Healers in Residence

Supporting healers. Expanding access. Strengthening community care.

At Good Medicine Collective, we believe healing is strengthened through community, mentorship, collaboration and access.

The Healers in Residence program was created to support emerging and evolving practitioners as they deepen their healing work, grow sustainable practices and become more connected to a wider community of care.

Many gifted healers encounter financial, social, cultural and systemic barriers as they work to bring their gifts into the world. Through this residency, Good Medicine offers space, mentorship, visibility, shared resources and meaningful opportunities for connection and collaboration.

The Residency

Healers in Residence are invited into the life of Good Medicine Collective, with opportunities to:

  • Offer and curate healing experiences for individuals and the wider community

  • Collaborate with practitioners across disciplines

  • Build mentorship relationships with experienced healers

  • Share demonstrations of their healing art within Good Medicine Heart Circles

  • Access shared space, resources and community support

  • Develop confidence, visibility and sustainability within their practice

  • Contribute their unique gifts to a collective rooted in holistic wellbeing and community care

At the heart of the residency is a simple belief: when healers are supported, connected and resourced, their capacity to care for others grows too.

Healing, Equity + Access

Equity and access are foundational values of Good Medicine Collective.

The Healers in Residence program centers practitioners who have experienced significant barriers to launching or sustaining their healing practice, particularly those whose lived experiences, identities and community relationships allow them to expand access to care for underserved, underrepresented and vulnerable communities.

We see healing as relational. It grows through connection, belonging, reciprocity and the many ways we care for one another.

Through this residency, we hope to help cultivate a more diverse, connected and sustainable ecosystem of healing within our community.

Meet Our Healers in Residence

We are honored to welcome our current Healers in Residence into the Good Medicine community.

Nawungmé

Nawungmé is a Whole Health practitioner, Somatic Guide, Biodynamic CranioSacral therapist, CYT-200, and a lover of Elder Trees 🌳🙇🏾‍♀️

The tap root of their offerings is Ancestral Wisdom- accompanied by Clinical Insight, and the knowing that we are One Village, Becoming Whole Together. 

"Nawungmé & The Whole Connection" (Na & TWC) is a community platform, a social circle for co-creating Wellness Sovereignty. Their work around Na & TWC is impassioned by Health Liberation.

Their passions and specialties are   holistic optimization of persistent health conditions, Yin yoga, and vibrational practices indigenous to West Africa.

Maria

Maria teaches trauma-informed, decolonizing yoga, offering workshops that combine yoga, sound, and dance, with nourishing food and Andean ceremonies like the despacho (prayer bundles). She leads spiritual journeys to Peru, with vision quests and ceremonies guided by Q'ero and Aymara shamans, and draws on embodiment practices, breathing, and meditation to decolonize her own body and mind. She sees food as medicine, teaching cooking classes and helping people connect with their ancestors and ancient healing traditions.

The culture Maria grew up in puts community at the center, with the individual second. For over forty years, she has worked to make practices of reciprocity feel normal, instead of at odds with the individualistic standards of USA culture. Part of her work is building strong connections and community, ways of being that are based on reciprocity, solidarity, and dignity. 

There are two proverbs that she learned and embodied growing up. 

“Hoy por ti, mañana por mi.” Today you need my help; tomorrow I might need yours. Maria believes in investing in community, not in transactions.

“Una pena entre dos es menos atroz.” A sorrow shared is less agonizing. We need witnesses. When someone holds our “things” with us, they become lighter, because we are caring for one another.

Interested in Becoming a Healer in Residence?

Applications for the current residency cycle are now closed. We plan to reopen applications in 2027.

If you’d like to be notified when applications open, or would like to express interest in a future residency, please contact us at admin@goodmedicinecollective.org to join the interest list.