Events
Join us on Wednesday evening, October 15th from 6:00-8:30 PM EST for our upcoming Dialogues on Resisting & Thriving, “Golden Repair: Reparations and the Arts.”
The Braxton Institute created an awesome evening of celebration and information sharing. We celebrated the Restorative Justice Commissioners and other remarkable leaders who have been “making a way out of no way. ”
Performance of original composition honoring the history and people of Lakeland
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland, College Park
RJ Book Club with Nkechi Taifa
Reparations On fire, How and Why it's Spreading Across America
Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, Braxton, Virtual Moderator
9:30 to 11 am —Restorative Practices, by invitation (sign up)
Introduction to Braxton Institute Model for Collective Healing from Collective Trauma
Sitting Meditation/Walking Meditation/Tools for stress-reduction/Narrative Humility (Joanne Braxton, Keith Webster)
1:00-3:30 —Organizing for Repair, by invitation (sign up)
Location: TBA
4:00-6:00 pm — TOWN HALL
Lakeland Community Stakeholders meet to respond to proposals for future development and build consensus for Reparations. This is a critical moment and all Lakelanders are urged to attend.
Richael Faithful, Esq., Healing Justice Practitioner
Sophie Bouwsma, Peacebuilder
Author, educator and social psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove will discuss her book Root Shock and its relevance to Lakeland and the call for Restorative Action
Sanctuary space for impacted citizens with historical roots in Lakeland. By invitation only.
Rev. Dwight Cokely, Moderator
Rev. Latisha Thomas Cokely, Sr. Pastor
Embry AME Church, 5101 Lakeland Rd and Virtual
Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, Virtual Discussion leader with Special Guest, Dr. Lynne Manzo.
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Transgender Remembrance Sunday
Matthew 22:34-40
"Sacred Bonds"
Rev. Dr. Joanne Braxton
Mother Delk, as she is respectfully known, was first Black woman ordained in the United Church of Christ, and the second woman to hold a national leadership role in the denomination.
You are invited to attend “Black Genealogy and Reparative Justice: Honoring the Ancestors, Restoring Our Families,” the first of this year’s ongoing Braxton Institute Dialogues on Resisting and Thriving. Black History Month is a season for remembering, and bringing back together parts of ourselves and our stories that may have been scattered or lost.
March 30, 2021 TREE OF LIFE BLACK FAITH MATTERS SEMINAR
Prayer and Ritual: Deepening Understanding of Our Diverse African American Identities and Spiritualities
TREE OF LIFE: BLACK FAITH MATTERS IN A TIME OF DUAL PANDEMICS SEMINARS
Seminar 2: Identifying the Sources of Our Spiritual Wellbeing in the Face of Trauma and Disruption. Focus: Black Faith Matters for Our Children
TREE OF LIFE: BLACK FAITH MATTERS IN A TIME OF DUAL PANDEMICS SEMINARS
Seminar 1: “God of Our Silent Tears”: Breaking Through Silence to Name our Suffering
Join Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, counter-oppression theologian and educator, and Richael Faithful, a healer and strategist, in a deep thinking and feeling discussion on moving through your limits toward meaningful action at this critical moment. All are welcome. This event is free.
Join us for a conversation about physician well-being in the time of COVID19 with Dr. Rehema Kutua, M.D. and Dr. Qadira Huff, M.D, two black women physicians who are endeavoring to serve and to thrive during these difficult times. This second webinar in the 2020 Braxton Institute for Sustainability, Resiliency and Joy Community Dialogue series is facilitated by Rev. Joanne M. Braxton, Ph.D.
This webinar, hosted by the Braxton Institute for Sustainability, Resiliency, and Joy, will offer a variety of informed perspectives on how COVID-19 has affected criminal law and incarceration—and what we can learn from the experience.
Featuring panelists Rachel Barkow, Alice Marie Johnson, and Mark Osler, and moderated by Dr. Joanne Braxton
In this half-day Contemplative Practices retreat, led by Rev. Abhi Janamanchi and Rev. Joanne Braxton, and facilitated by Sophia Bouwsma, a certified therapeutic music practitioner, we will engage in the practices of sitting meditation, walking meditation, mindful eating, prayer, ritual and silence, and explore other modes of spiritual reflection known to facilitate compassion, well-being and exquisite self-care. This event is sponsored jointly by Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church and the Braxton Institute for Sustainability, Resiliency and Joy.
Come home to Virginia and join us for RESILIENCE: a celebration of Three Rivers Customs, Cultures & Cuisines including phenomenal food, performances, art, archaeology, wine/beer and exhibits along the riverfront.
On Sunday, August 25th local, regional and national partners will host a multicultural community ceremony to mark the 400th anniversary of the first recorded Africans to arrive in English-occupied North America at Old Point Comfort.
Activists Constance Young and glo merriweather discuss how ritual sustains the transformative practice of risk-taking in liberation movements. Why is ritual necessary and how does it sustain us? How does it make those who resist more whole and redefine our ability to persist through experiences of violence? Speakers share their experiences with risk and ritual, connecting the social justice practice of healing one’s society to the practice of healing the body, mind and soul. Moderated by Richael Faithful, folk healer and activist.
National Moral Injury Conference
May 29-31, 2019
Transforming Moral Injury Across the Professions: Cultivating Moral Resilience Through Reflective Writing and Contemplative Practice
The writer’s craft is a tool chest for witnessing and Compassion. Primarily an autobiographical writing class, we’ll also explore journaling, spiritual life writing, meditation, creating rituals, and other forms of meaning-making that support recovery and resilience. This can be particularly good for those suffering from injury, illness, grief, or loss, but the techniques are invaluable to anyone who honors their own or others’ experiences.
Join us at the Potter's House D.C. on February 5 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. for the first in the 2019 Braxton Institute Dialogues on Resisting and Thriving Series! Seven voices for the 7 colors of the rainbow read from the work of Ntosake Shange and then their own work to share how Shange’s poetry and plays helped them to find God in themselves and to love themselves more fully. We will join together in an experiential ritual and in building an altar of discovery and remembrance. If you will be with us, please bring something to share on the altar. Livestreamed for those who wish to participate from a distance!
In this half-day Contemplative Practices retreat, led by Rev. Dr. Abhi Janamanchi and Rev. Dr. Joanne Braxton, we will honor Hindu religious perspectives and devotional practices as well as the power of interfaith spirituality and its expression. We’ll engage in the practices of sitting meditation, walking meditation, mindful eating, prayer, ritual and silence, and explore other modes of spiritual reflection known to facilitate compassion, well-being and exquisite self-care.
Spiritual life writing is a way of engaging in the transformative journey to one’s own sacred center and bringing together the pieces of one’s authentic self. Since the time of St. Augustine and perhaps even before, autobiography and life writing have been a bridge between spirituality and well-being, often a key element in self-care and spiritual discipline. Writing is healing for those who write; once the skills are learned, reflective writing and journaling become not only a life-long bulwark against stress and burnout, but a means of expressing the soul. One begins the journey anew each day; life remains exciting and fresh.
