Decolonizing Mental Health & Empowering Holistic Wellness
Join us for an introductory conversation that invites faith leaders into a transformative and lifelong process of letting go of supremacist theologies and monocultural care paradigms of mental wellness.
This webinar will explore the intersections of mental wellness, spiritual formation, and liberative care that affirms the dignity of each being. Rooted in an Internal Family Systems framework centered on the lived realities of BIPOC communities, participants will learn how intrapersonal healing can catalyze collective healing and renewal.
By integrating cultural humility, prophetic theology, and trauma-informed practices, faith leaders can reshape spiritual care praxis and co-create communities grounded in justice, belonging, and sacred restoration.
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Resources:
Mental Health, Spiritual Care, and Community Healing: An Introduction to an Internal Family Systems Approach – 2-part training – Wednesday, October 8, 2025: https://UCC.zoom.us/meeting/register/_uqvCD5VTqOr4N5n9euuuw
Mental Health, Spiritual Care, and Community Healing: An Introduction to an Internal Family Systems Approach – 2-part training – Wednesday, October 15, 2025: https://UCC.zoom.us/meeting/register/pag_XiRzTm6zROFiEcCy-w
Aizaiah’s new book, “Trauma and Renewal: Toward Spiritual, Communal, and Holistic Transformation:”
Trauma and Renewal: Toward Spiritual, Communal, and Holistic Transformation
Resources shared by attendees:
The Howard Thurman Papers Project:
https://www.thurmanpapersproject.org
Sanctuary Mental Health course:
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Nurture the Soul is a weekly webinar sharing practical, educational, innovative and formational resources and engaging critical topics for local churches and people of faith. Produced by Justice and Local Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ, we faithfully focus on care and education for the people of God, and create opportunities to gather, learn, engage and digitally worship together. From cultural and community organizing to congregational leadership, from worship and theology to resourcing small and rural churches, from ministry with youth and children to wide ranging justice issues, featuring guest artists, authors and key leaders, Nurture the Soul stays current to how the Gospel and our faith is alive in this time. This is a space for connection, community, and nurture. Together, we can bring our church, our community and the world, towards the world God imagines for all of us.