✷ MONTHLY GATHERINGS
✷ MONTHLY GATHERINGS
AAPI WOMXN ANCESTRAL HEALING CIRCLE
In this class, participants are invited to join Aki and Mangda Sengvanhpheng to explore the ancestral realm for our individual and collective healing. Being ‘Asian’ is not a monolith experience; we gather in this complexity to be fully seen, heard and transform our wounds into our gifts.
Everything offered in this class is an invitation and suggestion—and each participant can choose how they want to engage in this space as long as the safety of the online space is not compromised for the members of the learning community.
This class is open to any womxn (woman, femme, trans, non-binary, non-gender-conforming and other, desires to gather within this context) who wishes to create a deeper connection and healing of our ancestral lineage.
YU:EXIST ~ A Death + Rebirth Journey
YU:EXIST is an empowering 4-week experience designed to re-engage you to your life and to our shared world. Through learnings, practices, self-reflection and community gatherings, you’ll receive invaluable insights and awareness while making new connections and discoveries about your life. This can serve as a pathway to better understand, accept, heal, and prepare for the end-of-life. We’ll refine what it means to exist in the world today.
Sky Lounge
Welcome to Sky Lounge~
Explore spooky season with Moon from Queer Death Stories and Mangda from BACII through free-flowing dialogue and community!
A few notes before you RIP/RSVP below:
We have limited capacity so only sign-up if you’re able to make the scheduled time/date. If anything changes, please let us know we can give your RIP to someone else.
This is a participatory space.
You’ll receive a Zoom link before the event begins.
Please email hello@bacii.co or queerdeathstories8@gmail.com with any questions!
Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through meditation, writing, ritual, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is open to all. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins.
To RSVP: Venmo $30 to @bacii_ or use the link below.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
BIPOC Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through meditation, writing, ritual, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is for BIPOC only. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins.
To RSVP: Venmo $25 to @bacii_ or use the link below.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
YU:EXIST ~ A Death + Rebirth Journey
YU:EXIST is an empowering 4-week experience designed to re-engage you to your life and to our shared world. Through learnings, practices, self-reflection and community gatherings, you’ll receive invaluable insights and awareness while making new connections and discoveries about your life. This can serve as a pathway to better understand, accept, heal, and prepare for the end-of-life. We’ll refine what it means to exist in the world today.
Sky Lounge
Welcome to Sky Lounge~
Join Moon from Queer Death Stories and Mangda from BACII for our first virtual Sky Lounge. This mixer is for anti-racist, anti-oppressive, queer inclusive, death and grief worker/angels! Our Sky Lounge is intended to be a joyful refugee and a source of connection and support that we create together.
A few notes before you RIP/RSVP below:
We have limited capacity so only sign-up if you’re able to make the scheduled time/date. If anything changes, please let us know we can give your RIP to someone else.
This is a participatory space.
This is not a grief support group or a death cafe.
Once you RIP you’ll receive a Zoom link with Sky Lounge themed instructions~
Please email hello@bacii.co or queerdeathstories8@gmail.com with any questions!
YU: Impermanence for Change
YU: Exploring Impermanence for Change is an empowering 4-week experience designed to re-engage you to your life and to our shared world. Through learnings, practices, self-reflection and community gatherings, you’ll receive invaluable insights and awareness while making new connections and discoveries about your life. This can serve as a pathway to better understand, accept, heal, and prepare for the end-of-life. We’ll refine what it means to exist in the world today.
Radical Belonging: A New Moon Gathering
This New Moon in Cancer will focus on Radical Belonging through light movement, meditation, journaling, tarot and more with Womxn of Color.
Led by Mangda Sengvanhpheng, Artist, healing practitioner and founder of BACII.
More details will be released closer to the date.
Womxn of Color Summit New Moon gatherings are by-donation care circles, held virtually on Zoom, to create community for BI&WoC.
Sky Lounge
Welcome to Sky Lounge~
Join Moon from Queer Death Stories and Mangda from BACII for our first virtual Sky Lounge. This mixer is for anti-racist, anti-oppressive, queer inclusive, death and grief worker/angels! Our Sky Lounge is intended to be a joyful refugee and a source of connection and support that we create together.
A few notes before you RIP/RSVP below:
We have limited capacity so only sign-up if you’re able to make the scheduled time/date. If anything changes, please let us know we can give your RIP to someone else.
This is a participatory space.
This is not a grief support group or a death cafe.
Once you RIP you’ll receive a Zoom link with Sky Lounge themed instructions~
Please email hello@bacii.co or queerdeathstories8@gmail.com with any questions!
Sky Lounge
Welcome to Sky Lounge~
Join Moon from Queer Death Stories and Mangda from BACII for our first virtual Sky Lounge. This mixer is for anti-racist, anti-oppressive, queer inclusive, death and grief worker/angels! Our Sky Lounge is intended to be a joyful refugee and a source of connection and support that we create together.
A few notes before you RIP/RSVP below:
We have limited capacity so only sign-up if you’re able to make the scheduled time/date. If anything changes, please let us know we can give your RIP to someone else.
This is a participatory space.
This is not a grief support group or a death cafe.
Once you RIP you’ll receive a Zoom link with Sky Lounge themed instructions~
Please email hello@bacii.co or queerdeathstories8@gmail.com with any questions!
YU: Impermanence for Change
YU: Exploring Impermanence for Change is an empowering 4-week experience designed to re-engage you to your life and to our shared world. Through learnings, practices, self-reflection and community gatherings, you’ll receive invaluable insights and awareness while making new connections and discoveries about your life. This can serve as a pathway to better understand, accept, heal, and prepare for the end-of-life. We’ll refine what it means to exist in the world today.
BIPOC Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is for BIPOC only. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is open to all. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
BIPOC Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is for BIPOC only. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Brooklyn Defender Services
BACII presented Growing with Grief at the Brooklyn Defender Services. This is an interactive workshop where participants will explore personal definitions of grief, discuss how grief impacts spiritual well-being and learn some creative practices for tending to grief and promoting well-being.
Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is open to all. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
BIPOC Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is for BIPOC only. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is open to all. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
BIPOC Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is for BIPOC only. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where our collective and individual grief is with us at all times, affecting our overall wellbeing. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or loved ones, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
Through a shared safe and brave space, meditation, writing, and dialogue — we’ll alleviate our grief while forming deeper connections to ourselves and each other.
This group is open to all. After you RSVP you’ll be emailed a Zoom link before our gathering begins. Please email hello@bacii.co if you need to make financial arrangements.
Please note: we will be discussing sensitive and potentially triggering topics. This gathering is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Mar. - Apr. Lunar Journey
An empowering 30-day cyclic BACII experience designed to gently shatter the illusion of immortality while creating meaning in your life. Through learnings, rituals, and a committed practice of self-reflection and investigation, you will form a deeper kinship to your existence while gaining invaluable insight and awareness into what matters most.
Feb.- Mar. Lunar Journey
An empowering 30-day cyclic BACII experience designed to gently shatter the illusion of immortality while creating meaning in your life. Through learnings, rituals, and a committed practice of self-reflection and investigation, you will form a deeper kinship to your existence while gaining invaluable insight and awareness into what matters most.
A Water Themed Zine
Join BACII and SunDogs Studio for our fifth zine-making gathering where we’ll honor the season of Water in TCM. We began this collective zine-making series last spring and this is now our final element to complete a full year of connecting to the cycles of life through the five elements, embodied meditation, movement, and art-making practices (stay tuned for future experimental offerings)!
Water is connected to the experience of fear. We’ll explore fear through water-inspired offerings, meditation, movement, and art-making practices to move through our fear and connect to the cycles of life. During this gathering, you have the option to participate in a tea offering - whether that be to water, ancestors, or whomever you'd like. If you’d like to partake, please arrive with a cup of hot tea of your choice. Additionally, please arrive with a glass of water, paper, and your art-making tools of choice (pens, watercolors, paint, etc.).
By participating in this gathering, you’ll leave with a water-inspired piece of art and the option to contribute to our collective analog Water zine. If you make a submission, you’ll be sent a free printed copy!
All donations support the development of this programming and the production and printing of this zine. Please pay what you can. After you register below, you will be sent a zoom link before the event starts.
Jan.-Feb. Lunar Journey
An empowering 30-day cyclic BACII experience designed to gently shatter the illusion of immortality while creating meaning in your life. Through learnings, rituals, and a committed practice of self-reflection and investigation, you will form a deeper kinship to your existence while gaining invaluable insight and awareness into what matters most.
A Metal Themed Zine
Join us for our fourth elemental zine-making gathering where we’ll honor the season of Metal in TCM.
Metal is connected to the experience of grief. We’ll explore grief through embodied metal-inspired sound, writing and art-making practices to acknowledge, express and shape our grief. You’ll leave with metal-inspired art to place on your altar or in other areas of your life.
Please arrive with aluminum foil and/or a pencil. By participating in this gathering, you have the option to contribute to our collective analog Metal zine and you’ll be sent a free copy once it’s printed!
All donations support the development of this programming and the production and printing of this zine. Please pay what you can.
2021 NAIS Online People of Color Conference (PoCC)
BACII is deeply honored to be back at this year’s NAIS People of Color Conference (PoCC). Mangda Sengvanhpheng, Founder of BACII, will facilitate two events on Tending to Your Grief, Tending to Your Well-being. These events will focus on grief and loss from a social justice standpoint: the loss of rights, freedoms, and social setbacks that we’re experiencing and how they impact BIPOC well-being.
Acknowledging responsibility and taking principled action to redress wrongs is the call to character and courage in the national movement of our time. Reckoning with Impacts, Rolling with Just Intent is the guiding theme for the Online 2021 PoCC.
The NAIS People of Color Conference (PoCC) is the flagship of the National Association of Independent Schools' commitment to equity and justice in teaching, learning, and organizational development. The mission of the conference is to provide a safe space for leadership, professional development, and networking for people of color and allies of all backgrounds in independent schools.
2021 NAIS Online People of Color Conference (PoCC)
BACII is deeply honored to be back at this year’s NAIS People of Color Conference (PoCC). Mangda Sengvanhpheng, Founder of BACII, will facilitate two events on Tending to Your Grief, Tending to Your Well-being. These events will focus on grief and loss from a social justice standpoint: the loss of rights, freedoms, and social setbacks that we’re experiencing and how they impact BIPOC well-being.
Acknowledging responsibility and taking principled action to redress wrongs is the call to character and courage in the national movement of our time. Reckoning with Impacts, Rolling with Just Intent is the guiding theme for the Online 2021 PoCC.
The NAIS People of Color Conference (PoCC) is the flagship of the National Association of Independent Schools' commitment to equity and justice in teaching, learning, and organizational development. The mission of the conference is to provide a safe space for leadership, professional development, and networking for people of color and allies of all backgrounds in independent schools.
Grief Relief
We’re living at a time where both collectively and individually our grief is with us at all times. Whether you’re grieving the loss of your life pre-pandemic, relationships, identities, a pet or a loved one, we can use the tools available to us to acknowledge, understand and process our grief.
We will honor our experiences through a shared safe space, meditation, writing, and dialogue to alleviate our grief while forming a more intimate connection to ourselves and to our experiences.