Rooted Reclamation Events
So it’s SAD Girl Season II: Grief as a Portal for Transformation
Releasing to Remember—Navigating Collective, Political, and Personal Loss
Grief is everywhere right now — not just in our private lives, but in our headlines and our systems. We’re mourning the deaths of icons, witnessing mass layoffs disproportionately impacting Black + Brown women, and the erosion of safety for queer and immigrant people under creeping fascism, compounded by histories that never stopped mourning. We’re also mourning quieter losses: belonging in workplaces, a sense of home, relationships, our former selves.
As we approach the season of “gratitude” and togetherness, this space offers an alternative: a communal pause for release, remembrance, and reclamation. Join Leslie Stevens, transformational coach and founder of Rooted Reclamation, alongside guest facilitators in breathwork and somatic grounding, for an evening of reflection and ritual designed to help you move through the ache and toward renewal.
This workshop holds grief as both personal and political—as evidence that we still care, still feel, still dream. It’s a sanctuary for Black and Brown women and femmes to name what they’re shedding and explore what transformation might be possible through release.
We’ll explore:
The many shapes of grief—personal, ancestral, systemic, and seasonal
How loss can reveal what still wants to live within us
Practices for holding grief without collapsing under it
Movement and breathwork to metabolize emotional weight
Collective witnessing, care, and creative release
This is a free virtual retreat. Donations are welcome. Come as you are: weary, curious, undone, tender. Together, we’ll find breath again.
Register for So it’s SAD Girl Season II: Grief as a Portal for Transformation
Date: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Time: 10 AM EST (90 minutes)
Location: Virtual Zoom Retreat
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Rooted & Rising IV
Rooted & Rising is a seasonal dream space for those navigating transition—whether shifting homes, healing burnout, or re-imagining community. Join us for a guided release and dream space designed for those navigating transitions—whether you’re shifting homes, starting a new position or project, stepping into sabbatical, or re-imagining community.
Rooted & Rising III - Eclipse Edition
The Virgo Lunar Eclipse on September 21, 2025 is inviting us to clear out what drains, realign with what supports our wholeness, and reset with courage.
#ComeSitAtOurTable: Mentor Moment with Leslie Stevens
I’m thrilled to return to Luminary, a NYC-based women’s empowerment and co-working community, where I’ve partnered over the years as a sponsor, speaker, and community member.
This time, I’ll be sharing my story Reimagine Your Path: Embracing Change in Your Career and Life—a Mentor Moment about my transition from lay-off to liberation. We’ll explore the uncertainties, pivots, and possibilities that come with career and life change. This is a space to ask anything, reflect deeply, and connect with others on the journey.
Free for Luminary members + my extended community.
Rooted & Rising II
Whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or a renewed sense of purpose: join us for Rooted & Rising: A Transformative Dream Space for Envisioning Bold New Futures. A 90 minute dream space to reconnect with your inner strength and explore your ideal future for impact and service to your community. Through guided meditation, community discussion, and imaginative journaling, you'll reclaim self trust, release what no longer serves you, and realigning with your highest self most divine vision for the future.
Rooted & Rising I
Rooted & Rising: A Transformative Dream Space for Envisioning Bold New Futures is an offering to pour into the community that has poured into me in this year of transition and transformation. Together we can cultivate the space for us to witness one another in the same loving away as generations before. We can create a healing space that allowed us to have our current and future realities acknowledged, supported, and celebrated. Black women, women of color, and gender expansive folks of color have a unique capacity to create in impossible circumstances. We make a way out of no way. This time, rather than investing our energies into making a way for brands, businesses, political parties, or cultures outside of our own—that are so willing to ditch us when they’re not in dire need—we get to invest in ourselves and our communities in ways that will outlast oppressive structures and regimes. We are limitless beings that are able to tap into an ancient and divine power to calling in our empowered, rested, and abundant futures.
Rooted & Rising is a part of the Reclamation Circle - a seasonal, small-group coaching experience curated for Black women, gender expansive folks of color, and people of color to gather in community, reclaim rhythm, and co-create visions for rest, leadership, and liberation.
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So it’s SAD Girl Season: Processing Grief & Isolation During the Holidays
Whether impacted by family loss, major life transitions, compounding global tragedies, or seasonal and time shifts, we are each processing complex emotions while trying to move through our day to day. With the “cheer” of the end-of-year holidays approaching, it can lead us to isolate in order to protect and comfort ourselves. Join Leslie Stevens, transformational coach and culture consultant, for a coaching community conversation to hold space for catharsis, connection, and courage for Black and Brown women who want to navigate this season with care and grace.
During this conversation, we covered:
Explore what and why of holiday grief and isolation
Cultivate insights on how to honor your relationship with the end-of-year holiday season
Share tips on how to combat feelings of loneliness.