DIASPORIC SITES OF HEALING

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

past & future diasporic sites of healing

  • 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

WHERE WE’LL BE HEALING | 2026-2027

Woods Collective experiences are nomadic by design. Join us where we are or signal a custom location.

  • This is the Woods Collective current home ground. Eno, Occoneechee & Shakori ancestral lands, home of Hayti and the Black Wall Street of the South. NC clients receive the full clinical therapy layer, superbill for insurance available.

  • Lenape ancestral homeland, home of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America, the birthplace of Shirley Chisholm, and ancestral stomping grounds of the Woods Collective family.

  • Chitimacha, Choctaw, and Natchez ancestral lands. Home of Tremé, the oldest Black neighborhood in America, birthplace of jazz, second line, and Congo Square. A site of grief, resistance, spiritual revolution, and ongoing becoming.

  • Chitimacha, Choctaw, and Natchez ancestral lands. Home of Tremé, the oldest Black neighborhood in America, birthplace of jazz, second line, and Congo Square. A site of grief, resistance, spiritual revolution, and ongoing becoming.

  • Taíno ancestral lands and site of the longest environmental justice battle in Puerto Rican history. The US Navy occupied this island for sixty years, and the people took it back. Come to a place that knows, in its soil and its water, what it means to reclaim what was taken.

  • Let’s uncover your site of healing together.

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ON LAND STEWARDSHIP & RIGHT RELATIONSHIP

We do not arrive in these places as extractive tourists. We move through them as guests, in slow, reciprocal relationship with the people, healers, and communities who inhabit and steward these lands. Not every site is available immediately, and that is intentional. If a specific ancestral location is calling to you, bring that to your consultation. We will tell you honestly where we are.