What We Offer
Through research, education, and direct service, the Braxton Institute facilitates the development of specific skills and techniques to increase and sustain resilience. We support those engaged in the work of social justice and service to humanity- especially those affected by multiple and intersecting forms of oppression.
The Braxton Institute works closely with our collaborators to design creative, flexible, transformative learning experiences which sustain the work of justice and collective healing.
“Our shared work through the Braxton Institute celebrates the importance of human life as sacred. Some of the ways we do this work of recovery and sustainability are through narrative medicine, prayer, mindfulness meditation and spiritual life writing.”
Our services include, but are not limited to:
Workshops, small group spiritual direction, mentoring, facilitation, artistic collaboration, and intensive retreats- each of which offers tools, training, and respite care with an emphasis on creative and spiritual practices for psychological and physical health.
The Braxton Institute Symposia: Our symposia are public educational events focused on a topic related to sustainability and renewal for caregivers and those affected by exposure to trauma and injustice. The Symposia are open to the general public and offer education on a broad range of issues at the intersections of care, morality, and sustainability. We offered our first Fall Symposium in September, 2014, entitled The Violence That Touches Everyone: Recovering Human Sustainability in a Time of War.
Our Ongoing Collaborations Include:
Teaching community organizations and descendant communities the principles of restorative justice and repair. Consulting with nonprofit leaders to improve organizational responses to the distress experienced by employees and community members working to address healthcare disparities among members of marginalized populations.
Consulting the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) on the development of life-span medical education curriculum for the United States and Canada. Supporting universities and medical schools seeking to enhance students’ cultural competency, clinical humility, interpersonal reflexivity, and professional capacities for patient-centered justice and trauma-informed care. Addressing health equity concerns in national contexts including the Hastings Center for Bioethics and other leading organizations and institutions.
The Braxton Institute is currently expanding institutional capacities in light of increasing demand from local and national organizations operating across diverse disciplines, including the arts and humanities in medical education, military trauma and veteran support, pastoral counseling, criminal justice reform, and other forms of intersectional social justice advocacy.