RCWMS

Freedom Dreaming at Historic Stagville with New Legacy Lab
2026-06-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | 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.
