Cultivating Courage: Liberating the Healthcare Worker Voice is a peer to peer curriculum made to build the necessary collective power and courage among healthcare workers and student to resist structural violence, such as the genocide in Gaza. This is a project of SANAD: Solidarity network of doctors and healthcare workers. This projected started in direct response to the repression of healthcare workers and students who have spoken out against the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Palestine.

This is the first session in a five-course curriculum. Today’s session will introduce folks to the importance of healthcare workers engaging in social movements to end structures of violence. We will be exploring what courage is, what courage is needed for, and how to cultivate it in order to address individual and structural violence in healt ...