Your Wellness Matters
The academy is demanding and challenging.
Women are often balancing childcare, elder care, family, and other responsibilties.
Women often "mother" in academic spaces. It's time to "mother" ourselves.
Healing Hour
Session Description
What does it mean to be truly well, not simply to keep going?
This interactive session invites participants to reflect on their well-being, recognize what is already working, and identify what they need for the next chapter. Through guided reflection and practical exercises, participants will explore their own definitions of health and well-being and create a personalized, actionable plan for moving forward with greater intention.
Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of what supports their well-being, concrete next steps, and a plan they can continue to build upon.
Regular Healing Hours
- Between conferences, we tend to the spirit.
- Healing Hours are monthly gatherings designed as sanctuaries of restoration and affirmation.
- There is no performance here. No expectation to explain. Just presence, pause, and possibility.
These sessions offer room to:
- Breathe through burnout
- Reflect without judgment
- Share stories only some will understand
- Practice collective care in a world that often demands solitary endurance
Stay tuned for the 15th Annual Conference | April 23-24, 2027
Each spring, the community comes together for a 4-day immersive experience to honor the complexity, creativity, and courage of those reshaping higher education.
It’s not just professional development. It’s a reclaiming.
Expect:
- Workshops that speak from the wound and the wisdom
- Keynotes that feel like homecomings
- A space where your full self is not only welcome, but necessary
- Sessions that center:
✦ Navigating artificial intelligence as scholar and subject
✦ Honoring ancestral power as a source of strength and wisdom
✦ Health and wellbeing—emotional, financial, and mental
✦ Learning hidden secrets about academic publishing and publications - An awards ceremony recognizing exceptional scholars and leaders whose labor transforms the academy