8:00 am – 9:30 am Optional Morning Wellness Circle (Optional)

Awakening the Divine Feminine Workshop/Meditative Experience
Arlene Casimir, Founding Sister
Founder and Visionary of The Awakened Collaborative ©, LLC
Owner, Lakay Lune
Website: www.lakaylune.com, Email: info@lakaylune.com
Virtual Lounge Open

10:00 am – 12:30 pm
“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be

healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.”- Toni Cade Bambara

(Option A) Trauma Focused Healing Circle for Black Women Educators with
Dr. Clara Whaley Perkins and Sheheena Bray, M.S.Ed – The Life
After Trauma Organization (LATO), www.lifeaftertrauma.org

• Limited to 20 sisters
• Sign up in advance.
• Participation is confidential.
• Must attend all three sessions
• Receive personalized tools to address trauma
  and grief specifically associated with life as a
  Black woman, often compounded by
  secondary traumatic stress that accompanies
  seeking educational justice for Black children.

“If there’s a book you want to read that doesn’t exist, then you must write it.”- Toni Morrison

(Option B) Find Your Voice Writing Workshop with Author Zett Elliott

• Limited to 25 sisters
• Sign up in advance
• All retreat participants receive a free copy

“Double-dutch and Black girls’ play is magic.”-Dr. Krya Gaunt

(Option C) Black Girl Play Spaces

● Old School Dance Routine
● Rap Group
● Uno
● Spades
● Virtual Lounge Open

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” – bell hooks
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm In this here “Healing Our Sisters and Ourselves”

Description: Sitting at the feet of sister elders in education, we will examine areas of woundedness and explore everyday healing and centering rituals for Black women educators.

• Dr. Katurah Jenkins-Hall
  Clinical Psychologist, Executive Pastor, and Equity Leader
• Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings
  Author, Pedagogical Theorist, Teacher Educator, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin,
  Madison, Deacon
• Dr. Linda Mizell
  Educational Historian, Author, Teacher Educator, and Educational Consultant

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Sister Circle Gatherings

• Dr. Lisa D. Delpit (Dr. Adelaide Sanford – Elder)
• Dr. Monica George-Fields (Dr. Lorraine Monroe)
• Dr. Katurah Jenkins-Hall (Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark)
• Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings (Ruby Middleton Forsythe)
• Dr. Linda Mizell (Virginia Randolph)
• Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz (Toni Morrison)
• Dr. Itihari Y. Toure (Queen Nzingha Ratibisha Heru)

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Trauma Focused Healing Circle for Black Women Educators

(Optional Debriefing/Processing Session)
Virtual Lounge Open

8:30 pm – 9:30 pm Fireside chat with elders