If you could heal the impact of race, how would it change your life?

If you could heal your own experience of race,
how would it change your life?

Healing Race Portal returns people from "race" to our core nature as humans who seek belonging.

 
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racialization: This term affirms what is usually referred to as "race" is dynamic, impactful, persistent and ongoing rather than fixed, passive, and "has already occurred" aka in the past. We presume that within the US and all other settler-colonial spaces, socialization and racialization are synonymous, co-arising, and parallel from the point at which one becomes cognizant that "race matters."

 

Healing Race Portal (HRP) is an "embodied healing praxis," designed to confront and instigate healing of the impact of racialization on our personal and collective bodies.

Developed using a precise time-bending methodology, HRP re-animates intrinsic connection at a cellular, physiological, personal and collective level.

In this process, sites of racial trauma can be acknowledged and transformed to become sites of healing and empowerment.

Healing Race Portal centers on a vision of:

  • a commitment to cultural ownership, co-creation and collective well-being
  • institutional and community partnerships within the US and across the globe, and
  • drastically improved relational and social welfare and a thriving planetary future for all.

Global Intervention

"Race" divides us everywhere. From each other, from ourselves, from the Planet. 


Healing Race Portal is a global intervention to disrupt the harmful effects of racialization.

HRP embraces a global context wherein by "race" we hold an expansive definition that includes any separation from our selves, each other and the planet that invoke inferiority and superiority based on: skin color; ethnicity; heritage; lineage; religion; citizenry and species.

Healing racialization will allow us to address the most critical and catastrophic problems we face on the planet from a renewed vantage point of bodies more healed and a collective body more whole.

 

Restoring Sites from Trauma to Healing

HRP leverages technology to re-imagine sites of racial wounding, cultural institutions, and communal gathering spaces as “seats of musing”— the original meaning of museum — to go beyond education and information. This process returns storytelling and stories of racial wounding to affected communities and the people whose bodies those wounds inhabit.

A loose global network of "Catalyst" sites will serve as nexus points of healing. As both fixed and "pop-through" locations, HRP engages partnership, co-creation and collaboration in three types of Sites:

  1. Sites of Recollection: Non-colonized, culturally-rooted institutions and spaces dedicated to educating and informing about the histories, impacts and legacies of race. Locations conventional institutional resources have been pooled.

    Ex: Legacy Museum, Montgomery AL; Sydney Jewish Museum, Australia; Goree Island House of Slaves in Dakar, Senegal.

  2. Sites of Wounding: Where interest and opportunity exist for community engagement, co-creation, and collective storytelling toward repair of that experience. Locations conventional institutional resources may not flow to because they are not yet deemed sufficient.

    Ex: Christchurch Mosque, New Zealand; George Floyd Square, Minneapolis MN; Standing Rock, SD;  Babir Singh Sodhi's murder post-9/11, Mesa AZ; Palestine-Israel.

  3. Sites of Fracturing: Anywhere there are people experiencing displacement based on their race, ethnicity, heritage, religion or by others' desire for the theft of their lands. Locations conventional institutional resources avoid for capitalistic, geopolitical and/or timeliness reasons.

    Ex: places of global conflict, refugee camps, Indigenous and ethnic peoples forced from their land, peoples housed in gymnasiums, tents or other liminal spaces, who have been fractured from home and one other. 

Over the next five years, HRP will scale our impact toward reaching a tipping point in the healing of race, initiating a collective return to our inherent dignity and renewing our sense of shared humanity, self-belonging and belonging to one another.

By "healing race," we are referring to the initiation of a generative process of metabolizing the historical, generational, epigenetic, and allostatic negative impacts of racialization upon and within our bodies.

 

Precise Methodology

Race wounds by separating us.
Racialization keeps the wound open.


Healing Race Portal works by coupling a Catalyst site with a precise collective and personal storytelling-based methodology to first surface, then bear witness to and process narratives of racialized wounding, thus discharging and dissipating the stored energy of harm and its persistent impact.


Whether at physical sites or using augmented reality, photogrammetry1 and 3D photography to generate sites in co-creation with the respective impacted community,  Catalyst sites put groups in confrontation with a collective, though unevenly distributed story of race.

Connection and healing are fostered using a stack of curated exercises and technologies, such as pOint™, SelfTalk Storytelling™ with Embodied Active Resonance Listening™, and Centering In Presence, all of which leverage potent energy and human technology to transmute painful narratives and reclaim self-value and agency.


This stirring of potent memories instigates an autolytic2 process that debrides3 the wounds of racial impact. As in nature, this cleansing releases stored confusion, pain, and trauma, which unleashes our innate capacity for healing. 


Specifically, HRP is designed to:

  • disarm defensiveness and unconscious habituation,
  • disrupt self-concepts of superiority and inferiority,
  • deconstruct harmful beliefs and ideologies, and allow people to
  • design our lives from bodies more healed and a collective body more whole.


Rather than attempt to solve or resolve race, HRP creates conditions in which people may re-claim, re-whole and rewrite personal and collective narratives of race.

This alone changes everything.

 

Legacy Museum, Montgomery AL


™= Trademark application submitted and pending.
1technology that allows us to create 3D models of real objects from photographs. Photo ©Bitfab. 
2breakdown of all or part of a cell or tissue by self-produced enzymes
3remove damaged tissue or foreign objects from (a wound)

 

“I realized that being vulnerable and honest with myself is not only okay, but essential for growth and deeper connections with others. This experience strengthened my ability to practice radical honesty, both with myself and those around me.”

 Rachel Z., Colorado, USA

Proven Results

Over the past six years, 1,066 people have participated in the Healing Race Portal (HRP), with 107 of them involved in key research studies. The research participants come from 37 U.S. states and 9 countries, ranging in age from 25 to 81. The racial demographics of the research participants (self-identified) are as follows:

  • 49% Black
  • 29% White
  • 18% Mixed-race*
  • 5% Asian

*Mixed-race participants include Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Multiracial Latinx, Latinx-White, Afro-Latinx, and Indigenous-Black individuals.

 

Research Methodology

The Healing Race Portal (HRP) employs a mixed-methods approach to assess its impact on healing racial trauma. This includes a longitudinal study that incorporates interviews, reflection circles, and storytelling, alongside biometric data collected through wearables like the OURA ring to measure both short- and long-term effects. HRP’s iterative design adapts through continuous evaluation and feedback, combining community impact assessments, biometric studies, surveys, and reflections to gauge the emotional, social, and physiological outcomes of its interventions.

These studies and ongoing evaluations provide valuable insights into HRP’s significant impact across diverse communities.

Key Research Findings 

 

What People Say:

"HRP helped me confront the uncomfortable truths about my whiteness and the internal work I need to do…. I realized that sitting with my own discomfort is crucial before engaging with others. HRP taught me that this internal reflection is the first step toward meaningful, outward change.”

Trish D., Hawaii, USA

"The experience helped me confront the difficult realities of racialization and connect more authentically with Indigenous people and people of color. Instead of feeling burdened by guilt, I now feel a sense of collective and ancestral responsibility to address the gaps in areas like suicide and incarceration that disproportionately affect communities of color. Thanks to this process, I feel freer and more prepared to take meaningful action.”

Ruth Y., Victoria, Australia

"I experienced a lightness or playfulness almost in the space of recognizing everyone has a story. And while none of us are special and unique, all of us are special and unique. There was just more playfulness. It felt like those little parts of us that we have exiled in other places could come forward and be fully present in the space, in the group.”

Jen M., Southern California, USA

"HRP helped me understand how racialization happens—how it shapes individuals and society, and what keeps these systems in place. It gave me the language to engage in conversations about race without feeling accused, allowing for a broader, more open discussion. HRP allowed me to explore the wounded parts I hadn’t even realized were there, making space for deeper healing and reflection.”

cheryl h., Washington, USA

We didn't learn racism alone, so we must heal it together.

 

Imaginative

Healing Race Portal casts aside the limited imagination of cultures of domination to co-vision more expansive, possible futures.

Rev. angel Kyodo williams brings decades of visionary leadership experience as Healing Race Portal’s creator and architect, driving the vision and process for it to scale. HRP is constructed to substantiate and facilitate the broadest possible passageway for people to heal and evolve.

Its iteration combines deep listening, constant refinement of idea and their application to assure accurate, measurable, and exponential societal impact, from personal to structural to global.

These ideas are sourced from scholarship, science, meticulous attunement to the innate wisdom of natural processes, and the Healing Field, itself.

 

Strategic Roadmap
Our next phase includes building out the team and capacity of HRP to scale the experience for global reach, including immersive installations from large-scale museum-sized experiences to community-based "pop-throughs."

Wherever there is an effort to reckon with racism’s impact, HRP can create a bridge between personal and collective understanding.

 
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Sustainable

Healing Race Portal is designed to repair harm and restore well-being for long-term, sustainable transformative change.

HRP envisions a future where racial healing naturally leads to sustained social transformation. Our roadmap is designed to create enduring impacts that reach future generations. By fostering community-driven healing and supporting racial healing worldwide, we are creating a scalable model that can be adapted and replicated in diverse contexts.

Emergence: Hubs & Spokes
Because healing itself opens profound insight to what is possible, HRP is imagined as more than a single, fixed-plan project. It is a dynamic learning vehicle envisioned as a hub & spoke pattern: the central Catalyzed Storytelling Experience is the hub from which we not only seek to create conditions for healing, we also learn from the expressions born from healing — a Healing Field — what next steps are called for to accelerate healing for successive iterations by reinforcing evermore conducive conditions for thriving

A host of endeavors that emerge from the Healing Field will add to the impact, efficacy, and acceleration of Healing Race Portal.
[currently emerging]: 

  • Museum CARE (Cultural Ancestral Racial Equity) Transition will exhort and support cultural institutions in a transition to shift from operating from a race/color-blind stance toward an equitable "race-aware" paradigm. This includes acknowledgment that when the legacy of a person/peoples' pain is on display, while critical for public education and moral grounding, the content is most likely experienced radically differently depending upon one's proximity to the content. Museums must offer CARE packages that invite support that mitigates the potential for exceptional stress-loading, disassociation, retraumatization, and post-visit reactions to such.

 

Ongoing Support
HRP’s long-term strategy includes ongoing support from donors, communities, and collaborative energy from our partner organizations including our fiscal sponsor for the MacArthur Foundation100&Change Award process, Choose Love.

By building a global network of Catalyst sites and continuously deepening engagement with local communities, HRP ensures its work will have lasting support.

Team, Collaborators, and Imaginals

Rev. angel Kyodo williams, RĹŤshi
(Rev, she, they)

Rev. angel is a two-time author, visionary, social strategist, founder of Transformative Change, and architect of Healing Race Portal. Called “one of our wisest voices on social evolution” by On Being’s Krista Tippett, Rev. angel is the second — and currently only living — Black woman to hold the most senior title in Zen Buddhism. Her 30 years of multidimensional work and practice sit at the vanguard of embodiment toward liberation, personal and collective. The work from her book, Radical Dharma: Talking, Race, Love & Liberation has been the laboratory of the Healing Race Portal. Rev. angel owes to the imprint of connection we have as humans that these connections can happen with and through technology and leverages the most advanced technology available to design systems that connect us across cultures and continents.

KG Martinez
(they)

Chief of Strategy, Innovation & Impact for Transformative Change, leverages extensive experience in organizational development and strategic planning to drive transformative initiatives. With a strong background in philanthropy and high-impact community-driven strategies, KG excels in translating complex challenges into actionable solutions. Certified as an Embodied Coach™, KG integrates innovative practices with a deep commitment to social justice. Their proven track record in managing multi-million dollar strategies and building effective partnerships uniquely positions them as a key team member in advancing the Healing Race Portal, where their strategic expertise and leadership are pivotal.

Dr. dana dragon
(they)

Dr. Dana is the research and grant writing specialist for Healing Race Portal. A developmental psychologist with a Ph.D. in Applied Human Development from Boston University, Dr. dragon specializes in adolescent and adult development and social justice education. With over a decade of experience in mixed-method research and grant writing, they focus on narrative storytelling, social network analysis, and social and racial justice interventions. Dr. dragon’s commitment to the Healing Race Portal goes beyond the project; they are deeply dedicated to exploring how belonging fosters transformative justice in intergenerational, cross-cultural learning and unlearning environments.

Anastasia Higginbotham, white-bodied woman of Jewish ancestry
Anastasia Higginbotham
(she)

Anastasia is the content specialist for Healing Race Portal. For 30 years, Higginbotham has generated content to raise funds and engage lasting investment in racial, economic and social justice efforts with local and global impact. She has strategized overall messaging, produced audio/visual elements, speeches and tributes, and cultivated involvement from major donors. An award-winning children’s book creator whose work addresses death, sex, divorce, racial identity and healing from abuse, Higginbotham presents in libraries and schools, and her articles in the Atlantic, New York Times, and journals aimed at educators emphasize truth-telling and liberation.

Team

The leads team's work is not possible without a host of people that turn the screws, hammer the nails and spit and paste things together day in and day out. Our globally distributed team handles everything from administration to website development to paying bills. We hail from:

  • Brooklyn NY, USA
  • Cusco, Peru
  • Denver CO, USA
  • Oakland CA, USA
  • India
  • Nepal
  • Pakistan
  • Phillipines
  • Olympia, WA, USA

 

Partners

Wizards in their own rights of their fields of specialty, Partners not only bring expertise but expand the landscape of the project's connections by way of their extensive history and relationships built over time.
[in formation]:

  • Dr. Diane J. Johnson, Ph.D, M.Div, MMAPEU
    [Cultural Institutions & Cross-Sector Relationships, Museum CARE (Cultural Ancestral Racial Equity) Transition]
  • Dr. Resmaa Menakem, Therapist & Racial Trauma Specialist
    [Priming & Racial Care: Museum CARE Transition]
  • Chidi Nwaubani, Looty Art Collective [Technology]
  • Choose Love
    [Fiscal Sponsor]

 

Imaginals

Imaginal Cell is “biomimicked” and refers to a body that is present from “embyrogenesis” — at the beginning —  but remains quiescent until the time comes to incite emergence of something altogether new: a new paradigm forging new futures.

HRP's Imaginals are dynamic, creative people that steward a body of work that is planetarily future-forward and even prophetic. Rev. angel believes their collaborative input will expand Healing Race Portal's impact at various points. angel would choose to imagine with.
[in formation]:

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