Rest As Resistance- A Black Therapist Panel
Sunday, February 01, 2026, 14:00 -
Sunday, February 01, 2026, 16:00
Event duration 2 hours
General Admission:
USD 0.00
About Rest As Resistance- A Black Therapist Panel
REST AS RESISTANCE is the opening event of REST 2026, a Black History Month series rooted in collective care, liberation, and mutual aid.
This Black Therapist Panel centers rest not as indulgence, but as survival. In a world that demands constant productivity and emotional labor from Black communities, rest becomes a political, psychological, and communal act of resistance.
This gathering is an opportunity to be in honest conversation with licensed Black mental health professionals. Attendees are invited to ask the questions they’ve been holding — about burnout, boundaries, healing, survival, joy, and what it actually looks like to care for ourselves and each other in real life.
This is not a lecture. It is a community space grounded in care, accessibility, and truth.
The panel will explore:
Rest as resistance to burnout and disposability
Mental health beyond survival mode
Community care as a protective factor
Reclaiming rest without guilt or shame
This event is free and open to the community.
If you’re able, Donations are encouraged and support Sudan mutual aid through Sudanese-led, community-run networks. For Real Therapy will match every dollar donated, doubling the impact of collective care.
Events Schedule
Sunday, February 01, 2026, 14:00
Sunday, February 01, 2026, 16:00
Event Categories
Mental Health Events
Community Connections
NeuroBloom Mental Health Collective
https://neurobloommhc.com/
NeuroBloom Mental Health Collective is a Chicago-based therapy collective creating spaces where healing feels like reclamation instead of survival. We host community events that blur the line between mental health, culture, and collective care, because we don’t believe therapy only happens in a 50-minute appointment. It happens in rooms where people laugh, rest, reflect, learn, and remember they deserve good things. Our events center Black, immigrant, and queer communities with a focus on nervous system education, trauma-informed practice, creative expression, and mutual aid. We bring clinicians, artists, organizers, and community workers into the same room to explore what healing looks like when we stop doing it alone. If you’re looking for spaces that feel alive, culturally fluent, politically awake, and clinically rigorous, you’re in the right place. We’re building a future where mental health is public health and rest is not a reward, it’s a right.