Something different has to happen.

By Moonlight is an art-centered healing justice facilitation collective.

We take groups and teams through a process that has no deliverables, no product to produce, no polished outcome to present to the board.

We know how that sounds. Stay with us.

Because in that freedom — in that radical, slightly terrifying absence of predictability — something starts to happen. People relax. They start to trust each other. They start to remember who they are outside of their job titles and their performance reviews and the forty-seven things the organization needs from them by Friday.

And from that place, beautiful new pathways emerge. Pathways that couldn't have been planned. That could only come from people who finally felt safe enough to be fully human together.

That is devastatingly needed right now.

The moment we are in is messy. It is heavy and urgent and asking something of us that the old tools simply cannot provide. You cannot meet a messy moment from a neat little box. You cannot birth something genuinely new while protecting how things have always been done.

We have to get creative. We have to get brave. We have to get a little free. Even — and especially — a little fun.

That is what By Moonlight makes possible. We bring the fringe space inside your organization. Not as a reward for surviving another hard year. As a living strategy for changing what is actually possible.

Get on the bus.

Somebody once called me the Black Miss Frizzle.

I have never recovered from how right they were.

Because yes. When you get on this bus, we are going somewhere unexpected. The route is not mapped.

There is no arrival time. And by the time you get off, you will not be the same person who got on.

That is not a warning. That is the whole point.

Fair warning: you may not be able to fully explain to your board what happened in there. You will just know that something shifted. And so will they — in the results, in the culture, in the way your team shows up on Monday morning.

The ones who are ready for this work will read this page and feel it in their body before their mind catches up. That feeling is the yes.

What We Offer

Retreats

2 hours - 5 days. For your team, your cohort, your community.

You have survived the icebreaker and the slide deck about psychological safety. And on Monday morning, nothing was different. A By Moonlight retreat is something else entirely.

It is an artistically designed, sensory, sometimes surprising experience that weaves together collective singing, somatic movement, rest, ritual, altar-building, play, and deep creative making — because lasting change does not happen in the mind. It happens in the body. In the nervous system. In the moment when a room full of people who thought they were too tired to feel anything suddenly are gently moving together, being vulnerable and remembering that they are alive.

Because of the giant, eclectic, ever-surprising toolset I bring into the room, people get to experience their own creativity — sometimes for the first time in years. They rest. They connect into each other's humanity in a way the usual workday never allows. And from that place of unbounded possibility, people become innovative. New trust is built. Something shifts that does not un-shift on Monday morning.

Testimony

"It was so much better than a mediator. Not just people complaining — my staff talked about how they wanted to be better people at work and in their personal lives. The experience was cathartic."

— Michele Young, Owner, Division Chiropractic and Acupuncture

Hush Harbors Liberatory Affinity Spaces for BIPOC Folks

In the lineage of the spaces where enslaved Black people gathered in the middle of the night — in the woods, away from the system, away from surveillance — to share rhythms, healing, and escape plans.

Not to process what white supremacy keeps getting wrong. To remember what liberation feels like from the inside.

A Hush Harbor is a BIPOC affinity space where we gather to rest, to create, to sing, to practice non-hierarchical exchange, to somatically unwind from urgency and binary thinking and power hoarding and the exhausting performance of professionalism. To let the liberated pathways inside each of us — out. Now. Not when the system gives us permission. Now.

No deliverables. No agenda to protect. No product to produce.

That is precisely the point. Iterative affinity spaces with nothing to prove are not a luxury. They are a revolutionary act. They are how a new world practices itself into existence.

Testimony

"What stands out most is Sojourner's ability to integrate rest, connection, and creativity into nonprofit and leadership spaces in ways that feel both radical and necessary. Joy and community care are not luxuries — they are essential tools for liberation."

— Anika Tené, Director of Grants, Awards and Programs

Strategic By Moonlight Integrations

Healing Justice Integrations For organizations ready to build something different from the inside out.

This is for the leader who is done with the once-a-year retreat that everyone loves and then forgets by February. Who wants rest and belonging and creativity woven into the actual DNA of how their organization operates. As culture. As policy.

A By Moonlight Integration is a long-term partnership. We establish agreements together. We build practices of repair. We create recurring spaces for collective care. We mentor your leadership in the somatic dismantling of white supremacist culture — not as a lecture, not as a training, but as a living, iterative, ever-surprising practice that only your group could build. Because it emerges from your specific people. Your specific wisdom. Your specific moment.

We move at the speed of trust. We stay emergent. We do not hand you a curriculum and leave. We grow one together and we stay in it with you.

This is the work one director called "the most nurturing space I experience in my work day." For three years running. Three years.

Testimony

"Sojourner's skill as a facilitator is unparalleled. Every space they hold is intentional, sacred, and deeply impactful."

— Anika Tené

TESTIMONIES

  • "Sojourner, I can't thank you enough for the rest that you helped provide - it was amazing. I have never experienced anything like it in a retreat setting. I WANT MORE!!!"

    Terri Johnson, Director of Collective Impact

  • "Sojourner’s skill as a facilitator is unparalleled—whether guiding us through breathwork practices to regulate our nervous systems, leading creative movement sessions that invite us to reclaim joy and embodiment, or facilitating cultural leadership legacy work that reconnects us to our lineage and ancestral wisdom. Every space they hold is intentional, sacred, and deeply impactful."

    Anika Tene, Director of Grants Awards and Programs

  • “It was so much better than a mediator, not just people complaining but our staff talking about how they wanted to be better people at work and in their personal lives. By Moonlight held a safe space for our collective and individual healing processes. My staff commented that the experience was cathartic. I highly recommend Sojourner!.”

    Michele Young, Division Chiropractic and Acupuncture, Owner

  • “The wellness workshops facilitated by Sojourner were excellent — They did a phenomenal job facilitating and we were impressed with how well these went. Sojourner was attuned to where we are at this time, and provided not just a welcoming and inclusive style but real, tangible tools. We loved how we were guided to get in tune with our bodies and connect with colleagues in a different way. The breathing and movement techniques were great tools to help us refresh and calm ourselves during high-intensity times. It was a necessary and healthy moment for our community to signal to each other that we value care and respect for each other and each other's wellbeing.”

    Gabrielle Lyon, Executive Director at Illinois Humanities

Clients

Rest. Create. Belong.

Interested in a By Moonlight retreat for your team? Interested in a physical refuge space for your conference? Would you like us to be a part of your strategic planning? Let us know what you are dreaming up.