Wellness Center

Dedicated & Certified

The Healing Space

Finding PEACE Among Our Pieces

Welcome

Our Wellness Center is committed to building relationships with individuals and families that support well-being, strong parent-child relationships, and ongoing learning and development of parents and children. The Healing Space provides activities to the community that supports children’s positive development from early childhood through young adulthood.

Finding PEACE Among Our Pieces...

What We Do Here At The Healing Space...

The Healing Space is a wellness collective aimed at helping the Harlem community find healing from trauma and intergenerational trauma. By supporting people in being intentional about their healing and wellness, we take a person-centered approach to our work. Carl Rogers developed person-centered therapy in the 1940s. This therapeutic approach diverged from the traditional model of seeing the therapist as the expert. Instead, it moved toward a nondirective, empathic approach that empowers and motivates the person in the therapeutic process.

We believe that every human being strives for and has the capacity to fulfill his or her potential. Therefore, we aim to engage in therapeutic healing opportunities that promote and honor all people's experiential learning. Through our collective, the Healing Space hosts various virtual and in-person community events and workshops on mental health, developmental variations, mindfulness activities, and breathwork to support healing and wellness.

The Healing Space wellness collective was created out of a discussion of what it means to build a safe space where we can discuss issues of importance and be educated about issues that affect our well-being, families, and communities.

We are committed to building relationships with families that support family well-being, strong parent-child relationships, and ongoing learning and development of parents and children. Family involvement is encouraged in the home, school, and community, and is a shared responsibility with all program staff that supports children’s learning, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

Our approaches are evidence-based, family-focused, strength-based, culturally relevant, collaborative, and trauma-informed. Families come in many forms, large, small, biological, adoptive, extended, divided, blended, and same – sex. Some families wish to develop better parenting skills, build stronger relationships, or may want to help a child who is experiencing behavioral or emotional challenges.

Many come at a critical stage of development in their child’s life, and they will need support and guidance. The Healing Space is also a safe space for parents and caregivers to explore their parenting experiences while learning from one another. We support children’s school readiness by developing and building partnerships between program staff, families, and the community. We provide parenting workshops, an evidence-based, trauma-informed parenting program each semester for 10 weeks, along with bi-weekly events and workshops for parents. We focus on adults’ spiritual, and mental health awareness, social-emotional wellness, mindfulness, children's developmental variations, and physical development, as families explore what it means to be a parent. The workshops take a hands-on approach to parent and family development, where learning happens from “the inside out.”

Upcoming Events

Event Open to The Community

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Parenting With Intention (PWI)

Parenting Journey: Parenting with Intention (PWI)

Parenting can be challenging, confusing, and stressful—even under the best circumstances. For many BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) parents, these challenges are compounded by systemic obstacles such as stigma, racism, discrimination, cultural differences, and limited access to mental health care and quality education for their children. As a result, BIPOC parents may face greater struggles with parenting and mental health compared to their white counterparts.

Strong parenting skills are essential for fostering children’s self-worth, development, and healthy parent-child relationships. When parents are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need, children are more likely to thrive emotionally, socially, academically, and spiritually.

About PWI

Parenting with Intention (PWI) is an 8-session training and support program created by Dr. Sanayi Beckles-Canton, a licensed clinician and experienced Parenting Journey facilitator. Drawing on more than 10 years of teaching Parenting Journey classes, Dr. Canton developed PWI as a natural extension of her work, weaving in additional elements of spiritual development, trauma-informed care, and cultural awareness.

PWI uses the evidence-based Parenting Journey curriculum while creating a unique healing space where parents can explore their lived experiences, connect with others, and cultivate intentional approaches to parenting. The program is grounded in family systems theory and trauma-informed practices, emphasizing strengths, resilience, and the belief that families can grow and thrive even in the face of significant challenges.

The Program Approach

Story-Centered Learning: Parents are invited to share their personal experiences in a safe, supportive environment with clear boundaries. Facilitators act as both counselors and educators, helping participants connect emotional awareness with cognitive understanding.
Holistic Parent Development: PWI encourages self-care, spiritual practices, and cultural reflection while enhancing parenting knowledge and skills.
Strength-Based Focus: The program highlights resilience and possibility, equipping parents with tools to support their children’s spiritual, academic, social, and emotional well-being.
Inside-Out Growth: Through hands-on practices, parents learn to understand themselves more deeply, strengthening their ability to parent with intention.

Roots in Parenting Journey

Parenting Journey was founded in 1981 with the mission of transforming family and community well-being through trauma-informed, strengths-based approaches. In collaboration with the Institute for Community Health and Boston University, Parenting Journey has undergone rigorous evaluation, further grounding its practices in research and evidence. PWI builds upon this foundation while adapting the model to better address cultural, spiritual, and trauma-related dimensions of parenting.

PWI is a 8 -session, training and support space for parents and caregivers.

PWI uses the Parenting Journey curriculum along with other training modules, around the spiritual formation, and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) cultural awareness to create a safe space for parents and caregivers to explore parenting styles from a holistic approach. All Parents are Welcome to attend. This is a closed group program, we accept particiupnts during the first two sessions.