Restore Reconnect Reimagine

The Radical Love and Spiritual Resistance Retreat with AIR Salaam Green

A sacred gathering where everyone is welcomed and every voice belongs.

Guided by Salaam and a featured artist, this retreat explores love as a radical force for healing and spirtual resistance through storytelling, peace building practices, and communal ritual. Designed for spirtual change makers of all faiths and cultures, community members, people at all levels of justice work, artists, caregivers, and those curious about difference making, it offers space to restore, reconnect, and reimagine a more peaceful and compassionate world-together.

How It Works

• Duration: 9am - 12noon

• Format: Community of Creating, Sharing and Movement

  • We will spend the morning guided by Salaam and a featured artist

    • storytelling/connection

    • peace building practices

    • breathwork/ movement

    • communal ritual

    • spiritual readings from acclaimed authors and healers.

What You’ll Need

• Bring your favorite pens and journal.

• Bring a water bottle or any snacks you would like. We will have some available.

• Most importantly, ask friends to register with you and look forward to building connections with others too.

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Dates & Time of the Program:

• Saturday July 18th

• 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Led by:

• Salaam Green

Fee:

• The cost of this series is $45

• Partial and full scholarships are available. If the cost of this program is prohibitive to you, please contact Susanna Whitsett @ susanna@thethresholdcenter.org for a confidential conversation about scholarship availability. We want you to participate and will do all we can to make sure you can join in.

Meeting Information:

• Each session will be offered at The Threshold Center @ 3794 Crosshaven Drive, Vestavia AL 35223

Threshold Center Artist-in-Residence Salaam Green

Salaam Green, Facilitator

Salaam Green is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Birmingham, Alabama (2024–2026).

She is a native of Greensboro and the founder of The Literary Healing Arts.  Green is a storyteller and healer, a Kellogg Foundation Racial Healing Facilitator, and an Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholar.

She holds an English degree from the University of Montevallo and a Master's in Early Childhood Education from the University of North Dakota.  She has held residencies at UAB, Auburn University, and the former Wallace Plantation in Harpersville, Alabama.

With over 16 years of experience, she uses poetry to create healing spaces rooted in Southern history and resilience.  

Green is the author of The Other Revival, a collection of poems released in June 2025.  The Other Revival reclaims the Southern revival as a space for truth-telling and healing through oral tradition.  The book emphasizes that vital archives reside in people—in their voices, memories, and willingness to pass stories on.

Learn more about Salaam at Salaamgreen.com