Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood: Unlearning Survival Mode (November 2026)

Unlearning Survival Mode is a 90-minute virtual conversation within the Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood series, hosted by Conversations in Color and facilitated by Lana Reid.

For generations, Black women have been taught to endure, adapt, and hold everything together — often without support. While survival mode protected families and communities in times of scarcity and threat, it also shaped emotional patterns that can quietly lead to isolation, hyper-independence, and burnout.

This November 2026 conversation invites intergenerational Black women to reflect on how survival narratives were passed down, when they served us, and when they began to limit connection, vulnerability, and care.

Together, participants will explore:

• Who taught us to equate strength with self-sufficiency

• How survival mode shows up in relationships and sisterhood

• The cost of always “handling it” alone

• Generational differences in how support was available or denied

• What it means to practice interdependence instead of endurance

Rather than rejecting resilience, this conversation centers discernment — recognizing when survival is necessary and when it’s time to receive support without guilt.

This session is part of Sistas Rebuilding Sisterhood, a monthly virtual gathering designed to foster reflection, honesty, and community-rooted healing among intergenerational Black women.

Facilitated by Lana Reid, founder of Conversations in Color and creator and host of The Male Perspective, this conversation creates space to soften inherited patterns and imagine healthier ways of being held — by each other and by community.