Culturally Rooted
Luxuriously Restorative
Exclusive retreats and community experiences for high-achieving Black women ready to slow down, savor joy, and live abundantly.More Than A Getaway,
This Is Communal Restoration.
Retreats
Our signature retreats offer a deeply curated space to rest and return to self.
Luxurious restoration in paradise
Suppers
Seasonal social gatherings
Beautifully curated dinners that invite softness while honoring the fullness of your ambition.
Salons
Inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, these gatherings cultivate new ideas and connections.
In-person touch-points
The Weight You’ve Been CarryingA Place Where You Can Simply Be
You’ve built a life by always being the strong one, at work, at home, and in your community. But behind your relentless strength, there’s a quiet exhaustion.
A silent yearning for space to breathe.
The Restoration You Deserve
Compassion Collective is a luxurious sanctuary where you can finally stop performing strength and start experiencing care. Here, you’re invited to set down the armor, reconnect to joy, and reclaim your full humanity.
Experience the radical power of collective rest and culturally rooted care. Return to your life refreshed, clear, and reimagined.
Voices From The Collective
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"Compassion Collective changed how I care for myself. I’ve never felt so seen, supported, or rested."
Juliet M.
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"What differentiates this retreat is the continued support even after the retreat. I love knowing I have this collective of women in my life."
Karen B.
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"The retreat helped me realize that focusing on me is essential to clarifying what I want the next chapter of my life to be."
Tasha M.
Upcoming Gatherings
The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year; a threshold where darkness reaches its fullest expression before the slow return of light. It’s a moment that invites us to acknowledge what lives in our shadows: the grief we carry, the anger we’ve quieted, the desires we’ve tucked away.
Too often, we’re taught to choose. To be nurturing or ambitious. Gentle or powerful. Vulnerable or protected. But true wholeness requires both. And the Solstice, a moment suspended between darkness and light, reminds us that we can hold all of ourselves with compassion and communal care.
This evening is for women ready to stop abandoning parts of their hearts and learn to embrace their fullness with honesty, softness, and courage.
Details:
Held on December 20, 2026, from 5 - 9 pm
Registration includes supper, wine and cocktails, curated conversation, fire ritual, and special gifts
Location is a private venue 50-60 minutes from Washington, DC; exact address provided 3 days before the event
Compassion Collective Summer Solstice Retreat
June 17–20, 2027 · Dickerson, Maryland
Reclaim Your Rest. Reignite Your Joy. Reconnect with Yourself. If you’ve been yearning for space to breathe, to be held in community, and to return to home to yourself, this is your invitation.
Four days away from the life you’re managing, with a small group of women who know what it means to carry a lot. This summer solstice retreat is a return to the core of what the Compassion Collective is built on - self-compassion, devotion, sisterhood, and rediscovering your sovereign self.
There’s no predetermined theme this year, no mold to fit or structure to try to align with. Instead, we will gather around the themes that are resonant in your life and the lives of the women who join you. With each registration, we complete an intake, a questionnaire to do on your own, and a private call with me. What we uncover together will become the foundation for how I design our days and the entire retreat experience. This is the heart of the work, and I am excited to invite you into a truly personal experience.
The days move slowly on purpose. Breakfast is at nine-ish, and morning meditation starts once everyone has had her coffee, her tea, or her walk alone. There are long meals around one table, creative practice, and conversation that goes further than everyday life usually allows, with plenty of room to nap, read, sit outside, or disappear with your journal. I adjust hour by hour to the women in the house, because what we need in the moment matters more than any brilliant idea I had planned.
The luxury I care most about is simple: a place where you don’t just belong, but you are tended to with personalized care. Your favorite snacks in the kitchen, candles in a scent you love, a place to rest, room to laugh, a soundtrack that moves your body and your soul - that’s what this, and every, Compassion Collective Retreat is offering. Come and experience what happens inside you when your care is centered and celebrated.
“A Compassion Collective Retreat is like the exhale on a Jill Scott song.”
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A special invitation to the women who have already helped make this community what it is—and the women who cared enough to tell me what they hope it can become.
Solstice to Solstice
This year, I want the retreat to begin long before we arrive in Dickerson. The Compassion Collective has always been about the communal experience, and as we head into 2027, I am excited to extend a more personalized pathway and more opportunities to connect with the women you’ll be on retreat with before we get there.
Reserve your place by October 10, and begin at the Fall Equinox by making the decision to set this time aside for yourself in the year ahead. In December, we’ll gather around the table at the Winter Solstice Supper in DC. In March, we’ll reconnect virtually at the Spring Equinox. And then, as the light stretches toward its longest days, we’ll meet in person for our Summer Solstice Retreat.
I love the idea of moving through the seasons together—planting something now, tending it without rushing it, and returning to it in June to see what has changed, what has taken root, and what you’re ready for next.
Each Solstice-to-Solstice registrant receives:
A complimentary seat at the Winter Solstice Supper on December 20 in DC
an invitation to our private Spring Equinox virtual gathering
two advance copies of my forthcoming book, one for you and one to share
and the longest payment plan available for the retreat: $500 to reserve your place, followed by six monthly payments.
My book was born, in part, from many of the questions, conversations, and experiences that have shaped these retreats. It feels especially meaningful that the women choosing to make this journey with me will be among the first to hold it.
Pay in full during the Solstice-to-Solstice window, and you’ll also receive the complete book bundle after publication, with the journal, affirmation deck, sweatshirt, stickers, and a few other surprises.
After October 10, the retreat will still be open, but this particular way of beginning the journey together won’t be.
The Investment & Payment Plans:
Private room $3,800 · Shared room $2,700 · Bring Your Bestie $5,000 (1 room/2 registrants)
Payments are monthly from the day you reserve. Book early for an extended payment plan.
🌙Solstice to Solstice🌞 Special Package, available until October 10
Private room: $500 today, then 6 monthly payments of $550
Shared room: $500 today, then 6 monthly payments of ~$367
Bring Your Bestie: $500 today, then 6 monthly payments of $750
Every Solstice to Solstice registration includes: one free seat at the Winter Solstice Supper · a private Spring Equinox virtual gathering on March 20, 2027 · two signed advance copies of my new book · and if you pay in full today, you also receive a complete book bundle with custom swag!
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After October 10…
Six payments, through January 10
Private room: $500 today, then 5 monthly payments of $660
Shared room: $500 today, then 5 monthly payments of $440
Bring Your Bestie: $500 today, then 5 monthly payments of $900Four payments, January 11 through March 10
Private room: $500 today, then 3 payments of $1100
Shared room: $500 today, then 3 payments of $733
Bring Your Bestie: $500 today, then 3 payments of $1500
Register by Oct 31 and get a free ticket to the Winter Solstice Supper on Dec 20 in DC
Klarna and Afterpay are also available at checkout
If you would like to talk it through first, book a 15-minute call with me: [Here]
What’s included:
Three nights’ accommodations · all meals, snacks, and beverages · morning meditation, facilitated conversation, creative practice, and restorative movement · pre-retreat intake, retreat materials, and welcome gifts · the Compassion Collective WhatsApp community, before and after the retreat.
What Happens Next:
You’ll get an intake form and a link to book a short call with me. This gives us both a chance to make sure this retreat is the right fit for you this season; if for any reason we find that there is a misalignment, I’ll refund your payment in full. Otherwise, payments aren’t refundable, but you can request credit toward a future retreat or Compassion Collective experience at least 14 days before the retreat.
Words to Hold You
Not everything important can be carried by words alone, but some words are worth carrying with you. These affirmation decks hold the reminders and encouragement that we all could use a little more of. Made to be pulled at the start of a morning or in the middle of a hard day, or at your next gathering of good people.
Four decks, 45 cards each. Choose the one that matches what you're tending right now, or take all four.
Bold, Brazen, Thriving
This deck is for the mornings you're done editing, with cards on courage, appetite, and taking up the room you're already paying for.
Embracing Wholeness · affirmations for shadow work
Shadow work has a reputation for being brutal; this deck offers you a more tender approach. The cards name the things that usually go unsaid, not to fix them, but to see them clearly enough to care for the parts of you that hide underneath.
Pleasure Has Purpose
At some point, delight got filed under later, after the list is done, which is never. Your body has opinions your calendar doesn't know about, and pleasure is how you hear them.
Beyond Self Care · affirmation cards for self-compassion
The bath, the app, the weekend off are great, but self-care as you know it will never be enough for what aches inside. Self-compassion is your answer, and this deck is the daily practice of it.
The details
45 cards per deck, [2.75 x 4.75 in]. Sold individually or as the full set of four. Decks are printed in small batches, so please be patient. It can take up to two weeks before they ship.
