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This chapter explores how current paradigms of healing and wellness in Finland often replicate the same dominator systems of oppression and harm that they are trying to heal from in the first place. It interrogates the efficacy of the paradigm under which norms of care operate; namely, as part of a global, neoliberal ethos of performative wellness, which are rooted in racism, sexism, ableism and cis-heteronormativity. A quote by J. Krishnamurti, ‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society’, serves as a way of examining what we might mean by emergent healing spaces. Adhering to domesticated healing modalities serves to soothe one from the ails of neoliberal dominant culture through escapism and denial. Emergent healing spaces offer a way for the collective context to join the space too, as a way to practise naming the harm from which we seek healing in the first place. My enquiry into what the work of ‘healing’ entails in postcolonial emergent envisioning will be informed by the following questions. In a toxic culture in which we are all indoctrinated, to varying degrees, what are we healing from? What are we healing for?