Our Programs
Our programs offer Black educators spaces to rest, reflect, and reimagine liberated futures. Each program blends storytelling, research, and healing-centered practice to support the brilliance, wellness, and sustainability of Black educators in community.
Podcast & Pause: An Unbook Club for Black Educators
We create listening-circle spaces where Black educators pause together, reflect on story, and practice collective healing.
Podcast & Pause invites Black educators into a restorative community shaped around curated episodes of The Exit Interview. Instead of reading assignments, participants engage with guided listening, reflection, and gentle wellness practices that encourage slowing down and reconnecting with one another.
This experience includes:
• Guided listening + reflection tools
• Community dialogue circles
• Gratitude and grounding practices
Format:
7-session series · 90 min · Biweekly · Virtual or in-person
Rooted: RestShops for Black Educator Healing
We offer healing-centered spaces where Black educators reclaim rest, release stress, and reconnect with their whole selves.
Rooted is an immersive RestShop series that blends breathwork, somatics, identity work, and gratitude rituals. Each session supports educators in remembering themselves beyond their roles and practicing rest as resistance.
This experience includes:
• Somatic + breathwork practices
• Reflection and identity mapping
• Rituals for release and renewal
• Gratitude-centered tools
Format:
6–8 session series · 90 min · Virtual, in-person, or retreat-based
Black Teacher Recess
We co-create joy-filled, community-centered wellness spaces for Black educators in partnership with three collaborating organizations.
Black Teacher Recess is a collaborative wellness experience designed to give Black educators space to breathe, play, and reconnect. Each gathering blends rest, movement, joy, and community-building practices that counter isolation and exhaustion, offering a space for ease, laughter, and connection.
This experience includes:
• Joy-centered activities
• Movement + grounding rituals
• Collective rest + reflection practices
• Co-hosted programming with partner organizations
Format:
Seasonal or pop-up gatherings · Community-wide events
Creating A Manifesto for Your Liberation
A four-session creative journey where Black educators write, draw, move, and reflect their way into a personal liberation manifesto.
Creating a Manifesto for Your Liberation is a healing-centered, creative series that supports Black educators in naming, claiming, and envisioning the life they deserve. Across four 90-minute sessions, participants explore the purpose of a personal liberation manifesto, what it is, why it matters, and how it can serve as an anchor in moments of exhaustion, racial battle fatigue, and transformation.
Through writing, drawing, reflection, and gentle movement, participants craft a living manifesto that speaks to their values, boundaries, identity, rest needs, and vision for a liberated future. Each session builds toward a personalized artifact educators can return to whenever they need grounding, clarity, or courage.
This experience includes:
• Creative writing + visual journaling
• Identity + values exploration
• Movement and grounding practices
• Reflection rituals and guided prompts
• Support in crafting a complete liberation manifesto
Format:
4-session series · 90 minutes · In-person or virtual
Melanated Book Exchange
In collaboration with Awakening Café & Universal Connections Consulting
The Melanated Book Exchange is a joyful, community-centered gathering created to celebrate stories by and for people of Color. This event invites participants to bring a book, take a book, and connect with others who value culturally rich literature, shared narratives, and collective learning.
Designed as a space of belonging, resonance, and cultural exchange, the Melanated Book Exchange uplifts authors of Color, encourages intergenerational reading, and strengthens community through the simple act of sharing stories that reflect our lived experiences.
Whether you’re discovering a new favorite writer, passing along a book that shaped you, or meeting others who love literature and liberation, this exchange is an invitation to circulate joy, knowledge, and community care.