Nafsi ya Jamii is a creation of Wilson Riles, Patricia St. Onge, and their family and colleagues. Theconcept emerged in 2011 out of more than 60 collective years of study and practice of personal relationship development, movement organizing, political involvement, nonprofit management, spiritual growth, and love of community. Using the Highlander Research and Education Center (http://highlandercenter.org) in Tennessee as a blueprint, we created an urban retreat center in Oakland, California, that provides physical space where individuals, neighborhood organizations, nonprofits, and socially-conscious for-profits can more easily learn, share, and practice community healing and building. Partakers of the space may simply experience it in their own way, or they may contract with Seven Generations Consulting (http://www.seven-generations.org), our family consulting practice, for a more planned experience.