How we work

What happens with the money

Healing Justice Netherlands was started by Amix and is gathering a small circle of co builders: people who organise, facilitate and care for this community, and who will be the first to co own it. We are not yet a registered organisation. We plan to register in early 2027. Until then, we won't take any membership money.

Care work is real work. Everyone who works here is paid, including the co builders and the founder. In our early months, pay comes from what each gathering and our other work brings in, shared in a way we agree before we begin, and it will grow as the community does. We won't build this on anyone's unpaid exhaustion. The people who hold this community are part of its care too: paid work here has limits, support and rest, and nobody is expected to absorb endless emotional labour because the work is meaningful.

Care between us is something different. When members bring each other meals, share rides, check in or show up in hard times, we do it as a care web: freely, mutually, and never as unpaid work for the organisation. You can join the care web, ask it for support, or do both. Nobody is expected to give more than they have. Care is offered, not owed. Receiving it creates relationship, not debt, and giving it never gives anyone power over someone else. Some of us will give more in some seasons and receive more in others, and nobody is keeping score.

We also want to be honest about money. Healing justice grew from anti capitalist movements that refuse to turn care into a product, and we share that refusal. Money here is not a price for healing. It is a way of redistributing resources, from those of us who have more to those of us who have less, so that care can reach all of us and the people who hold it can live with dignity.

We are building a paid membership, taking on work with organisations, and paying everyone who works here, including the co builders and the founder. We know money can pull us away from our values. So we'll keep asking, together, whether healing is becoming a product here, and the members' circle will help hold us to it.

Twice a year we'll share a community report: what came in, where it went, and what it made possible, including what changed in people's actual lives. Members help decide what we look at, so we measure what matters to us rather than what looks good to funders.

Where your contribution goes

  • Fair pay for facilitators, speakers and artistsPeople from our communities are paid for sharing their knowledge and practice.
  • Partially and fully supported placesLimited in number, and made possible by those who pay Sustaining or Solidarity.
  • Access, from the startWe plan access into every gathering rather than adding it later, and budget for interpretation, captioning, accessible transport, a quiet room and childcare as our income allows.
  • Food and materialsPotlucks, printing and what we need to hold each gathering.
  • The people who hold it togetherFair pay for the co builders and founder who coordinate, communicate and care for the community.
  • Growing our ownTraining and paying members who want to host, facilitate and tell stories, so the community can hold more of itself.
  • A small reserveSo the community can weather a slow month.

How we sustain each other

A community for healing can quietly burn out the people holding it. We want to design against that from the start.

No one has to earn rest
Your worth here has nothing to do with how much you do. Two hours of your time makes you as much a part of this as twenty. You can always say no. You don't owe an explanation, and when you're able to share a little context, it helps us plan and care for each other.
Responsibility is open to tired people too
Leading here doesn't mean a title, charisma or endless energy. It means holding some responsibility: hosting, facilitating, coordinating, or helping make decisions. We size these roles so nobody has to be heroic, always available or indispensable, and sick, disabled, grieving and busy people can hold them at their own pace.
The people who hold space need holding too
Those who facilitate and support get time to prepare, someone beside them, and a debrief afterwards. Holding space means some of what we hear stays with us. So we build in ways to set it down together, and nobody is expected to hold it alone.
Not everything is urgent
We slow down by default, because rushing is how harm slips through. And when someone's safety is at stake, we act quickly.
We learn by trying
We try things, notice what happens, and adapt. Getting it wrong is part of learning, as long as we repair and change course.

Our tools and your data

The tools we use shape the world we build. So we avoid the largest tech corporations, such as Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft, whose business models depend on surveillance and extraction. Wherever we can, we choose open source and privacy respecting tools, most of them based in Europe.

Where we still depend on a big platform, we'll say so openly and work to replace it. This site is hosted by an independent Dutch hosting company that runs on 100% green energy.

How we handle your data

  • Following the GDPRWe handle your personal data in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
  • Only what we needWe collect as little as possible, never record anyone's residence status, and never sell or share your data.
  • No trackingThis site uses no tracking cookies, advertising or analytics, and loads nothing from Google or other big tech services.
  • Your rightsYou can ask to see, correct or delete your data at any time. A full privacy statement and contact will follow before membership opens.

Our plan: owned by the community

We don't want this to belong to one person. We're growing toward shared ownership, owned by the community and the co builders who do the work, led by queer people of colour and prioritising queer people of colour in ownership. Most likely that will be a cooperative, but the exact form will grow from what we learn together. We'll get there slowly, as trust grows, and only when enough of us are ready to carry it together.

How power works here, for now

We want to be honest about power. Healing Justice Netherlands isn't registered yet, so nobody legally owns it. But the founder still holds a lot of power: in how it begins, the words on this page, who is invited in first, and the relationships it grows from. The co builders who join early hold power too, simply by being there from the start. That is a lot of power in a few hands. So for now, the founder and co builders make day to day decisions together. Once membership opens, members will choose the skillshare topics, and we will answer to the members' circle. If a concern or harm involves the founder or a co builder, it will go to someone outside the organisation, not to the people involved.

Power isn't only formal. It also lives in money, confidence, language, papers, how long someone has been around, and who speaks first. We'll keep noticing it together, and keep moving it toward those who have had the least.

We won't write the rest alone. In our first year, a small group including founding members who want to be involved will draft how we make decisions, handle conflict and harm, and share money and power. Every member will have a say before we adopt it, and we'll publish what we agree.

  1. Grow the roots

    Autumn 2026

    Pilot gatherings, founding member pledges, and finding the people who want to build this with us.

  2. Register and open membership

    Early 2027

    Pledges become memberships. A members' circle starts meeting monthly, sees the numbers and chooses the skillshare topics each season.

  3. Share ownership

    When we are ready, perhaps within a year or two

    When at least three co builders are ready to co own it and income is steady, we move into shared ownership, most likely as a cooperative, where leadership and ownership prioritise queer people of colour.