Exhale Academic Writing Retreats balance productivity, inspiration, and connection with coaching, consulting, and training through webinars and workshops.
Retreats are tailored to the needs of you and/or your organization and include guided writing sprints — with movement breaks — as well as guided visioning and in-depth workshops.
Angelique Davis facilitates virtual and in-person academic workshops focused on joy, sustainability, and cultural grounding. Participants describe these workshops as grounding and transformative—centering community, ancestral knowledge, and accessible practices that shift relationships to writing and work beyond productivity-focused models, particularly for marginalized scholars.
Defined as “the political, social, economic, and cultural process that perpetuates and normalizes a white supremacist reality by pathologizing those who resist,” the Racial Gaslighting Series helps participants identify racial gaslighting making invisible forms of racism visible.
In this three-part series, participants build a shared language for understanding racial gaslighting, learn to recognize it as it unfolds, and develop practical strategies for responding to it. Attendees will be equipped to challenge racial gaslighting within their communities, professional spaces, and social environments.
Together, Angelique Davis and Rose Ernst guide participants from enlightenment to empowerment, fostering the skills and confidence needed to create meaningful change.
Angelique M. Davis is a coach and certified workshop facilitator for the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity.
NCFDD helps higher education institutions support faculty at scale, with customized, evidence based faculty development solutions. From their signature Faculty Success Program to institutional partnerships, NCFDD solutions are designed to reduce isolation, increase productivity, and create space for meaningful work.
The NCFDD is a leader in providing career development and mentoring services to universities and their faculty, postdocs, and graduate students through its three offerings: Faculty Programs, Membership, and Workshops.
“Hopefully, someday I will be able to retreat with you in person, but the space you have created online is a really unique one. I read “Sparking Academic Joy” and it really connected me to your retreats – because I didn’t want writing to always be a horribly painful process. And I don’t think that is something that other faculty writing programs really weave into their work, or do so in the way you do. Most are very productivity-focused, which works for a lot of people, but I was seeing so many women of color academics who were so unhappy with their life or sick…while being very productive because women of color — especially Black women — always have to overperform. It made me think it isn’t worth it. I still honestly don’t know if I want to go the traditional route, but my relationship with writing has changed significantly.I credit that shift in large part to finding the Exhale Writing Retreats and a community of people who find joy in their writing – as women of color dealing with all the BS that comes with being women of color in academia. You have cultivated a unique and necessary space and community.It seems to me to be a fundamentally different place from which you begin — community and joy versus productivity that makes a huge difference in making academia a place where everyone, but especially those most marginalized, can thrive.”Taína FigueroaPostdoctoral Fellow in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean StudiesEmory University
