The following programs can support you and organizers with whom you work to reflect, build resiliency, and foster transformative leadership capacities within a framework for healing justice.
If you know of a similar program that is not on this list, please let us know, and we will add it!
Tools and Trainings
Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
Movement Voter Fund Healing Justice Project
Sabbaticals
California Wellness Foundation Sabbatical Program
Durfee Foundation (Southern California)
O2 Sabbatical Award (San Francisco Bay Area)
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (North Carolina)
Retreat Centers
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, CA
Vallecitos Mountain Refuge, CO
Fellowships
Women Innovating Labor Leadership Fellowship
Resource and Reports
Astrea Foundation Healing Justice Report
Justice Teams Healing Justice Guide
Rooted In Resilience Mapping Project
Writers Retreats
There are many writers retreats or writer-friendly spaces across the country. Writers’ and Writers Hideouts by Andrea Brown lists many “hideouts” for those needing to write and reflect. These programs stand out for their historical attention to social and environmental justice writers: