Cultural Healing Practices

What does it mean to be truly wealthy? That question sat at the center of our recent Black Utopians Program: Kitchen Table Conversation: Black Health Is Wealth, where we communed with community to explore Black health at the intersections of race, gender, class, culture, and spirit.

What does it mean to train a psychologist to become a healing presence in the world? At the Gender Health Center, we believe the answer requires more than teaching theories, interventions, diagnostic frameworks, and clinical techniques. It requires learning how to be in right relationship—with another human being, with community, with ancestry, with the natural world, and ultimately, with ourselves.