A relational skills playground for adults centering Black Liberation in collective community.
Heal Your Way Forward Collective is a Black-led peer support, recovery, and antiracist collective dedicated to healing ourselves from systems of oppression, slowing down the urgency of racial justice mobilization to make the work sustainable.
There is no progress without space to show up as our whole selves. Healing our way forward is not a passive process, it is an act of resistance.
This isn't just a membership, it's a movement toward change. Grounded community, not perfection. Regular gatherings that hold space for grief, joy, conflict, and rest.
Open to all co-conspirators committed to liberation and healing work.
For historically marginalized communities and organizations who have faced systemic inequality. Launches August 1.
A landing space for men, trans men, and queer men to do the work and unpack together. Launches August 1.
We offer unlimited scholarships and never turn anyone away for lack of funds. Apply here.
Heal Your Way Forward
Money should never be the reason you can't do the work. Tell us a little about where you are, and we'll get you a spot.
Not ready for a membership? Start where you are. These courses let you move through the work on your own timeline, with replays, reflection prompts, and practices you can return to as often as you need.
The world is built to hook your nervous system. Outrage often travels faster than presence, and reaction feels like power. This on-demand class teaches us how we can cultivate not only fortitude and resilience for engaging on social media, but how we may bring empathy to all our digital interactions.
Start the CourseDownloadable companions for the work: pages to slow down with, journal in, and bring back to community.
A self-paced way in. Learn the core moves of Direct Compassionate Communication, practice noticing what happens in your body before you speak, and build a few grounded scripts you can actually reach for in the moment. Best paired with a practice group, and a good place to begin if you are not ready for a live room yet.
Get the WorkbookEach day includes a theme inspired by Heal Your Way Forward, practical action steps, reflection prompts to deepen your understanding, and a social media listening tip to help you curate an intentional digital space.
Get the PlanThis 49-page workbook is a practice, not a lecture. Light teaching, heavy on exercises. Across three parts, you will name the addiction, build the Four Capacities for Liberation (Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, Somatic), and move from performance into genuine repair, with journaling prompts, somatic practices, and self-audit tools woven throughout.
Get the WorkbookFounded by myisha t. hill as Check Your Privilege: and now rooted as Heal Your Way Forward Collective: this community has always been dedicated to the deep, sustained work of healing ourselves from systems of oppression. We integrate neuroscience, mindful self-compassion, and healing justice to help white folx and bodies of culture build the nervous system capacity needed for accountable, long-term liberation work.
We understand that healing oppression is somatic, not just ideological. We reject urgency culture and performative activism. Instead, we trade urgency for momentum, using nervous system regulation, meditation, movement, and community care to break cycles of white fragility, saviorism, and burnout before they begin.
You can't mobilize for liberation from a dysregulated nervous system. This is where we begin.
We're a relational skill playground, a place to put your antiracism learning into practice.
Liberation is a care practice where we work to dismantle the myth of individualism and build the relationships that sustain us through systems designed to keep us separate.
myisha is the founder and heart of Heal Your Way Forward Collective, a writer, life coach, healer, and activist guiding others in healing their relationships to systems of oppression. Her work integrates neuroscience, ancestral wisdom, and healing justice. She is the author of Heal Your Way Forward and creator of the Direct Compassionate Communication framework.
A creative entrepreneur, multi-medium artist, and business coach who spent 15 years in the Bay Area focusing on youth, women, and staff empowerment at organizations like the YMCA and Mission Girls. Mitzi became a committed co-conspirator with HYWF in 2019, supporting people through human-centered, creative tools for healing.
Beginning her NVC journey in 2008 training with founder Marshall Rosenberg, Jen has been dedicated to the practice, facilitation, and education of NVC since. She collaborates with the HYWF Collective to build fortitude and resiliency in liberation movements through authentic, compassionate communication.
Channdika brings her wisdom and lived experience to the Collective as a liberation guide and Monthly Liberation Session facilitator alongside myisha t. hill. Her presence holds space for the full humanity of everyone in the room, grounding the work in authenticity, care, and collective accountability.
Dr. Yulinda Renee Rahman brings a depth of scholarly and embodied wisdom to the HYWF Collective. Her expertise grounds the Collective's healing justice framework, weaving together academic rigor, lived experience, and a commitment to liberation-centered care for the whole community.
Connect with our Guides inside the Collective community
A small, mighty team holding the operations, care, and stewardship of the Collective.
Shirts, totes, and everyday reminders of the practice. Every purchase funds a Black-led collective and the labor of our guides.
Shop the CollectionA short, free quiz that names how you show up in liberation work, and what your next practice edge might be.
Take the QuizOur Substack is where the liberation journey lives between gatherings, reflections, resources, body literacy, nervous system regulation, and calls to action from myisha t. hill and the Collective.
Subscribe to support the work and get full access to member-exclusive content, long-form essays, and dispatches that go deeper than anywhere else.
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"myisha leads with empathetic accountability, creating a supportive and generative space for navigating whiteness."
— Whitney"HYWF supports me in showing up as my whole authentic self with self-empathy, planting seeds that lead toward collective liberation."
— Angie H."My relationships have transformed as a result of being, healing, and practicing in community."
— Sarah L."HYWF is a community where I feel accepted, I feel accountable, and creates the space to share and learn."
— Lori B."HYWF does an AMAZING job at holding space for everyone AND calling people in. Great opportunity to hear different perspectives."
— Jessie B."myisha's commitment to this work and to honoring everyone's humanity is something everyone can learn from."
— Rochael A.We believe access to the work of liberation should be for all. We follow the Green Bottle Method, a sliding scale developed by Alexis J. Cunningfolk, and invite white bodies to give at or above their means so others can join free.
We accept memberships as low as $1 and offer unlimited scholarships. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Mutual aid is woven into everything we do.
Apply for a ScholarshipWhen you engage with Black-led spaces, you're not just supporting a cause, you're contributing to the healing and restoration of a community that has been systematically oppressed. This is more than education. It's a radical shift toward healing.
Unlimited scholarships available. Pay what you can, we accept as little as $1.
Donate to the CollectiveThis isn't just a book. It's a guide, a mirror, and a call-in for white and white-identifying folks who are ready to move beyond performative allyship and into co-conspiratorship rooted in radical accountability, deep compassion, and collective healing.
Written by myisha t. hill, activist, author, and founder of Check Your Privilege. This book meets you where you are and challenges you to grow, feel, reflect, and act with integrity.
"This book shows anyone interested in human liberation the way to heal, to hope, and to become true advocates and co-conspirators, not just for justice and change, but for the future of who we are as humans."
— Anna Paquin, Actress and ProducerQuick answers about our Black-led peer support work, membership pricing, Direct Compassionate Communication, and how reparations show up in everything we do.
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