What we’re about
What happens when care systems become classification systems that decide who is worthy of care?
When diagnoses become destinies?
When the language of support becomes the logic of exclusion?
This group explores the hidden architecture behind the helping professions—how clinical labels, diagnostic ceilings, and systemic narratives shape who gets seen, who gets served, and who gets hurt.
Rooted in a trauma-informed perspective, we’ll ask what it means to offer care in a world where the systems themselves are shaped by scarcity and control.
We’ll look at what happens when social and behavioral health services become more about enforcing compliance than understanding pain or personal truth—and how standing by contributes to institutional pipelines to premature death.
We’ll explore the concept of harm reduction for systems failure—not just how to care for individuals, but how to show up ethically and consciously in and around systems that are overly rigid, impersonal, and spiritually detached. We'll look at how the brokenness of institutions bleed into every layer of society, including the stories we tell to and about ourselves and each other.
This is a space for anyone who has witnessed—or lived—the tension between help and harm:
Providers, peers, survivors, advocates, system-builders, system-questioners, and the socially curious.
You don’t need credentials to participate. Just a willingness to unlearn and imagine something better. You will leave with language, insight, and frameworks that can shift how you see care, systems, and human worth.