A Space for Practicing Alternative Economies and Restorative Living
What is The Relational Growth Playground ?
The Relational Growth Lab is the community hub of The Allgood Collective, designed to connect individuals and organizational leaders to a community rooted in transformative practice. One of the functions of this space is serving as an entry point for connecting relationally with The Allgood Collective. It is anchored by monthly community gatherings on the first Wednesday of each month.
Rooted in the principles of Sankofa and Ngoma, the primary function of The Relational Growth Lab is to serve as a living practice space for those who opt into communing and convening with us as we center relational intelligence, embodiment, and collective care. It is a space for experimentation, alternative economies, and building anti-oppressive, restorative ways of living.
At the heart of our work is harvesting the emergent wisdom from the guiding question: What becomes possible when we create spaces where relational intelligence, embodiment, and collective care generate personal and systemic transformation rooted in liberation and justice?
Building Relational Ecosystems
We counter systemic fragmentation by fostering trust, accountability, and community care.
Practicing Restorative Living
We counter systemic fragmentation by fostering trust, accountability, and community care.
Iterative Growth and Learning
We embrace emergent strategy—experimenting, reflecting, and adapting as we go.
OFFERINGS
Workshops & Skill-Building
Learning and practicing restorative justice, alternative economies, and community-building tools.
Mutual Aid Networks
Connecting communities with existing mutual aid structures and cultivating new and emerging support systems.
Community Circles
Monthly dialogue spaces to deepen connection, share stories, and support each other.
Living Experiments
Engaging in shared resource economies, cooperative models, and sustainability practices.
Creative Expression
Using movement, storytelling, and art as tools for liberation and belonging.
Acknowledgments
The Relational Growth Lab stands on the wisdom of thinkers and movement builders like:
Adrienne Maree Brown
bell hooks
Dr. Itihari Toure
and many Indigenous and African knowledge systems.
We honor these traditions as we continue to forge new pathways and remember old ones.