World Happiness Foundation · Global Mental Health Commission
Caring for those who care.
Those who care also need to be cared for.
A global community for people and professionals who accompany, care for and support the wellbeing and mental health of others.
Registration opens soon. Write to us and we'll let you know when it does.
The question
Psychologists and psychiatrists. Doctors and nurses. Social workers. Crisis responders. Educators, coaches, facilitators, community leaders. People who spend their days close to pain, trauma, grief, illness, violence and uncertainty. And keep showing up.
They carry training. They carry experience. They also carry weight.
Why this exists
We live in a time crossed by violence, social crisis, disaster, trauma, grief and constant exposure to what is happening in the world. That reality also reaches the people who accompany others through it.
Tiredness and emotional wear are part of this work. Even those with the tools and the experience to regulate themselves need somewhere to stop, connect, and feel accompanied.
We don't have to wait for an emergency to ask for support.
Our purpose
Heal the Healers exists to create and strengthen an international community where people who care can meet, listen to each other, share what they know, and build new forms of support together.
Who belongs here
This community is interdisciplinary and international. It's for anyone whose work or vocation involves caring for, accompanying or supporting other people.
Whatever brought you here — a search, a colleague, a feeling — you have a place in this conversation.
Where we are needed now
Heal the Healers grows where people who care ask for company. These are the three regions where collaboration is open right now. We describe each situation soberly and only with what we can confirm; specifics still being defined are marked as such.
An open collaboration opportunity for mental-health professionals who accompany healers, carers and community teams in Colombia. The scope is being defined together with local colleagues.
Our published work on Venezuela is the Dialogues for Fundamental Peace: a series of online gatherings for collective healing, compassionate inquiry and nonviolent transformation, beginning with a focus on Venezuela — as described by Luis Miguel Gallardo, Founder & President of the World Happiness Foundation. Heal the Healers extends that intention to the people who accompany others through it.
Devastating floods and landslides in the Nepal–Tibet region (August 2026) are affecting communities and the people who care for them. We are not publishing figures: they change constantly and we cannot keep them current. What we can offer is company for the carers, and we do so alongside the long relationship the Foundation holds with the Tibetan community.
This community accompanies. It does not replace professional clinical care, and it is not an emergency service. If you or someone near you is at risk, contact your local emergency services or health system.
Why help those who help
Nurses, doctors, therapists, first responders, teachers, chaplains, community leaders, humanitarian teams, family carers: the people a society leans on in its hardest hours carry the weight of others as part of their work. When they are not accompanied, the whole chain of care thins out. Heal the Healers exists to hold that chain — and to connect the networks that already hold parts of it.
Regular accompaniment, contemplative practice and peer spaces for people whose work is care — so that exhaustion is named early, among colleagues who understand it, instead of carried alone.
Mitigation happens inside the crisis itself. When a disaster or a rupture arrives, the responders are also affected: we help coordinate peer circles, professional referral to real clinical care, and steady company for the people responding — alongside local colleagues and organisations, never over them.
The work does not end when the emergency does. Regeneration is the slower season: rest, supervision, returning to ordinary life, and local networks that come out of the episode better held than they went into it.
This is a network of networks. We do not intend to replace any of the organisations, professional bodies or local groups already doing this work. We intend to connect them: a shared community where a mental-health professional in one country can be introduced to colleagues who need company in another, from prevention through crisis to regeneration.
Reading library
Published work from this community that grounds Heal the Healers: the frameworks, the practices and the regional dialogues already underway.
Our own gatherings
Photographs from World Happiness Foundation and World Happiness Academy gatherings in Costa Rica, Mexico and with our community around the world.
In pictures
Care happens in community halls, on mountain paths, on doorsteps and in classrooms. These images show the kinds of settings where the work of Heal the Healers takes place, and the World Happiness Foundation gatherings where the network meets.
Photographs of Colombia, Venezuela and the Nepal–Tibet region are illustrative of those contexts, not documentation of specific events or people. Foundation photographs are from our own gatherings.
Two ways to take part
If you work in mental health and would like to accompany healers and carers in one of these regions, tell us where you'd like to contribute. The interest form asks for your region preference so we can introduce you to the right colleagues.
An invitation, not a deadline. Note your region preference in the form.
Contributions sustain the gatherings, the accompaniment and the coordination behind this work. You can give through the Foundation's mission fund, or to a specific region when a dedicated destination is available.
Contributions go through the Foundation's existing giving infrastructure.
Lines of work
Sharing knowledge, experience and resources for accompanying people through crisis and emergency situations.
Exploring and strengthening community spaces where people can feel heard, accompanied and held.
Spaces for learning, exchange and reflection around trauma, grief and the experience of suffering.
A network where those who accompany others can also find connection, listening and support.
These are open lines of exploration, not a closed list of programs. They grow as the community grows.
The network
A network isn't built by collecting contacts. It's built by knowing who we can count on.
Meet
Share
Learn
Collaborate
Hold each other
Heal the Healers is building a network where professionals and people connected to care can find each other beyond borders and disciplines. It starts from collaboration, not competition. Everyone brings something: knowledge, experience, tools, resources, contacts, presence.
In development
We're building a directory to make the network visible. It isn't a database: it's a way to see and connect the human knowledge that already lives inside this community.
Taking part in the directory is voluntary. Each person decides what information they wish to share, and authorizes it expressly.
The gatherings
Our gatherings are spaces for listening, reflection, connection, practice and exchange. Some of them include experiential practice and meditation.
Not every gathering is a training. A large part of this space is simply being able to be here, to share, and to be held.
On vulnerability
Professionals can have tools, experience and knowledge, and still need support. Recognizing that is not weakness. It's a conscious form of care.
We want a space where that sentence can be said without judgment. And long before a crisis.
How we hold this space
Heal the Healers doesn't replace individual professional care or emergency services. Its purpose is connection, prevention, support and collaboration. If you need immediate care, please reach out to the health services in your country.
Part of the World Happiness Foundation
Heal the Healers is part of the World Happiness Foundation ecosystem, which works from freedom, consciousness, happiness and abundance, toward individual and collective transformation. Individual wellbeing is part of the transformation we're building together.
10 billion free, conscious and happy people by 2050.
The invitation
Heal the Healers is growing, and it's being built collaboratively. If this resonates with you, there's a place for you here.
This is an invitation, not a deadline. When you're ready, we'll be here.
A registration form will open shortly, in Spanish, English and Portuguese. It isn't a course sign-up: it's the doorway into a community and a network of collaboration.
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Wherever you are, there is a place for you in this community — as a professional who accompanies, or as someone who helps sustain the accompaniment.