Reparations Café: A Diasporic Space for Collective Healing
Dates: Thursday, February 13 & Thursday, February 27, 2025
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM ET
Location: Online via Zoom (link provided upon registration)
The Reparations Café creates intentional space for Black peoples in the diaspora to gather in collective healing. When we gather with the intention of witnessing, the field we create becomes a strong resource for everyone individually.
Through carefully facilitated dialogue and embodied practices, we explore what becomes possible when we create intentional space to be with ourselves and each other. This intimate gathering invites us to connect with ancestral wisdom while addressing our contemporary needs for community healing.
In this lovingly held space, we create room for:
- The wisdom that lives in our collective Black body
- The strength that flows through our diasporic and ancestral connections
- The healing that emerges when we witness and are witnessed
- The restoration that becomes possible through intentional gathering
- Practices to carry forward into daily life
Please note: This is a space created specifically for Black peoples in the diaspora. RSVP is required as spaces are limited to ensure a supportive environment.
Registration: cafe.blackexhale.org
If you are not Black but wish to practice advocacy and financial reparations in support of this work, tax-deductible donations can be made here: give.blackexhale.org
Facilitators:
ANTOINETTE COOPER is founder of Black Exhale and an Advisory Board member for the Narrative Medicine program at CUNY School of Medicine. With over two decades in education and training in Collective Trauma Facilitation with Thomas Hübl, she brings deep experience in creating sanctuary spaces for collective healing. Her recently released book UNRULY (Legacy Book Press, 2025) has been praised as "a healing balm" offering "equal parts memoir, lamentations, liberatory manifestos and poetry." Her work spans from coaching at Rikers Island to facilitating community healing spaces that honor ancestral wisdom while addressing contemporary needs.
JADEN RAMSEY is a bodyworker, somatic coach, and facilitator trained in Collective Trauma Facilitation. Through his work weaving artistry with trauma-informed embodiment practices, he creates spaces of restoration where wholeness can emerge. His commitment to collective repair processes is grounded in somatic practices and supporting community healing. Born in southern California and raised across several US states, Jaden brings a deep social curiosity shaped by his mixed heritage with roots in Trinidad and France, informing his passion for supporting collective repair processes.