The Tea Room
A closed space for Black women in professional spaces to connect with each other and pour into each other. One Friday a month, we sit down, exhale, and take care of one another.
The room you don't have to explain yourself in.
Many of us are the only one, or one of few, in rooms where we are expected to perform composure, carry extra weight, and make everyone else comfortable. The Tea Room is the room where we put that down.
It is not a networking event and it is not a workshop. It is a standing circle of Black women who work in professional spaces, who show up for each other, and who leave fuller than we arrived.
Pour in. Share what you know, what you have survived, and what you have to give: advice, introductions, encouragement, a witness.
Be poured into. Ask for what you need and receive it without having to earn it.
This is peer support, one of the six principles that guide all of our work, practiced as a monthly gathering.
THE SHAPE OF IT
Simple on purpose.
WHEN
One Friday a month
Dates are shared with members ahead of time, so you can protect the time.
WHO
Black women in professional spaces
Whatever your field, sector or stage of career. The circle is closed to others, and that is the point.
HOW
By invitation
Membership is a closed group. You request a place, we respond personally, and details are shared once you are in.
OUR AGREEMENTS
What makes it safe.
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Stories shared in the room are not repeated outside it. Take the lesson with you; leave the story.
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Nothing from the Tea Room is recorded, posted or shared.
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No pitching, no résumés, no one-upping. You do not have to be impressive here.
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Listening is participation. No one is pressed to disclose.
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The Tea Room is community and peer support, not clinical care or a substitute for it.
REQUEST A PLACE
Pull up a chair.
Send a short note about who you are and what you do. A member of the Reconstruction Institute will reply personally. Please don't post details of the group publicly.