Nichola Torbett
Nichola Torbett is a white, queer, raised-working-class spiritual seeker, recovering addict, gospel preacher, racial justice podcaster, and nonviolent direct action trainer. She grew up in a sundown town in Ohio and had no consciousness of racism until she was nearly 25. She is grateful to the powerful BIPOC-led movements of Oakland and San Francisco, California, for her political education and to the friends of color who told her about herself and took a chance on her despite it all. She is committed to helping other white people unlearn internalized supremacy and become part of multiracial coalitions to end racism and white supremacy. She is also the associate director of Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center.
Upcoming Programs by Nichola Torbett
White Antiracist Practice Group Series 7: White Woman Edition
Six weekly sessions on Wednesdays, noon-1:30pm ET, with the next session running March 5-April 9, 2025 and focusing specifically on the role of white women in upholding white supremacy systems Description Looking for a place to deepen your antiracist practice? For a committed, kind community of support and accountability for taking action to dismantle white […]
Our First 100 Days: A Mostly Unstructured Retreat
Also With Lacey Hunter
Calling all social justice movement folks, activists, disruptors, healers, organizers, visionaries, and artists! By April 30, we will be 100 days into this presidency. How are you doing? How is your heart? Your body? Come away to the mountain for a (mostly) unstructured retreat to reflect–on your own or with others–on how you and we […]
Women in Recovery: A Spiritual Retreat
Also With Rev. Deb Staniszewski
You are warmly invited to join us for a weekend of 12-step recovery fellowship and conscious connection in a beautiful natural setting. Expect meetings, ritual, art-making, time in nature, a candlelight labyrinth walk, and more. The retreat is open to self-identified women and nonbinary people of all spiritual belief systems. We hope you’ll come!
Liturgical Direct Action: A Discernment Retreat
Also With Bill Wylie-Kellermann and Naomi Washington-Leapheart
How is direct action or civil disobedience altered when framed in prayerful worship? What dimensions of freedom are then embraced? When public witness tells the story of faith and marks a feast or season, what new depth of communication is opened? When nonviolence is practiced in sacramental forms, how is liturgy itself enhanced? With examples […]