Malikah at UHeights

About the workshop: This monthly drop-in series will provide a safe, confidential space to discuss and reflect on various issues impacting our communities, as well as explore tools for self and communal healing. Please note that this space will prioritize and center the voices and experiences of BIPOC women and gender-expansive individuals; as such, we lovingly ask that you carefully consider whether this space is for you. This month's focus will be updated closer to the event date!

Focus for April session: This month, we will focus on how to harness the collective and individual anger we feel to reduce harm and create radical change within our communities. We will discuss what meaningful activism looks like, how we can engage with our anger without causing more trauma, and explore tools for processing strong emotions in a safe and healthy manner.

About the Instructor: 

Josie Cooke (she/they) was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest on the ancestral land of the Duwamish, otherwise known as Seattle. Josie received her B.A. in psychology and neuroscience in 2015 at Queens College, CUNY, before moving to London on a Marshall scholarship to pursue graduate school. They are currently finishing an MPhil in clinical neuroscience while working as a physical therapy aide. In the next few years, she plans to apply to Doctor of Physical Therapy programs with the goal of one day opening her own holistic physical therapy practice. Josie is also an aspiring herbalist, a dancer, and a board member for UHeights.

Josie started regularly attending Malikah healing justice circles in August 2020 and fell in love with the people, the space, the energy, and the conversation each circle holds. Early in 2021, they attended Gender Justice Institute and trained to become a Malikah Chapter Lead. Josie is very excited to be bringing the healing magic of Malikah to UHeights and is looking forward to facilitating monthly healing justice circles on a wide variety of topics!

About Malikah:

Malikah is a collective of trauma-informed trainers and facilitators, originally founded in 2010 by Rana Abdelhamid. The organization aims to equip women and gender-expansive people of color globally with tools in self-defense, financial literacy, organizing, and healing justice. Malikah’s healing justice circles focus on recognizing how violence and trauma impact our bodies and our communities, and the knowledge that it takes intentional healing, unlearning, and relearning to be able to navigate a systemically oppressive world. This space centers inclusivity, collective care, purposefully embracing humanity, imagining, acting, and transforming.

Access needs:

Please let us know of any access needs in the box below and UHeights will do its best to accommodate.

To attend this event, these COVID precautions will be put in place for your safety.

Ticketing: Our Pay-What-You-Can model allows our events to be accessible to the entire community! We have no suggested amount, we simply ask you to pay what you can. All ticketing for this event will be split between Malikah, UHeights, and Real Rent Duwamish.