The Rooted Sessions are intentional check-in gatherings for classified professionals, designed to center abundance, collective care, and authentic connection.
Together, we create space to pause, reflect, and reimagine productivity in a way that values people over performance. This is an effort to continue our conversations and communal work started during the 2025 Classified Retreat with the theme Come As You Are, focused on practices of rest.
This is a work in progress and is something we can build together as a framework for consistent connection with our colleagues that is centered on our Why– built with inclusion, accessibility, and belonging as our foundations.
Upcoming Rooted Sessions
Why Rooted?
In systems that reward burnout and hustle, we choose grounding. We believe true productivity is rooted in rest, relationship, and reciprocity—not relentless output.
What to Expect
- Gentle check-ins & grounding practices
- Honest, courageous, passionately inclusive dialogue
- Collective reflection & storytelling
- A space to receive and offer support
- Permission to slow down and be real
- Practices centered on rest, resilience, and renewal
- A community reimagining productivity through care and reciprocity
- Support for mind, body, and collective spirit
We Root Ourselves In
Abundance Over Scarcity
There is enough time, space, and care for all of us.
Reciprocity Over Extraction
We give and receive support in ways that nourish the whole.
Rest as Resistance
Pausing is not quitting—it’s an act of preservation and power.
Reframed Productivity
We value care, connection, and presence as vital work.
Collective Care Culture
We thrive together—not alone
These sessions are for you if...
You’re feeling overextended, underseen, or simply yearning for meaningful connection in your work life.
Come as you are.
Contact
Do you have ideas for future Rooted Sessions?
Share with the Classified Senate:
Email: SenateC@scc.losrios.edu