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We are Each Other’s Magnitude: Celebrating Our Community Contributions
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We are Each Other’s Magnitude: Celebrating Our Community Contributions

On this call, the RCC Stewardship Circle gathered with community members to celebrate community and wish farewell to Brenda and Nanci.

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A Letter from Brenda Salgado
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A Letter from Brenda Salgado

Brenda Salgado offers gratitude as she steps down from her role as RHI program director.

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Nurturing Our Nervous System within Beloved Community
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Nurturing Our Nervous System within Beloved Community

Community members joined RHI Director Brenda Salgado for a special Racial Healing Workshop. This call provided an opportunity for participants to ground in body and breath, and to engage in Toltec breath and energy practices to resource themselves for the times ahead.

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Embodying Resilience: A Path Forward Together
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Embodying Resilience: A Path Forward Together

Community members joined the Racial Healing Initiative for a special 90 minute post-election Community Call. This was a dedicated space for grounding, reflecting, and cultivating collective healing after the U.S. presidential election.

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

Community members gathered for a celebration of solstice and a conversation exploring how seasonal retreat center programs connect to racial healing.

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Racial Healing Workshop: Energetic Hygiene and Sovereignty Practices
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Racial Healing Workshop: Energetic Hygiene and Sovereignty Practices

Tuning into and managing the energy we bring into racial healing spaces is a vital part of healing work. On this call, RHI Program Director Brenda Salgado shared Toltec perspectives and practices on energetic sovereignty and responsibility and invited participants to share their own wisdom.

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

Community members gathered in the spirit of renewal for this Racial Healing Workshop led by RHI Program Director Brenda Salgado.

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Racial Healing Workshop: Opening Up Our Money Stories
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Racial Healing Workshop: Opening Up Our Money Stories

On this call led by Brenda Salgado, program director of the Racial Healing Initiative, community members gathered to explore money stories. Opening up our money stories is a way to observe and transform our relationship to the flow of abundance.

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Racial Healing Workshop: On the Path to Decentering Whiteness
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Racial Healing Workshop: On the Path to Decentering Whiteness

During a Racial Healing Workshop in September, participants had the opportunity to explore their own internalized patterns of suppression, release, and transformation—and how those patterns affect the work of decentering whiteness at retreat centers.

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Reflections from the Racial Healing Initiative Team
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Reflections from the Racial Healing Initiative Team

The Racial Healing Initiative team is committed to co-creating a society filled with equity, belonging, wholeness, and collective wisdom and beauty. In this article, the team shares more about the RHI approach, what they’re learning, and how your center can participate.

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Racial Healing Workshop: Dreaming Our Way Forward
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Racial Healing Workshop: Dreaming Our Way Forward

Special guest Michelle Cassandra Johnson led an RCC racial healing workshop where participants found out how collective dreaming disrupts systems of oppression and acts as a catalyst for our shared healing and liberation.

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

On a recent Community Call, new RHI Program Director Brenda Salgado demonstrated through storytelling how healing our human relationships also means healing our relationship with the land.

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Racial Healing Workshop: Antiracism for the Love of It
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Racial Healing Workshop: Antiracism for the Love of It

Rev. Lorren Buck joined us on our February 14th Community Call to facilitate a racial healing workshop grounded in Resmaa Menakem’s The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.

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Racial Healing Initiative Announces New Leadership
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Racial Healing Initiative Announces New Leadership

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Healing and Liberation has expanded its capacity by hiring Brenda Salgado as the new program director for the Racial Healing Initiative.

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What will it take for retreat centers to tend to the wound of racism?
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What will it take for retreat centers to tend to the wound of racism?

What will it take for your organization or retreat center to tend to the wound of racism? As Lorren Buck and Marissa Metelica from the Racial Healing Initiative Team shared during a May 2022 Community Call, we can heal from the wounds. We can dream into possibilities of transformation.

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Spiritual Bypassing as a Block to Retreat Center Equity
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Spiritual Bypassing as a Block to Retreat Center Equity

Lorren Buck and Arleen Peterson, Racial Healing Initiative team members, shared with participants an understanding spiritual bypassing, how it can show up in retreat center work, and collectively, how we can rise above spiritual bypassing.

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Why Racial Healing?
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Why Racial Healing?

The Racial Healing Initiative team opens their series of community offerings on racial healing by inviting retreat center leaders to bring their questions and stories about race, power, and racial healing. In this RCC Community Call, Arleen Peterson and Rachel Plattus facilitate practice, story-sharing, and discussion.

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Racial Equity, Justice, and Healing
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Racial Equity, Justice, and Healing

Explore several facets of the RCC community's recent efforts around racial equity, justice, and healing, and hear from the program designers and facilitators who have contributed their leadership to the following RCC programs: Roots to Reach, the JEDI Circle, and the Racial Healing Initiative.

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Announcing our new Racial Healing Initiative
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Announcing our new Racial Healing Initiative

The Retreat Center Collaboration is excited to announce the launch of the Racial Healing Initiative, a brand-new RCC program made possible with generous support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and other future supporters.

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