The Rest Collective
Rest in community during a 6 month program —
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Learn to cultivate or deepen your rest practice in community. Monthly gatherings (virtual) offer space and spaciousness to learn to rest and restore self.
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1:1 calls once a month for 6 months. These 1 hour calls with a trained facilitator exist to support your unique and individual rest journey.
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One month into the program, Re-Cede will take the co-hort on a Restorative Retreat to Nairobi, Kenya. All expenses paid.
Get to know our amazing team
Francina Kahl
Executive Director
Francina Kahl is a wellness consultant, physical therapist, speaker, tea ceremonialist, writer, and educator. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, she now lives in Korea and is a mother to five children through birth and adoption.
In March 2020, Francina founded Be Still Tea, bringing together her love of tea, storytelling, and stillness during a time of deep racial reckoning in the United States. Growing up in a country shaped by British colonization and having lived in the U.S. for over 20 years, her work is rooted in personal healing from racial trauma and a commitment to creating a more just world for future generations.
Through stillness, embodiment, and storytelling, Francina invites individuals and communities to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with their bodies and lived experiences. She believes that true healing begins when we are willing to face our stories and create space for rest and restoration.
Jackie Gow
Administration
Jackie Gow is a ceramic artist, organizer, and lifelong learner and unlearner. She is a daughter, sister, friend, partner, immigrant, and activist who is deeply curious about how we live, rest, and relate to one another within systems shaped by inequality.
Jackie’s work is rooted in a long journey of reckoning with unearned privilege and responsibility. Through years of study in international immigration, public policy, history, and Indigenous studies, she came to understand how colonization and white supremacy have shaped both global systems and her own lived experience. While this learning initially brought discomfort and shame, it ultimately clarified her responsibility to use her access, resources, and relationships in service of a more just and collective future.
The racial uprisings following the murders of George Floyd and too many others marked a turning point—calling Jackie into deeper accountability and embodied practice. Her work now centers on rest as a necessary and radical pathway toward healing, responsibility, and transformation.
As co-founder of the Rest Collective, Jackie is committed to creating spaces where people can slow down, tell the truth, listen deeply, and explore how rest can support racial justice, collective care, and cultural paradigm shifts.
An Inrestment Firm
“Re-Cede” is derived from “re” to receive and “cede” to yield or to give up. It represents the symbiotic relationship of receiving and yielding for true racial repair.
Birthed by a black woman and a white woman who collectively experienced harm and came together to heal and offer that healing to the world.
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