Generative Healing Arts is an intentional community of practitioners oriented around three core principles - equity, embodiment and relational healing.

Equity oriented:

Generative Healing Arts is committed to the resilient intention to be a living organism that is ever shifting as a microcosmic, fractal resistance to the static, limited, fixed dynamics and roles associated with oppressive systems. We hope to mimic our ecosystems and learn from the wisdom of nature. Our hope is to examine power in ways that humanize and free us and our communities from the stress and trauma of oppression. We understand that joy, pleasure and interconnection are healing and that – through vulnerability – we evolve.

Relational:

With each other – and our clients – we believe in the primacy and power of authentic, experimental, affirming, consensual, and supportive relationships as a necessary part of any liberation or transformation of self and world. Our modalities support intra and inter-personal relationships that are reflective (as in mindful) and reflexive (active and experiential). This includes Internal Family Systems, Attachment, Psychodynamic, and Polyvagal. We know that ruptures and misses happen and our hope is to tend well to these in a way that is paced, spacious, kind, congruent and honest.

Embodied:

At GHA we know that healing, congruence and freedom can be experienced most fully when the whole body is felt, listened to, supported and engaged. Our approach to healing work and each other is committed to the trust in our body’s natural wisdom and the cultivation of spaces and processes that invite our bodies to move and feel with acceptance, support, and curiosity. Mindfulness is at the heart of this as well.