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Wilfred Henry

he/one
circle keeper and founder

Wilfred Henry is a somatic movement therapist, circle keeper, and community justice practitioner based in Central Virginia. His work centers abolitionist values, collective healing, and relational care — especially in response to sexual harm. Drawing from years of community-based practice, Wilfred supports participants and keepers in navigating harm, grief, accountability, and repair.

He comes to this work as a survivor of child sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts of America. In early adulthood, Wilfred participated in a criminal legal process against the scoutmaster who abused him — and found that process in no way healing, for himself or for anyone else in his immediate network of harm. That experience continues to shape his commitment to community-based alternatives that hold complexity, restore relationship, and refuse the logic of punishment.

Wilfred's primary teachers in this work, however, have been the dozens of people impacted by sexual violence — across the full spectrum of relationship to the harm — with whom he has had the profound honor of sitting in circle alongside.

He has kept circles with Hidden Water and facilitated dialogue processes with Central Virginia Community Justice, and trained with the Ahimsa Collective and Community Justice Initiatives. His practice has been deeply shaped by the liberatory teachings of Mia Mingus, especially around pod-mapping; the lineage-rooted circle wisdom of Kay Pranis; and the vision, brilliance, and organizing of the CHAT Project, INCITE!, generationFIVE, and other Black feminist collectives who have long practiced community-based responses to violence in the absence — or presence — of harmful systems.

Wilfred believes that there is nothing any one of us can do — or that can be done to us — that severs our fundamental human need for belonging. His practices emerge from a deep tether to Earth, Indigenous lineages of peacemaking, and Black feminist wisdom. He seeks to move in ways that cultivate abundant curiosity and deep compassion for himself and others. He honors the many ancestors who have carried these relational practices across time and as bodies. The work of holding one another in truth, in story, in grief, and in possibility is not new — it is ancient, and still alive. The In Search of Peace Fund exists in continuation of those lineages


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