Healing Ourselves and Our Community

This event at The Abode, an Eco-Spiritual Village, September 22 - 24, 2017, is inspired by the intention to bring healing to the world and the most marginalized communities which have experienced the brunt of pain and suffering -- physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  We need healers of color who are supported and can experience healing themselves.  By being present to their own suffering, they will be able to be more effective, life-affirming and self-determining.  Healers of color are under-recognized, even in their own communities.  This event will bring them together in sacred space to honor their own experience, connect with each other, provide support and offer them resources to bring back to the community.  We include the universal language of music, that generates our spirit.  Special musical guest and teacher, the renowned jazz musician Dr. Randy Weston epitomizes this, through the form of jazz which comes from the African experience in America, bringing people together.  The organizers, Fatima and Onaje Hafiz-Muid (pictured) and Dr. Weston have all benefited from the Sufi path.  This program is for healers of all spiritual traditions.  The goal is to support not only the Message through this path but also the music and the contributions of all who will participate, the Message of Unity.  This event is to recognize and support humanity, wherever we are, in a world that is continuously hurting.  

Healers of color are often limited in available resources, and funds are needed to support participants to attend this event for tuition, transportation costs and related expenses.  Funds will also be used to support Dr. Weston's participation and to secure the venue.  

Funds are needed immediately.

Your act of kindness and financial support is an affirmation of humanity, that we can solve all our problems together.  This will provide us an opportunity to determine, ourselves, what is important to us and our community, and to contribute in ways that have been difficult to accomplish heretofore.  The heartfelt need for justice, social repair, and support of the needs for healing spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically for those who see the pain in the world can be met by coming together.  We will be very grateful for your help.