Hair, Mind, Body & Soul: A Collective Self-Care Gathering – February 4 & 11, 2023

• In-person event
• Cost: FREE

• Contact
• umoja@carleton.ca

Hair, Mind, Body & Soul: A Collective Self-Care Gathering

As Umoja Celebrates Black History, we also celebrate the uniqueness of the experiences of Black women and Black gender-diverse individuals.

This will be an event for Black women and Black gender-diverse community members, centering self-care and HIV self-testing, as Black women account for 60% of all HIV diagnoses amongst women in Ontario. In all, we feel this event will have a positive impact on the community by opening up and creating a culturally-safe space for Black women and Black gender-diverse folks to talk freely about hair health, mental health, sexual health, body care, HIV and how all can be seen as forms of self-care.

Umoja is partnering with Somerset West Community Health Centre (SWCHC), Aids Committee of Ottawa, BLKGURI, and Ottawa Public Health for this exciting event.

This event will be divided into 4 parts and led by several Black facilitators:

February 4:

• Hair: conversations on hair maintenance, hair as part of holistic health & impacts of texturism and hair discrimination
• Mind: conversations on centering & destigmatizing black mental health

February 11:

• Body: focus on re-centering ourselves through yoga and skincare
• Soul: plant therapy and guided mediation to reset and reclaim our roots  and to close the event

Saturday, February 4, 2023; 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. &

Saturday, February 11, 2023; 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Location: Sandy Hill Community Centre – 250 Somerset St. E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6V6

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Questions

Please email us at umoja@carleton.ca with any questions you may have.