OUR WORK
Praxis connects theory, action, and reflection.
Our decolonization praxis is community-centered.
We collaborate with artists, healers, and community members to create beautiful, intentional spaces for communal healing, liberation, and creative self expression. Get in touch with us to bring a healing and liberation event to your city! Follow @themedicineobjective on social media to stay tuned for upcoming events.
Healing through Art & Culture
We use dynamic art-based methods to engage in meaningful activism and build relationship over conflict. We produce intensive workshops, public demonstrations, performances, critical dialogue, experiential events and retreats. Incorporating art and healing justice to strengthen relationships and drive transformative change.
Creative Action & Healing Justice
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mohandas K. Gandhi Colonization deprives certain people of vital nutrition and food heritage. We are empowering people with nutrition awareness and reconnecting with healthy, culturally-relevant foods. When we decolonize our food, we decolonize ourselves. We do this through: Accessible Cultivation: From traditional farming to urban community gardens to home-made hydroponics, we are helping people acquire the tools to build healthy, delicious food in any environment, at little to no cost, season after season Foraging & Wild Sourcing: We provide hands-on education and experience in the sourcing and preparation of wild foods and medicines.
Decolonizing Food & Medicine
Colonization has weakened our connection to nature, but we believe in nature's power to heal and empower. Through hands-on education in foraging, sourcing, and preparing wild foods and medicines, we aim to restore this vital relationship. By guiding people into the wilderness, we teach safety, sustainability, and independence, fostering a renewed bond with nature. Trailheads focuses on: Healing: Building community, resilience, self-regulation, and biopsychosocial well-being through a positive symbiotic relationship with nature. Learning: Providing hands-on, nature-based STEM education, including botany, mycology, biodiversity, outdoor engineering, and wilderness medicine.
Connections to Nature
We partner with universities, nonprofits, health systems, and community members to design and produce research that is grounded, well-rounded, and representative. The Medicine Collective researchers are rigorously trained experts integrating healing justice, cultural empowerment, and decolonizing methods across the fields of sociology, epidemiology, public health, and medicine.
Community Research
We design and facilitate education for advanced and professional learners on a wide array of topics including health equity, healing justice, psychedelic therapies, systems change, community-engaged research and data abolition, decolonized frameworks, and diverse topics in theoretical and applied social and behavioral science.
