therapy intensive — woods collective

eco-therapy intensive

Immersive ancestral healing in nature, held at sites across the African diaspora, always near water. For couples, families of origin, and chosen families ready to cross a threshold together. 3–10 days, designed around the depth of your work.

INVESTMENT & WHAT YOU’LL RECEIVE

$1,825 – $5,025

Most therapy happens in fifty-minute windows, enough time to open something, rarely enough time to move all the way through it.

The eco-therapy intensive is built differently.

We leave ordinary life behind and spend between three and ten days together held by the land. This is work for relational units: couples navigating rupture or longing for deeper repair, chosen family at a crossroads, partners moving through identity transitions, intimacy blocks, or the accumulated weight of unspoken things. The land becomes a third presence in the room — a co-regulator, an ancestral witness, a container older and steadier than any of us.

This is not crisis intervention. It is for those who are resourced enough and ready to go deep. Investment reflects the duration of your intensive, the location, and the components you select together. Every intensive includes:

Pre-intensive virtual session

We prepare for the experience together, clarify intentions, identify the location that is calling, and map the arc of the work. A $200 non-refundable deposit gets you your experience design brief, details of our plan. Final payment is made 45 days before departure.

2 Therapy Sessions Daily

Morning and evening, a rhythm of opening and receiving that allows healing to move at its actual pace.

3-10 days accommodations

Luxury accommodations at sites across the diaspora.

Nourishment

One shared communal meal prepared with local ingredients. Food as ceremony. Nourishment as part of the container.

Post-intensive Virtual integration Session

After our travel together, we connect to integrate and intentionally close the work.

Body-Inclusive Adventure

One nature-immersive experience chosen with your nervous system, your body, and your capacity in mind — hot spring bathing, kayaking, hiking, snorkeling, a beach day, or something specific to the landscape you are inhabiting.

Learning Materials

A curated archive of reading, sound, and visual art drawn from the ancestral scholarship of the land you are visiting. Something to carry home.

Locally Guided Ceremony

A culturally specific ceremonial experience held by a local practitioner in relationship with the land.

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DIASPORIC SITES OF HEALING

Healing happens in relationship with place. The land, the water, the particular memory alive in the soil beneath your feet, these are co-therapists. We work at sites across the African diaspora because where we heal matters.

Eno River, Durham NC

Eno, Shakori ancestral lands | Home of Hayti & Parrish Street — the Black Wall Street of the South
Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana

Chitimacha, Choctaw, and Natchez ancestral landsHome of Tremé — the oldest Black neighborhood in America, birthplace of jazz, second line, and Congo Square
Cape Fear River, Wilmington NC

Cape Fear, Waccamaw, and Siouan peoples | Site of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre — the only successful coup d'état in American history, overthrowing Black elected government
Chattahoochee River, Atlanta GA

Creek (Muscogee) Nation ancestral lands — removed by force on the Trail of Tears, 1838 | Home of Sweet Auburn Avenue — birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr.
Ashley River, Charleston SC

Sewee, Cusabo, and Kiawah ancestral lands | Heart of the Gullah Geechee Nation — the most intact African cultural continuity in North America
Chicago River, Chicago IL

Council of Three Fires — Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi ancestral lands | Home of Bronzeville — the Black Metropolis, where the Illinois Central carried freedom seekers north
Detroit River, Detroit MI

Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi ancestral lands | Home of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley — Detroit's Black Wall Street, erased by urban renewal and I-375
Lullwater & Prospect Park Lake, Brooklyn NY

Lunáapeew/Lenape ancestral homeland — Lenapehoking, "land of the ones who came from thought" | Home of Weeksville, second-largest free Black community in pre-Civil War America. Birthplace of Shirley Chisholm.
Vieques, Puerto Rico

Taíno ancestral lands | Site of US Navy occupation 1941–2003 — the longest environmental justice battle in Puerto Rican history.
Caribbean Coast, Limón Province, Costa Rica

Bribri and Cabécar indigenous ancestral lands | Home of Afro-Costa Rican communities descended from Jamaican railroad workers — legally prohibited from leaving the coast until 1949.
Baía de Todos os Santos, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Tupinambá ancestral lands | Heart of the largest African diaspora outside the continent — birthplace of Candomblé, capoeira, and the quilombo tradition
Delaware River, Philadelphia PA

Lenape ancestral homeland — Lenapewihittuk, "the river of the Lenape people" | Home of North Philadelphia — third largest Black community in America, built by freedom seekers from Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland
Los Angeles River, Los Angeles CA

Tongva (Gabrielino/Kizh) ancestral homeland — Tovaangar, "the world" | Home of Leimert Park — the crown jewel of Black Los Angeles, built by Great Migration families who broke the color line one deed at a time