Our Story
Project Restore Initiative (PRI) was born from something we kept witnessing — leaders, educators, healers, and community builders giving everything they had to people and communities they deeply loved, and running on empty doing it. The trainings that showed up were episodic. Disconnected. Built by people who weren't aligned with the communities being served. Microwave popcorn. And then everyone went back to the same environment that was producing the burnout in the first place.
We started PRI because people needed development — first, to keep themselves well, and second, to be well enough to make the kind of impact they were called to make. Restoration and healing aren't add-ons. They're the foundation. You cannot build sustainable organizations on people who are running on empty.
Today, PRI partners with educators, nonprofit and corporate leaders, healing practitioners, organizational change agents, government officials, and community-centered professionals across sectors — working at the intersection of healing, leadership, education, and systems change. Through training and capacity building, executive coaching, racial healing circles, curriculum development, and community design, we help people go deeper, stay rooted, and build toward what they know is possible.
We believe that unhealed people produce unhealed outcomes — and no strategic plan can outrun that. We believe that healing is not soft work. It is the most practical thing an organization can do.
And we are now building toward something larger — a connected ecosystem of practitioners of well-being, supported by learning, community, and transformative experiences that sustain them for the long haul.
We believe that together we can re-member, re-people, and restore our worlds.
Meet our Team
Nayesha A. Pruitt, LPC
Co-Founder | Therapist, Facilitator & Educator
Nayesha A. Pruitt is a Licensed Professional Counselor, trained Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) practitioner, adjunct instructor, and facilitator whose work lives at the intersection of healing, education, and human connection.
She designs and facilitates spaces that center presence, relational safety, and cultural honesty — environments where people can engage authentically with themselves and others. Her practice is grounded in healing-centered, culturally responsive care, with a particular focus on Black and queer communities navigating the intersections of identity, trauma, and well-being.
Nayesha integrates Black queer feminist frameworks, trauma-informed care, and somatic and body-based practices into her work — supporting individuals and groups in deepening self-awareness, unlearning what no longer serves them, and building the capacity to show up with clarity and intention.
She facilitates both individual and group-based experiences, and believes firmly that healing does not happen in isolation.
Terrence A. Pruitt
Founder & Principal Consultant | Project Restore Initiative
Terrence A. Pruitt is a creative educator, healing practitioner, executive coach, and cultural worker committed to advancing individual and collective healing, liberation, and restoration.
Grounded in healing-centered engagement, restorative justice, and community-rooted leadership development, his work bridges education, organizational transformation, and healing practice. He partners with educators, nonprofit and corporate leaders, healing practitioners, government officials, and community-centered professionals to build more just, equitable, and healing-centered environments — integrating trauma-informed care, racial healing, narrative and somatic approaches, and ancestral wisdom.
A 2019 Surge Fellow, instructional designer, and trained TRHT Racial Healing Practitioner, Terrence brings over a decade of experience working with and alongside communities and institutions committed to collective well-being.
He is also a DJ, musician, and music archivist — using sound and storytelling as tools for memory-keeping, joy, and liberation.