The Braxton Institute fosters physical, emotional, and spiritual sanctuary for those building a more just, joyful and sustainable world.

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Trans+ Leaders Circle of Care - January-May 2025

We are a refuge designed to provide deep care for the hearts, spirits, and emotions of trans+folks who help others. We welcome any person of a trans-experience or identities along the trans-continuum (including but not limited to trans-women/men, trans-feminine / masculine, non-binary, gender-expansive / fluid folx). We also welcome people of any, multiple or no spiritual or faith tradition to join us. In this space, we will offer experienced facilitation, generative support through ritual, listening and visioning, along with practical care resources, in an affirming environment. 

Golden Repair - May-November 2025

Make no mistake about it, the work of repair is difficult and exhausting. Most of us repairers come to the work from a place of our own injury, or from our awareness of having seen systemic harm and injury and been unable to prevent it. We are, in many cases, broken vessels in need of repair. The analogy is kinsugi, or golden repair, a Japanese art form that repairs broken pottery with gold to make of these broken shards an enduring work of art that is more beautiful and enduring than the original. Our gold comes from restorative practices based in spiritual traditions.

Ongoing Reparations Initiatives

The Braxton Institute is engaged in ongoing work for Reparations in Lakeland, Maryland and across the United States. Explore past and present work:

• Reparations for Lakeland Now! Campaign

• Reparations and HR40

• Grants

Featured Past Project: COVID-19 Circles

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Braxton Institute provided programming for Black clinicians and healthcare providers.