In this session, you’ll learn simple yet powerful steps to transform your body, your health, and your life. You’ll get step-by-step guidance on how to jumpstart your health and weight loss journey, whether you want to lose 5 pounds or 50 pounds. It’s absolutely possible to balance being busy and healthy and it won’t require spending hours in the gym or in the kitchen.

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Learning how to prioritize your wellness empowers you to show up better prepared for whatever life throws at you and enables you to be a better partner, friend, mother and leader.

If you’re feeling stuck, frustrated, or overwhelmed with your finances or just don’t know where to start when it comes to creating a strong financial foundation, it’s time to experience financial healing. We will begin to explore your financial story to uncover unhealthy patterns using yoga and aromatherapy as tools to release limiting beliefs and to begin moving you towards an empowering financial freedom narrative.

Let’s kick off the morning and meet up in the breakout rooms!

Opening remarks from our Founder and your Host, Kishshana Palmer.

Join The Fat Sex Therapist as they are popularly known on Instagram for a conversation on ditching diet culture, learning pleasure principles, and how to come home to yourself.

With all the unspoken rules, weird vibes, subjective performance reviews, and no help in sight - that metaphorical career ladder we're trying to climb can seem reallll slippery. Together, we'll explore a framework that will help you grow fast in your field and feel inspired by the journey. It's time to stretch our skills, ditch the doubts, and fast-forward to the part where we get what we deserve. Ain’t nothin’ new here - just another stretch(mark)!

During this workshop, attendees will learn strategies on how to overcome workplace trauma, how to advocate for a safe work environment, and how to speak up and report an incident in a confidential way. You’ll walk away with tools on how to set boundaries at work and a clear understanding of how to find a mentor and build resilience.

The quality of your habits determines the quality of your life. In this workshop you will learn the initial steps to creating a Habit Plan to take yourself to the next level - including a crash course on how habits work and how you can design a system to make your habits work for you.

This session will discuss the importance of wellness and how it closely connects to beauty with a licensed Cosmetologist.

Get moving! Enjoy lunch and live music with DJ Commish.

While we love our sector, there's a whole lot of things that are not work. Kishshana and Vu will have a casual conversation (probably full of cussing), about some things we need to burn down. Boards? The way we do fundraising? The inequity of our hiring process? How philanthropy has been treating communities-of-color-led nonprofits? We need to unlearn and let go of archaic, ineffective practices so that better ones can take root.

Have you been thinking about obtaining your CFRE credential? What’s stopping you? If you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Hear from these women of color fundraisers about why getting certified was a smart move for their careers.

Exploring what it’s like to be young, WoC in a predominantly white industry during a social justice reckoning, this session will focus on the speakers’ personal experiences and the ways they’ve prioritized their own mental health while simultaneously fighting for racial justice and finding their place in the professional sphere.

In this presentation, we will question the credibility of the current Eurocentric, masculine, and heteronormative leadership style and introduce a new concept called “lived leadership” (valuing lived experience above all) as the ultimate predictor of competence. The social sector will continue to excel as we support professionals who belong to the  community served – with lived experience that mirrors their journeys. We will offer scripts for boundary setting and building agency within an existing power structure to call out problematic behavior, as well as “imposter syndrome thought” reframes and affirmations.

You've heard of IQ and EQ. But what's your CQ? CQ, or cultural intelligence, is more than just a kitschy catchphrase for cultural competence. In this workshop, we explore this new approach to leadership.

In this session, you’ll learn how taking a career break can improve your life instead of ending your career.

In this session, participants will learn a strategic framework to help their organization move BEYOND CONVERSATIONS about race to be able to take ACTIONS for racial equity.  Participants will hear about a case study of the framework in action and identify ways they can apply the framework at their organizations.

What a day! Let’s meet in the breakout rooms and debrief.

Before we head into the After-Dark festivities, let’s recap! Join your hosts Kishshana & Dre as we switch up the vibe and head into the night. 

It’s gonna get real. Grab your drinks and your journal because you’ll want to take notes in this Happy Hour conversation with Tulane Montgomery.

Sis… be honest. How’s your dating life these days? When we’re out here making the world a better place through our work, we cannot possibly entertain the dating shenanigans!

But the truth is - cultivating healthy relationships outside of work is important to your wellness. Join Coach Cass, the Love Coach with #receipts!, and let’s talk about dating with friends. 

It’s game night, y’all! And at the Rooted Collaborative, things get competitive. So bring your A game and join our RC Ambassadors for a live game of University of Dope™: A disrespectful party game for hip hop lovers.

Work stories… we all have them. Consider this session the virtual watercooler. Come on in and spill the tea. In partnership with Werk Stories, this is a (safe!) space for women of color to share it all - the frustrations, angst, trauma, and triumphs. Breathe in, and let it all air out.