When Black Women Heal
A Retreat Series for Black Women from Resilient Futures
A retreat series exclusively for Black women in the greater Denver area who are ready to prioritize rest, release grief, and invite in more joy, balance, connection, and healing into their lives.
A Trauma-Informed Futures© retreat series exclusively for Black women in the greater Denver area who are ready to prioritize rest, release grief, and invite in more joy, balance, connection, and healing into their lives.
Where: All retreats will be held live in person at Blossom House, 3300 West Nevada Place, Denver, CO 80219
When: Retreats are listed by date below and are all half-day experiences starting at 10 am MST and ending at 2 pm MST
Snacks and lunch will be provided for all participants
In a world that often demands your labor but overlooks your healing, Centering Rest is your call to pause and prioritize your rest. This half-day retreat focuses on recognizing and uprooting your beliefs about overworking. It is designed exclusively for women who identify as Black, African American, or descendants of Enslaved peoples in the Denver metro area to reclaim rest as an act of freedom and self-care.
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Co-facilitated by Dr. Eleonora Cahill (Resilient Futures) and Dr. Asia Lyons (Lyons Educational Consulting), this experience is a deeply intentional offering grounded in trauma-informed care, ancestral wisdom, and Black womanhood.
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Guided restorative practices and mindfulness rituals designed to restore participants to a greater sense of wholeness
Intentional time for reflection, connection, and renewal
Culturally grounded healing spaces created with deep reverence for the lives and needs of Black women
Guided support from expert facilitators to develop a rest plan that can be utilized upon completion of the retreat
A Rest Plan Resource to support you in assessing your current rest practices, and then guide you in developing an actionable rest plan
A grounding gift to honor your commitment to choosing yourself
Lunch and Snacks provided
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This isn’t just a wellness moment. It’s a healing intervention.
Centering Rest is a retreat for us, and by us, created by two Black women scholars, a clinician, and facilitators deeply committed to racial healing, resilience, and liberation. It centers your full humanity, not just your coping mechanisms.
There are no panels, no PowerPoints. Just permission. Permission to rest. Permission to release. Permission to be.
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This retreat is for Black women in the Denver metro area who:
Feel called to re-examine and redefine their relationship with rest
Are holding emotional exhaustion, burnout, or unspoken grief
Are seeking time in community with other Black women
Want to explore rest as a form of resistance, healing, and reconnection.
This retreat is designed for Black women ready to reconnect with their inner truth, embrace their full emotional experience, and cultivate self-worth as a path to healing. Exclusively for women who identify as Black, African American, or descendants of enslaved peoples in the Denver metro area, we’ll create a space to pause, reflect, and explore practices rooted in gratitude, self-love, and emotional healing.
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Co-facilitated by Dr. Eleonora Cahill (Resilient Futures) and Dr. Asia Lyons (Lyons Educational Consulting), this experience is a deeply intentional offering grounded in trauma-informed care, ancestral wisdom, and Black womanhood.
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Guided restorative practices and mindfulness rituals designed to restore participants to a greater sense of wholeness
Intentional time for reflection, connection, and renewal
Culturally grounded healing spaces created with deep reverence for the lives and needs of Black women
Guided support from expert facilitators to engage in practices that support our ability to cultivate greater self-worth as a means to combat feelings of brokenness
A Cultivating Deeper Self-Worth Guided Reflection Resource
Lunch and Snacks provided
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This isn’t just a wellness momen. It’s a healing intervention.
This retreat is a continuation of the powerful When Black Women Heal series - an ongoing journey of collective healing, joy, and liberation.
Restoring to Wholeness is a retreat for us, and by us, created by two Black women scholars, a clinician, and facilitators deeply committed to racial healing, resilience, and liberation. It centers your full humanity, not just your coping mechanisms.
The focus is about cultivating resilience, leaning deeply into learning new ways to show up more fully for yourselves and your families.
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This retreat is for Black women in the Denver metro area who:
Feel called to be restored to a greater sense of wholeness and resilience
Are holding feelings of brokenness and disconnection within themselves
Are seeking meaningful connection in community with other Black women
Want to pause, reflect and reconnect with themselves
For many Black women, the experience of carrying deep, layered grief (generational, historical, personal, spoken, and unspoken) is all too familiar. This retreat is designed exclusively for women who identify as Black, African American, or descendants of enslaved peoples in the Denver metro area. We will provide tools for releasing grief, reclaiming peace, and nurturing a more balanced, joyful life, personally and professionally.
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Co-facilitated by Dr. Eleonora Cahill (Resilient Futures) and Dr. Asia Lyons (Lyons Educational Consulting), this experience is a deeply intentional offering grounded in trauma-informed care, ancestral wisdom, and Black womanhood.
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Guided practices, rituals and tools to name and release grief
Mindfulness practices designed to center and manifest joy
Intentional time for reflection, connection, and renewal
Culturally grounded healing spaces created with deep reverence for the lives and needs of Black women
Strategies to cultivate joy
Guided support from expert facilitators to understand the ways that we can both honor grief while creating space for joy
Lunch and Snacks provided
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This isn’t just a wellness moment. It’s a healing intervention.
Releasing Grief & Manifesting Joy is a retreat for us, and by us—created by two Black women scholars, a clinician, and facilitators deeply committed to racial healing, resilience, and liberation. It centers your full humanity, not just your coping mechanisms.
This retreat continues the When Black Women Heal retreat series - a journey toward liberation, healing, and personal transformation.
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This retreat is for Black women in the Denver metro area who:
Are holding grief and are seeking ways to release this grief
Desire ways to manifest and experience joy abundantly in their daily lives
Are seeking time in community with other Black women
Meet the Facilitators
Dr. Asia Lyons, the founder and lead designer at Lyons Educational Consulting (LEC) LLC, is profoundly dedicated to her mission of co-creating genuinely inclusive environments aimed at empowering Black educators and promoting their self-actualization through wellness initiatives. As a consultant and speaker, she shares her research findings and strategies to assist Black educators in recovering from racial battle fatigue while helping institutions and organizations provide better support for their Black educators to enhance retention. Additionally, she hosts and produces The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, where she amplifies the stories of former Black educators and the reasons they left the profession. Through the podcast, she aims to educate school districts, teachers' unions, families, and others on how to support and retain Black individuals in education.
Dr. Eleonora Cahill is a child psychologist, educator, and racial healing practitioner dedicated to nurturing resilience in individuals and communities impacted by trauma. As Co-Founder of Resilient Futures, she blends clinical expertise with deep compassion to create spaces for transformative healing. With advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Cahill brings extensive experience in trauma-informed care, racial equity, and restorative practices. She is a certified meditation facilitator and restorative justice circle keeper, and her work spans from therapy and education to national speaking engagements on racial healing and educator wellness. Dr. Cahill’s presence is both grounded and inspiring, shaped by her love of nature, music, creative expression, and lifelong learning. Her retreats offer a powerful invitation to reconnect with self, community, and the healing path forward.
When Black Women Heal Retreat FAQ’s
Are these retreats therapy?
No. These retreats are not therapy or group counseling. While we create a space for emotional reflection and healing, everything is rooted in communal care, not clinical treatment. You won’t be asked to share anything you’re not ready to, and you’re welcome to simply listen, reflect and learn.
Do I have to have prior experience attending a healing retreat?
No prior experience attending healing retreats is needed. Whether this is your first retreat or you’ve been on a healing journey for years, you are welcome. Just come as you are, open and curious to the experience.
What if I’m not ready to talk about my emotions in a retreat setting?
That’s completely okay. While the retreat is structured in a circle format, all sharing opportunities are invitation only. There will also be time for quiet reflection, journaling, movement, and art-based practices as well.
Are these religious or spiritual retreats?
These retreats are not tied to any one religion or belief system and are open to all. However, sessions may include grounding practices such as meditation, mindfulness, movement-based practices or tonal sound practices.
Who are these retreats for?
These retreats are exclusively for Black women in the greater Denver area who are ready to prioritize rest, release grief, and invite in more joy, balance, connection, and healing into their lives.
Are these spaces LGBTQIA+ affirming?
Absolutely. These retreats are designed to affirm the full humanity of Black women across gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, and roles.
Will you offer this retreat series again?
We hope so! But there’s no guarantee this retreat series will return, so we encourage you to join now if it resonates.