Workshop Schedule
Thematic seminars featuring presentations by panels of accomplished community members with generous opportunity for dialogue and networking.
ScheduleRites Graduation Info
Join us for the 2025-26 Rites of Passage program graduation.
**This years graduation will take place at the same location as the conference in the main auditorium.**
5:15 PM – 9:30 PM
Registration
5:45 PM – 6:45 PM
Afrikan Dance Workout/Class
*Concurrent with registration
6:45 PM – 7:15 PM
Welcome
Welcome, Conference Themes and Objectives, Logistics
7:15 PM – 8:30 PM
8:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Wrap up
Conclusions from Gender Sessions
8:45 PM – 9:30 PM
Mic check
Open Mic
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Registration
8:00 AM – 8:50 AM
Yoga Workout/Self-Defense
Main Room
9:10 AM – 9:25 AM
9:25 AM – 10:30 AM
Opening/Welcome
10:45 AM – 12:35 PM
concurrent workshops
Track A – Room #C119
Track B – Room #C117
Track C – Room #C116
Track D – Room #C123
Youth Track – Room #C112
Children’s Track – Room C109
(First Year Participants Are Asked to Attend Only ‘Track A’ Workshops)
Track info12:45 AM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
Food Vendors located inside and outside
2:10 PM – 3:50 PM
concurrent workshops
Track A – Room #C119
Track B – Room #C117
Track C – Room #C116
Track D – Room #C123
Youth Track – Room #C112
Children’s Track – Room #C109
(First Year Participants Are Asked to Attend Only ‘Track A’ Workshops)
Track info4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Dinner
Food Vendors located inside and outside
7:45 AM
Registration
8:00 AM – 8:50 AM
Yoga
with Iya Ifabola Khalfani
Room #
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
focus groups
Focus Group 1 – Room C119
Afrikan Mental Health and Well-being
Focus Group 2 – Room C116
Strategies for Community Organizing – Emergency Preparedness
11 AM -11:30 AM
Elder Circle
Main Room
11:30 AM -12 PM
Youth and Children’s presentations
12 PM – 1 PM
Lunch
Transition to Atom
1 PM – 5:00 PM
Akom
Main Room
Comfort is a beatutiful place but nothing grows there
-West African Proverb
plenary and tracks
Room Assignments
Plenary
Multipurpose Room
Track A
Reafricanization
Location – Room C119
Morning / Workshop 1 • ReAfrikanization: An Afrikan Perspective on History, Culture and Identity
Afternoon / Workshop 2 • Onyame Nhyehyεe; A Paradigm of ReAfrikanization, Nationbuilding and Family Development
(First Year Participants Are Asked to Attend Only ‘Track A’ Workshops)
schedule and presentersTrack B
Family and Institutional Development
Location – Room C117
Morning/Workshop 1• Building,Sustaining and Reinvisioning Afrikan-centered institutions
Afternoon/Workshop 2 • Strategies for the impacts of social media and technology on education, health, empowerment, and character development.
schedule and presentersTrack C
Nationbuilding
Location – Room C116
Morning / Workshop 1 • Actualizing the Onyame Nhyehyεe Paradigm: Complementarity, Balance & Suban Trenee
Afternoon / Workshop 2 • Frameworks that support culture, Suban Trenee and complementarity in nationbuilding.
schedule and presentersTrack D
YOUNG ADULTS (18 – 23)
Location – Room C123
Morning / Workshop 1 • Onyame Nhyehyεe Paradigm: What is it?
Afternoon / Workshop 2 • Managing Social Media and It’s Impact
schedule and presentersFocus groups
Focus Group 1: Afrikan Mental Health and Well-being
Location – C119
Focus Group 2: Strategies for Community Organizing with the ON Paradigm
Location – C116
