A Place for the World
to Recover
Our Shared Vision
Restore Forward and The Reconciliation Center are sister entities united in a shared multidisciplinary healing ecosystem of metabolic health interventions, self-recovery and social and spiritual reconciliation. Together, we operate on a combined 453 acres of forest in Ava, New York and have joined forces to offer a new eco-somatic recovery method, restoring life and the body at the cellular, communal, and ecological levels.
Our Centers
Restore Forward anchors its work in two connected Centers that make health, healing, and connections to the Earth possible in a joyful community with more than 150 partners and allies.
The Reconciliation
Center
The Reconciliation Center (formerly Black Women’s Blueprint) is a land-based healing collective dedicated to restoring right-relationship between people, their bodies, their lineages, and the Earth. We support individuals, families, and institutions in healing trauma, historical harm, conflict, and disconnection through practices that cultivate connection, accountability, coherence, and belonging.
We offer holistic care that blends emotional support, conflict transformation, restorative dialogue, and earth-based healing. Through retreats, workshops, reconciliation circles, grief gatherings and immersive land experiences, we accompany people in mending what has been fractured within themselves and in their relationships. Rooted in the legacy of the Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Center provides pathways for relational and collective repair. We bring people together across identities and generations to practice healing and reparative justice, recognizing that healing is a shared responsibility made possible when we return to the Earth, to one another, and to ourselves.
Restore
Forward
Restore Forward leads the land-based healing and cooperative enterprise, Restore Forward is a land-based complementary health and healing cooperative. Our purpose is to cultivate a multidisciplinary healing ecosystem for metabolic health intervention, reconciliation, and collective restoration. Rooted on 453 acres of living forest and farmland in Oneida County, we are offering comprehensive metabolic health programs that support the body’s natural capacity to heal, replenish, and thrive.
Here, participants are welcomed into beautifully cared-for living spaces, cabins, retreats and journeys, health club, holistic health packages, and other key offerings thoughtfully integrated with the land — places where one can breathe, rest, and feel held. We provide holistic care that blends functional medicine, mental health, traditional practices, and naturopathic interventions to treat illness at its root. Guests experience nourishing, earth-grown meals rooted in ancestral food traditions, access to pure, life-giving water, and therapeutic experiences that restore balance between the Earth, our bodies, and each other.
Our Institute
Trainings, Workshops & Retreats
WILD! Gala
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Futurescaping with our Luminaries
We journey to Kenya and Tanzania where we’re engaging with restorative and racial justice partners, creating space for what is possible for our climate and communities via access and mutuality with the land.
June 2026 | Tanzania
We journey to Kenya and Tanzania where we’re engaging with restorative and racial justice partners, creating space for what is possible for our climate and communities via access and mutuality with the land.
June 2026 | Tanzania
Discover
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Virtual Events
Every Monday, 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM EST | Virtual Event
Start your week with intention. Join a guided meditation community session to ground yourself, clear your mind, and affirm your needs for the week ahead.
Every Friday, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST | Virtual Event
A welcoming community circle over tea where we explore life’s questions through intuitive tarot. Each card opens space for reflection, conversation, and healing. Come as you are. Leave lighter, clearer, and more connected.
What We Do
Seeding Health
We’re creating space to seed health and turn the tide on the social determinants of health.
We Serve:
Families & Groups
Healing Communities
We Serve:
Individuals & Communities
Restoring Land
We Serve:
Philanthropic / Foundations
Transforming Institutions
We’re creating powerful partnerships with institutions through our integrative frameworks for scaling out and future proofing your organization or institution, like transformative education, connecting to your purpose and humanity.
We Serve:
Public Sector & Corporate Partners
Nonprofit Organizations
Government / International Bodies
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Team
Farah Tanis
Sevonna Brown
Ann Duckett
Cecile Lipworth
Our Partners
