Safe House Seven Groups

Safe House Seven is a psycho-spiritual praxis created to address the multivalent nature of humans. Through this healing modality/approach an individual is not a monolithic self but is derivative of one’s ancestors, community, dreams and stories(both cultural and individual), intrapsychic parts and the Earth herself. Thus this healing modality centers on RELATIONSHIP and expands the meaning of relationship far beyond the therapeutic alliance to include a larger understanding of ourselves and what it means to be whole.

Inspired by the Underground Railroad, Safe House 7 treats mental health as a collective liberatory project. It guides participants through seven interlocking thresholds of healing: multigenerational legacies (families and ancestors), personal narrative, parts work, Earth-based oracular practices, reciprocity as ritual, mutual witnessing, applied integration, and collective grief transmutation ceremonies.

Safe House 7 is a psycho-spiritual protocol that is rooted in the perspectives and technologies of Isese, ancient West African spiritual traditions, with western therapeutic praxis. The protocol was developed to create a space for Black and other marginalized communities to restore into a more balanced relationship with deeper aspects of oneself, others and the planet. Safe House 7 comprises seven “thresholds” or concentrations that incorporate: ancestral acknowledgment and exploring multigenerational legacies, storytelling, intrapsychic harmony of the Self , oracular practices, earth based communion, and reciprocity as ritual. Safe House 7 centers relationship and community as both a container and technology in our restoration process towards wholeness.