Social Healing Justice Certifications
An Evolution in Education. A Commitment to Truth. A Call to Action.
At Holistic Professionals of Color University, we have always been committed to restoring natural, ancestral healing traditions through our metaphysically rooted degrees.
Today, we are proud to expand that mission even further with the launch of our new Social Healing Justice Certification Programs — offered through the Institute for Healing Justice and Cultural Reclamation (IHJCR).
These certifications were born from a powerful truth: healing cannot happen without addressing history.
For too long, the historical realities of colonization, racism, cultural erasure, medical exploitation, and environmental injustice have been ignored or sanitized in traditional education systems — even in holistic spaces. Our communities have lived the consequences. It is time to confront them directly, courageously, and holistically.
Why This Is So Important:
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Because historical trauma is not a thing of the past — it is alive in the health, wealth, food access, and spiritual disconnection of BIPOC communities today.
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Because racism is not just an interpersonal issue — it is a structural and systemic force that has shaped laws, medicine, nutrition, spirituality, and education for centuries.
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Because healing is not only personal — it is collective. It demands an honest reckoning with the forces that caused the wounds in the first place.
Our Social Healing Justice Certifications are designed to give students the historical, legal, and sociological knowledge needed to fully understand these realities — and empower them to become advocates for truth, equity, and cultural restoration.
How This Is Different From Our Traditional Degrees:
While our traditional Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate programs and certifications focus primarily on metaphysical sciences, holistic healing, and practitioner development, these new certifications focus on critical education, historical awareness, racial justice, and cultural empowerment.
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Degrees/Certifications = focus on healing modalities, spiritual sciences, client practice, entrepreneurship, and professional holistic mastery.
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Social Healing Justice Certifications = focus on education, truth-telling, sociopolitical understanding, historical and legal studies of racism, and frameworks for systemic healing and liberation.
Both paths are vital. Both are necessary.
Together, they create the most comprehensive and culturally anchored holistic education available today. Join us at the forefront of a new era in holistic education — one where healing does not run from history, but redeems it. Your voice, your understanding, and your leadership are needed now more than ever.
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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!