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.

Georgetown Healing Arts’ Letter To Community Regarding The War In Palestine/Israel

Dear Community,

We write to you with hearts and souls laden with grief over the loss of so many lives inPalestine/Israel. We hold with you the pain, terror, and devastation rippling through all of our communities, especially Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities all over the world.

As healers and humans living in commitment to anti-oppressive values, we know that our safety and liberation are bound up together — that safety for some that necessitates the subjugation of others is not true safety. Although we do not know what it is like to live as a Palestinian or an Israeli, we know our voices matter. For all struggles for freedom and justice, silence is implicit support of terror and violence.

We join with the choir of voices here in Seattle, in the US and throughout the world who call for an end to the violence in Gaza, a ceasefire, an end to the US funding of Israeli’s military, the immediate release of Israeli hostages, and true Palestinian land rights and liberation.

We also know that challenging the Zionist and colonial policies of the Israeli government is aligned with the Jewish tradition to question, resist oppression and hold all life sacred. We honor and heed the history and current realities of antisemitism as we honor and value the dignity and sovereignty of the Palestinian people.

As healers, we commit to holding this in our work. Staying close to our clients’ experience and supporting them in their own self-discovery, truth and freedom – without agenda – does not mean being a blank slate. In fact, our oldest therapeutic traditions teach us to brave – and bring humanity to – the hidden, silenced or forbidden places of social dominance.

Join us in resisting sides, resisting war and resisting US and Israeli Empire. Join the large movement of Jewish people and Palestinian people calling for humanity and safety for all people. Bring your voice, heart and hands to peace.

We grieve with you. And we remind ourselves that we are all inextricably connected.

“Oh we are not alone. Oh we are not alone. We are all one part (greta flowers, 2023).”

With love and hope for peace,

Georgetown Healing Arts