Virtual Reset-Retreat Experience
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Día Del Afrodescendiente Reset-Retreat
June 2026-September 2026
Our unique reset-retreat program includes intentional virtual and asynchronous community-building spaces, curated developmental workshops, and co-work spaces geared towards supporting our collective holistic wellness, leadership, and impact. The virtual curated spaces lead up to an in-person reset-retreat experience. You’re welcomed to participate in either the virtual experience or both.
Reset-Retreat Benefits:
• Connect and develop meaningful relationships with a container of support, care and intentional growth
• Take part in growth and leadership developmental workshops and co-work spaces
• Personalized Holistic Wellness Experience: Develop your own guide for sustaining and developing your daily, weekly and monthly wellness
Collective Leadership Reset-Retreat Program
A cohort and community care model that encourages genuine connection and joy in support our collective holistic wellness and leadership.
Curated virtual and asynchronous community-building spaces and holistic workshops that support collective holistic wellness, leadership, and impact.
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This space honors the gifts of communal gathering and building towards individual goals and collective futures. We invite Chosen Fam to join a facilitated co-work session as we bring our visions to life–thought by thought and task by task. Let’s Get IT! Meet you at and on the other side of fear.
This space we honor the multiple forms and modalities in which artistic practices have shaped and nurtured us generationally. We will recenter creative expression as a necessary self and communal practice. Together–let’s reflect, envision, and play.
Tours & Communal Activities
Why Join the Chosen Collective Family
You are looking to invest in yourself and in new transformative experiences
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You are looking to build upon your Chosen family and bridge long term connections
You are engaged in work that either challenges or supports issues of community care, equity, and inclusion
You are an Entrepreneur who wants to engage in social impact work, and are seeking to connect with other BIPOC, Queer and Trans community members and supporters.
You benefit from the tax deductible travel experience that simultaneously contributes to a scholarship fund for future Chosen Family.
A full retreat ensures 3 Chosen Family are able to receive scholarships. We will offer 2 spaces specifically to Trans/TGNC folks in Costa Rica and 1 from the U.S. or Canada.
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Reset-Retreat Facilitators
Dio E. Aldridge (he/él) is a proud Blatiné Trans man with deep Afro-Caribbean and Latiné roots. Born in Limón, Costa Rica, and raised in Southern California, his household was led by a Baptist minister and a social worker. They shaped his passion for community, care, and collective transformation—values that continue to guide his work today.
Dio is the Co-Founder of the non-profit, Chosen Leadership & Reset-Retreats, and CEO of Chosen Collective Consulting.
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Aman Sinaya Abellera Aldridge (she/siya) is a critical educator, healer, and storyteller. She currently works as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education for Human Resources at Oberlin College & Conservatory. Additionally, she is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education at Michigan State University. Kris uses arts-based research methods, specifically nonfiction and autoethnography, to excavate and release the history, truth, and impact of colonial education systems upon Filipinx diasporic communities.
Khalid Taylor (he/they) is a queer, Afrolatiné documentary songwriter and community storytelling facilitator. As a Community Facilitator for Reset Outdoors, the Music Director for Joyful Voices, and Founder of Queer Quoir, Khalid seeks to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ folks and people of color. His spiritual work in this lifetime is to help others re-align to their intrinsic power for the sake of collective liberation.
Jen Maramba is a sacred witness, decolonizing healer with training in multiple modalities, including Integrative Somatic Trauma therapy. Rooted in the lands of the Anishinabewaki and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Jen honors the teachings of these territories while embracing her ancestral lineage from Pangasinan and Panay Island, Philippines.
I’m a financial coach, educator, and the founder of Queer & Trans Wealth. I’m also an award-winning independent journalist covering personal finance from an anti-capitalist lens. Unlike most finance professionals, I am not trained to make the rich richer. I am an artist and activist. I am a non-binary first-generation immigrant who was previously unhoused. I am a worker among workers and I do not abide by capitalist definitions of wealth.
Sharifa Karimah (she/ella) is a vibrant, charismatic, and empowered woman with an easy-going demeanor. As a movement artist, dance teacher, performer, and certified yoga instructor, she brings a wealth of experience and passion to her work. Sharifa holds a degree in social work from the University of Costa Rica, grounding her practice in a deep understanding of community dynamics and individual needs.
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