About this Event
CLOTHED Empowerment Biannual Retreat 2025
“Where Does Your Help Come From? Maximizing Your Healing Journey by Understanding the Transformative Partnership of Professional and Spiritual Help”
Join us for this year's CLOTHED Empowerment Retreat— a transformative day blending spiritual and professional help as the most fruitful way to maximize your healing journey!
Enjoy specialty mocktails, guided conversations led by licensed therapists and our keynote speaker, as well as interactive breakout sessions, reflection activities, and powerful connections that help you explore how faith and therapy can work hand in hand.
Expect a thoughtful retreat package, engaging lunch activity, exclusive giveaways from Black woman-owned businesses, and a come-as-you-go Connection Session featuring book giveaways, photo ops, and fellowship.
Come ready to heal, connect, and leave feeling empowered. Limited seats available!
Agenda
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Registration & Mingle Session
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Welcome and Introduction | Where Does Your Help Come From?
Info: Get grounded in the retreat’s purpose and theme with a heartfelt welcome and an inspiring quote. Then reflect on your relationship with help and healing through a guided, thought-provoking questionnaire.
🕑: 11:25 AM - 11:55 AM
Breakout Activity: Therapist Pods
Info: Explore how spiritual and professional help, once misunderstood, can now become strengths working in harmony through a guided conversation by licensed therapists.
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch & Connection Activity – Healing With Him
Info: Pair up through scripture cards and reflect on what it means to heal with God’s Word at the center as we eat a delicious meal together courtesy of Royal Spices.
🕑: 01:05 PM - 01:35 PM
Keynote Speaker
Info: Hear a powerful story from LaTonya J. Smith—Founder of Love Covers, Beyond My Brokenness, and FAR Women’s Ministry, and a current doctoral student—on how integrating faith and therapy transformed her healing journey, along with practical takeaways to help you do the same.
🕑: 01:40 PM - 02:00 PM
Closing
Info: Celebrate the wisdom shared, thank all who participated, and share the final Healing Promise before transitioning into the Connection Session.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Connection Session (Optional)
Info: Wind down with community connection through writing out your Healing Promise, "Blind Date with a Book" giveaways, professional photo ops, a "Grab What You Need" letter wall, and a chance to share your retreat experience for a giveaway.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Social, 515 East Pine Street, Hattiesburg, United States
USD 60.54
