“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience and patience creates unity” — Malcolm X

Our connections—with others and with our environment—have a profound impact on our mental, emotional, and physical health.
We come to know ourselves most deeply through our relationships. While supportive relationships and a sense of belonging are essential for nervous system regulation and overall well-being, building those connections can often be one of the most difficult things to do.

The Emotional Recovery Program brings groups, teams, and communities together to co-create spaces of regeneration and healing. Whether it's a staff retreat, a team-building session, back-to-school training for educators, or a spiritual gathering, we use a restorative, culturally-affirming approach grounded in evidence-based, peer-to-peer healing practices known as Restorative Storytelling Circles.

These circles draw on ancient communal healing traditions that support nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and psychological safety. They offer space for shared reflection, deeper understanding, and collective transformation.

By engaging in these practices, groups learn to navigate internal and external experiences together—developing a shared language of safety, empathy, and connection. This work helps uncover the root causes of interpersonal stress, conflict, and trauma in a healing-centered way.

Our gatherings are intentionally designed to be inclusive, ecological, and sustainable—centering cultural relevance, community voice, and collective well-being.

“One can say, 'Teach me what you know,' but the better request is, 'Teach me about what teaches you." -
Malidoma Patrice Some

image by Laura Janelle McKnight