Join Dr. Chris Omni in celebrating and growing Black Joy! Dr. Omni will share her “Kujima (pronounced koo-gee-mah) Theory of Collective-Self Motivation”. This three-pillar model reimagines and renews the worlds within and around us and blends fundamental principles found within the African American celebration of Kwanzaa (pronounced “kwahn-zuh”).

You are warmly invited to join Chris Omni for a journey into a world of Black Joy in Green Spaces.

In this new world, she will share about Granny’s Garden: Growing Black Joy, followed by an intimate conversation about how this journey started, where it is now, and where it is going. We will also celebrate the eve of National Black Joy Day! Yesssss, there is such a day! Your presence at this webinar will be one of the many ways to recognize this beautiful holiday while spreading awareness of this movement to provide a counter-story to the typical deficit narrative that is generally associated with Black people.

We are happy to welcome Sharifa Oppenheimer, author of A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology! She will share with us not only her poems and essays, but also the process of transformation she underwent as she wrote this new book of love for the wild and tender Earth.