As the world prepares for next weekend's observance of the King holiday, we at Community Healing Network (CHN) want to again call your attention to Dr. King's final address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, entitled "Where Do We Go from Here?"
It will introduce you to what we call Dr. King, "the psychological freedom fighter." This is the Dr. King who said that the first thing that we as a people had to do to move forward was "massively assert our dignity and worth." He talked about the "false sense of inferiority" that plagues the Black community and the need for "psychological freedom"--what we at CHN call "emotional emancipation." And he said that "any movement for the Negro's freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting to be buried."
It is this aspect of Dr. King's legacy that inspired CHN to create Emotional Emancipation Circles, a culturally-grounded, evidence-based process developed by our partners at the Association of Black Psychologists, to help our community do the work necessary to heal from the historical and continuing trauma of racism
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