Spirited Impact Campaign

Our Goals

Our goal is to build connection, understanding, knowledge-sharing and critical conversations about how we build community and make space for one another.

Our team is developing learning materials and discussion guides to educate the public, health professionals and community workers about the basics of Hmong shamanism as well as some of the social issues connected to the practice.

Once the film is completed, we will host community screenings and discussions. We also aim to provide trainings for professionals serving people from minority communities with cultural spiritual healing practices.

Key Issue Areas

Health and Wellness -
Cultural Healing as a legitimate modality alongside western medicine and mental health

Gender Roles -
What we’ve been mistaught and how Hmong spirituality actually empowers women and genderqueer community members to practice

Intimate Partner Violence -
What spiritual safety is and how one leaves an abusive marriage while remaining spiritually protected

Preserving Tradition & Indigenous Practice -
The traditions and knowledge that are unrecorded and have been slowly disappearing

Caring for our Healers -
The struggles of being a shaman in the western world and how to ensure our healers are taken care of, sustained and supported?

Support the Work!

Join us in this initiative is led by local Hmong American healers and organizers who have been largely volunteering their time. Support us!

We need:

  • Funds to complete the film, educational materials and to execute our impact efforts

  • In-kind support: space, services, resources

  • Partnership and sponsors for future community events

Please reach out to us!

spiriteddocumentary@gmail.com

Keep up with the project.

IMPACT TEAM

Funders

Past funders for the Impact Campaign include:

Minnesota Humanities Center
through their Cultural Identity grant

Minnesota State Arts Board
through their Creative Individuals grant

“This activity is made possible by made possible by the
citizens of Minnesota through appropriations from the
Minnesota State Legislature and federal tax dollars
received from the National Endowment for the Arts.”