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Nap Ministry presents Napping as Resistance: Rest as a Tool for Collective Liberation

What if the key to our liberation, justice and community thriving isn’t more effort—but more rest? In this transformative interactive session, Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, challenges everything we’ve been taught about productivity, showing how intentional rest is not just a luxury, but a necessity for personal and collective liberation. Brilliant sound artist and singer Arin Maya will be joining Tricia to add a live soundtrack to the Collective Rest Moment. You don’t want to miss this special collaboration.

Tricia is the acclaimed author of two groundbreaking books Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto and We Will Rest!, both of which explore rest, healing, and liberation as radical tools for reclaiming our humanity.

Before the session, FlowWell Yoga will lead a gentle Chair Yoga demonstration—an embodied invitation to release and center.

Speakers

  • Tricia Hersey: founder of The Nap Ministry

Partner
We are excited to partner on this event with Metropolitan AME Church, a historic national church at the vanguard of creating space for all human beings to imagine and build a just and beautiful community and world.

Albany Road Film Screening followed by a Truth & Relationships Town Hall

Directed by Christine Swanson, Albany Road follows Celeste as she prepares for an important work trip, only to find herself sharing a tense car ride with her ex-fiancé’s mother, Paula.

After the film, join us for an honest and revealing community dialogue on improving how we share our lives and thoughts with the people we love.

Sponsor
Presented through support from The Black Leadership AIDS
Crisis Coalition powered by AHF

Speakers

  • Lisa Arrindell: Actor
  • Christine Swanson: Director
  • Dr. Henry Gregory: Clinical Psychologist in Community Mental Health and Family Systems
  • Dr. Sonja Richmond: Hospice Medical Director, Blue Ridge Hospice