Wellness in BIPOC Communities with BIPOC
Q: AS A BIPOC WOMAN, CAN YOU SHARE ABOUT A BARRIER YOU’VE PERSONALLY FACED AND HOW YOU’VE ADAPTED YOUR OWN PROGRAMMING TO REDUCE HARM AND BREAK DOWN BARRIERS RELATED TO BIPOC HEALERS + PRACTITIONERS?
Shanila: When I was starting out, I really wished I had a supportive community of BIPOC healers. Being BIPOC is a very different lived experience. As a South Asian person, I felt excluded from communities, I sensed a lot of gatekeeping and barriers to entering the wellness world as a healer, and ended up constantly feeling like I had to adjust the way I was talking or speaking to adapt in these different communities. It felt very inauthentic. At this point in history, my BIPOC community desires to be seen, heard, listened to and understood. In the context of healing and facilitation, we want a place where there are no obstacles to being our authentic selves. With my program, it’s built from a desire to reduce harm by keeping the conversations open, recognizing that teaching and information-sharing doesn’t look the same way in every community. At Always Play, we offer scholarships/partial scholarships, and other opportunities to BIPOC people, to mitigate the accessibility gap so people don’t have to jump through barriers if they really want to train with me. Because of the lived experience of BIPOC people, the traumas many BIPOC people have endured, and the socio economic reasons faced, this is really important.
Read the full interview here on Head + Heart:
https://www.headplusheart.com/knowing-youre-a-healer/
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