GroCharity Events

🗓 August is here!!! Will we see you???

Saturday: Summer Glow with Ancestors' Dream Apothecary

Sunday: Sound Bath Reset with 💎 The Kouture Experience, LLC💋

August 22: Picnic & Paint with Jovera Collective

August 26: We're Suga Sharing about Performative Wellness

We'd love to spend the last few days of summer connecting and creating memories with you!

Oh and BONUS! with each event you'd be supporting a Black owned business this August!

Details for each in the link or our website.

Intentional relaxation, rejuvenation and reconnection 💜

We hosted our Wellness Retreat for Black Leaders last week and it was EVERYTHING!!!

From the beautiful location, to the services, the bonding, and just the break from the outside world, even for us it was a much needed retreat.

This event was a labor of love from many hands and hearts, but here are a few special thanks from the team:

To Dr. Gail Christopher for hosting us at the impeccable Ntianu Garden.

To our sponsors, Lorraine Advisory and CLLCTIVLY for supporting our vision.

To the amazing practioners from Talk2Me Nation and Brandi, CEO for healing our attendees and feeding back into their spirits.

To Ancestors' Dream Apothecary and Jovera Collective for bringing even more wellness into the space with the outdoor classroom activities and wellness after care at home.

And a special shout out to our attendees for making space for themselves, leaning into rest as a liberating practice and trusting us to provide a space for them to just be.

If you missed this one, don't worry we're already planning the next one. So stay tuned!

A warm welcome from Dr. Gail!

Talk2Me Nation kicking us off and grounding the day

These massages were everything from Brandi, CEO !



Rachel Joy Barrett-Dolcine had to make time for her word puzzles 🤣

Wellness to go

Until the next time 💜

Clearly we believe in rest AND play!

As we are preparing for our wellness retreat this Friday, we stumbled across this throwback from a liberatory leadership training we facilitated with Living Classrooms a while back.

Having conversations around race, equity, and inclusionary practices can be tough and taxing. So we made sure to create spaces where attendees could go and rest. Clearly they loved it!

Rest and play doesn't have to be divorced from community work. We believe it should be an intentional part. You can't pour from an empty cup.

This Friday, 20 Black leaders will join us in choosing to intentionally rest and reconnect with themselves so that they can continue to feed into our communities and each other.

Be brave enough to choose rest and find time to play. You deserve it.

We're in the middle of our second cohort for the New Roots Black Caucus (NRBC) and the participants are going through a process of reflection and unlearning.

What's the number one thing they have identified they need to unlearn? Perfectionism!

"Every task, even a simple email, carries unrelenting pressure where I risk being seen as incompetent".

"I push myself to perform at a high level even when I am tired or stretched thin".

"Perfectionism slows me down and sometimes keeps me from moving forward at all... it blocks my growth and sometimes I miss out on the joy in the journey".

These are the words, the reflections, of our Black leaders, leading in the C- suites, building small businesses, mentoring youth, and serving our communities who are showing up scared and pushing through exhaustion because the THINK they have to be perfect.

As we enter into the liberation stage of our program, we wanted to remind them, and you, that who you are is ENOUGH. Your value isn't in doing things perfectly, but existing authentically. As one participant put it:

"I am moving from seeking external validation to establishing internal authority- defining success by the integrity of my work and freedom of my spirit".

** The New Roots Black Caucus (NRBC) is a six-month leadership program
supporting leaders of color that identify as Black or African American, through guided learning for holistic well-being, culturally rooted principles, and liberatory leadership frameworks. Co-created and facilitated by Shalita O'Neale, Rachel Dolcine, and Kijaffa Hall, the program uniquely intertwines the wisdom of indigenous practices with contemporary healing modalities to foster an environment of healing, understanding, and growth.

For more information about the program and to join the waitlist for cohort three, visit grocharity.com/nrbc.

Suga Sharing™ Action Lab
Leaders + Entrepreneurs, this one’s for you.

Our Suga Sharing™ Series is a space where we trade wisdom, not gatekeep it. Rooted in our community’s tradition of sharing what we learn as we grow, these sessions pass the Suga—resources, tools, and lived experience—to help each other thrive in life and work. When one of us wins, we all win.

On 9/26, We’re bringing the energy of Suga Sharing™ into a hands-on Action Lab where you’ll:

✨ Work with experts in business development, marketing + fundraising
✨ Solve a real problem you’re facing right now
✨ Map out your next steps for growth
✨ Connect with a powerful community of doers + dreamers

📍 RISE Demonstration Center, DC (AND Virtual)
🍴 nourishment provided (in-person)
🎟️ $50 entry fee (physical and virtual)
REGISTER at grocharity.com/sugasharing. LINK also in bio🙏🏽
No gatekeeping. Just collective brilliance.
Come ready to turn challenges into clarity.

What's your favorite form of self care? Drop it in the comments.

We are continuing our list of ways to show love to yourself on a regular basis and none of them require tons of time, money, or equipment. Just you connecting with you.

We hope these tips are helpful to all of our executive directors, grassroots leaders, and program managers out there who take on so much to make our communities better.

If you need an intentional moment for self love, be sure to check out our upcoming workshop: Embrace You- An Exploration of Self Love and Intimacy, happening Wednesday at 6pm EST with Nicole Hector. Even if you can't make it, Register at grocharity.com/workshops or the link in our bio.