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-SOWETO, SOUTH AFRICA-
Dr. Gigi Khanyezi
Faith, Justice, Race, Healing
Jesus and Justice
Where Justice-Centered Faith
Meets the Science of Healing
...in Beloved Community
With Dr. Gigi Khanyezi
Dmin: Healing Racial Trauma, Howard University School of Divinity
We bring faith leaders into majority-BIPOC Beloved Community to heal, decolonize, and mobilize so they can flourish and be more effective agents of change...
Able to embody the justice-loving faith of the Brown-skinned revolutionary healer, Jesus of Nazareth.
*Lay or professional
We are at a tipping point
As the United States descends rapidly toward a dictatorship and democracy teeters on the brink of collapse, we find ourselves in unchartered territory.
10 Week Course and
Life-long Beloved Community
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Beloved Community - At the center of both healing and bringing real change toward justice is community. Genuine, authentic relationships.
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Justice-Centered Faith - Decolonizing our theology unveils the Brown Jesus of Nazareth and compels us from the inside out to seek a more just society.
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Healing Generational Trauma - The trauma we carry in our bodies sabotages our capacity to be effective change-makers. In this space we heal it.
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The History of Race - Learning how, when, why the construct of race was strategically created so you can more effectively dismantle it today.
IMAGINE having a village of likeminded people who anchor you and embrace you, committed to learning, healing, and pursuing justice together.
IMAGINE understanding the science of intergenerational trauma, its role in justice, and healing from your own.
IMAGINE having a Biblical theology that validates that trauma and unveils your God who experienced it, too... even to the point of death.
IMAGINE having the hard conversations around racial justice without the dread, shame, anxiety, because the poison of triggers are removed
The Jesus and Justice Course is a life changing, soul awakening, mind shifting course. It forever changed my life.
Lauryn Whitney,
Actress, Activist, Entrepreneur, Mom
A Deeper Glimpse into the Course and Community
Registration Now Open:
Next Cohort Begins May 19th, 2025
(Only 12 Spots Available!)
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Healing generational trauma
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Decolonizing your faith
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How historical trauma impacts you and how reverse it
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Majority BIPOC
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Trauma-responsive and strengths-based
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The impact of a racialized society on your mental and physical health
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Centers marginalized voices
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History - When and why the construct of race was created so you can better dismantle it
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Decolonize your reading of scripture
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Navigating and influencing in a race-based world
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Long term, private community of change-makers
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Small Group
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Online
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LIVE
While we have our eyes on the future, History has its eyes on us.
- Amanda Gormon
Jesus and Justice™ is a majority-BIPOC Beloved Community rooted in our love for the Brown-skinned healer, Jesus of Nazareth. We are a warm space to deepen our decolonizing faith, heal the soul wound of racialized traumatic stress, and mobilize for justice in our spheres of influence.
We are a healing, liberative space for faith leaders* committed to addressing the ways historical trauma interferes with leading and cultivating Beloved Community... starting with ourselves. We need to heal. We need to be liberated. We need to decolonize.
When it shifts in us, it shifts in those we lead.
*Faith leaders can be lay or professional
testimony
" As a Black woman, a
Black mother to a Black Boy... an actress and activist, I have carried so much generational
trauma, weight, and internalized racism.
Jesus and Justice forever changed my life! The intergenerational healing moved me forward and understanding God’s heart for Justice unlocked my purpose. "
- Lauryn
Testimonials
From Course Alumni
testimony
" Jesus and Justice was one of the most organic/living courses I have ever taken. Transformation and freedom are happening!"
- Mattie
I took Jesus and Justice in a time when I was drowning in pain and questioning everything “Christian”. This group was truly a healing process for me. I am forever grateful. "
- Jodi
JESUS OUR REVOLUTIONARY
When we recognize the context in which Jesus lived and
how he engaged with it, we are given a powerful charge for how our faith is meant to engage the inequity that surrounds us.
We are at a tipping point in history.
You are the faith leader who knows change needs to happen and you know you're meant to be part of it.
You are committed to doing your part and you want to be more effective.
I've been there.
Do you know the layers of trauma from living in a racialized society are carried in your physical body?
Those generations of harm living in your body sabotage efforts to be an effective change-maker!
In fact, that living trauma sabotages your ability to thrive, build relationships, cultivate Beloved Community, and live in the fullness of who you were made to be.
This is why
Healing is Resistance!
At the center of mobilizing for real change must also be the sacred journey of healing.
As we are equipped, as we strategize, as we mobilize... we must also heal.
There are very few spaces skilled and committed to doing all four.
You just found one...
Welcome Home
Meet Dr. Gigi Khanyezi
Dr. Gigi Khanyezi, founder of Jesus and Justice™, is a Certified Historical Trauma Specialist and holds a Doctorate in Healing Racial Trauma from Howard University School of Divinity. Dr. G is a healing-centered anti-racist facilitator, speaker, artist, and cultural architect.
While cultivating the liberative faith Jesus modeled, Dr. G integrates principles of interpersonal neurobiology in bite-sized pieces so that a justice-centered theology is integrated with transformative collective healing.
Dr. G specializes in training leaders to co-create liberative, embodied Beloved Communities with an ethos that is organically healing and empowering to the people in them. Working with non-profits, churches, professionals, institutions, and young people nationally and internationally for over 25 years, Dr. G helps faith communities create a culture of connection and safety so they can heal, flourish, and mobilize effectively for justice.
After 30 years in the US, a Brown faith-centered activist, Dr. Gi relocated to Soweto, South Africa for ten years, where she was viewed as white! She spent those years learning how to be on the front lines of change and healing as a white-bodied woman; a crucible of discovery that greatly impacted her ideas about "(re)conciliation" and justice.
This rare lived experience as two different races has given her the unique ability to speak to both people of color and our white-bodied siblings as someone who has lived both.
Dr. G is also an artist in multiple genres and is passionate about using the performing arts to heal marginalized peoples and challenge the systems that colonize them.
She is a Brown woman of Afro-Brazilian and Amish ancestry; an artist and activist who spent ten years in Soweto, South Africa doing the work of racial healing and justice. She is Mom to two beautiful boys, whom she fostered and adopted while in South Africa.
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