This chapter explores collective care as a way of being and an embodiment of social responsibility beyond a vocation or livelihood. Building on Pak’s (2019) dissertation, entitled Community Leader-Scholars (CoLS) With Refugee Experiences: Collective Hope, Healing, and Multi-Generational Resistance, we reconvene critical friends and thought partners who participated in the study to reflect upon study findings around collective hope and healing, and extend these ideas to our work today. Through a Critical Refugee Studies (CRS) lens we focus on the creation of meaning and structure that arise within the tension and space of counter-hegemonic forces when we juxtapose collective ways of being among diverse CoLS and a neoliberal order. While diverse in places of origin, we identify and uplift CoLS’ collective ways of being. Situated within a neoliberal, individualistic society in the context of the United States (where we were all located at the time of the study) reveals notions of feeling stuck between two systems, isolation, and dehumanization. Data also, however, reveal possibilities and experiences of collective hope and healing when we center collective ways of being that many of our communities come from. When brought together in shared space, and given space to breathe, this can serve as a place of strength for our care and solidarity work. Together, we re-imagine frameworks of care based on a deep understanding of collective ways of being; and offer possibilities when we open up spaces to learn from and be guided by epistemologies of those with refugee experiences.