Division, burn out, conflict, breakdown and collapse don’t have to be the dominant stories.
Healthy Human Culture (HHC) is a framework and embodied approach developed by Sophy Banks that integrates insights from systems thinking, modern psychology and wisdom traditions. It supports you with insights and practices that can deepen your understanding of human dynamics from the individual to the global.
It explores why people often create harm even when they don’t mean to and how we might change course to develop healthier practice and relationships. Awareness brings power, allowing us to weave new stories in our families, workplaces and systems.
We invite you to an introduction to this work exploring the movement towards more health and a more alive world.
Who we are
Theresa Fend, Kenny McCarthy and Dita Vizoso have been part of a growing community around Healthy Human Culture since its start in Spring 2021. We have incorporated HHC in our life and work, and want to share our experiences and invite you to find your own.
We want a healthier culture for a healthier future for all.
Theresa – Sophy Banks stirs together complex knowledge from different fields, with her rich life experience and intimate understanding of human hearts and bodies. Her teachings deepened my understanding of systemic issues, how they connect to my personal patterns and pointed me towards possible solutions. The HHC framework helped me to bring insights and relief to conflicts that occurred in communities I am part of, allowed me to rethink communication strategies and shine a light on my personal relationships. I feel lucky to keep learning with Sophy.
Kenny - The practice of HHC for me is what drew me in. Exploring important personal and collective questions with a rich diversity of others was exciting. While, learning through the embodied practices allowed me to feel the insights of the HHC framework so I knew them in my body as well as my head. HHC has supported me to bring together the two worlds i work in social change and psychotherapy through its flexibility and applicability across scales and contexts. Exploring how we can come together and find common ground in these times feels like the most important and rich enquiry.
Dita – First time I saw Sophy Banks explain the HHC framework, I had a deep knowing of crossing an important threshold. This way of looking at our social systems has deepened my understanding of the place and origin of my own traumas and unhealthy behaviours, their connection with the collective, in a way that gives me agency to learn from and transform them. It has deepened my understanding of how my choices are part of a wide system, and of how to learn and seek practices that support my discernment and wellbeing. It informs my work as activist, organiser, communicator.
What to expect
In this 2.5h online workshop, you will learn core principles and theories, experience them through embodied exercises and apply them to your situations or challenges from your own life. You will connect with other practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and receive coaching from each other as well as from our team.
Participate
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Thursday, 3rd October 18:00 UK / 10:00 US Pacific / 20:00 East Africa. Please click here to check your local time.
Saturday, 12th October 10:00 UK / 13:00 East Africa / 19:00 East Australia. Please click here to check your local time.
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We will confirm your registration within a couple of days, and share the joining information closer to the session.
Gift Economy
We are self-funded and committed to make our work as accessible as possible. We are inviting participants to make a donation in exchange for our offer.