When: Every other Saturday we will share from 5pm-7pm. We will have a short planning and organizing meeting after the support group from 7:00-7:30pm to brainstorm on future events.

Where: The Black Hand
3112 Woodcliff Avenue
Richmond, VA 23222

How: Please email us at mindfulliberationproject@gmail.com if you are able to be a rideshare car or someone willing to lead bikers to the location from Monroe Park at 4:30pm. The group will start at 5pm sharp so please be on time!

**This is a sober event, so no drugs or alcohol please!**

Why: Regular gatherings specifically for emotional support can be a great and empowering alternative to the shackles of professional and mainstream support groups.

Mutual aid and support groups are a way to bring down the walls that ...isolate us. No one in the group is above anyone else: mutual aid means we listen to and support each other as a community of equals, without paid professionals or staff to define who we are.

Each of us in an expert on our own experience, and each of us is the center for our decisions--and we are NOT ALONE.

When we gather together with people who've been through what we've been through, people who share some of the mysteries and suffering that get labeled 'mental illness,' we discover new maps through crisis, learn new tools to stay healthy, and weave communities of solidarity. Our wild emotional selves are seeking a way to find others. Breaking through the walls and making a connection can mean all the difference in the world.

**This will be a safe listening space for anyone who attends, no matter their backgrounds or their current struggles. We merely ask that people are respectful of others while also maintaining confidentiality (level of confidentiality will be determined by those who attend).**