HEALING ROOMS
Healing Rooms are free spaces in which music, performance, installation, songcraft and language shape and hold space for community engagement, collective exchange, and participatory action. Part concert, part conversation, and part community forum, these gatherings are organized in collaboration with community organizations across the world. In these tender places, we invite people to experience what freedom sounds like and feel their way into a more compassionate society. We are the healers that we’ve been waiting for.
The Practice of Collective Healing
Our Healing Rooms emerge from a core insight revealed through hundreds of hours of interviews with our narrator community: healing cannot be achieved in isolation. These gatherings are laboratories for a different way of being together—where the artificial boundaries between performer and audience dissolve into something more honest and generative.
These rooms follow principles our narrators taught us about what true healing spaces require: beauty without barriers; vulnerability, safety, and trust; the free ability to express honestly and tell true stories; sound that carries and holds people; and structures that allow people to arrive exactly as they are, to witness and be witnessed without pretense.
The Healing Project Choir
The Healing Project Choir—a collective of vocalists & lyricists who regularly feature in our performances, recordings, and gatherings—are at the center of our Healing Rooms. All of the artists in this choir share a belief that music should be used as a truth-telling device in service of the people. Living in the legacy of Sweet Honey in the Rock, AACM, the Nueva Canción movement, and others, The Healing Project Choir uses collective singing and songcraft to create moments where people can be in call-and-response with their experiences, each other, and the times they’re living in.
Healing Towards Transformation
We believe that personal healing and societal transformation are inseparable. The same systems that cause individual trauma perpetuate structural violence in our communities. So while participants often describe profound personal shifts—feeling seen, held, or inspired to examine their own relationship to harm and healing—the rooms themselves are designed as rehearsals for the kind of society we're working to build.
The conversations, performances, and collective rituals that unfold offer the tools needed to transform. Participants leave not just with personal insights, but with expanded capacity for the vulnerable, committed relationships that systemic change requires.
