Healing in Community
Friday 30th May 2025
1-4pm
Glasgow*
Join us for this in-person event centring Black experiences and leadership in Scotland. We will gather together for collective reflection, connection, and documentation around Healing in Community.
This event is for and by Black people.
The afternoon will run in the World Cafe format, inviting participants into three rounds of 20-minute conversations, each guided by a community leader whose work informs the theme of their table.
While the conversation will touch on hopes for the future, the primary aim of this gathering is to archive and honour the work that has already happened and is currently unfolding within Black communities across Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the surrounding areas. This includes making visible the strategies, relationships, and values that have sustained movements, supported wellbeing, and driven community action.
Themes such as intergenerational connection, mutual aid and holistic health will guide conversation. Participants will share knowledge, record insights, and contribute to a living record of Black-led work in Scotland - one that can inform future strategy, resourcing, and recognition.
This is the fifth and final event in the ‘Medicine Medicine: Lessons in Black Economic Interdependence’ series, a collaboration between Decolonising Economics and Kinfolk Network, designed by and for African and Afro-diasporic activists and organisers in the UK.
Lunch is included. Vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free options will be available.
The afternoon will finish with a sound bath.
*The venue location will be shared with ticket-holders closer to the event date.
This event is co-curated with Mahasin and Martha.
Mahasin is a community practitioner, working in public health and in space-making for queer Black and People of Colour (QBPoC) in Glasgow through nightlife events, and Exhale.Group CIC, which aims to promote the holistic wellbeing of QBPoC, creating spaces to dream, connect and explorer
Martha Williams is a Glasgow-based facilitator, organiser and creative producer whose work centres Black feminist world-building, care, and collective healing. She creates spaces for reflection and connection through creativity, writing and dialogue. Her work is grounded in honouring intuitive knowledge and sustaining community movements.
Accessibility information:
- Photography and videography will be captured during the event (except for the soundbath). We will provide stickers for those who don’t want their images taken.
- The venue has a lift and a ramp.
- There is a toilet located on the ground floor of the venue, which can be accessed via the lift, is wheelchair accessible, and is gender neutral.
- The venue is a 33-minute walk, a 15-minute bus ride (plus 7 minutes walking time), and an 11-minute cycle from Glasgow Central Station.
- There is on-street parking.
If you have any questions about the event, please get in touch with natasha@kinfolknetwork.com
About the Political Education Series:
This political education series is designed for Black organisers and activists who are interested in dismantling capitalism but feel overwhelmed about the steps needed to create nourishing economic realities.
We’re calling on Black organisers and activists across the UK who want to engage more with solidarity economics organising, rooted deeply in our histories and cultures as African and Afro-diasporic communities. Through in person and online events, this political education series will take organisers on a journey of reclaiming and popularising alternative ways of dismantling capitalism, rooted in the tools of elders such as savings circles (Pardner, Susu, Ayuuto), squats, housing cooperatives, community gardens, labour sharing and much more.
Using the African oral history tradition, this political education series will foster intergenerational and international dialogue, seeking to create space for the diaspora to reconnect with practices that have sustained life and health - practices that resist and offer a pathway out of racial capitalism.
This Political Education Series Is Perfect For You If:
- You are a Black organiser
- You hate capitalism but don’t know what else is there
- You are new to economics and want to learn more about it
- You’re interested in mutual aid
- You’re looking to connect to Black activists from across the UK