Healing on the Move
The same practice, at four scales.
Care for a person and their relationships, for a community, for the organisations doing the work, and for the policies that shape all three. Four pillars, one holistic approach.
Individual care
Support for individuals affected by displacement, violence and uncertainty, from practitioners who have often lived it themselves. This is also where the interpersonal and the relational sit: couples, families, and any two people working something out together.
Community care
To strengthen collective healing, social cohesion and the care that communities already hold, among displaced and host communities alike.
Organisational care
To help organisations working in forced displacement operate ethically and sustainably, with care for the people doing the work rather than only for those they serve.
Policy care
To turn grounded practice into knowledge that policy can use, and to shift how displacement work is funded and governed.
What runs through all four
Our work is grounded in trauma-informed practice, collective care, and the knowledge of people with lived experience of displacement. Healing is not a short intervention. It is a long social and political process, and for care to mean anything it has to be ethical, reachable and able to continue.
The four pillars follow the ecological model: a person lives inside relationships, a community, organisations and policies, and each of these shapes how they are. Care that stops at one level leaves the others untouched, so we work at all four.
In your own language
We work in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Farsi, Dari, Russian and Portuguese.
Nobody should have to do this in their second language unless they want to.
Where to next
If you are in immediate danger, or thinking of ending your life, this page is not the right help. In Belgium call 112, or Zelfmoordlijn on 1813.