Conscious-
ness of Radical
Equity Leadership Training

Believe it or not, this was the most common questions we received from our community; and we believe this is a very honest sentiment we can have to face the deep work of equity and healing.

To do the work of ‘living equitable life’ or ‘decolonizing our life’, we must take often a sobering level of accountability. This is a vulnerable work that brings up many feelings that we often try to avoid: fear, shame, guilt, judgement, and so on.

This is actually the root of the decolonizing work; we live in a colonized, White supremacist, and patriarchal society; and this means we all carry the tendency towards this normalized idea of avoiding the discomfort at the expense of others suffering. Moving away from the emotional discomfort, in this framework, is what perpetuate the injustice in the world.

We are doing radical work to course correct these behaviors within ourselves and within society at large. It is expected to be uncomfortable - and we will build common language, practice and a space for us all to grow with all that come up.

This program is for anyone who wants to actualize the healing world where liberation is lifted up as the goal of humanity.

In a tangible sense, those of you who would be a great candidate for this program is likely to be feeling a fair amount of grief over how the humanity is doing at the moment, and wanting to learn how to create a more sustainable, kinder and life-affirming world. Some of you maybe filled with questions like, “how does an equitable world look like?”, “what kind of alternative system are there for us to divest from inhumane system?”, “how can I support my community that are under constant stress of oppressive system?”, or “this cannot be the only way to live, right?”

This work is especially suited for those who hold space for people in their growth, such as:

- Wellness | Healing | Spiritual Practitioners

- CEO’s, Directors, Managers, Business Owners

- Government Officials, Medical Professionals, Religious Leaders, Public Servants

- Social Activists, Educators, Teachers

- Not for Profit Leaders

From this year, we are offering BOTH pre-recorded lectures AND live zoom sessions for each of the modules.  

We have taken the feedbacks from our previous cohorts and taken into consideration that:

• Students want more time dedicated for discussions and integrations of the materials

• Given the challenging and confronting materials, we wanted to give space to the students to sit with the materials before engaging in conversations with faculty and other students

With these changes, we moved our session dates to Tuesday evenings from Saturday mornings. Given the length of the course, we wanted our curriculum to be woven into the daily lives of the students rather than taking up a lot of time from their weekends.

We also changed the length of each Zoom session.  Instead of meeting 3 hours for 2 Saturdays, the sessions are now 1.5 hrs each over 3 Tuesdays, and 1.5 hr of integration sessions with the senior faculty member.

Embodiment and integration takes time. When we talk about subjects such as, equity and decolonization where so much of our behavior is rooted in our subconscious, this is especially true. For the work to be effective, we need to allow our nervous system to settle within the new information, and the new version of ourselves that emerge from the field of new information. We are inviting in those who are truly committed to make the change within their lives, and in the world we live in.

Moreover, this is very emotional work for all of us. Working with emotionally challenging materials with sense of urgency does not equate to real learning at the root level; this doew not allow materials be embodied, and often creates a dangerous sense of competency that is rooted only in intellectual understanding rather than the deep knowing that can come from sitting with the material and applying it in our own lives.

We include time for integration, along with a 2-month summer break within this program for spacious learning. Item The idea of learning something in a short amount of time ‘efficiently’ comes from the White Supremacist ideology of ‘urgency’, and ‘quantity over quality’. This program upholds its integrity by being the antithesis to the principle we are moving away from.

This is a sacred growth container; and we ask our students to invest their time to nurture themselves within it, while also growing in community together. As we grow, we have the unique opportunity to see each others humanity in ways only time and space can offer.

Though this is a ‘15-month’ program, our program is built to focus on the integration. This means that our program is built with spaciousness for processing in mind. Here’s what it actually looks like:

- Each module meets 3 Tuesdays per month, and each session is 1.5h, followed by an integration session and course work.

- The course work is strongly focused on self-reflection and integration, instead of the rigorous and academically focused - this means we are asking students to ‘live their life’ with the given materials instead of laboring over it on the computer and books.

- July and August is our Summer Break to build our resources for ourselves.

There will be a few students joining from the partner education organization, who are already a part of the sacred container we respect and work with. This exception is made through the partnership we have built over the years in aligned work.

Breathwork, somatics and ancestral work are the resources and tool kit we build upon in order for us to be in the laboratory together with safety in mind. We each are building these skill sets, so we can co-create a space of safety within ourselves - allowing our learning space to be safer too.

These tools are also the way for us to continue our work outside sustainably. Without resources for self and community nourishment, we are utterly unprepared for the long road ahead towards liberation. Without proper resources and nourishment, we can create the energetic field of lack and fear–allowing what we manifest out of this energetic space to mimic where it originates from. In order for us to create an abundant, peaceful, kind and liberated world, we must first cultivate what we desire within. We offer these tools as some of the building blocks towards this effort.

Working within the decolonial process is not easy. It can be emotionally challenging to face deeply ingrained patterns of injustice within ourselves and the society. It is triggering for all of us, even for those who have been doing this work for a long time. After years of investing time and energy in working towards social change, one thing that has come to us is the need for the balance within ourselves in order for us to show up to create harmony outside in the world.

In a way, finding information regarding justice is not hard in this informational age if there is a desire - and we see this happening in various places. Contrary to what White Supremacy teaches us, learning, especially types of learning that requires us to change the way we think, react or respond within the relational field does not happen in the vacuum of self learning. It requires people of various experiences to come together, and ‘rub against one another’ in order for us to understand how our normalized behavior is not supportive towards social change. This learning container simulates the social network with those who are dreaming to create a harmonious future; this is a laboratory of future making.

If you are certified in certain modalities, you can submit a request to be excused from selected modules for consideration.

Every session is recorded and can be accessed for a 4-week period.

For certification, students are required to submit a one-page reflection for each class when absent from any live sessions.

For certification, you are asked to be present for at least 16 of the 21 live sessions.

We meet 4 times per section, 1.5 hours each time for 3 live online sessions via Zoom followed by one live integration session.

It is usually on Tuesdays 7pm-8:30pm EST.

Outside of the Zoom live sessions, students are encouraged to engage with each other in the Mighty Network portal, Signal–private group chat and IRL if they reside in the same location.

Outside of the Zoom live sessions, students are engaging with the faculty through course work.

We have a teacher’s assistant assigned to each faculty, and they also can support in making sure that communication is happening smoothly.