Keena Atkinson
Keena Atkinson is the founder and CEO of R’oujie Wellness, a wellness educator, facilitator, speaker, writer, and 2024 YWCA Madison Woman of Distinction whose work explores the intersections of personal well-being, sustainable action, and social change. A former Fortune 500 executive leader with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a Cornell University certificate in Nutrition and Healthy Living, and 500 hours of training in trauma-informed, social justice-centered yoga, Keena brings together education, movement, mindfulness, nutrition, reflection, and rest to create experiences rooted in self-discovery, embodiment, and courageous action. She is also the creator of the annual R’oujie Wellness Retreat™ and has facilitated wellness, movement, mindfulness, and personal-development experiences with youth, adults, organizations, and communities. Keena believes caring for ourselves and caring deeply about our communities do not have to exist in opposition and that meaningful change does not require any one of us to carry everything.
In-Person | Institute
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Facilitated By: Keena Atkinson
Audience: Open to Everyone
In movements for justice and liberation, caring deeply for our communities and desiring change can exist alongside exhaustion, grief, overwhelm, uncertainty, and the very human experiences we carry with us. Sustainable action requires learning not only how to care for others and respond to the world around us, but also how to notice and tend to what is happening within us.
You Can Do Anything, But You Can't Do Everything is an experiential mini-retreat that invites you to slow down long enough to listen to the needs, wisdom, questions, and possibilities that can become difficult to hear amid the urgency of everyday life and justice work. Through practices that support restoration, reflection, and self-discovery, including guided meditation, gentle movement, rest, journaling, and dialogue. You’ll have space to notice what needs your attention, identify where you feel stuck, explore what may be missing, and choose a courageous next step.
From that place of greater attention, you’ll be invited to identify one area of your life, leadership, community, or justice practice where you feel stuck, unfinished, uncertain, or ready for change. You’ll explore the gap between where you are and where you hope to be, considering not only “What should I DO?” but “What might I NEED?” Instead of assuming that more effort is always the answer, you’ll explore what may actually be needed; knowledge, capacity, support, clarity, rest, boundaries, healing, courage, action or something you discover for yourself. You’ll also consider where the gap lives: within yourself, your relationships or community, the conditions around you, or across more than one of these.
As insight becomes clearer, you’ll have space to discern what is and is not yours to carry and choose one courageous next action that feels both meaningful and sustainable. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of what is asking for your attention, greater clarity about what may be needed to move forward, and a way to continue noticing and measuring what changes after you act.
This retreat offers ideas, practices, guidance, and opportunities for collective wisdom while creating space for your lived experience and your own wisdom to guide what you discover.