2nd Ann Embracing Black Healing & Self-Advocacy Conference for Black Women
About this Event
2nd Annual Embracing Black: A Healing & Self-Advocacy Conference for Black Women
Theme: From Vision to Movement
Join us for the 2nd Annual Embracing Black Conference, a transformative day dedicated to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of Black women.
Last year's inaugural gathering reached full capacity, bringing together200 Black women from across the region to learn, connect, heal, and celebrate in community. This year, we return with an even deeper commitment to creating a safe, affirming space where Black women can explore what it means to live well, heal intentionally, and move forward with purpose.
Our 2026 theme, From Vision to Movement, invites participants to reflect on essential questions:
Who am I?
How do I define myself beyond expectations, roles, and labels?
What do I want?
What vision do I hold for my health, relationships, purpose, and future?
Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, fireside conversations, experientials, and community engagement, participants will explore the following tentative topics:
• Love, Marriage, and Black Women's Well-Being
• Building and Sustaining Healthy Relationships
• Healing from Workplace Trauma and Stress
• Recognizing and Honoring Heart-Centered Intuitive Choices
• Healing Through Grief and Loss
• Understanding the Menstrual Cycle: What Is Normal?
• Navigating Perimenopause and Menopause with Confidence
• Conscious Living as a Pathway to Vitality and Optimal Health
Ticket Price $133
Conference Includes:
- Breakfast
- Warm Lunch: Chicken or Salmon
- Coffee, Tea, and Lemonade
- Inspiring Speakers and Panel Discussions
- Wellness Resources
- Community Connection
- Special Gift Bag
Current tentative agenda is posted
We invite you to take a wellness day, gather in sisterhood, and join a community of Black women committed to living, healing, and thriving together. Let your empolyer know now!
We look forward to welcoming you to this empowering powerful day of reflection, restoration, learning, and movement.
What to Expect
Inspiring Keynotes & Discussions — Led by medical doctors, scholars, clergy, healers, and advocates who center Black women’s experiences and wisdom.
Wellness Practices — Yoga, sound baths, and pranic energy healing to ground your body and spirit.
Holistic Healing Sessions — Evidence-based and ancestral approaches to well-being.
Restorative Community — A safe, sacred space to exhale, rest, and be replenished.
💜 Who You’ll Hear From
Our presenters include:
Medical Doctors offering evidence-based tools for optimizing health
Clergy & Spiritual Leaders guiding mindfulness and internal restoration
Scholars & Healers reconnecting us to ancestral and holistic practices
Wellness Practitioners centering physical, emotiona, and energy healing!
This retreat is more than an event, it’s a reclamation.
A space to:
💜 Lay down burdens and be restored
💜 Learn from visionary healers, leaders, and teachers
💜 Move, breathe, and ground in practices of wellness
💜 Reclaim rest as resistance and advocacy as empowerment
💜 Close the day in the collective embrace of sound and spirit
Photography & Media Notice
By registering for and attending the 2nd Annual Embracing Black Conference, participants acknowledge and consent to being photographed, filmed, and/or recorded during the event. Images, video, and audio recordings may be used by conference organizers for educational, promotional, marketing, archival, and future event purposes, including use on websites, social media platforms, print materials, and other communications.
Your registration and attendance constitute your consent to the use of your likeness, image, voice, and participation in such materials without compensation or additional permission.
Refund Policy:
Embracing Black Event Refund Policy
We understand that plans can change and appreciate your support of the 2nd Annual Embracing Black Conference: From Vision to Movement. Refunds will be considere on a case basis.
Individual Tickets ($133):
- Full refund available up to 60 days prior to the event
- 50% refund available up to 30 days prior to the event
- 25% refund available up to 7 days prior to the event, through Friday, November 6, 2026, at 8:00 AM
- No refunds will be provided after this date.
VIP Tables ($1,500, seating for 8):
All VIP table purchases are final sale and non-refundable.
Thank you for your understanding and for supporting this important gathering and movement for Black women.
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Grateful for Our Community Partners!
Agenda
🕑: 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Embracing Black Conference for Black Women: From Vision to Movement Agenda
Info: Breakfast & Networking
Arrive, connect, nourish, and begin the day in community.
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
Invocation
Host: Reverend Jerry Hobby
Info: Reverend Jerry Hobby, Founder of Spiritual Enlightenment & Truth Focus Ministry and Heart Math Facilitator elevates and grounds our collective space in Love & intentions will be set for the day by participants
🕑: 09:10 AM - 09:20 AM
Opening Meditation
Info: Dr. Liza Swedarsky, M.D.
Conference Host, Gynecologist
Founder, Health Vows and the Embracing Black Initiative
Vibrational Sound by Ebony LePenn, L.M.T. & Sound Healer
🕑: 09:20 AM - 09:40 AM
Returning to the Body: A Slow Yoga Flow for Mind, Body & Soul
Host: Angela Allen, Ph.D Educator, Certified Yoga Instructor
🕑: 09:40 AM - 09:50 AM
Break & Transition
🕑: 09:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Pouring Into Our Power: Libations as Spiritual Practice
Host: Tracey Hucks, Ph.D. Harvard Divinity School
Info: Tracey Hucks, Ph.D. Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
I AM: Embodying Our Authentic Power
Host: Tracey Hucks, Ph.D. Harvard Divinity School
Info: Tracey Hucks, Ph.D. Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School
🕑: 10:25 AM - 10:35 AM
Break & Transition
🕑: 10:35 AM - 10:45 AM
From Vision to Movement: The Embracing Black Call to Action, Announcements
Info: Dr. Liza Swedarsky, M.D.
Gynecologist
Founder, Health Vows and the Embracing Black Initiative
🕑: 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
Break & Transition
🕑: 10:55 AM - 11:40 AM
The Wisdom Within: What Your Menstrual Cycle & Menopause Are Revealing to You
Host: Dr. Liza Swedarsky, M.D. Conference Host, Gynecologist
Info: This segment is for women of all ages to embody vitality. Be in the know...what is normal, and what is not. You will walk away with Gynecologic Pearls of Wisdom!
🕑: 11:40 AM - 11:50 AM
Break & Transition
🕑: 11:50 AM - 12:35 PM
TBA
🕑: 12:35 PM - 01:30 PM
LUNCH & CONNECTION
Info: Lunch & Networking
A 55-minute opportunity for nourishment, connection, and community engagement.
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM
Black Women, Black Love: Reimagining Love, Intimacy & Liberation
Host: Dianne M. Stewart, Ph.D. Author Black Women, Black Love
Info: Dianne M. Stewart, Ph.D. Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Religion & African American Studies, Emory
Faculty Coordinator and PI, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program 25 Minute Presentation & 25 Minute Community Engagement and Conversation
🕑: 02:20 PM - 02:30 PM
Break & Transition
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:10 PM
Beyond Survival: Healing from Workplace Trauma, Stress & Harm
Info: Karen L. Abdool, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding Director, Beryllium Psychiatric 30-Minute Presentation
20-Minute Community Sharing
🕑: 03:10 PM - 03:20 PM
Break & Transition
🕑: 03:20 PM
The Intuitive Heart: Choosing Love Over Fear A Guided Experiential
Info: Reverend Jerry Hobby
Heart Math Facilitator
Spiritual Leader & Founder Spiritual Enlightenment & Truth Focus Ministry
🕑: 03:50 PM - 04:00 PM
Break & Transition
🕑: 04:00 PM
Beyond the Diagnosis: Black Women, Cancer, Survival & the Power of Our Voices
Info: Panelists TBA
🕑: 04:50 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing Reflections & Gratitude
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Sound, Spirit & Stillness: A Journey of Activation, Restoration & Liberation
Info: Ebony LePenn, L.M.T. & Sound Healer
A closing experience of activation, restoration, liberation, and collective healing.
🕑: 05:30 PM - 05:45 PM
Closing: Optional Chamber of Prayer: A Sacred Space for Collective Healing
Info: Step into a sacred space of reflection, reverence, and collective energy. Drawing from the rich traditions of Black spirituality, this closing session invites those who believe in the power of love, faith, and hope to lift their voices in prayer. Prayer is personal to each one. Through intentional words, silence, and communal affirmation, participants will honor prayer as a divine healing force, restoring the spirit, nurturing the heart, and embracing the transformative power of collective intention. All who feel called are welcome to join in this intimate, restorative conclusion to the day.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 133.00 to USD 1500.00
