Embodied Justice Retreat 2026
Embodied Justice Retreat 2026
Zora Neale Hurston wrote that there are years that ask questions and years that answer them. This is a year that’s asking.
Now in its third year, the Embodied Justice Leadership Retreat is a gathering for Black changemakers ready to meet those questions from the full depth of who they are — their wisdom, ancestral grounding, collective power, and vision for what comes next.
This year’s retreat brings together Black nonprofit leaders, equity strategists, organizers, advocates, academics, and community builders for three days at a Black-owned farm in Brandywine, Maryland. Rooted in a healing-centered approach to leadership, the retreat creates space for mindful practice, honest reflection, and courageous declaration about where we’ve been and where we are going. It is also space for rest, joy, recalibration in community, and simply being.
We’re living through growing attacks on equity and increasing pressure on the leaders and organizations. In moments like this, having time and space to think clearly, make sense of the moment, and discern where your leadership is most needed matters more than ever.
Grounded in CURE’s Healing-Centered Leadership framework, you’ll have space to:
- Re-ground in your values, cultural lineage, and wisdom of lived experience
- Clarify your role and direction in a shifting social change landscape
- Navigate transition, institutional and personal, without losing what matters most
- Explore relational practices that sustain long-term leadership capacity
- Develop a written leadership declaration, shaped and witnessed in community
- Engage at the depth that feels right for you. Take the time you need to be with yourself, in nature, and in community.
Join us this summer on a Black-owned farm with a rustic barn, modern farmhouse cottages, and land rooted in care, cultivation, and possibility.
For more information and to register, visit: https://urbanandracialequity.org/embodied-justice-retreat