Intergenerational Healing Circle
The Intergenerational Healing Circle centers healing from trauma and builds power among young Black men and former Juvenile Lifers who share the experience of being prosecuted as teenagers in the adult justice system.
The Intergenerational Healing Circle has four core goals:
Understanding and healing from trauma
Creating connectedness rooted in shared experience of incarceration and reentry
Developing agency and liberation-oriented leadership
Building collective power
In the fall of 2023, the IGHC members went off-sit to explore equine therapy at Gateway Horseworks. In this video, the members share what the IGHC means to them and how they have found ways to heal.
YSRP launched the first Circle in March 2020 with 10 participants and the group continues to grow. Throughout 20 facilitated bi-weekly virtual sessions, Circle participants engage in dialogues that are reflective, healing and action-oriented. Guest speakers attend sessions to build skills in narrative storytelling, advocacy and media production.