PRIVILEGE & PURPOSE

A Transformative Retreat for Women 

Create a world where your resources ignite change. 
An in-person weekend retreat in November is the cornerstone of a 3-part series that will guide you from awareness to action and empower you to align your resources with your values. Within a community of white women dedicated to learning together, explore the complexities of race and money—and how to drive action. Through a range of modalities, including historical and contextual learnings, group dialogue and personal reflection, you’ll gain tools to make a tangible impact and promote equity.
Join this transformative experience for support, accountability, and a shared vision for a more just society.
SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE
Session dates & locations TBA.

Meet the Facilitators

Sara Narva

Intensive Workshop Alumni

Julia Johannsen 

Founder,
The Impact Collective

This program is comprised of three parts:

Participants will leave with:

  • A deeper understanding of how gender and race influence your relationship with money and privilege.
  • Language to discuss important concepts and values with your children, families, and communities.
  • Tools and resources for transforming your relationship to your finances, including saving, spending, banking, and investing.
  • A concrete action plan to align your money with personal values.
  • A community of women that offers support, accountability, and a shared vision for a more just society.

"The Intensive Workshop helped me shift from reading and learning about the seemingly insurmountable problems posed by racism in our society to imagining my own role in making progress to fix these problems, and taking concrete actions to do so." 

Janet Nahirny

Intensive Workshop Participant

"The Intensive Workshop was completely paradigm-shifting for me for me because it connected how race affects me in a way that I didn’t have in my lexicon. Without the workshop, I would have been stuck in a disconnected space without understanding how I have participated in the systems that contribute to economic inequity.”

LAURA BURNES

Intensive Workshop Participant

Participate or Nominate

Registration Notes
  • To register for this workshop, you must attend the entire 3-day weekend retreat and the final capstone session.
  • Attendance at all online sessions is highly encouraged, as they are cumulative.
  • Each participant will receive one-on-one coaching sessions with a facilitator for tailored support.

Express Your Interest

Let us know you are interested in participating in our Transformative Retreat, designed for white women who are eager to align their financial resources with their values in the greater Boston area. No commitment!

This brief form will provide us the information needed to arrange a more personal meeting.

Nominate Someone

Know someone you think would be a good fit for the Intensive Workshop?

If you know a white woman with class privilege who fits the criteria and would benefit from the Transformative Retreat, please nominate them! We will reach out to them personally about our upcoming workshops.

LEARN MORE

Attend an Info Session

TBA

Is This Right for Me?

The Transformative Retreat is right for you if you:
  • Have more financial resources than they need to thrive and wish to use that privilege for good;
  • Seek to be part of a community of like-minded women committed to social change;
  • Are located in the Greater Boston area or can attend the retreat in November and the capstone event in February:
  • Weekend In-Person Retreat: Nov 15-17, 2024
  • Virtual Support Sessions: Dec 9, Jan 13; optional one-on-one coaching
  • Day-Long In-Person Capstone: Feb 2, 2025
All in-person programming will take place in the Greater Boston area.

What's the Cost?

Pay What You Can

In an effort to eliminate barriers and make the retreat accessible to many incredible women in our community we are offering the retreat as a pay what you can up to $1,500. 

Sliding Scale

Our other cost model is a sliding scale that enables participants with more wealth to support the attendance of those with less. You can determine a suggested tuition level based on whichever is higher: your annual household income or family assets.

Read our FAQs if you are contemplating which tier is right for you.

$1,500

For those with an annual household income of less than $150k and/or $300k in assets.

$3,500

For those with an annual household income between $150k–400k and/or $300k–750k in assets.

$8,000

For those with an annual household income above $400k and/or over $750k in assets.
Please reach out to Hillary at hillarybabick@impactcollect.org with any questions about paying for the retreat. We want everyone who is interested to be able to participate.