GENERATIVE CHAOS

a healing justice practice and theory of change.

Generative Chaos is a Healing Justice practice. We are a cosmos of care offerings for the abolitionist movement. We activate community toward healing, creating, conspiring, and practicing a world that is liveable for all.

  • We believe it is antithetical to human healing to deny the chaos that is the reality of this world. It persists and pervades outside of our direct control, and it traumatizes on every level of our existence.

  • As practitioners working in the tradition of Healing Justice, our approach to healing is rooted in recognizing the inextricable interconnection between your individual experiences of trauma and all the other layers of your existence, across generations.

  • Trauma presents itself in your relationships; can stem from your home upbringing experiences; impacts your ability to show up in community; and is informed and sustained by societal, global, and collective ideologies and forces of punishment, shame, and violence.

  • Here at GC, we humbly position our work in a long lineage of healers, artists, aunties, and freedom fighters with the great wisdom to know that the healing is not just personally transformative.

…it is sharp, smart, and strong political strategy.

Because when BIPOC individuals heal, communities are strengthened, and systems of white supremacy are weakened. When queer and trans people heal, society is transformed and systems of gender/sexuality-based violence lose power. When disabled people heal, we can collectively take a deeper breath.

At Generative Chaos we believe that good mental and emotional healthcare not only helps life be more liveable; it also helps us become the people we’ve been waiting for. With care, we can become co-creators of the world that we deserve. We envision a world where all have true and equal access to sustenance, well-being, and freedom.

In the midst of all the chaos, we are a commitment to the discipline of hope and generativity.

we move in murmuration

At GC, we are continually asking ourselves what those clever fish know. What moves the fish from swimming alone to swimming in murmuration? We theorize that when forces are too big and strong to fight alone, fish have a moment of clarity: I cannot do this alone. Generative Chaos see ourselves as one of many fish moving towards collective action against trauma’s terror. We are a space for all similarly curious people, to join in the asking. We swim towards a safer, more liveable, and dignified life for all with love and care as our driving force.