greater privileges as well as more living
space and privacy.
The entire community meets three
times a week to discuss personal issues.
These meetings are led by clients, on a
rolling basis, and serve as an accountability mechanism for individuals and
the group as a whole. As part of our Healing Place preceptorship, LMC2s had the
privilege of sitting in on one of these
meetings. I chose to do mine at the Men’s
Healing Place, since I serve as clinic director at the Women’s Healing Place and wanted the opportunity to familiarize myself with
the men’s facilities and overall programming. On the particular day
that I shadowed, community members were slated to nominate and
vote for those who would go on to head the different housekeeping
and administrative niches at the Healing Place, an election process
that recurs monthly as new initiates are voted in. The process was