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This article presents how African healing circles privileges culture and function as community-driven medicine, promoting collective healing. The growth of these circles signals a shift away from Western methods of healing and toward indigenous practices.

Most people and collectives do not know how to work through conflict in a generative way and most are overwhelmed by it. This helps people work through their experience of conflict and supports groups to work through it with practical steps. - Elena Mireles-Hill

Just as there's no one way to sit shiva, there's no one way to organize the details. Shiva Circle gives you three different ways to plan the Jewish ritual of shiva and to invite others to help. Choose from: an editable Google Spreadsheet; a Fillable PDF; and a Digital Platform. Every options makes it easier for people to understand the mourner's needs; to volunteer; and to create a world where no one has to grieve alone.