{"id":12022,"date":"2020-05-16T19:44:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2020-05-16T19:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T19:45:24","slug":"a-flourish-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/a-flourish-state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"A FLOURISH State of Mind: Healing the Healer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12026\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flourish-trio.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1159\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flourish-trio.jpeg 552w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Flourish-trio-450x338.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1159px) 100vw, 1159px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>I remember Hope Chigudu warmly embracing me, whispering to me these words, \u201cIt is time to let go of everything even if it\u2019s going to hurt others\u2026so you can heal, be free and start thinking of yourself as a person.\u201d These words are still my guiding principles today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ Florence Awuor, Flourish Retreat participant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AWDF\u2019s inaugural Flourish Retreat was launched in February this year in what will turn out to be an incredibly empowering start to what was going to be a very difficult year.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place at the beautiful Sogakope beach resort located in the Volta region of Ghana, the Flourish retreat is one strand of the AWDF Flourish Project aimed at strengthening feminist organising across Africa, a partner project of the NOVO Foundation\u2019s Radical Hope Fund.\u00a0 \u00a0Built deliberately around African healing philosophy and practices, the Flourish facilitators used a plethora of tools &#8211; \u00a0art, chakras for emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing, breathing exercises, affirmations, dancing, aromatherapy, meditation, moon rituals, yoga, poetry and creative writing, individual and group reflection sessions, journaling, theatre and counselling sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/novofoundation.org\/radicalhope\/\">NoVo Foundation launched the Radical Hope<\/a> Fund in July 2017 with a global call for projects grounded in new partnerships, bold experimentation, and a deep commitment to social justice. The vision of Radical Hope is to create spaces for dreaming new possibilities, experimenting with new collaborations and developing new, creative strategies to overcome structural failures. AWDF\u2019s Flourish Project was one of 19 initiatives selected to support this vision on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Using a transformational, feminist approach, the Flourish retreat created a dynamic healing space for 20 African feminists. These were women working on the frontlines of VAW prevention in the fields of sex work, women living with HIV, running rape crisis centres, healing and feminist movement building.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Jessica Horn, Director of Programmes at AWDF, speaks about healing, the AWDF Flourish retreat and her vision for what the retreat could do within the African feminist movement. Jessica is a writer and political commentator, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/airforafrica.org\/\">AIR<\/a>. She curates open mics where people explore the concept of Revolutionary Love and also acted as a Flourish Facilitator at the inaugural Flourish Retreat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Nana Akosua Hanson, Programme Officer, Catalytic Initiatives, AWDF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the full interview and also the reflections of the participants &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Flourish-State-of-Mind-blog.pdf\">A Flourish State of Mind blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see more pictures from the retreat, visit our Instagram page @theawdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I remember Hope Chigudu warmly embracing me, whispering to me these words, \u201cIt is time to let go of everything even if it\u2019s going to hurt others\u2026so you can heal, be free and start thinking of yourself as a person.\u201d These words are still my guiding principles today. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ Florence Awuor, Flourish Retreat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-blog-group"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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