RCWMS

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - March 2026
2026-03-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
January: This Time, I’m Centering Me
February: Making History: Financial Literacy and Other Forms of Liberation
March: Women’s History Month: Black Girl Magic Now, Then, Forever
Register for MARCH below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.

Ecumenical Holy Week Labyrinth
2026-03-29 08:00 - 2026-04-03 17:00
Walking a labyrinth is an ancient spiritual tool for reflection. The 40’x40′ labyrinth laid out on the floor of the sanctuary is a replica of the labyrinth found on the floor of Chartres Cathedral. Prayer stations on the perimeter provide resources for those who walk.
Free and open to the public. Please wear clean socks.
More: Binkley, binkleychurch.org/calendar/
Sponsors: Several Chapel Hill churches

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - April 2026
2026-04-15 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
April: Dealing with Shrinkage: Imposter Syndrome, Hair Journeys and Taking Up Space in this Skin
May: Mothering and Being Mothered: Blessed be the Ties that Bind
June: Braving the Storm: Grieving People Who Are Still Alive
Register for APRIL below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - May 2026
2026-05-20 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
May: Mothering and Being Mothered: Blessed be the Ties that Bind
June: Braving the Storm: Grieving People Who Are Still Alive
Register for MAY below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.

The Heart of Mindfulness with Jen Johnson
2026-06-10 12:00 - 13:30
There is a kind of stillness available to us that lives below the noise of daily life — in the body, in the breath, in the quiet center of the heart.
The Heart of Mindfulness is a 90-minute live online workshop that explores heart-centered practices. Research shows that heart-centered mindfulness practices can reduce stress, calm the nervous system, and cultivate positive emotions, including love, joy, gratitude, and awe. Through guided meditation and mindful writing, you’ll explore how these practices can become a genuine refuge in your everyday life.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to feel more at home in themselves and the world. Please bring a journal or paper and pens.
Leader: Jen Johnson, MS, MFA, LCMHC is a mindfulness teacher and counselor offering an integrative approach to mind body healing and creative awakening. She offers mindfulness coaching and therapy and facilitates workshops on mindfulness, mindful writing, grief, and nature connection. Learn more about Jen here.
Cost: $25, $30, $35, $40, or $45 – sliding scale
Register below. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Hope is a Verb: Spiritual Grounding for Joyful Changemaking
2026-06-12 16:00 - 2026-06-14 12:00 | The Farmhouse at Spring Forest, 1907 New Sharon Church Rd, Hillsborough, 27278, United States
Join us at the Farmhouse at Spring Forest in Hillsborough, NC for Hope is a Verb: Spiritual Grounding for Joyful Changemaking.
When the Work Feels Heavy, Hope Becomes Essential
Are you a changemaker feeling overwhelmed by today’s challenges? When progress is blocked and the forces of harm seem stronger than ever, it’s natural to struggle with frustration and even burn-out. But what if hope isn’t something that happens to us—but is something we actively practice?
Rediscover Your Spiritual Foundation
This weekend retreat offers changemakers a chance to reconnect with the deeper sources of resilience available to us all. Join us to explore how spiritual practices can help us stay grounded and embody hope in a world that sometimes feels hopeless.
Who Should Attend
This women’s* retreat welcomes all changemakers:
~ Mission-driven professionals and nonprofit leaders
~ Activists, organizers, and artists
~ Engaged citizens and volunteers
*This retreat is for all women, including trans women, as well as nonbinary or gender expansive people who are comfortable in women-centered spaces.
If you would find meaning in strengthening your resilience in these uncertain times, this retreat is designed for you.
What You’ll Experience and Share
~ Connection to nature and other changemakers on a beautiful, 34-acre regenerative farm and forest
~ Practical tools for cultivating hope as a daily practice
~ Spiritual practices for staying grounded to maintain your energy and commitment to your important work
Transform Your Relationship with Hope
Leave this weekend with renewed energy, deeper spiritual grounding, and practical tools for embodying hope—not despite the challenges, but because of your unwavering commitment to a just world.

Location: The Farmhouse at Spring Forest, 1907 New Sharon Church Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278
Cost: $400–600
~ Single occupancy room (2 beds available): $600
~ Shared occupancy room (6 beds available): $450
Register by April 15, 2026 for to receive a $50 early bird discount! No code needed.
Cost includes retreat programming, lodging and meals prepared by Chef Netta Edwards with locally grown food, as well as a post-retreat online group check-in and an optional post-retreat 1:1 online spiritual coaching session.
Limited scholarship funds available. Please email info@groundedimpact.net to express your interest in a partial or full scholarship.
Retreat Leaders:
Maria Kingery has been leading retreats for impact-driven entrepreneurs for more than a decade. Through 360Impact, she helps changemakers build the resilience needed to create lasting impact in an uncertain world using her “Lead with Love” framework. In 2001, she co-founded one of the Southeast’s first clean energy companies, scaling it to a thriving B Corp before selling the company to seven long-time team members in a values-driven succession that centered their shared mission over maximum profit.
Bonny Moellenbrock, a certified spiritual director, helps clients integrate their deepest values into their lives, initiatives, and business strategies, supporting the shift toward a life-affirming, regenerative economy. Bonny spent over two decades directing capital toward social and environmental impact through her work with nonprofits, social enterprises, and impact investors. She led Investors Circle for seven years, guiding a network that has channeled over $275 million into more than 350 enterprises creating positive change.

Freedom Dreaming at Historic Stagville with New Legacy Lab
2026-06-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Historic Stagville, Durham, NC, 5828 Old Oxford Highway, Durham, NC, 27712, United States
Artist and Cultural Organizer Monèt Marshall invites us to visit Historic Stagville – a former plantation in Durham County – through an interactive experience rooted in resistance and liberation. Through performance, guided mediations, and facilitated conversation at Horton Grove, we all will be invited to expand our imaginations into past and future Black feminist dreaming. This offering is open to all ages, races, genders, and class backgrounds.
This event is co-hosted by New Legacy Lab , the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South, and ROSA.
Cost: Tickets for this event are offered on a sliding scale of $15 – $35. Please use New Legacy Lab’s Sliding Scale to determine your ticket price.
Registration is required. Register at this link: https://www.newlegacylab.com/event-details/freedom-dreaming-at-historic-stagville

BLUESTEM WALKING TOUR, Bluestem Conservation Cemetery
2026-06-17 10:00 - 12:00 | 1900 Hurdle Mills Road Cedar Grove, NC 27231
Come learn about Bluestem, a beautiful piece of land north of Hillsborough, NC, now being developed as a nature preserve and a conservation burial ground.

Why conservation burial, and why Bluestem in particular? Cemeteries are places for people to be permanently memorialized and places at which family and loved ones may gather for reflection. Conservation burial grounds serve as places where individual and community commitment to conservation and perpetuity come together. Bluestem will be a conservation cemetery designed as a nature preserve and place of reverence, with a trail network, quiet areas for reflection, open space for contemplation, and designated areas within its restored landscape for natural burial.
Join us at Bluestem Conservation Cemetery a place of reverence for all to connect with the sacred in nature. Drop in to get to know this place, find more information about conservation burial and Bluestem’s natural sanctuaries, and let us know more about how Bluestem can serve you and your spiritual community! Local clergy, faith leaders, spiritual guides, laypeople, and just curious folks welcome!
Disclaimer: The tour will involve walking on natural pathways and trails for approximately 1.5 miles, with limited opportunities to sit. Bringing a water bottle is strongly encouraged. For additional information or learn more about Bluestem, please visit: HERE
Cost:$10.00. Proceeds will support Bluestem.
Spaces are limited. Register below.

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - June 2026
2026-06-17 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
June: Braving the Storm: Grieving People Who Are Still Alive
Register for JUNE below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.

Mindful Writing for Transformation (4-Week) Online Workshop
2026-07-09 12:00 - 2026-07-30 13:30
There are stories inside you that want to be told. Not perfected, simply heard.
Mindful writing is less about craft and more about presence. It’s a practice of slowing down, turning inward, and allowing whatever wants to be expressed to move through you and onto the page. No forcing anything. No inner critic in charge.
In this four-week workshop, we create the conditions for stories to arrive naturally — through mindfulness practices and gentle, guided writing activities designed to quiet the mind and open the heart. When we stop trying to write and simply listen, something shifts. Words come. Truth surfaces. The page becomes a place of refuge and revelation where we bear witness to our own stories with kindness and acceptance.
Writing in this way has a remarkable capacity to bring order to inner chaos, restore a sense of wholeness, and reconnect us with our own inner wisdom — the part of us that already knows.
No writing experience is necessary. This is a space for anyone who feels called to listen more deeply to their own story.
Bring a journal and a pen. Come exactly as you are.
Led by Jen Johnson, mindfulness teacher, therapist, photographer, and writer. Jen brings an integrative approach to mind-body healing and creative awakening. Her writing has appeared in book chapters, a poetry anthology, magazines, literary journals, and professional training manuals. More about Jen here.
Date & Times: Thursdays, July 9, 16, 23, and 30 from 12:00- 1:30 PM
Cost: $125-175, sliding scale
Register below. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link in the automated ticket confirmation.

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - JULY 2026
2026-07-15 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
July: Giving You the Best That I’ve Got: Complexities in Black Mothering
Register for JULY below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - AUGUST 2026
2026-08-19 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
August: Learning to Pivot: The Grace to Make a Different Decision
Register for AUGUST below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.

Ministry of Black Women’s Self Care, with Kim Gaubault - SEPTEMBER 2026
2026-09-16 19:00 - 20:30
Kim Gaubault recognizes that self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
September: The Gift of Goodbye
Register for SEPTEMBER below.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10, $25, or $40 per session. Choose the price that fits your budget.
