Offerings – The Octavia Fund

Reclaiming Rest as our Birthright

Rest Retreats

We are building a community of Black women who are reclaiming rest as their birthright. Twice a year we offer retreat space for Black women activists to rest, dream, explore their creativity, and connect across movements, age, class, and identity. Retreat participation presently includes:

*Please note: retreats are currently invite only.*

Testimonials

Kind Words

Don’t hesitate. This is a gift. Let me tell other Black women that healing in community is very powerful and can be deeper and more gentle than healing on your own. And to do that in a community that is safe on a racial level, is a real gift.

I know being in community with Black women is always powerful and nourishing, but this was something different…The lasting impact of it has been the tethering - to be able to, in my mind, go back to that space, how I felt, what I saw. Now, I remind myself: “No, you had that - we can get it again.”

This retreat is the space for you to reconnect with yourself and your purpose. It's for anyone who wants and needs that with other Black women. This is made for Black women by Black women to support Black women on whatever journey they are on.

Prepare to find parts of yourself you didn't know were missing.

Amazing experience ... I loved the diversity of the women who attended and I was so honored to be able to prioritize restful space.

My initial takeaways are that my healing, growth and work in the world must happen in community. This helped me experience a community that I can trust to hold my whole self. I left with a sense of a need to advocate for myself more, and realizing that there are real consequences to not doing so.

Coming Soon

Rest Residencies

Liberation is creative work. Just as artists need residences to hone their skills and creative visions, activists need time and space away from the frontlines of social change to rest, examine, explore, and allow new creative ideas emerge. Be the first to know when our Rest Residences launch.

In Development

Breathing In Freedom

Freedom is a practice. Rest is a practice. We are deep in the design-phase of a curated cohort experience for Black women to claim and celebrate our freedom and rest here and now in the day-to-day. Focused on the practical and poetic of liberation practice, we will offer programming created by Black practitioners for Black women to explore and enjoy from the comfort of their homes and integrate into their everyday experiences.

Be the first to know when our Breathing In Freedom cohort launches.

Grantmaking

The Octavia Fund is not a grantmaking institution yet. Following in the tradition of our patron saint Octavia Butler, we are speaking into being the world we want and the organization we strive to be.

Long before she got her due, Octavia Butler repeated mantras in her journals about how she was to become a bestselling author. The Octavia Fund will be a grantmaking organization someday soon and our namechoice is a nod to Octavia and the path we’re walking together. So be it. See to it.