Visiones Women’s Retreat 2024:

The Embodied Power of your DIVINE YES!

CCCADI and the DeAlmas Women’s Institute have partnered once again to present this annual intergenerational weekend retreat for Women of Color. 

Join us for the 26th annual Visiones – an urban weekend retreat for intergenerational Women of Color to radically create, empower, envision and embody the POWER of our DIVINE YES in 2024. 

Through Release, Visioning, Writing, Art-making, Music and Dance - we open to heart healing, expanded awareness, intentional choices and inspired action - transforming what does not serve our passions, purpose, soul desires and highest potential. 

SAY YES to that which is deeply fulfilling to you and makes a profound and positive impact on the world. The moment is now.

Event Info: 

Meet & Greet (Virtual)

Join the organizers and fellow retreat attendees for an introductory session. Learn more about what the full-day gathering has in store for you and begin building community.

Friday, January 26, 2024
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Link will be provided to all registered participants.

Full-Day Workshop (In-Person)


Visiones facilitators will engage retreat goers with sessions that focus on Release, Visioning, Writing, Art-making, Music and Dance to tap into the power to your Divine yes!

Saturday, January 27, 2024
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Riverside Church
91 Claremont Avenue 10th Flr New York, NY 10027

COST:

EXTENDED: Early-Bird Pricing: $125 per person

Includes access to the virtual and in-person sessions. Early-bird pricing is now available until January 5, 2024. As an added bonus, early-bird registrants will receive a special gift!

Light refreshments provided. You are welcome to bring your own lunch or purchase lunch locally.

Regular Admission: $155 per person

Includes access to the virtual and in-person sessions. This pricing will go into effect for all participants who register after January 5, 2024.

Meet Our 2024 Facilitators:

  • Gloria M. Rodriguez is a Professor of Psychology at Bronx Community College of The City University of New York. She specializes in womanist/mujerista feminism and community/social psychology, and is the faculty director of BCC’s first Women’s Center. She also holds advanced certifications in Executive, Spiritual and Group coaching. Gloria is the Founding Director of the DeAlmas Women’s Institute, a community-based organization, literally meaning “of the soul.” Dealmas’ grounding philosophy centers intersectional identities, spirituality, culture and social justice to address mental health and holistic wellness, empowerment, and is dedicated to providing women and girls the opportunity to reclaim, honor, heal, express and celebrate their Divine Feminine power and potential – whereby transforming the larger society for a just, sustainable and compassionate world. Gloria is a mother, grandmother, and Oshun initiate in the Lukumi-Yoruba religious tradition.

  • Manuela Arciniegas is an Afro-Dominican woman, mother of 4, roots drummer, Ifa, Orisha and Mayombe priestess. She is the founder and director of an all-women's Afro-Caribbean drum troupe, Legacy Women. Manuela is a resource organizer, cultural worker, scholar, and Embodied Leadership somatics coach committed to the empowerment of youth and women of color.

  • A multidisciplinary artist, curator and social innovation strategist, Desiree Gordon cultivates pipelines to power and nurtures wellness eco-systems through her Creative Equations framework.

    As Innovation, Grants, and Strategic Partnerships Director at the Brooklyn Arts Council, she designed and now oversees the organization’s first social justice investment strategy. Gordon also established the Brooklyn Innovation Institute along with the Wellness Studio, a hybrid digital wellness platform to drive social equity.

    Gordon previously held curatorial leadership roles at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, and Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute among other institutions. The Smithsonian Institute recognized her work by awarding her a Reimagining the Museum fellowship.

    She is a founding member of the sound wellness ensemble Seya and women poetry collective, Matriots! Her narrative song sequence, We Fly Home, will be released in June 2024.