace

• Practice letting go of painful fearful thoughts and attitudes that block growth

• Take steps towards transformation