Different types of healing? What’s out there?

Individual to relational to collective. A high-level map for thinking about different categories of healing

Healing comes in many forms. Often, a lot of us have a felt sense of what healing is, more than a working definition. We know it when we see it.   

And then when it comes to collective healing, this felt-sense-knowing is taken to a whole new level. When the concept of collective healing first came across my radar, it was something I felt more than had a concrete definition for. It had an electric quality to it that pulled me in and beckoned me to help give it shape. 

In my last several pieces, I made the case for why collective healing is needed and what it offers the times we live in. Zooming out to this larger question of “what is healing?”, I want to share clips from a new blog on my website about different types of healing.

You can think of this as a high-level map that charts out the wider terrain of healing that’s out there. It’s far from exhaustive, but I hope offers a starting point for you to organize your thinking about the different types of healing that exist. 

Without further ado! Different types of healing—individual, relational & collective.

Individual healing

Relational healing

Collective healing

We Heal For All’s approach to collective healing

What do you think? Where do you see yourself within this map? What’s missing? Would love to hear from you and play around with this together.