Community Talk: Social Inequity in Spiritual Healing

Join us for a free Community Talk centered on the ways social inequity impacts spiritual healing. 

What do we mean by social inequity: Social inequities are things avoidable often systemic barriers to access. For example, different social inequities cause inequality. So there are is an inequality in the potential outcome for someone living in a rural area with no hospital nearby vs. someone that lives in an urban area with options for which local hospital to utilize for the best care. That inequality though is caused by inequity barriers in the rural area - lack of doctors, lack of funding from the government, a lack of preventative care, etc. There are system barriers that again, are avoidable - what that means is that rural areas can have better healthcare that is comparable to urban areas.

Here are some resources for exploring Social Inequity: 

• Inequity vs. Inequality: An Explainer
• Understand and Identify Root Causes of Inequities

About the Community Talks: These Community Talks are monthly virtual meetings to come together to discuss various topics in the spirituality community and/or industry through a decolonized perspective. These events are always free but you will need to RSVP through this website. To be clear, this is not an educational workshop or talk. I will not be in a structured teaching position within these Community Talks. Think of these as opportunities to explore topics around our collective healing with other people that want to do the same. 

This talk will support the following community guidelines and any other that the group needs at the beginning of the talk:

• Practice active listening and allowing a speaker to finish before jumping in. This especially goes for speaking over or interrupting Black and POC folks.
• Practice letting us know what the topic flags are for anything you think might be a difficult topic for someone to hear. We can't know everyone's needs or what might be difficult for everyone but we can practice centering care in our discussion.
• Practice using accessible language - consider using non-jargon or explaining jargon, state your name when you speak for low/no-vision folks, feel free to use the chat when needed.
• Be mindful of the space you do and do not take up in relation to power dynamics.
• No one knows everything, but we all know things. While this is a community talk on spirituality, practice making room for any perspectives on this topic with the caveat that we are centering decolonized perspectives.
• There's no need to speak, have your camera on, etc. This is open to any level of participation. Show up how you show up. 💗

Please note: This community talk will be recorded. If you would like to express something without being recorded, please let me know and I will turn off recording temporarily.

If there are any volunteers to help read questions or comments in the chat outloud, please let me know.

For transparency: I am organizing this community talk and sharing some parameters for the talk. That said, this is not an informational workshop. This is a space for us to all come together and share ideas around this topic. I am not a licensed mental health professional and will not be providing any professional guidance. Please understand that this particular topic might be intense for you - feel free to leave, mute, or step away at any time or otherwise prioritize your needs and bids for support.

Any questions? Email me: abejarise@gmail.com