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Vic Aguirre

They/He

Facilitator

Vic Aguirre has lived in and worked for San Francisco's Mission District communities since 2013. They are a 1st generation Xicano born to immigrant parents with lineages in Guanajuato, Mexico. As a child, Vic learned various forms of ancestral plant medicine from his grandmother and began learning to give sobadas with the plant medicines to his parents after their long days of working with the land. This was to be the beginning of their career in healing and wellness in their adulthood.

Professionally, Vic has a background in child development, creative writing, gender studies, sexual violence prevention and recovery, curriculum development and holistic healing and has been a state certified massage therapist and health educator since 2013. They describe themselves as a lifelong learner, a living work in progress and an example that healing is never finished. 

 

Vic began his journey in confronting his own perpetuation of patriarchy and uprooting the traits of toxic masculinity that he embodies after recognizing that they themselves had caused harm to others in various forms, especially gendered harm towards women. Before being trained to facilitate healing circles, Vic was a participant in a somatics-based workshop series, Healing Cycles of Harm (HCH), dedicated to empowering those who have caused harm or been impacted by violence to build accountability through individual and group work. Upon completing the program, they were selected to be a facilitator-in-training and have now been co-facilitating and developing curriculum for the same workshop series for 6 years.

 

Today, Vic continues to work on healing masculinities from the symptoms of patriarchy beginning with their own. They are a proud member of the Peaceful Warriors, a healing circle exclusively for men of color where vulnerability, honesty and brotherhood are encouraged through a return to Circle work, cultural teachings and ancestral practices. Their work in addressing the intersections between gender, race, culture and various reinforcements of violence led them to their position as the program coordinator at Horizons Unlimited of San Francisco, facilitating a culturally-rooted, gender-affirming young men's empowerment program that examines our inheritance of harmful masculinity and prioritizes placement for monolingual Spanish-speaking, newcomer, undocumented, unaccompanied and recently arrived immigrant youth.


Vic is inspired by their own survival story, his work mentoring high school Youth of Color back home, the power of spoken word and visual arts, and the magical ancestral medicine of energy work. They are committed to self-accountability through participating and facilitating HCH circles imploring encouragement of vulnerable, courageous self-expression with the intention of expanding our capacities for compassion, understanding and the clear identification and communication of needs, desires and boundaries especially amongst men and boys of all ages. They are a proud member of the Peaceful Warriors Men’s Group of San Francisco, originally based out of Oakland and also serves as a co-facilitator of the Queer/Trans Latinx Men’s group, PowerX at the LGBTQ+ Center of Oakland.

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