LET IT OUT! A Communal Healing & Poetry Writing Workshop Facilitated by Charity Blackwell and Tierra Stewart
Date and Time
Feb 17, 2026 5:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Feb 17, 2026 5:30 pm
14th & V
🧘🏾♀️ LET IT OUT!
A Communal Healing & Poetry Writing Workshop
Grounding Ourselves for the Year Ahead
📍 Busboys and Poets | 450 K St NW, Washington, DC
📅 Tuesday, February 17, 2026
⏰ 5:30–7:30 PM
💸 FREE and open to the public
About the Workshop
As the year unfolds, many of us need a moment to pause — to breathe, reflect, and reconnect before continuing forward. LET IT OUT! is a free, communal healing space designed to help you ground yourself, reset your spirit, and move through the year with intention and care.
This workshop invites you to slow down in community and reconnect with what steadies you. Through guided breathwork and poetry, we’ll release what the past months have placed on our bodies and minds and make room for clarity, presence, and renewal. This is not about resolutions or pressure — it’s about rooting yourself where you are.
Whether you’re feeling hopeful, tired, overwhelmed, or somewhere in between, this space welcomes you exactly as you are.
What to Expect
🕠 Grounded Welcome & Intentional Framing
We’ll open by settling into the space together, setting shared intentions, and creating a supportive container for communal healing.
💨 Guided Breathwork for Grounding
A restorative breathwork experience focused on calming the nervous system, reconnecting to the body, and using breath as an anchor.
✍🏾 Reflective Poetry Writing
Gentle writing prompts to help you process where you are in the year — releasing what no longer serves you and naming what you want to carry forward.
🎤 Community Sharing Circle
An optional space to share your words, reflections, or intentions. Listening is just as powerful as speaking here.
💞 Collective Closing & Intention Setting
We’ll close with gratitude, grounding, and a collective breath to carry into the days ahead.
Meet the Facilitators
Charity Blackwell
Poet | Educator | Chief of Culture & Arts, DC SCORES | Founder, Black&Well LLC
Charity Blackwell is an award-winning poet and educator whose words have moved audiences everywhere from Busboys and Poets to The Kennedy Center. Her workshops create brave spaces for reflection, healing, and creative freedom — helping people rediscover the power in their own voice.
Learn more about Charity
Tierra Stewart
Transformational Breathwork Practitioner | Founder, LEAD THE WAY
Tierra is a gifted facilitator who helps people come home to themselves through breath, spirit, and truth. As founder of LEAD THE WAY (LTW) and creator of Black Woman Breathe, Tierra builds sacred spaces where community care, healing, and leadership meet.
🌐 letsleadtheway.org
Why Join Us
✨ Ground yourself for the year ahead
✨ Release emotional weight and find clarity
✨ Heal in community through breath and poetry
✨ Connect with others in a supportive, intentional space
✨ Leave feeling rooted, present, and held
No pressure. No performance. No fixing.
Just breath, words, and communal healing.
Come as you are — this space is free, open, and made for you.
