Sessions: The Black Girl Magic
Sandy Brodus - No Is A Complete Sentence: Strategies For Black Women to Reclaim Their Time
In this session you will explore popular myths about the “strong” and “superhuman” black woman. We will deconstruct explicit and implied messages we receive our whole lives, telling us it is black women's responsibility and obligation to be everything to everybody, all the time. Black will women learn how to rid themselves of guilt and discomfort over saying, simply, “no” to whatever doesn’t serve and further our personal and professional goals and interests. We'll discuss how these demands zap our vitality and put us in a place of low, negative energy and anxiety AND develop strategies for how we can still operate from a place of empathy and love for our community, while also protecting/rediscovering our inner light and restoring healthy balance and calm in our personal lives.
ShiShi Rose - Black Women and Mental Health
In this session, we will examine the black woman's constant need for inclusion of mental health issues in conversations about race and equity and how the push for self care has turned into a capitalist dream and what can be done about it. ShiShi will also share valuable information on different types of healing modalities.
Rachel Cargle - Root to Rise: The Ancestral Figures of Anti Racism-Work
The work that we're doing is nothing new, it just "our turn." It has been both a blessed responsibility and a heavy burden of anti-racism work that has been passed to us from our ancestors who were fighting this fight before us. In this session, I will be guiding us through some of the most dynamic examples of power, successes, passion, gameplans and ultimate activism of the women who came before us. This session will be a lumination of our ancestors to remind us of our roots and give us the courage to continue to rise.
Panel Session: Rising From the Ashes and Finding Joy in the Journey
Catrice M. Jackson and all of the featured speakers will lead a discussion on how to rise from the ashes of life and racial oppression while finding joy in the journey. Speakers will share their best advice on how to declare hope, healing and happiness in your life and how to make self-care part of your own personal revolution.
Layla Saad - Become A Good Ancestor
The objective of this talk is to inspire and activate black women to step into greater leadership in their personal lives and careers. We will cover, the power of black women cultivating good ancestorship for themselves, their families and their communities, and how this can change the world, the inner and outer work of becoming a good ancestor, from personal healing, to self-care, to empowering habits, to defining yourself for yourself, and doing work that makes a difference in the world and this talk will inspire black women to see themselves as the powerful ancestresses they are, and help them show up in greater leadership for themselves and the world
Fawntice Finesse - Healing Session for WOC
Heal With Sounds: Sound Bath Meditation for Support & Inner Peace
A Special Session for Black and Brown Women:
Exploring sacred sound in meditation as a support for self care, self love, and holistic healing, we will bring attention to places within that need our nurturing, and release stuck energy in the subtle body and mind, making space to truly walk strong in our divinity. Our sound healing meditation is guided by Los Angeles based Certified Sound Healer Fawntice Finesse, M.F.A. and her antique Tibetan singing bowls.
- Nurture and love yourself with healing sound vibrations.
- Explore and heal trauma blockages in your subtle body, physical body, and mental state through the power of meditation with sacred sound.
- Rest and restore deeply in your authenticity.
Catrice M. Jackson - Concurrent Session for White Women: Transcending White Guilt: From Fragility to Resiliency
One of the major reasons you don't find black women in leadership positions is because EVERYONE is anti-black including, non-black people of color and black people, and especially white people. Many white women would never admit it, but they struggle taking leadership from black women, especially powerful and unapologetic black women. In order to truly support, nourish, amplify and follow black women you must discover where anti-blackness lives in you and name it, own it, and eradicate it.
Closing & Call for Action
The conference will conclude with a clear, intentional, and tangible call to action and stragetic next steps to help attendees use their time, money, resources and energy to support, empower, nourish and amplify the voices and visions of black women worldwide.