Alice Walker

Healing means putting the heart, the courage and the energy back in our bodies with our own culture.

Edwidge Danticat

The past is full of examples when our foremothers and forefathers showed such deep trust in the sea that they would jump off slave ships and let the waves embrace them. They too believed that the sea was the beginning and the end of all things, the road to freedom.

Leadership Development for Black Students

Our leadership development approach focuses on learners deepening their capacity to be self-aware, loving, inter-culturally competent leaders who practice self-care and recognize their capacity for healing, restoration, resilience and resistance so that they are able to collaborate with others in order to create change and pursue healing justice.

Workshops & Retreats

We offer workshops and retreats that integrate SOUL (culture) and contemplative practices, including restorative yoga, ritual, contemplative art, bearing witness and spending time in nature. This includes our annual Calm in the Chaos Healing Retreat for Black Women.

Heritage Travel

Feed your Diasporic Soul and go beyond being a tourist as you learn about the importance of family, community, cuisine, commerce, history and spirituality in Senegal’s rich, thriving and vibrant culture.

Diasporic-Soul-in-Residence

We hold space for creatives and artists, educators and youth workers, organizers and change agents, and those who hope to find stillness, to heal and restore. To ground. To center. To root. To community. To restore their connections to source, to the energy that Walker speaks of, to their SOUL. To nature. To their capacity to create. To live the questions. To trust themselves, to trust the Universe. To explore, to be curious.