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Healing-Centered Leadership: Rooted in Resilience, Growing in Strength

Our Approach

At Green String Network, we believe in the power of community-led healing to transform lives and societies. Through innovative programs rooted in Indigenous wisdom and feminist principles, we support marginalized communities impacted by conflict and violence as they lead their own journeys of healing and growth.

Our approach empowers individuals and communities to address trauma and injustice, creating spaces where they can not only survive but thrive. By centering the voices, knowledge, and agency of those most affected, we foster enduring change that radiates from the inside out.

Join us in reimagining peacebuilding through collective care, strength-based practices, and transformational spaces where healing becomes the foundation for a brighter future.

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    Healing-Centered Peacebuilding

    We take a strength-based approach to community healing, acknowledging that communities possess the resources and resilience to overcome the difficulties of violence, injustice an indgnity.

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    Cultivating Resilience through Culture and Art

    We believe in the power of culturally grounded approaches, and use art and culture and stools to engage i community mental ad health prevention.

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    Community-Initiated Care


    Through peer support, sharing experiences, and accessing resources and information, our circles provide the tools and resources needed to build resilience and achieve full potential.

“Plant stories in the ears of your children.”

-Ben Okri

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Owning your own healing agenda

We embrace a strength-based approach to community healing, recognizing that communities have the resources and resilience to overcome the challenges of violence, injustice, and indignity. With healing communities begin to drive their own recovery by identifying and utilizing their strengths to recover and rebuild.

Our Programs

“There comes a time when we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in.”

— Desmond Tutu

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Be part of the change in building new frameworks for collective healing and finding innovative solutions to support communities in conflict. Join us and support our work to make a difference.