Lois Moses has invited SIFTers and the General Public to attend the following BLACK HISTORY MONTH events, brought to you by The Division of Community Engagement and Belonging and Black Psychology Project Jegnaship Program (California Institute of Integral Studies – CIIS). A celebration of Black history, art, healing, and prowess.
All events are held remotely over Zoom to be accessible to everyone. Please register for the events with the links provided.
February 3rd: 28 Days of Blackness Opening Ceremony
Join us for a virtual opening ceremony celebrating the start of 28 Days of Blackness, Seeds of Soul: Sown in Strength and Still RISING.
Date: Tuesday, February 3rd
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
February 5th: Sustainable Rootology
This 90-minute conversation reflects on our work thus far, grounded in lived experience, global travel, and community-centered action. We will share insights from our international engagements and conferences, examine our current projects focused on women, girls, interfaith unity, language reclamation, and safety, and reflect on lessons learned through on-the-ground organizing. The discussion will also look ahead by exploring projected initiatives, collective needs, and opportunities for collaboration as we ask where we go from here. This session invites reflection, accountability, and shared visioning for sustainable, people-powered impact across borders.
Date: Thursday, February 5th
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
February 10th: Triangular Living Cinema: Filmmaker, Audience, Community & Critic, Distributors-Educators-Curator
Triangular Living Cinema is a community-rooted workshop led by Alile Sharon Larkin, grounded in the African principle of Ubuntu—I am because we are. In the spirit of African History Month, this gathering invites African filmmakers, artists, educators, curators, and community members to come together and reflect on how we tell our stories, who controls them, and how they live within our communities.
Drawing from African worldviews and lived experience, Alile Sharon Larkin guides participants through a conversation about storytelling as a collective responsibility, one that honors African people as whole, divine beings. The workshop explores the relationships between artists, community, and cultural stewards and how those relationships can be strengthened to create films and media that educate, uplift, and sustain us.
This is not a technical workshop, it is a remembering. A space to reclaim narrative power, challenge systems that have exploited our creativity, and imagine self-sustaining cultural economies rooted in care, dignity, and collective vision. Triangular Living Cinema offers participants a grounded, affirming space to envision African storytelling as liberation work—past, present, and future.
Date: Tuesday, February 10th
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
February 11th: The Demystification of Sexual Addiction |
Sexual addiction is often misunderstood and stigmatized. However, with knowledge comes hope and healing. This educational event offers a safe and respectful space to learn about sexual addiction, its physical, mental, and spiritual effects, and the resources available for recovery.
Date: Wednesday, February 11th
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
February 12th: Healing, Being, & the Omiyomi Frequency
Dr. Lattimore shares insights, exercises, and lessons that have helped in bringing healing to himself, his family, and his spirit.
Date: Thursday, February 12th
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
February 17th: 9 Ships: A Visual, Crossed, and Entangled History of Enslaved Africans Across Two Middle Passages
In 1860, three illegal enslaving ships from New York, en route from West Africa to Cuba, were intercepted and rerouted to Key West. There, 1,432 Africans were confined for eighty-five days in barracoons before being forcibly deported to Liberia, a place with no ancestral ties, constituting a second Middle Passage. Nearly one-third died on the voyage, and at least 295 died in Key West. The number who perished during the first crossing remains unknown.
This lecture presents artworks and research exploring these histories and the lives affected by them. Using relief printing techniques, the work investigates cycles of displacement, trauma, and historical absence. By connecting past events to contemporary experiences of forced migration and deportation, it creates a space for remembrance, reflection, and empathy.
Date: Tuesday February 17th
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
February 18: Reflecting, Celebrating and Imagining: A Roundtable Discussion – Emerging Black Clinician Project
As the Emerging Black Clinician Project completes its 5th and final year at CIIS, graduate fellows will reflect on their experience and how it has shaped them personally and professionally. With audience engagement, we will dream into future opportunities for healing and nourishing Black communities.
Date: Wednesday, February 18th
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER
Fawohodie Guided Imagery Method™: Accessing Ancestral Wisdom for Psycho-Spiritual Well-Being
This experiential workshop introduces participants to the Fawohodie Guided Transformative Imagery Method™, an Afrikan-centered, psycho-spiritual practice rooted in ancestral consciousness, collective memory, and embodied knowing. Drawing from Black/African-centered psychology, Sankofa Praxis, and liberation psychology, participants are guided beyond visualization as willful imagination into imagery as remembrance—a sacred process of reconnecting with ancestors, lineage, spirit, and collective purpose.
Date: Wednesday, February 24th
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EST
Location: Remote via Zoom – REGISTER