WHAT WE DO
WHAT DOES HEAL CHICAGO DO?Heal Chicago offers emotional resiliency programs that addresses participants’ feelings of stress, burnout, and isolation through the use of emotional intelligence training. Heal Chicago helps build the skills necessary to understand and bridge differences that separate us and prevent our communities from reaching their potential.
FOUR PROGRAM PILLARS
#1: ACTIVE LISTENING
The foundation of all Heal Chicago programs is ‘Active Listening’. This practice gives us the experience of uninterrupted focus from someone who is holding space for our story.
The listener does not try to fix, advise, manage, or in any way affect outcome. Active listening allows individuals to feel heard to access flexible thinking and reduce stress enabling connection.
#2: UNDERSTAND PARADIGMS OF SELF
Understanding paradigms of self helps participants understand the lens of personal identity and how it provides us with our unique way of looking at and interacting in the world.
When people begin to see themselves in these contexts, they can begin to depersonalize conflicts that so often cause disconnection and extreme stress.
Understanding the myriad ways we form identity helps participants to increase self-determination.
#3: IDENTIFY PERSONAL & SOCIETAL STRESSORS
The third component examines burnout, stress, fear, and grief.
We talk about ways to identify the signs of these often debilitating emotions in ourselves. We come to understand our role in perpetuating unhealthy cycles of stress and burnout.
We learn to think in new ways about our growth through our struggles to implement ways to care for ourselves and connecting with others using the resources we have.
#4: DEVELOP TRUST & CREATE CONNECTIONS
The programs also offer participants the opportunity to build connection through interpersonal trust.
Through the sharing of our stories we have created the trust necessary for authentic connection.
These new relationships, built outside our normal silos, reduce our isolation, stress, and fear of other.
Empowering us to live a fuller more resilient life.
CURRENT PROGRAMS
PROFESSIONALS FOR PROGRESS
Heal Chicago brings emerging leaders together to have difficult conversations, share best practices, and develop a network of allies where they can turn to for advice and mentorship.
The Professionals for Progress practice active listening, creating a space that makes room to expand the understanding and empathy necessary for building social trust. We explore the essential nature of personal identity and its meaning to each participant. Building trust helps these emerging leaders to navigate conflict in a way that empowers conversation and translates into action. Most importantly, we confront our own assumptions in real time, with each other, in ways that bring us together instead of inflaming anger, guilt, or shame.
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Community Connections is a program by Heal Chicago designed to meet community members where they are – both physically and emotionally. It creates a space for open dialogue and workshops on topics that matter most to them, from addressing marginalization to exploring ways to improve quality of life.
Are you and your community interested in having an effective, honest conversation? Contact us.
PAST PROGRAMS
SPACE & GRACE CAREGIVER SUPPORT PROGRAM
Space & Grace was a Heal Chicago program designed to support caregivers through restorative learning, reflection, and community-centered care. The program created space for participants to pause, process, and prioritize their own well-being while continuing to care for others. While Space & Grace is not currently active due to funding limitations, we are proud of what it offered and the impact it made.
Interested in learning more about funding a program? Email us at jeanne@healchicago.org.