*Participation in fitness experiences at BWWDAY are voluntary, not required, and done at your own risk.

Outdoor Path behind Lakeside Commons (Level 1)

Special Drumming by Novissi Group

Capitol Promenade (Level 4)

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Fitness & Beauty Demos:

Soul Line Dancing:

Check out this vibrant space to explore health resources, shop Black women-owned businesses, enjoy fitness and beauty demos, and connect with other attendees.

BONUS! The more vendors you visit, the greater your chance to win a SPECIAL PRIZE GIVEAWAY which will be announced at 10:00am!

Exhibit Hall B (Level 1)

Radiant, Rooted & Resilient: A Mini-Retreat for Senior Women

Step into a powerful and refreshing space created just for mature women in this vibrant, interactive workshop and mini-retreat! Our Special Senior Session is designed to inspire and inform women 62 and older with the latest in brain health, Alzheimer’s prevention, cancer awareness, nutrition, and joyful movement.

Led by your favorite hosts—Dr. Debbie Jones, Board-Certified Physician, and Gale Johnson of the Wisconsin Well Woman Program—and supported by expert practitioners, this session is a celebration of health, wisdom, and vitality.

Learn cognitive wellness strategies with Diane Milner of the Alzheimer’s Association, fuel your body and mind with nutrition insights from Menia “Coach MJ” Morris of Harvest Living Wellness, and get moving with gentle, empowering fitness led by Johnny Winston, Jr., certified personal trainer.

More than a workshop, this is a community celebration of sisterhood, resilience and the power of well-aging. Come get renewed, connected, and empowered for the next chapter of your wellness journey.

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Hall of Ideas G (Level 4) 

Exhibit Hall A (Level 1) 

Exhibit Hall A (Level 1)

OFFICIAL WELCOME & OPENING LUNCHEON 

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Share Your Experience: Pull out your smartphones, tag us @TheFFBWW and use our hashtags to share your special moments! #BWWDAY  #THEFFBWW  #WELLBLACKWOMAN

Introduction of CEO & Opening Remarks with Special Guests

Keynote Address

Thank You & Call to Give

Giveaways, Announcements and Fitness Flash

Exhibit Hall A (Level 1)

Desserts and refreshments served in Grand Terrace.

Grand Terrace (Level 4)

Visit with our many vendors & exhibitors.
See the full list.

Exhibit Hall B (Level 1)

Girls On the Glow: A Mind-Body-Soul Session for Young Women

Girls On the Glow is a vibrant and affirming wellness experience created especially for teen girls who are ready to rise! In this uplifting mind-body-soul session, young women will have space to breathe, move, reflect, and reconnect—with themselves and each other.

Led by inspiring mentors and wellness leaders, and supported by our partners at Black Girl Magic Educational Services and Maydm, this session will help young women practice wellness through movement, mindfulness, and real talk; to build confidence, self-love, and a strong sense of sisterhood; and to leave feeling refreshed, rooted, and ready for the world.

Whether navigating school, friendships, aspirations, or self-discovery, this session is a reminder to young women that their glow starts from within—and it’s time to let it shine!

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Ballroom C (Level 4) 

Various Rooms (Level 4)

Join Coach MJ of Harvest Living Wellness, and Angelique Miller of Strength Training with Angelique, for a truly transformational session. These two powerhouse fitness and wellness experts embody what it means to walk in discipline, purpose and power. Through consistency and drive, they have reshaped their minds and bodies, aligned with their true calling, and now,they’re sharing their secrets with us! 

This is your chance to reclaim the best version of yourself, build habits that last and step into your own healing and self-mastery journey.

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Hall of Ideas I (Level 4)

Join us for a powerful and transformative session that centers the voices, experiences, and healing journeys of Black men who are committed to doing the inner work of healing and leading with love. Rising Together explores how healed and healthy Black men are essential to the wellness of Black women, the strength of Black families, and the resilience of our communities. Through real stories, lived wisdom, and actionable insights, this session invites participants into a space of reflection, restoration, and possibility. Together, we will examine how men standing in healing and wholeness can help shift generational patterns, foster thriving relationships, and co-create communities grounded in care, accountability, and legacy. More than a conversation, Rising Together is a vision for what’s possible when Black men and women rise in partnership — to build a future rooted in love, wellness, and collective power. Come ready to listen, reflect, and rise.

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Hall of Ideas G (Level 4)

Too often, Black women are asked to critique the world as it is — but rarely are we invited to dream the world as it could be. This interactive session flips that script. Rooted in the Black Women Deserve framework, participants will engage in a practice of freedom-centered worldbuilding that connects imagination to liberation. Together, we will explore how rest, resilience, and resistance all require imagination — the ability to see ourselves as worthy of care, to envision a future beyond harm, and to believe that oppression will not have the final say. Through small-group visioning, creative exercises, and collective reflection, we will plant seeds of possibility and practice building the liberated worlds we deserve.

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Hall of Ideas F (Level 4)

The outdoors is not just a place of refuge—it is our heritage. For generations, Black people have had an ancestral relationship with the land as healers, growers, protectors, and visionaries. That relationship has been disrupted by exclusion, displacement, and harm, yet it cannot be erased. This session invites us to reclaim the natural world as sacred ground—a space for rest, resilience, and resistance. Together with Black and Indigenous outdoor leaders and wellness advocates, we will explore how engaging with nature can reconnect us to our heritage, nurture our spirits, strengthen our bodies, and fortify our communities. Through storytelling, reflection, and interactive practice, participants will leave with tools and inspiration to embrace the outdoors as a sanctuary and inheritance that belongs to us.

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Meeting Room N (Level 4)

James Hogue is a Detroit native, birth educator, and fatherhood advocate committed to empowering men to be informed, supportive partners during pregnancy and childbirth. A certified birth doula through the National Black Doulas Association, James was inspired by his wife’s high-risk pregnancy to step into birth work and education. He is the CEO and co-founder of Fathers Assisting Mothers (FAM), a nonprofit that equips expectant fathers with tools to support maternal health and family wellness. Through his work, James is reshaping how men show up in birth spaces—as advocates, partners, and pillars of strong families. Join his session to hear his inspiring story and get activated in your advocacy for Black maternal and child health!

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Hall of Ideas G (Level 4)

We’ve all heard the message: Black women must be strong—carry it all, do it all, and push through no matter what. But what if true strength lies not in sacrifice, but in sovereignty over our mental and emotional well-being? In this transformative afternoon session, nationally acclaimed mental health expert and dynamic speaker Dr. Dominique Pritchett invites women to shed the superwoman cape and explore a new vision of power rooted in stability, support, and stamina. Through real talk, reflection, and powerful insights, Dr. Pritchett will guide you in shifting the narrative from survival mode to soul-centered wellness. This isn’t just a workshop—it’s a call to liberation. Come ready to reclaim your wellness, restore your energy, and walk in a version of strength that supports the woman you’re becoming!

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Hall of Ideas I (Level 4)

Join us for a deeply restorative gathering led by Charisse Daniels-Johnson, a multimedia artist, herbalist, and mother of eight whose work lives at the vibrant intersections of art, nature, tantric and somatic healing and community care.  Through this workshop, Charisse will guide us into a circle of remembrance and reconnection – a space where embodiment, ancestry and culture are honored, and where joy and pleasure are reclaimed as birthbrights held within the body. This is more than just a workshop — this is an invitation to pause, breathe and return home to yourself, your people and the sacred rhythms of our natural world.

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Meeting Room L (Level 4)

Join “Property Whisperer” Quintel Freeman-Allen, for an information-packed session on wealth-building through real estate and property ownership. With more than 25 years of real estate wisdom, home improvement magic, and fortress-building experience, Quintel has transformed her passion for real estate investing into a powerhouse business – Neeron LLC, an acquisition entity and asset protection consultancy that is equal parts real property investing and group therapy. Quintel, also a forensic librarian by day, is a “walking TED Talk with better shoes!” Join her session, sponsored by Summit Credit Union, and get inspired and empowered to take action in your generational wealth-building journey!

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Hall of Ideas F (Level 4)

Reconciling Rest & Resistance: A Community Conversation On How We Move Forward in Wellness and Power

Join us as we close the day as a unified community to recap lessons learned over the day, and to envision how we reconcile rest and resistance to protect our health and our freedom.

Ballroom AB (Level 4)

Adjourn: Please turn in your NAME BADGE and EVENT SURVEY to volunteers or to the registration table before you leave. Thank you!