Support Black Mental Health and Wellness Today!

If you believe that Black people deserve to live a life of peace, ease, joy, and emotional wellbeing, please join me in supporting Holding Space this Big Day of Giving.

Central to our work is the belief that compassion heals. Community heals. Culture heals. These things are the medicine that create the conditions for repair and restoration to take place. As a relatively new organization, our primary mode of offering care to the Black community is through daylong healing retreats that incorporate African centered wisdom traditions and practices such as pouring libations, African drumming, African dance, and sharing principles of African psychology, helping to illuminate the connection between race-related trauma, systems of oppression, colonized ways of being and mental health. These practices are offered alongside mind-body healing practices that include mindfulness, meditation, yoga, yoga nidra, and sound healing, with the goal of helping our community members reset and restore and overworked nervous system.

In community, we cultivate a sense of safety and belonging, which allows our participants to drop the defensive armor they’ve had to use to guard their hearts, and touch into the deeply painful experiences that have lain dormant for weeks, months, years…or even generations. We understand that “our issues live in our tissues.”

Upon entering our shared collective space, not only surrounded and supported by community, but also the spirits of our good and well ancestors that we have called in, our Holding Space community members are able to name and call forth what has caused and is causing suffering for them. Through the spirit of love, care, compassion, grace, tenderness and understanding, and ushered out by these healing practices, suffering is set free.

Your donation will directly support the community based offerings and healing retreats that we share with our program participants. At these offerings, gathering together in a sacred circle of trust, we learn new ways of being, we UN-learn old patterns that no longer serve us, we laugh, we cry, and we grow together. And most importantly, we cultivate JOY as a form of both resistance to oppression and healing for ourselves.

Holding Space needs your help today to ensure healing for Black people, both individually and collectively. 

Your generosity now can ensure liberation for our people today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.

We would be incredibly grateful for your support.