Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitator: RHI Team

Topic: Racial Healing Workshop: Embodying Resilience: A Path Forward Together

In times of transition, our commitment to connection, resilience, and healing is more important than ever. We invite you to join the Racial Healing Initiative as part of Retreat Center Collaboration for a special 90 minute post-election Community Call. This is a dedicated space for grounding, reflecting, and cultivating collective healing after the U.S. Presidential Election.

Together, we’ll explore how to root ourselves in resilience and respond thoughtfully and compassionately to the events and outcomes that shape our lives and communities. This gathering offers a virtual refuge for contemplative reflection, group dialogue, and supportive embodiment practices designed to help us process and navigate the moment with greater awareness.

What to Expect

Opening Embodiment Practice: Grounding ourselves with gentle breathwork and mindful movement to prepare for deep listening and reflection.

Contemplative Reflection & Community Discussion: Guided reflection on the impact of the election and an opportunity to share insights, hopes, and challenges in breakout groups. Together, we’ll consider questions like:

• What are you noticing in your body and emotions following the election?

• How can we support each other in moving forward with courage and compassion?

• What intentions can we set as a community to embody resilience and care for one another?

Closing Embodiment Practice: A centering practice to ground and support each participant, cultivating a sense of peace, hope, and readiness for the path ahead.

This is a safe, supportive space for open, honest sharing. We look forward to being in community with you and navigating this time with presence, resilience, and hope.

Warmly,

The Racial Healing Initiative

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitators: Nanci Lee, Brenda Salgado

Topic: Racial Healing Workshop: Seasonal Attunement, Ritual, and Food Sovereignty

How do retreat centers attune to seasonal rhythms, ritual, and the land? Join Nanci Lee and Brenda Salgado for a community conversation exploring how retreat center programs—camps, sunrise ceremonies, seasonal retreats, food sovereignty and culinary farms, gatherings for planting and harvest—connect to racial healing.

What personal or organizational practice do you have that attunes to the seasons and the rhythms of the land? How do you acknowledge diverse practices and ways of being? We invite you to bring your own stories to share during this community discussion.

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitator: Brenda Salgado

Topic: Energetic Hygiene and Sovereignty Practices

Holding space for others is both beautiful and requires a lot of energy from us. For so many of us, we have been taught about physical hygiene from a young age: taking a shower, brushing our teeth, etc. We haven't always been taught about energetic hygiene and how to restore our energetic field before, during and after challenging events, holding space for others, or after hearing difficult news. Part of being able to engage in racial healing and other rewarding work that stretches and grows us is learning to connect to our body and breath, and learning how to feel agency to clear and restore our energy. Brenda will share about Toltec perspectives and practices on energetic sovereignty and responsibility, and will also create space for collective wisdom and sharing in our community about how others in our network work with clearing and restoring your energy when it is needed. Come for sharing and restoration!

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitator: Brenda Salgado

Topic: Racial Healing Workshop: Welcoming Spring with Ritual, Reflection and Creativity

For different cultures and traditions, Spring Equinox holds deep meaning connected to the rebirth, germination, new life, creativity, and the return of the light. People around the world continue to gather in community, ritual and celebration to honor this time of renewal. With all we are holding, with the extremes of beauty and suffering in the world, let us take time to honor the lessons of nature. The cherry blossoms in my front yard are a reminder to bloom and begin anew. The rosemary flowers invite my bee neighbors to dance and gather to make sweet honey together.

Join us in this spirit of renewal, and collectively nourishing what we want to plant seeds for, for our centers, families, and communities. We will also be reflecting on prayers and intentions for our RCC/RHI Beloved Community and for balance, justice and compassion in the world.

Please bring paper and any writing instruments you would like.

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitator: Brenda Salgado

Topic: Opening Up Our Money Stories

Money is one form of wealth, and all forms of wealth are currency and energy. What we feel, think and experience in our bodies regarding our relationship to wealth is part of our human journey. The beliefs and patterns we hold around money are impacted by our experiences, as well as ancestral and societal influences. Opening up our money stories is a way to observe and transform our own relationship to the flow of abundance, wealth and energy in our lives.

Many of us have been taught to hold shame or silence around money. In this workshop, we will share exercises for thinking more broadly about wealth, and inviting abundance as a state of being into your life, allowing for healing and transformation of your evolving money story. From this place we call in resourcing for our well-being, our communities, and our work in the world.

This call will NOT be recorded. Please join us live on Zoom. Receive the link to join by subscribing to the mailing list.

Call begins at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (EST)

Please register to participate.

Facilitator: Rev. Lorren Z. Buck

The BIPoC People in Retreat Spaces Affinity Group is part of the RCC’s commitment to disrupt systems of oppression and catalyze our collective healing and liberation. This four-part series is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working in retreat spaces, and is facilitated by Rev. Lorren Buck of the Racial Healing Initiative team.

Call begins at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (EST)

Please register to participate.

Facilitator: Rev. Lorren Z. Buck

The BIPoC People in Retreat Spaces Affinity Group is part of the RCC’s commitment to disrupt systems of oppression and catalyze our collective healing and liberation. This four-part series is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working in retreat spaces, and is facilitated by Rev. Lorren Buck of the Racial Healing Initiative team.

Call begins at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (EST)

Please register to participate.

Facilitator: Rev. Lorren Z. Buck

The BIPoC People in Retreat Spaces Affinity Group is part of the RCC’s commitment to disrupt systems of oppression and catalyze our collective healing and liberation. This four-part series is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working in retreat spaces, and is facilitated by Rev. Lorren Buck of the Racial Healing Initiative team.

Call begins at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (EST)

Please register to participate.

Facilitator: Rev. Lorren Z. Buck

The BIPoC People in Retreat Spaces Affinity Group is part of the RCC’s commitment to disrupt systems of oppression and catalyze our collective healing and liberation. This four-part series is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working in retreat spaces, and is facilitated by Rev. Lorren Buck of the Racial Healing Initiative team.

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitators: Marissa Metelica, LJ Boswell

Topic: On the Path to Decentering Whiteness: Exploring Suppression, Release, & Transformation

On the road to decentering whiteness, it is important for us to recognize and attend to the patterns of white supremacy ideology that arise within us. This is an opportunity to explore our own internalized patterns that impede invitations to liberation. In this 90-minute session, through writing and movement, we will explore the experiences of suppression, release, and transformation as they relate to our work of decentering whiteness at retreat centers.

This community call is open to people of all racial identities, facilitated by two white bodied people. During breakout groups, BIPoC folks will have a private and protected space for their work with the themes. BIPoC folks may also choose to participate in the RCC's upcoming "BIPoC People in Retreat Spaces” affinity group, which will address the same themes of decentering whiteness.

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitators:  Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Topic: Dreaming Our Way Forward: A Collective Dreaming Practice

The Racial Healing Initiative offers racial healing workshops during the RCC's regularly scheduled Community Calls for retreat center leaders. Our vision is a field of retreat centers with a shared commitment to racial healing in their communities—fostering racial justice, disrupting white supremacy, and healing together in deep, resilient, and equitable relationships. We invite you to join us on Tuesday, June 13, for a racial healing workshop with special guest Michelle Cassandra Johnson.

Dreaming Our Way Forward: A Collective Dreaming Practice

At this time on our planet, when many things seem to be on fire, literally and figuratively, we must be creative in responding to all that is burning, churning, crumbling, and being dismantled. Systems of oppression make us feel limited in our response to the magnitude of what we are up against. Yet, we have the power to dream and vision outside of systems of oppression such as white supremacy, the cishet patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, and all systems meant to further fracture us from ourselves and one another. In fact, we must learn to dream outside of the constraints of systems that thrive on upholding a hierarchy of bodies and keep us disconnected from our true nature, individually and collectively.

The process of dreaming during dream time as we slumber allows us to come up with divine solutions for problems that previously seemed impenetrable, such as the systems of oppression and climate chaos we are experiencing at this time. Bringing our dreams into waking life allows us to implement these solutions. In this session, Michelle C. Johnson will share how a dream practice can allow us to harness our divine power to come up with divine solutions to respond to the chaos and tumult of the world. She will share content about how to more fully engage our dream of creating a whole and healed world into action and guide a collective dreaming and visioning practice.

About Michelle Cassandra Johnson:

Michelle is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. Michelle’s work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Her latest book is We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection.

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitator: Brenda Salgado, Program Director for the Racial Healing Initiative

Topic: Racial Healing Workshop: Reconciling Trauma in the Body with Trauma in the Land

Brenda Salgado is the new program director of the Racial Healing Initiative and she's committed to co-creating a society filled with community wisdom, belonging, wholeness and beauty. She's focused on racial healing work, land and ancestral healing, sacred economics, and the weaving of mindfulness and indigenous teachings for the times we are in. She is grateful to her ancestors for their support in collective healing and liberation work.

Call begins at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Facilitators: Alessandra Santos Pye

Topic:  BIPOC People in Retreat Spaces Affinity Group

This offering is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working in retreat spaces. Our goals are:

1. To cultivate a sense of solidarity amongst BIPOC members of this sector.

2. To affirm the unique lived experiences of all participants.

3. To empower individuals to show up authentically in their retreat communities and beyond.

4. To reinforce the notion that opportunities to rest and retreat must be available to ALL.

5. To invite the envisioning of retreat spaces created for and by BIPOC people and assess opportunities for action.

This group will be held virtually, over the course of 4 months, on the following dates:

Wednesday, December 14, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Wednesday, January 11, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Wednesday, February 8, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Wednesday, March 8, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Registration is now closed for this event. Add your name to the waitlist to be notified of future offerings.

Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

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Facilitators: Rev. Lorren Buck, Racial Healing Initiative consultant/facilitator

Topic: Antiracism for the Love of It

On this call, Rev. Lorren Buck, a core consultant with the Racial Healing Initiative, will be facilitating our call as a racial healing workshop.

Resmaa Menakem defines somatic abolitionism as a living, embodied philosophy that requires endurance, stamina, and discernment. On the day we are reminded about the power of love, we will hold space for emergent discussion and somatic sensing while engaging antiracist healing practices. “Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” - Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. We come together collectively, from a place of connection and fierce loving accountability, to name the patterns and embodied lineages of harm we have inherited from white body supremacy.

Call begins at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Facilitators: Alessandra Santos Pye

Topic:  BIPOC People in Retreat Spaces Affinity Group

This offering is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color working in retreat spaces. Our goals are:

1. To cultivate a sense of solidarity amongst BIPOC members of this sector.

2. To affirm the unique lived experiences of all participants.

3. To empower individuals to show up authentically in their retreat communities and beyond.

4. To reinforce the notion that opportunities to rest and retreat must be available to ALL.

5. To invite the envisioning of retreat spaces created for and by BIPOC people and assess opportunities for action.

This group will be held virtually, over the course of 4 months, on the following dates:

Wednesday, December 14, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Wednesday, January 11, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Wednesday, February 8, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Wednesday, March 8, from 3-5PM ET (12-2PM PT)

Registration is now closed for this event. Add your name to the waitlist to be notified of future offerings.