Historical Trauma, Liberation, and Community Healing
Classes are online and self-paced!
YOU HAVE 3 MONTHS TO COMPLETE EACH CERTIFICATION.
Completion of all 4 certifications earns the
Certified Community Healing and Liberation Specialist.
$49 (each certification)
Examine the untold truths of systemic oppression, historical trauma, and their lasting effects on the health, identity, and well-being of BIPOC communities.
This track offers a critical exploration of the deep wounds inflicted by colonization, racism, and institutional violence — and investigates how these forces continue to shape disparities today. Students will engage in a rigorous study of historical injustices, the psychological and social consequences of oppression, and the frameworks of liberation that have been built in response.
Certifications in this Track Include: (See full description below)
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Certification in Historical Trauma and Holistic Justice
A critical examination of how historical trauma has been embedded into the collective health of BIPOC populations, and the systemic barriers that remain today. -
Certification in Liberation Theology and Health Empowerment
An exploration of how faith, resistance movements, and spiritual reclamation have served as instruments of survival and empowerment for oppressed communities. -
Certification in Healing Internalized Oppression in Health Beliefs
A deep dive into how colonization and racism shaped health beliefs, self-worth, and wellness narratives within BIPOC individuals and communities. -
Certification in Reparative Health Practices
A study of community-driven efforts to repair and resist the generational harms caused by racist medical systems and social injustice.
Who Should Enroll:
Scholars, advocates, community leaders, holistic practitioners, and anyone committed to confronting historical truths, understanding systemic racism, and working toward collective restoration for BIPOC communities.
Track Outcome:
Students completing this track will earn the title of
Certified Community Healing and Liberation Specialist.
This is not just history — it is the foundation for reclaiming truth, demanding justice, and creating a future where healing and liberation are possible.
CERTIFICATION DESCRIPTIONS
Historical Trauma and Holistic Justice
This course offers a critical examination of how historical trauma—rooted in colonization, slavery, displacement, forced assimilation, medical experimentation, and systemic racism—has embedded itself into the collective health and consciousness of BIPOC communities. Students will explore the historical roots of trauma, its lasting psychological, emotional, and physiological impacts, and the current systemic barriers that perpetuate health disparities and social inequities. Special attention is given to the concept of holistic justice—the reclamation of ancestral wisdom, wellness sovereignty, and culturally relevant healing practices as tools for collective liberation. Students will leave equipped to advocate for community healing using culturally grounded frameworks that bridge historical awareness, holistic health, and social justice.
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Defining Historical Trauma: A Multigenerational Perspective
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Key Historical Events that Shaped BIPOC Collective Trauma
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Institutional Racism in Healthcare, Education, Housing, and Justice Systems
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Medical Apartheid: The Legacy of Exploitation in Medicine and Research
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Reclaiming Land, Food, and Herbal Wisdom
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Spirituality, Liberation Psychology, and Decolonizing Wellness
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Frameworks for Community Healing and Advocacy
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Building Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Programs
Liberation Theology & Health Empowerment
invites you into a transformative journey through the intersections of spirituality, health, and collective survival. Rooted in the historical and present-day experiences of oppressed communities, this course examines how faith traditions, resistance movements, and spiritual reclamation have been vital instruments for survival, healing, and empowerment.
Explore the liberatory power of spirituality beyond doctrine — as a tool for personal, communal, and ancestral healing. This course is ideal for holistic health practitioners, faith leaders, activists, educators, and anyone committed to justice-based healing work.
Graduates will be equipped to apply liberation theology principles within health and wellness spaces, promoting spiritual agency, collective resilience, and culturally rooted empowerment.
Students will learn:
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Introduction to Liberation Theology: Historical context and key figures
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Spirituality as a tool of resistance during colonization, slavery, and apartheid
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Spiritual reclamation and health empowerment: Linking faith with bodily autonomy
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Health disparities and the disruption of indigenous spiritual health practices
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Spiritual agency vs. religious oppression: reclaiming choice and autonomy
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Applying liberation theology principles in modern health and wellness work
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Advocacy strategies for spiritual and health sovereignty
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Healing intergenerational trauma through spiritual empowerment
Healing Internalized Oppression in Health Beliefs
How we see our bodies, health, and healing has been profoundly shaped by the forces of colonization, racism, and cultural domination. This 4-week certification takes you on a transformational journey into the roots of internalized oppression within BIPOC communities' health narratives. Through critical analysis, decolonized frameworks, and cultural healing practices, you'll learn how to recognize, dismantle, and rebuild empowered wellness beliefs for yourself and your community. It's time to reclaim your health story.
Students will learn:
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The anatomy of colonization: How health systems were weaponized
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Forced dependency: Medicine, missionaries, and the pathology of "saving" BIPOC bodies
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Medical racism and the construction of "healthy" versus "unhealthy" bodies
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Indigenous, African, and diasporic frameworks of wellness before colonization
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Relearning wholeness: How BIPOC communities defined health without Western metrics
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Strategies to decolonize your health practice, self-concept, and community outreach
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Cultivating cultural humility and self-compassion in wellness work
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Building healing circles: Using collective work to transform internalized oppression
Reparative Health Practices
This certification examines grassroots, community-driven models aimed at repairing the systemic health harms caused by racism, colonization, slavery, and structural oppression. Students will study historic and present-day examples of collective care, health justice activism, and indigenous healing revival movements. Through a lens of reparative justice, students will learn how to create, support, or strengthen models that promote healing, restoration, and equity for historically oppressed populations.
Students will learn:
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Defining Reparative Health Practices
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Historical Overview: How health systems were used as tools of oppression
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The Intersection of Racism, Capitalism, and Health Disparities
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From Charity to Reparations: Understanding the Difference
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Black Panther Party’s Free Health Clinics and Community Survival Programs
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Indigenous Sovereign Health Initiatives
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Principles of Reparative Health: Justice, Community, Sustainability
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Trauma-Informed Collective Care Models
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Building Coalitions and Partnerships Without Diluting the Vision
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AND MORE!