About
The Tikkun Project is a peer support initiative for people who experience extreme or altered states, non-consensus realities, psychosis, or use their own language to describe these ways of being.
Our work is grounded in the Hearing Voices approach, Intentional Peer Support, and a Transformative Justice framework. We are always learning how to bring these values into real life—especially in a world that is messy, unpredictable, and full of imperfect people like us.
Our name comes from Tikkun Olam, a Hebrew phrase that means “repair of the world.” For us, recovery isn’t about fixing ourselves—it’s about mending our relationships: with ourselves, our loved ones, our communities, the land, and even the people we find most difficult to connect with. Recovery is never finished. It’s messy, nonlinear, and rooted in the belief that we are all active participants in healing and change. We don’t see healing, liberation, or lasting change as one-time events—they’re everyday practices we keep returning to imperfectly and iteratively.
We affirm the humanity of men, women, trans people, and gender-expansive folks. Right now, our offerings are focused on supporting trans people, women, and gender-expansive individuals, because that’s where our team has the most lived and professional experience. As we grow and deepen our understanding of trauma-informed, anti-oppressive care for men, we hope to create space that truly welcomes everyone.
Our goal is to support people with highly stigmatized forms of neurodivergence—like most of our team and leadership—by offering relationship-based, self-directed, non-clinical alternatives rooted in the belief that each person is the expert on themselves. We do this to foster healing, strengthen personal agency, and protect the autonomy of people like us outside of state of clinical systems.