Decolonising Health and Wellbeing
This research program focuses on understanding and healing from the historical and ongoing effects of colonization on individuals and communities. It explores a multitude of transformative practices that challenge and work to dismantle the persistent effects of colonialism.
Current Projects
Deep Listening: Emerging Strategies for Decolonial Healing
This research focuses on deep listening as a way of understanding and healing from the historical and ongoing effects of colonization on individuals and communities. It explores a multitude of transformative practices that challenge and work to dismantle the persistent effects of colonialism.
Deep listening is present in many traditions, serving as a practice of attentiveness and empathy, fostering a deeper connection to voices, stories, and truths that have often been overlooked or marginalized. This practice goes beyond attending to what is spoken, extending to what has been silenced, omitted, or erased by colonial systems. Deep Listening research program is a transdisciplinary initiative, bringing together experts in health humanities and medicine to explore emerging strategies for decolonising health and wellbeing, such as social justice-based mindfulness, narrative medicine, poetry, storytelling, and song, among others.
Contact Ana Eclair for more information.