all proceeds donated to BEAM:
“We are a collective of advocates, yoga teachers, artists, therapists, lawyers, religious leaders, teachers, psychologists and activists committed to the emotional/mental health and healing of Black communities.”
BEAM initiatives include: Black virtual therapist network, Southern Healing Support Fund, Black healing, Project Trinity, and more.
“Effective emotional
health strategies must include a variety of approaches. Practices such as dance, yoga, generative somatics, spiritual and religious practices, psychotherapy, creative arts, medication and more must be used together in order to transform our emotional health landscape.
Therapeutic and public health models that isolate individuals or subsets of the community and do not support the capacity of the broader community to support them; are not effective in transforming the emotional health of Black communities.
Emotional health work can not see progress, if that work is not done alongside addressing the inequities in the criminal legal system, economic reform, HIV/AIDS, transphobia, homophobia, racism, misogynoir, reproductive justice, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, child sexual abuse and other issues that challenge the wellness of Black communities.”
www.beam.community/whatwebelieve
released July 10, 2020