About Crisis to Care: A Healing Justice Circle
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Background
Crisis to Care: Black and Brown Leadership Cohort was created as a space for leaders across Virginia’s social change ecosystem to come together. The intention was to build connection, share learning, and reflect on how we lead in moments of crisis.
This initial cohort brought together 21 Black and Brown leaders across Virginia working across policy advocacy, community organizing, public health, and movement-building.
Register for Session 6 | April 28 | 12 PM - 12:30 PM
Staying Whole in the Work: A Wisdom Walk + WISE Council Practice
30-Minute "Rest Stop"
This 30-minute session creates space to pause and reconnect in the midst of demanding work. Grounded in healing-centered engagement, participants will reflect on what they are carrying in their roles while exploring how to move with greater awareness, alignment, and care.
Through a brief somatic grounding, a facilitated WISE Council, and a guided wisdom walk, this session offers a practical, embodied approach to navigating workplace stress, racial harm, burnout, and values misalignment. Participants will leave with a simple, repeatable practice they can use to stay connected to themselves while working inside complex systems.
This is not a space to fix everything. It is a space to listen, to notice, and to return to yourself—together.
CRISIS-TO-CARE HEALING JUSTICE CIRCLE PRESENTS: THE REST-IN
A Healing & Joy Gathering for Black & Brown People
Rest is resistance. Joy is a cultural practice.
For many of us in this work, rest and joy are often the first things to go.
The Rest In is a healing-centered gathering for Black and Brown leaders, organizers, advocates, and caregivers across the social change ecosystem. Rooted in a healing justice approach and grounded in the spirit of Ubuntu—I am because we are—this space is designed for people who are consistently showing up for others while also carrying the demands of work, community, and personal life.
Through poetry, somatic practice, sound healing, cultural expression, 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
