Art: Antone Olivier
Reclaiming Our Own Transcendence
Since 2018 we have offered culturally responsive, free, and deep sliding scale collective wellness and practice circles.
Help us honor our work by making an in-person community retreat possible.
All donations, monetary and in-kind, are tax deductible via our 501(c)3 entity, “We Take Root.”
HEAR FROM OUR PARTICIPANTS
OFFERINGS
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A collective wellness practice space for Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color designed to meet the collective nervous system needs of our social and political landscape. A brave space for collective rest, recharge, and embodied practice.
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For Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color seeking support to address substance use and patterns.
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This 10-week healing workshop is geared towards those who have been impacted by violence, caused harm, enabled harm, and those who find themselves in cycles of physical and emotional harm who want to explore their participation in such cycles. Our work as facilitators engages our first-hand experiences in being impacted by harm as people who have caused, enabled, and survived it.
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This is an emergent, practice space to explore how conflict is a site of personal and relational growth. We’ll examine what inner wisdoms or guides exist within us that can help us access discernment and make brave, values aligned choices during conflict. We’ll deepen our relationship with uncertainty and explore what it’s like to practice presence and navigate connection in emergent and creative contexts.
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This offering is for Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color who want to improve our relationship with anger. This series, offered in three levels, meets NAMA Certified qualifications for those who are mandated to “Anger Management” workshops across the US. The series is open to all (court mandated or not) who feel they can benefit from it.
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Collective transformative repair is an opportunity for groups, organizations, or collectives to explore how conflict presents opportunities for closeness, collective cultural shifts, and realignment with collective values. We offer this support for groups that consist of historically, culturally, systemically, and politically impacted individuals or those who offer services and support to such individuals.
Our process is a human and heart-centered experience where individuals are invited to assess their personal traumas/triggers and examine how they might manifest in relational spaces. Groups are invited to assess which cultural patterns perpetuate harm or create blockages towards the ability to resolve conflict.
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Invite us to hold space for your community, collective, or team, through our collective accountability and wellness practice space.
[Note: this is different than repair work, though the experience creates capacity for tensions to be held. See Collective Transformative Repair for conflict-specific work.]
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RooT’s People's Healing Conference and Clinic is a multi-day event grounded in the truth that healing from trauma is within the survivor's and community's grasps. It places the participant at the center, making healing democratic and asset based. The facilitator's role is to create the conditions for participants' inherent healing to emerge.
Collective healing workshops and one on one space holding equip survivors with practical skills that can be used to address individual and community healing while becoming introduced to the benefits of holistic strategies.
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES
LAST ONE OF 2026
💫💫 FUNDING FOR 2027 NOT GUARANTEED 💫💫
DUE JUNE 24 💫💫
LAST ONE OF 2026 💫💫 FUNDING FOR 2027 NOT GUARANTEED 💫💫 DUE JUNE 24 💫💫
Healing Cycles of Harm
Four-Day Intensive
Invite us to your community, collective, or team to deepen capacity for self-accountability and compassion for self and each other.
What we’ve accomplished together in 2024!
HEALING CYCLES OF HARM and ANGER LAB
MONTHLY ALUMNI
CHECK-INS
These drop-in, check-ins for BIPOC alumni of Healing Cycles of Harm and Anger Lab provide an open container for folks who want to share what feels alive in your practice. The space will be open to sharing challenges, milestones, griefs, or anything else related to your growth and healing practice. We will meet every other week and facilitators will rotate among our tender and wise space holders depicted below.
If you are a Healing Cycles of Harm alum, you should have received an email with more information about how to access our check-ins. If we no longer have a live email from you, please reach out to Rosa at rosa@wetakeroot.com
VISION
To regenerate communities by releasing our attachment to patterns of harm that lead to sexual and interpersonal violence.
MISSION
To address individual and communal trauma wounds through transformative education, a diversity of healing encounters, and community accountability strategies, prioritizing support for those furthest from economic, political, and institutional access.
About RooT
Art:
Antone Olivier
COMMUNITIES WE HAVE SERVED
OUR SUPPORTERS
[Current + Prior]
