When: Every other Saturday starting at 5pm until whenever people are finished sharing!

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

How: There will be a rideshare as well as someone leading bikers leaving at 4:30pm from Monroe Park. Please email us at mindfulliberationproject@gmail.com if you are able to be one of the rideshare cars. The group will start at 5pm sharp so please be on time!

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).**