Whether your team is burning out, rebuilding after conflict, or navigating frontline exhaustion —we meet you where you are.
Healing Is the Revolution.
Matkɛl is a Pan-African feminist healing justice organization rooted in Indigenous knowing, ancestral grounding, and the understanding that collective liberation begins in the body.
We work with women, movements, frontline workers, and communities across East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, and the African diaspora — building healing ecosystems in the places where systems have failed to provide them.
The Healing Dose
Our Healing Methodology
Individual
– nervous system regulation, restored agency, reduced burnout, the capacity to remain in the work without losing yourself.
What changes
- Reduced burnout
- Regulated nervous systems
- Restored agency
- Sustained capacity to stay in the work
Collective
– increased trust, deeper vulnerability, care-grounded decision-making, a shared language for what the team is actually carrying.
What changes
- Increased trust
- Deeper vulnerability
- Care-grounded decision-making
- Improved fluency
Organizational
– healing embedded in operations, not added to the schedule. Distributed leadership. Improved retention. A sustainable pace that does not cost people their health.
What changes
- Healing embedded in operations (not added to schedule)
- Distributed leadership
- Improved retention
- Sustainable pace
Tending the Fire
– Wëc Lät (tending/safekeeping the work). Preventative accompaniment for those who are not in crisis — yet
What changes
For the ones still standing — the ones holding the line, holding the room, holding everyone else. This offering is for movement workers, healers, and leaders who are not yet in crisis, who are managing, but who know that managing is not the same as being well.
The Healing Architect
Prof. Nyamal Biel Tutdeal
Nyamal is one of the most distinctive voices at the intersection of healing justice, peacebuilding, and ancestral wisdom on the global stage. She is a South Sudanese-Ethiopian-American Healer, Liberation Architect, Decolonial Somatic Practitioner, and Pan-African Feminist whose work spans Southern, East and West Africa, the United States, and the African diaspora. She does not occupy one lane. She has never been built for one lane.
She is a scholar, a healer, a professor, an organizer, an advocate, and a community builder all at once, all the time, all rooted in the same question:
What does it cost a people to survive, and what do they need to truly live?
Healing Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
What size organizations do you work with?
All sizes — from small grassroots collectives to large multi-country organizations. The design changes. The commitment does not.
Can you work with organizations with limited budgets?
Yes. We offer a sliding scale for feminist organizations. We do not believe that access to healing should be determined by the size of your grant.
Do you offer virtual facilitation?
In some contexts, yes. We believe in the power of embodied, in-person work — but we understand that geography, accessibility, and resources are real. We will discuss what is possible together.
How do we know the change will be sustainable after you leave?
This is the right question. Everything we build is designed to be held by the team — we do not create dependency on Matkɛl. We create capacity within the organization. We also offer follow-up support and check-ins as part of our engagements.
What if our team is in conflict or has unresolved dynamics?
Good. That is often exactly the right moment to do this work. We are not afraid of conflict. We are trained in it. We ask only that everyone comes willing to be in the process.
How long does real change take?
Honestly — longer than a week. But a week can shift the ground. We plant something in the time we are with you. The roots grow after we leave.