Community members joined the Racial Healing Initiative for a special 90 minute post-election Community Call. This was a dedicated space for grounding, reflecting, and cultivating collective healing after the U.S. presidential election.

On a recent Community Call, Nanci Lee shared her reflections on reparative land practices and BIPOC circles at Tatamagouche Centre. Participants were invited to discuss their own practices and experiences of radical hospitality in their organizations.

Community members gathered for a celebration of solstice and a conversation exploring how seasonal retreat center programs connect to racial healing.

Tuning into and managing the energy we bring into racial healing spaces is a vital part of healing work. On this call, RHI Program Director Brenda Salgado shared Toltec perspectives and practices on energetic sovereignty and responsibility and invited participants to share their own wisdom.

Community members gathered in the spirit of renewal for this Racial Healing Workshop led by RHI Program Director Brenda Salgado.

On this call led by Brenda Salgado, program director of the Racial Healing Initiative, community members gathered to explore money stories. Opening up our money stories is a way to observe and transform our relationship to the flow of abundance.

During a Racial Healing Workshop in September, participants had the opportunity to explore their own internalized patterns of suppression, release, and transformation—and how those patterns affect the work of decentering whiteness at retreat centers.

On this world-cafe-style Community Call, retreat center leaders were invited to bring a topic to discuss or select from a “menu” of discussion topics.

Learn about how retreat centers are building relationships, establishing partnerships, and starting collaborative projects between retreat centers, movement groups, and community-based organizations.

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Healing and Liberation has expanded its capacity by hiring Brenda Salgado as the new program director for the Racial Healing Initiative.

On November 8, Amy Burtaine and Michelle C. Johnson led a racial healing workshop on facilitating affinity groups at retreat centers.

The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope is a new podcast from Pendle Hill Quaker retreat center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

On October 11, the Stewardship Circle gathered with community members to share their stories and discuss their vision for the future of the Retreat Center Collaboration.

At this racial healing workshop, Dr. Leticia Nieto facilitates a series of embodied exercises to explore a developmental strategy toward liberation. “We can change our relationships to supremacy and privilege. We’re working to be counterers rather than carriers.”

What are retreat centers doing - beyond scholarship - to build a sense of belonging for BIPOC people? This question is a helpful guide for centers to compare notes on their options, actions, and agency in continuing to move toward right relationship and repair.

What will it take for your organization or retreat center to tend to the wound of racism? As Lorren Buck and Marissa Metelica from the Racial Healing Initiative Team shared during a May 2022 Community Call, we can heal from the wounds. We can dream into possibilities of transformation.

Lorren Buck and Arleen Peterson, Racial Healing Initiative team members, shared with participants an understanding spiritual bypassing, how it can show up in retreat center work, and collectively, how we can rise above spiritual bypassing.

Our legacies include people of great wisdom, champions of justice and with immense fortitude.  People who convened in sweat lodges, hush harbors and retreat centers.  In these places they purified their spirits, nourished their souls, and conditioned their bodies for the battles ahead.  Together we remember how they too helped to build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.

Victoria Santos and Jenyng Wu share the aggregated data and analysis that the Racial Healing Initiative collected in the retreat center assessment survey conducted in January 2022.