RETREAT PROGRAM & ACTIVITIES
The Healing While Black 2025 Retreat
A Connection & Care Getaway
Preliminary PROGRAM SCHEDULE
& ACTIVITIES
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Friday, June 6th, 2025
4:00-6:00pm - Arrival & Resort Check-in
​7:00pm-9:00pm - Opening Reception & Ceremony
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Saturday, June 7th, 2025
8:00am Morning Meditation (Optional)
8:30am - Community Breakfast
9:30am - 11:30am Connection & Care Healing Circle #1
11:30am-7:30pm - Self-Care Activities
Retreatant Choice: Resort Offerings (massages, facials, spa, fitness center, rock painting, biking, walking trails, swimming, water activities such as jetskiing and kayaking, and more)
or HWB Connection & Care Activity Offerings (various)
or Just Chill!
(Napping, laying out by the pool, or just sitting down somewhere with a view are great options too!)
Lunch & Dinner: Multiple Resort Options on your own
5:00pm - Optional HWB Group Dinner Reservation at a Resort Restaurant
7:30pm - 9:30pm - Featured Speaker with Community Discussion
Mark Chase, Pastor & Community Organizer
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Sunday, June 8th, 2025
8:00am Morning Meditation (Optional)
8:30am - Light Breakfast
9:30am - Instructions and Start "Quietude Time"
9:30am-1:30pm - QUIETUDE
Lunch: Multiple Resort Options on your own
1:30-2:30pm - Sound Healing with Tyler Cymone
2:30pm - QUIETUDE Ends
2:30pm - 5:00pm Healing-in-Community Time
Debriefing Quietude & Sharing
Connection & Care Healing Circle #2
6:00pm - 7:00pm Outdoor Community Dinner Buffet
7:00pm - 9:00pm - Drum Circle with Gerald Rivers
Followed by "That's My Jam" Music & Socializing (9-10pm)
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Monday, June 9th, 2025
8:00am - Community Breakfast
9:00am-10:30am - Connection & Care Healing Circle #3
Retreat Closing
11:00am - Resort Check-out
Mark Chase is based out of the greater Los Angeles area where he currently serves as a pastor and community organizer at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Mark's work focuses on tending to the health of the human spirit, resisting anti-blackness and cultivating safe spaces for Black people to heal and thrive, and co-conspiring for social progress through solidarity and organizing. Among the various thinkers and leaders that influence his approach to his work are Howard Thurman, Grace Lee Boggs, Adrienne Marie Brown, bell hooks and Thich Naht Hahn. He and his partner Keyanna live in Los Angeles county with their two young sons Ezra and Elijah.
Gerald C. Rivers, Master Drummer, has been playing, drumming, teaching and facilitating drum circles across the country for over 20 years. His work in schools, churches, prisons, community centers, and more, has provided musical expression to adults and children of all ages. He is passionate about the history and culture of West African drumming and rhythms. He uses the power of the drum to teach essential life and spiritual lessons. Gerald grew up in Compton, California and studied at the Sheenway Theatre Arts Repertory in Los Angeles. He is multitalented actor, voiceover artist, director, and inspirational speaker. He is known for his voiceover work in cartoons, an animated internet series, as well as several internationally popular video games. Gerald is most known for his renditions as "The Voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.". The Center for the Advancement of Non-Violence recognized Gerald’s work with a Season for Non-Violence Local Hero Award. Learn more at geraldcriversactor.com.
Tyler Cymone is a sound healing practitioner with over eight years of experience. Born into a musical family, Tyler has been immersed in the connection between sound and wellness from birth. Her journey blends science, spirituality, and ceremony to explore sound’s power to heal and transform. Tyler works with music tech brand SUBPAC to curate immersive healing experiences. She also developed Health & Bass, a platform dedicated to exploring and sharing research on the healing power of sound and vibration. As a host for Project Immersed, she also explored the intersection of sound, science, wellness, and technology with esteemed doctors, speakers, ceremonial practitioners, music pioneers, and tech brands in the space. Currently, through her alias, T I L L â–³, Tyler creates immersive sound experiences using frequencies, meditation, and multi-sensory elements to cultivate energetic fields for healing and manifestation. Coupled with unique products such as candles, oils, and mists, she offers a fully immersive experience that touches each of the five senses to transport listeners to a realm where healing, manifestation, and deep transformation can occur. As a speaker, educator, and artist, she is dedicated to sharing the profound impact of sound, guiding others in becoming aware of its power. At her core, Tyler's mission is to be a beacon of love and to support others on their wellness journey through the transformative power of sound.
