The Salt Eaters Circle
a healing space for those who carry the weight of the work.
Inspired by Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, this circle evokes a sacred invitation into collective healing, accountability, and the truth of transformation.
In Bambara’s novel, the healer Minnie Ransom asks the political organizer Velma, who is on the brink of collapse: “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well? ... Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, ’cause wholeness is no trifling matter.”
This is not leadership as usual.
It’s a return to wholeness.
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To be a Salt Eater is to be someone who:
Carries the weight of wellness—the responsibility, power, and consequence of being whole in a fragmented world.
Chooses to metabolize the pain, grief, and labor of movement work in service of collective freedom.
Is willing to go beyond survival and live in full presence with spirit, body, and memory.
Is not afraid to engage with bitterness, ancestral memory, and truth as portals to healing.
What You Receive:
12 Biweekly virtual sessions (2 hours each)
2 1-on-1 coaching sessions (Opening and Closing)
A Practical Needs Exchange (Mutual Aid/Barter Network)
Access to a private Mighty Network for community & Resource-Sharing
The Salt Eaters Circle becomes:
A sacred space to ask: “Am I ready to be well?”
A container for those who carry salt—organizers, visionaries, caretakers, freedom-dreamers.
A circle where grief, joy, rage, and rest are honored as medicine.
A space to tend to our nervous systems, our dreams, and our bodies.
A space to lovingly release what is no longer ours to carry.
A space to reclaim wellness as our birthright—not a reward for suffering.
A space to tend to the quiet, personal places often left behind in liberation work.
A space to practice being witnessed, resourced, and real.
Who It’s For:
Black women, femmes, and non-binary leaders and organizers in movement, philanthropy, education, healing, or cultural work.
People who are often the “go-to” for others but need a space of their own.
Leaders who are evolving to meet the moment but don’t want to do it alone.
Leaders who have already begun integrating healing, authenticity, or liberation into their leadership—and are ready to deepen that practice in community.
