CRISIS TO CARE: A BIPOC HEALING JUSTICE CIRCLE PRESENTS
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Crisis to Care began as a cohort of 21 Black and Brown leaders across Virginia working across policy advocacy, community organizing, public health, and movement-building. The container created clarified the need for ongoing space that supports the people doing this work. The next phase is the Healing Justice Circle, a consistent space for Black and Brown leaders to reconnect with themselves and one another through reflection, community, and healing-centered leadership. This container continues to build toward stronger coordination across movements, grounded in trust and relationship.
The Circle offers opportunities to:
- process the emotional weight of movement work
- reconnect with purpose and grounding
- build community across organizations and sectors
- share practices for sustainable leadership
- strengthen relationships across the movement ecosystem.
Importantly, the Circle functions as a space for the people who hold the work. After the cohort, participants craved an in-person experience to deepen relationships and bond over rest. This birthed The Rest In.
THE REST IN: A BIPOC HEALING & JOY GATHERING
Rest is resistance. Joy is a cultural practice.
A Healing & Joy Gathering for Black and Brown Leaders, Organizers, Advocates, and Caregivers
Saturday, June 27 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Rest is resistance. Joy is a cultural practice.
For many of us doing social change work, rest and joy are often the first things to go. We carry communities, deadlines, responsibilities, grief, vision, and the daily weight of showing up inside systems that ask so much of us.
The Rest In is a healing-centered gathering for Black and Brown leaders, organizers, advocates, caregivers, healers, educators, and community-based practitioners across the social change ecosystem. Rooted in healing justice and grounded in the spirit of Ubuntu, this space is designed for people who are used to holding a lot.
Through poetry, somatic practice, sound healing, cultural expression, nourishment, and collective care, The Rest In creates space to pause, breathe, reconnect, and experience joy in community.
This is not a space to perform or produce. It is a space to be held, to release, and to remember that we do not carry this work alone.
