Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

Heart Space Virtual: Building a Family Care Map A virtual healing circle. A monthly, online support group and emotional skills building space for Black folks looking to learn and connect.

Feb. 11
3–4:30 PM PT | 6–7:30 PM ET

Free and Donation based tickets available!

Come reflect, share, and build a care map that honors the people who show up for you—and the ways you show up for them.

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Heart Space Virtual: Building a Family Care Map A virtual healing circle. A monthly, online support group and emotional skills building space for Black folks looking to learn and connect.

Tomorrow we have our first Heart Space of the year! Sign up to join BEAM for “Building a Family Care Map for Hard Times,” a  virtual healing circle focused on naming our support systems, strengthening care within community, and preparing for moments when we need each other most.

A photo shows three Black adults seated at a table during a facilitated group activity, appearing focused and engaged. Art supplies such as colored pencils, markers, paper, and notebooks are spread across the table, suggesting a reflective or creative healing exercise. The BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) logo appears at the top. Overlaid text reads: “Building a Family Care Map for Hard Times,” followed by “Heart Space Virtual Healing Circle.” Event details list February 11, from 3:00–4:30 PM PT and 6:00–7:30 PM ET, with the word “Virtual” highlighted. A website link at the bottom reads: www.beam.community/events.

In hard times, it matters to know who we can lean on. Whether that is family we’re born into, family we choose, or both— it is important to be able to identify who is there for support.

4. Sometimes you may not know what you feel. That is okay. You can also focus on a sensation in your body. Ask yourself “What is that sensation trying to tell me that I need?”
5. Use daily with yourself, family and friends to do a self check-in!

How To Use The Wheel:

1. Look at the feelings listed in the circle.
2. Select one or more feelings or colors that represent how you feel.
3. Once you name the feeling or color, ask yourself “What is this feeling trying to tell me that I need?”

5. Puedes usar esta herramienta a diario para tí, con tus familiares y amistades para hacer una revisión emocional.

The Feelings Wheel is a tool that you can use to check in with your feelings. Using it regularly helps to alleviate anxiety and grow self-awareness.

4. A veces puede ser que no tengas claro lo que sientes… eso está bien. Intenta enfocarte en una sensación en algún lugar de tu cuerpo, al hacerlo, pregúntate: "¿Qué me está tratando de decir esta sensación sobre lo que necesito?"

Cómo Usar la Rueda:

1. Observa las emociones que se mencionan dentro del círculo.
2. Selecciona una o más emociones o colores que representen cómo te sientes.
3. Una vez que identifiques la emoción o el color, pregúntate: "¿Qué me está tratando de decir esta emoción sobre lo que necesito?"

Read below for instructions on how to use this wellness tool!

La Rueda de las Emociones es una herramienta que pue de des usar para conectarte con tus sentimientos. Usarla regularmente puede ayudar a aliviar la ansiedad y a desarrollar la autoconciencia.

Did Bad Bunny make you want to learn Spanish? A great way to start is through your FEELINGS! Start everyday learning a feeling word and understanding it’s meaning. For all my Afro-Latinos, here is a great tool to use to connect with your feelings in real time and cultivate wellness.

engage in deep self reflexive practice and strengthen collective care infrastructure.

Apply by March 7, 2026

📍 United States & Caribbean

🔗 Learn more at the link in bio.

designed to train participants to support the emotional and mental needs of communities and individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS.

This cohort is for people with lived experience and community leaders ready to reduce stigma, hold healing space,

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Alt Text Graphic listing who the certification is for and what participants will gain, including BEAM certification, HIV stigma reduction tools, and a $1,000 honorarium with travel covered. Image Description A blue-toned graphic with the BEAM logo and red HIV awareness ribbon presents eligibility and benefits for the training. Under the heading “This certification is for,” bullet points list experienced facilitators, healers, and careworkers; people with lived experience or experience supporting people living with HIV; community members grounded in healing justice and systems analysis; and those who have previously participated in BEAM programming. A second section titled “You’ll gain” lists training in emotionally intelligent leadership and healing justice, tools for HIV stigma reduction and community care, BEAM certification in the Heart Space method, and a $1,000 honorarium with covered travel for required in-person training.

### **Alt Text** Graphic with BEAM logo and red HIV ribbon listing training details: June–August 2026, U.S. East Coast & Caribbean, apply by March 7, 2026, notifications by April 17, 2026. ### **Image Description** A blue and purple gradient graphic features the BEAM logo at the top and a red HIV awareness ribbon on the right. Text outlines key details for the Healing Circles Facilitator Training: training dates are June through August 2026; the region includes the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean; applications are due by March 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST; notifications will be sent by April 17, 2026. A button at the bottom reads “Apply via link in bio.” The phrase “When systems withdraw care, we deepen it together” appears at the bottom.

When systems withdraw care, we deepen it together.✊🏾

This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, BEAM is excited to announce we are now accepting applications for the Healing Circles Facilitator Training: HIV Care Cohort—a 3-month certification program rooted in Afro-Indigenous healing practices,

BEAM’s mission is forever rooted in healing, liberation, and access to care for Black and marginalized communities. Liberation centered healing means showing up for each other. Especially now.

A black background graphic with large, bold, cream-colored capital letters. The text announces a “Nationwide Shutdown” scheduled for Friday, January 30, 2026. Below, smaller stacked lines read “No work,” “No school,” and “No shopping.” At the bottom, the phrase “Ice out everywhere!!!” appears, emphasizing a call for a complete halt to normal activity. The design is stark and urgent, resembling a protest or boycott announcement.

At BEAM we stand in solidarity with communities across the country by participating in today’s National Shutdown in response to the ongoing harm caused by ICE and its unethical, illegal anti-immigrant policies.

BEAM’s mission is forever rooted in healing, liberation, and access to care for Black and marginalized communities. Liberation centered healing means showing up for each other. Especially now.

BEAM’s mission is forever rooted in healing, liberation, and access to care for Black and marginalized communities. Liberation centered healing means showing up for each other. Especially now.

At BEAM we stand in solidarity with communities across the country by participating in today’s National Shutdown in response to the ongoing harm caused by ICE and its unethical, illegal anti-immigrant policies.

Tickets to all events have FREE and Donation based options! Linktree in bio for registration as seats will go fast!

Feb. 11 — Heartspace Healing Circle (Virtual)
Feb. 21 — BEAM x WalkGood LA: Regulation For Resistance (Los Angeles)
Feb. 22 — BEAM x Quantum Clinic: Community Float Therapy (Pasadena)

We’re offering intentionally designed spaces that help Black, Latino and marginalized communities ground, connect, and care for one another — because collective well-being is how we stay resourced, organized, and in the fight.

Throughout February, BEAM is centering restorative healing practices, practical mental health tools, and accessible crisis community care strategies.

This Black History Month, our theme is Regulate to Resist.

Our communities are navigating relentless political violence, state harm, and instability that wear on our bodies, minds, and nervous systems. Regulation isn’t a luxury — it’s a survival skill and a form of resistance.

We also want to invite you to make arrangements with your community of support, to use our Community Care Plan tool. This tool was created to help individuals identify ways to be cared for in the midst of crisis.

This is how we resist. This is how we protect each other.

More offerings coming!

Take a moment and swipe for protest safety tips, what to do if stopped by police, how to track and defund ICE activity, and resources for food, legal support, mutual aid, and mental health.

We can’t heal our communities while hate-centered systems thrive. We Been on ABOLISH ICE—and any and all systems that dehumanize our communities in the name of profit and hate.

We have taken time to gather a few critical resources from organizers and accounts we respect.

They have been lying to us. They lied to us about Pretti— but they have lied to us about all of our folks, Haitians, Mexicans, Trans folks- that they have hunted down, incarcerated and traumatized.

Whether as a healer, activist, teacher—or all of the above—get mobilized. We are not powerless. And we strengthen oppressive systems when we believe the lie that we are.

We must show up and demand dignity and humanity be centered. We must demand that care be centered, because when it isn’t, the most wounded among us are left to lead with fear, hatred, and revenge.

So ask yourself:
Where are you organizing?
Who are you supporting?
What is your role?

FIGHTING FASCISM HELPS US HEAL BEAM logo Black Emotional And Mental Health Collective

Fighting fascism helps us heal. Organizing helps us regulate. Resistance, paired with care for one another; especially when hatred is loud—reminds us of our sacred power.

Healing justice teaches us that we cannot retreat, detach, or disappear forever.

Where do you hold stress in your body? What thoughts or feelings are lingering in your mind or energy? We invite you to take a few moments today to reflect and begin the year with clarity and care.