Organizing Health Institute
September 20 - 21, 2019
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location
Chicago Teacher's Union
Address
1901 W Carroll Ave., Chicago, IL 60612
Calendar
Download iCal FileThe Organizing Health institute (OHi) is the training for action arm of Reimagine Health, a multi-pronged power building project of the Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County (CHE)*.
Reimagine Health was created to organize, educate, and create space to build intersectional power for freedom and a culture of health. We work to address long-standing patterns of health inequity as many of our people are living with diminished health and dying too young due, in large part, to systems of oppression and injustice in living conditions.
Join us for the first OHi Training!
CHE is launching OHi as Reimagine Health’s primary learning experience to provide a bridge for health workers to directly support labor and community organizing--and for labor and community organizers to build and connect health into their organizing. This experience will focus on how we can grow relationships, share resources and knowledge, build power, and advance health equity.
What to expect
This learning experience will focus on participatory learning, group exchange, and whole body listening. Participants can expect to leave with new knowledge about how to apply power building principles to health equity work and how to apply health to organizing. OHi also provides the opportunity to become more engaged with a larger movement for health justice through CHE.
Principles for how we build power:
- those most impacted by issues should lead change, which takes power building and centering people who have been marginalized
- experiences of oppression and injustice are not one dimensional, but rather intersecting and compounding across time, which means building intersectional, solidarity-based power is necessary
- co-creating space and focusing on trauma and both historical and contemporary injustice provides opportunities for holistic health and a space for healing
- the collective is much stronger than the individual
If you are interested in learning more and becoming part of this experience, please complete the OHi Interest and Application form here.
Date posted
Jul 23, 2019
Date updated
Sep 11, 2019