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“The most effective community leaders aren’t just strategically skilled — they’re grounded, relational, and able to hold space for what’s hard. That’s what this series builds.”

— CURE Healing-Centered Leadership Framework

Supporting leaders to heal and transform communities

In a time of polarization, burnout, and broken trust, leaders across movements, organizations, and government agencies are being called to do more than simply manage and implement programs and policies. You’re being asked to navigate conflict, respond to harm, and engage communities in ways that restore dignity and trust.


What is healing-centered leadership?

Healing-Centered Leadership weaves embodied awareness, cultural wisdom, circle facilitation process and principles, and restorative and transformative justice concepts into a dynamic approach for community engagement and leadership.

 

CURE’s Healing-Centered Leadership training series equips nonprofit leaders, organizers, government staff, and community practitioners responsible for facilitating groups, navigating conflict, and engaging communities with embodied, relational, and restorative practices to:

  • Stay grounded and present through conflict, crisis, and complexity 
  • Facilitate spaces where communities feel heard, respected, and empowered 
  • Address harm through accountability and repair
  • Build trust and collective capacity for long-term change

Healing-Centered Leadership trainings are offered as three interconnected modules. You can register for individual modules or complete the full three-series intensive.

 

Each module builds capacity to support community healing—starting with the self, deepening relational and facilitation skills, and expanding into accountability and repair.

  • Who These Trainings are for

Nonprofit & Movement Leaders

Executive directors, program managers, and organizers navigating complexity, team conflict, and community trust.

Government & Public Agency Staff

Public servants, community engagement staff, and policy practitioners working directly with residents and communities.

Community Organizers

Grassroots leaders, coalition builders, and advocacy practitioners doing relational, long-term community change work.

Educators & Practitioners

Teachers, social workers, healthcare providers, and facilitators who hold space for people navigating systemic harm.

Consultants & Coaches

Independent practitioners building their capacity to support organizations and communities with a healing-centered approach.

 

Emerging Leaders

Early-career changemakers who want to build a sustainable leadership practice from the beginning — not after burning out.

This series integrates embodied awareness, cultural wisdom, circle facilitation, and restorative and transformative justice practices into a dynamic approach for community engagement and leadership development.  

  • The Training Pathway

Three transformative trainings

01

Two Days · 4 Hours Each · Virtual
Sept 2026 | 1-5PM ET
No Prerequisites

Grounded Leadership for Changemakers

Explore your identity, power, and boundaries to grow your leadership through healing-centered frameworks for changemakers.

This foundational training supports leaders in understanding how stress, trauma, and urgency shape leadership behavior—and how embodied awareness strengthens decision-making, relationship-building, and community trust. Participants explore how identity and culture shape leadership, practice somatic regulation tools, explore healing-centered leadership frameworks, and develop a personal leadership declaration grounded in their values, boundaries, and capacity.

  • Build embodied awareness to stay grounded during conflict, crisis, and high-pressure situations
  • Understand healing-centered leadership as a framework for supporting community trust, dignity, accountability, and repair
  • Explore how identity and cultural lineages shape leadership practices and community relationships
  • Develop a personal healing-centered leadership declaration that clarifies values, commitments, and capacity
  • Connect with a cohort of values-aligned changemakers
Pricing

Community $297, Sustainability $497, Institutional $697

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02

Two Days · 4 Hours Each · Virtual
July 15 & 16, 2026 | 1-5PM ET
No Prerequisites

Facilitating for Healing & Justice

Power, Process & Practice — learn to hold spaces where groups make decisions together and create real change.
This intensive training builds essential facilitation skills for changemakers working across difference and power. Drawing on circle process as a foundation, you’ll develop approaches that translate to any context — contentious community meetings, organizational change processes, cross-sector coalitions, and healing spaces after trauma or harm.
 
During this training, you’ll examine your own identity and positionality as a facilitator and practice intervening when harm occurs. You’ll learn to facilitate with awareness of how race, gender, class, and other forms of oppression shape group dynamics. And you’ll spend significant time practicing with realistic, challenging scenarios that mirror dynamics you’ll encounter in your work.
  • Facilitate with awareness of power — tracking who speaks and who doesn't
  • Use active listening to de-escalate conflict across difference
  • Navigate difficult facilitation moments with clarity and care
  • Create spaces grounded in healing and justice, facilitating with clear values while honoring diverse perspectives
  • Intervene skillfully when harm occurs, including responding to defensiveness
  • Design questions that move groups from surface sharing to depth
  • Practice with realistic scenarios involving race, power, and conflict
Pricing

Community $297, Sustainability $497, Institutional $697

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03

Two Days · 4 Hours Each · Virtual
Nov 2026
Prereq: Facilitation Training or Experience

Restorative & Transformative Justice in Practice

Conflict and harm are inevitable. How leaders respond determines whether trust is repaired or further fractured.

This training equips leaders with restorative and transformative justice frameworks to respond to conflict and harm through accountability, repair, and collective learning. Participants learn how to prepare for and facilitate restorative processes, navigate power and strong emotions, and design collective care and solidarity practices that build trust and healing in organizations and communities.

  • Distinguish between conflict, harm, punishment, and accountability in organizational and community contexts
  • Apply restorative and transformative justice frameworks to address harm through repair rather than punishment or avoidance​
  • Build confidence holding difficult conversations involving power, impact, and strong emotions
  • Practice facilitating restorative processes supporting accountability and healing
  • Design solidarity practices that support leadership sustainability
  • Leave with a personal toolkit for community accountability and repair
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Sliding Scale Pricing

Registration is offered on a sliding scale that reflects our commitment to equitable access. We trust participants to choose the rate that reflects their resources.
Community

$297

per person

For individuals paying from personal funds, grassroots organizers, and those with organizational support from groups with annual budgets under $1M, and/or no dedicated professional development funding.
Most common
Sustainability
$497

per person 

For those with organizational support from groups with annual budgets between $1M–$3M, fewer than 50 paid staff, and/or some dedicated funds for staff development. This rate reflects the true cost of the training.

Institutional

$697

per person 

For those with organizational support from foundations or organizations with annual budgets over $3M and/or consistently budgeted resources for staff development. Paying at this rate makes it possible for CURE to keep the Solidarity rate accessible.

 

  • What Participants Say

Transformative for those doing the work

"This training gave me language and tools for something I've been trying to do instinctively for years — hold space for hard conversations without losing myself or the room."
— Participant Name
Director, Community Organization · City TBD
"I came in thinking this was a facilitation skills training. I left with a completely different understanding of what it means to show up as a grounded leader — and what's been getting in my way."
— Participant Name
Program Manager, Government Agency · City TBD
"Dr. Judy holds the room in a way I've rarely experienced — she brings her full self and creates the conditions for everyone else to do the same. The learning is real and lasting."
— Participant Name
Nonprofit Leader · City TBD

Common Questions

Can I take the modules out of order?

Yes. If possible, we recommend completing them in sequence. Each module builds meaningfully on the last but are designed to be stand-alone tranings. 

What does the two-day format look like?

Trainings are on Zoom and run across two consecutive sessions of four hours each. You’ll need a stable internet connection, video capability, and a quiet space to participate fully. All links and materials are sent in advance.

Do you offer a group discount?

Yes. Organizations registering 5 or more participants at the Sustainability or Institutional rate receive a 15% group discount. Contact us at info[at]urbanandracialequity.org to arrange group registration. 

Is this training accessible?

You’ll be asked about accessibility needs during registration. Closed captioning will be provided. Please share what would support your full participation and we’ll do our best to meet your needs.

How will I receive the Zoom link and training materials?

Your Zoom link and training materials will be emailed a few days before the training. Check your spam folder and contact us if you haven’t received them two days prior to the training.

What is your refund policy?

To cancel your registration, please email us at info[at]urbanandracialequity.org as far in advance as possible.

Full refunds (minus platform ticketing fees) are available up to 14 business days before the first day of your training. A 50% refund is available 8–13 business days before the training. No refunds are available within 7 business days of the training start date.

If CURE cancels or postpones a training for any reason—including low enrollment, facilitator illness, weather, or other unforeseen circumstances—registered participants will receive a full refund including ticketing fees, or the option to transfer their registration to a future date.

 

Transfers

If you’re unable to attend, you may request one transfer per registration by contacting CURE at least 48 hours before the training begins. No transfers are available once the training has begun. Transfer options include:

  • Changing your registration to a future date of the same training, if available
  • Transferring your registration to another person

Registrations purchased at the Solidarity rate may only be transferred to another individual who qualifies for that rate. If the new participant does not qualify, the difference in cost must be paid before the transfer is confirmed.

What other programs does CURE offer?

CURE offers a range of programs, retreats, and convenings for leaders and organizations. Participants who complete the full training series are encouraged to explore CURE’s broader programming. Visit urbanandracialequity.org to learn more.

Can I get continuing education credits?

We are exploring CEU options for social workers, healthcare providers, and educators. Contact us at [email protected] to ask about your specific professional requirements.

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Judy Lubin

Dr. Judy is an applied sociologist, racial equity changemaker, yoga and mindfulness practitioner, author, auntie, bestie and beach lover. Judy’s elemental nature is water, and with her she brings calming, reflective energy to hold space for deep listening, inner work and transformative dialogue. 

The curator of the Embodied Justice program, she hosts the accompanying podcast and co-facilitates events and dialogues focused on the collective healing and sustainability of Black changemakers.

At CURE, Dr. Judy has built transformative racial equity frameworks and change management processes that have impacted thousands of lives. She began her career focused on health disparities, recognizing that stress from societal racism can become embodied and manifested through “weathering” that prematurely ages the body and shortens the lifespan of racially marginalized communities. 

She is unapologetically committed to centering Black people and the communities that have inspired her life’s work. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, she grew up in South Florida surrounded by music, her grandmother’s herbal garden, and the struggle to make it in a country that saw her family as outsiders. 

In 2022, after experiencing multiple health emergencies coupled with burnout from the intensity of the “racial reckoning” that increased demand for CURE’s racial equity services, Judy began a process of listening to the wisdom of her body, healing old trauma wounds, and reclaiming rest and her love of mind-body healing. During this time she explored somatics, indigenous and and ancestral healing practices and earned certifications in multiple healing modalities including yoga and energy medicine.

Emerging from a place of rest and listening to what her soul wanted to share, she now weaves mindfulness, body-awareness and spiritual activism to support changemakers and organizations to regenerate their leadership and give to the world from a place of ease and wholeness. 

Long committed to promoting women’s health and wellness, she is the author of The Heart of Living Well: Six Principles for a Life of Health, Beauty and Balance.

Find Judy on instagram or linkedin at @drjudylubin, where she (occasionally) shares posts celebrating Black joy, healing and well-being.

Shawn J. Moore

Residing at the intersection of leadership and mindfulness, Shawn creates sacred spaces for stillness and self-inquiry to help social impact leaders align their strengths, intention, and impact. Through his integrative approach, he holds transformative containers for self-renewal, personal discovery, and capacity-building that ease clients on their journey towards peace, clarity, and freedom.

Shawn is committed to empower changemakers to become embodied leaders – unified in mind, body, and heart – with the tools to mindfully pause, reconnect to their inner knowing, make strengths-driven decisions, and lead the change they believe the world needs.  

Reckoning with his own contemplation of burnout, purpose, and alignment, Shawn transitioned out of his role as Associate Dean of Student Life & Leadership at Morehouse College in the fall of 2021 to focus more on mindfulness and stillness-based training programs and workshops. 

While leadership resonates with him deeply, it is his personal and spiritual practices that allows him to continue to show up for himself and others. He is a yoga teacher (E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP®), sound and reiki practitioner, meditation teacher, Yoga Nidra facilitator, and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, all focused through a Buddhist lens and 17 years of personal practice. He has contributed workshops, practices, and educational opportunities for celebrities like Questlove and Dyllón Burnside, and various yoga studios and colleges, Yoga International, Omstars, Melanin Moves Project, the Human Rights Campaign, Spotify and Lululemon. He currently serves as the Facilitation and Community Manager for BEAM (Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective).

Shawn hosts a podcast called The Mindful Rebel® Podcast that creates a platform to continually explore this unique intersection of leadership and mindfulness. Find him on instagram @shawnj_moore 

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