This month's Digital Oasis event is designed to support us with locating, articulating, and getting curious about our desires as a key to experiencing wellBEing. Check out this registration link for more details and here’s a clip with a little backstory on the offering.

I look forward to seeing those of you who can join us!

Doc Zee is excited to work with the BRIC Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC) to develop an immersive art and performance exhibit centering the healing wisdom of Brooklyn. Stay tuned for updates and learn more about BRIC and the amazing ICAC team here.

We are excited to continue the fun we started at our Jan. 29th Instagram Live focused on the work of Black Feminist Neuroscientist Linzie Taylor. Linzie will join us and facilitate a Digital Oasis experience that helps us learn more about being in relationship with the parts of our brain that play a big role in healing and wellBEing. Bring some paper and something to write with (and some string if you have it) to get the most out the experience! No stress if not though. You can still participate without. Click here to register. 

We had a great time with folks in the Black WellBEing Book Club, so we wanted to expand to movies and tv! In February, we will host our very first Black WellBEing Movie Club experience (think book club but for movies/tv shows)! 

How it works: 1) Register here. 2) Watch the movie on your own. 3) Join us on 2/23/25 at 5pm EST where we will chat and play games focused on the film.

This month's movie is The Piano Lesson!

On Thursday, February 13th at 2pm EST, we will go Live on Instagram with Emmy award winning, multimedia artist Vince Ballard. We plan to have a good time talking about art & Black healing before Vince guides us in an activity.

TO WATCH: Click here to follow us on Instagram and then click our profile picture to join the Live event on 2/13/25 at 2pm EST. 

There's a lot going on in the external world. What happens on the inside is also really important during these times. On January 29th at 2pm EST Dr. Zuleka will be in conversation with Black Feminist Neuroscientist Linzie Taylor talking about The Brain & Black WellBEing. Linzie's work "ensures that science integrates deeply personal understandings of the self" such that it "reflects a fuller version of who [Black people] are". Come hear Linzie share their journey and thoughts on the brain and Black wellBEing through a Black feminist lens…and in true CBW fashion, join in on a fun, interactive activity! TO WATCH: Click here to follow us on Instagram and then click our profile picture to join the Live event on 1/29/25 at 2pm EST. 

Click here to register for Linzie's follow-up Digital Oasis Event on 2/20/25 at 7pm EST.

We are trusting that 2025 will continue to hold space for the experience of healing, wellBEing, and joy for all of us! We stand ready to be a vessel for the aspects of 2025 that would like to be realized through us and are excited to be in purpose in this way with all of you! We wish you a 2025 that is full of whatever you intend it to be! 

Check out our New Year's message from Doc Zee here. Love yall!

We want to make sure our people have a space to think about what to do with complex feelings leading into the New Year. During this month's family gathering we will use our play-centered format to support folks with thinking about what wellBEing can look like during tough and uncertain times. Click here to learn more, register, and share: https://bit.ly/Dec2024DigOasis and then join us on 12/18/24 at 7pm EST.

Had a great conversation a few weeks ago with Dr. Raquel Martin about her Burn The Cape support group for Black women and about The Center for Black WellBEing. Check out the full interview here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCmyN9mv0_X/ 

We are excited to partner with Ms. Crystal and the Bright.Ready.MightyMind. Literacy Cafe to host a special Digital Oasis style series for the little ones in our community. This virtual series will get Black children together for experiences of joy, creativity, and child-friendly adventures on wellBEing. 

Our first event will be an interactive, autumn, enchanting festival for children ages 4-10. Ms. Crystal will create the perfect mix of fun games, stories, contests, and more during this experience! Attendees are free to wear something festive or share one of their favorite spooky storybooks for a chance to win a small surprise! 

We will hang out in Zoom on October 26th from 1-2:30pm EST, but you are welcome to join for however long you can! 

Click here to register: https://bit.ly/CBWDigOasKids

Hey CBW family! We have a new offering for the community. Our Black WellBEing book club* will include up to 8 Black folks reading a book that in some way focuses on healing/wellbeing and discussing and doing fun activities related to the theme of that book. Our first selection will be Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee. If you are interested, please click this link to get more details and complete the interest form: https://forms.gle/n9nKs4NxPF16Qf9x5

*This is not a group therapy session or clinical group experience

On August 2nd we turned 3!! We are grateful to still be here, doing our work to advance healing and wellBEing with Black people and organizations around the country. In honor of this birthday, our August 2024 Digital Oasis will focus on the theme of celebration as an instrumental healing power. Our wishlist is simple: Wear your party outfit (i.e. whatever you feel like wearing, lol) and bring other Black folks with you for a good time! Please click this link to register and share with other Black people!

Thank you so much for all of your love & support as we keep growing!!

It's been a while, but the Center for Black WellBEing's (CBW) Digital Oasis has returned!! Join us on Monday, July 22 at 7pm EST for a good time.

Please click this link for more information and to register and share with other Black people!!

Healing is complex and courageous. Developing the courage to heal often hinges on how you perceive healing and on having some degree of belief in its value and attainability. Many mental health initiatives encourage Black people to heal. I believe it is also important to offer wellness spaces where Black people get to locate, examine, and explore what we hold in our consciousness about healing, in order to create a foundation from which we can powerfully choose our wellness activities. Check out this clip from my Brief & Brilliant talk from the Society for Social Research 2024 conference. 

View the full talk here.

If you could use some uplift and are interested in looking into how comedy and healing might go together, then please join us at 7pm EST on April 24th for a good time.

NOTE: We are mindful that humor is subjective and aim to create an atmosphere where there is thoughtfulness, respect, and always the option to powerfully choose your engagement and participation.

If it does feel like this one is a good fit for you, please click this link to register and share with other Black folks.

Workplaces have been increasingly trying us lately, so CBW is hosting a community play and relief space with Black folks to enjoy activities that invite us to unload work stress, explore authenticity & work, and reimagine what the world of work can be for you!

Debra Clarke, MSW and Shionna Stupart, LCSW will help us create this dynamic Digital Oasis experience that you don't want to miss! 

Register & Share with other Black folks: https://bit.ly/CBWMar1324DigOas 

Come get your flowers at this month's Digital Oasis led by Carolyn Jones!! We will explore flower essences for self-care, especially as it relates to grief, loss, and navigating stress in places like work.

Leave with a bouquet of information to support your ongoing wellness journey!!

Register & Share with other Black folks: https://bit.ly/Feb1224DigOasis 

We are dreaming into a 2024 where Black people are:

1) More regularly POWERFULLY CHOOSING our time & energy expenditure

2) INCREASING the times and places where we intentionally center our wellBEing, &

3) Having more FUN & PLAY in the world of wellness and healing.

STAY TUNED!!!

Register & Bring/Tell other Black Folks: https://bit.ly/CBWDigOasisDec23

Please join us for our final Family gathering of 2023!! We want to ease into the end of the year and vision into 2024 with as many Black folks as possible collectively affirming and activating Black WellBEing. 

As always, we will have cool activities and a dope space for us to be in good company. 

Come as you are. Engage in a way that feels good to you (camera on or off; comment via audio, in the chat, or not!). 

We look forward to having you!

We are excited to work with leaders who are interested in centering organizational wellbeing as part of their leadership practice. This group will take place over 3 sessions between February and April 2024, and will be an opportunity for organizational leaders to get a demo of CBW's wellness centered coaching and support. Please complete and submit this form by November 30, 2023. Accepted participants will be notified by January 6, 2024.

Click to Attend & Share: Live Stream Link

CBW aims to ensure that Black folks have quality and effective support for our wellbeing, everywhere we are. On Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 1pm EST, we will be in conversation with Colette Ellis from Libbie Health about how leaders can reimagine their leadership approach and authentically walk the talk around workplace mental health. Please feel free to join us for this LinkedIn Live event and share with others...hey, even share with a boss/supervisor that you think might find this talk helpful 😉!! 

Register and Share!

Join us on October 12th at 7pm EST on Zoom for our regularly scheduled good time! 

We are excited to work with a Black comedian to curate a one hour virtual event that centers laughter and Black WellBEing. This collaboration would also be an opportunity for you to share about yourself and your craft with our CBW community. If this would be of interest to you, please check out and complete this form by 8pm EST on Friday, September 15, 2023. We hope to select and notify our collaborator by Tuesday, September 19, 2023.

Apply Here

The Center for Black Wellbeing is excited to announce a new offering called Bring Your Crew where you and up to 5 other Black folks get to have a customized, Digital Oasis group event, just for y'all. 

Here’s how it works: identify your crew, y'all pick a topic, and we design a 60 minute experience that uses creativity, fun, and play to explore a healing/wellness topic of your crew’s choice. 

For the month of August, we will pick 2 crews to have this experience for free!! All you have to do is complete and send us an interest form and we got the rest! Applications are open from now until August 4th and winning crews will be selected and notified by August 15th. 

Register & Share 

Hi CBW Family! We are excited to return with our Digital Oasis family gathering! If you're new to us, the CBW Digital Oasis is just a convening of Black folks who want to focus on our wellness, in community, through fun, engaging, creative & interactive activities. If that is you, we look forward to seeing you on July 27th at 7pm EST on Zoom! We welcome you to come as you are. Feel free to fully engage, engage at your own pace, or just take it all in. Cameras on or off, you are welcome!!!