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feel good in your humanness again

Sometimes all we need is a little help; a shift in perspective, information we can trust that expands our minds, or support in determining how to go about making the changes you want to see in your life.

The courses below are just that. In them I’m sharing what I’ve learned, tips and tricks, and how I’ve maintained my sense of self while navigating the rigors of higher education (Harvard Law School); unrealistically demanding careers; changing careers; lived experience, study, and work with marginalization and racism; and creating space for advocacy because sometimes when you care about something deeply it hurts to do nothing about it at all.

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Raising Mixed-Race Children

Sometimes, good intentions, love and living in the right neighborhood works well when your child is still an infant. Until it doesn’t.
In this course we draw upon insights from helping disciplines such as sociology, psychology and social work to learn a framework that will support your children’s identities and help you develop a deeper understanding of the issues they face in today’s changing racial climate. You’ll be able to identify common and contemporary issues regarding racism and/or oppression of minorities and gain confidence in relevant discussions related to authenticity, privilege, intersectionality and colorism to help your children navigate their space as they mature to adulthood. You will also be able to distinguish nuanced experiences that counter typical Black/White binary racial discourse.
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Decolonization & Self-care course

Breaking Chains, Healing Hearts: The Power of Decolonized Self-Care

I’d like to reorient your perspective on self-care and social justice.  What if we not only prioritized our care, but did so with empathy that was transformative for others?

We live in a time of hostility, conflict and overt violence that is reaching places often considered refuges of safety such as our homes and communities.  This signals a need for interventions that go beyond candles, bubble bath and aromatherapy.  If you are able to be honest about feeling fatigued and overwhelmed despite your best intentions regarding self-care practice, then this course is for you! This course is about reclaiming control over our well-being as we live with nuance and complexity.  Decolonization is ultimately about empowerment, not blame. I bring my specialized training as a community activist and Harvard trained lawyer to help us identify and resist nuanced socio-political factors that are embedded in our social norms, economic system, and cultural beliefs that perpetuate our fatigue and corrupt many of our self-care practices.    
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Building Identity: Unifying the Divided Self

There’s more to identity than just you, we’re shaped by our culture and beliefs. Together we’ll bring awareness to the parts of ourselves that often go unseen.

Part philosophy, interactive exploration and skills building, this course models the basic building blocks of human interaction to explore and construct identity that is meaningful and purposeful in our present. Learn to recognize the narrative that colors your identity. Join us as we foster self-awareness of this process and discover the connections between our bodies, emotions, culture.
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Supporting Recovery

This course is for families and partners of addicted loved ones seeking to support them in long term recovery without compromising self-care, values and personal meaning.

Gain resources and learn skills to empower you to make decisions that take care of your well-being and allow you to help your loved one without having to jeopardize or refrain from what is meaningful to you. You will learn practical skills to navigate professional and effective treatment and how to hold your loved one accountable without being overly intrusive.

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Political Purpose

As messy as politics may seem , we are not detached from our social and political contexts.

Our places of work are not neutral. We are tangled in multiple ways in wider systems of power and often reinforce the ideologies and practices of the status quo. Leadership is not only the ability to pave your own way, but to create a roadmap for others that allows you to keep your identity (and sanity) in the process. In this course, we learn how to advocate and develop activism that is sustainable, reflects personal meaning and is effective.

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From Pain to Purpose

This course is designed to provide you with a tangible understanding of how to dismantle racism in a way that is accessible, meaningful and vibrant for you within your everyday setting.
Being antiracist does not require a major overhaul of your lifestyle or who you are as a person. In other words, you do not have to be on the frontlines as a protester. You don’t even need to be in a room of BIPOC individuals or on Facebook. Of course, nothing precludes this, but it is not necessary. This course will transform you from being aware of racism to being anti-racist by teaching you a framework from which to conceptualize and implement the work of antiracism. It will guide your creation of an individualized action plan for anti-racist work that you will outline by the end of the course.
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Cultivating Advocacy and Inclusivity

Intended for coaches, healers, therapists and other service providers who wish to feel more adept at initiating interaction where racial socialization may have a significant impact.

Most multicultural (or so-called cultural competency) trainings in psychotherapy programs and corporate settings are often pitched as a way of addressing the needs of minority populations from a perspective that reflects and often reinforces the very privilege and power dynamics embedded in the structure maintaining the status quo that prompts the need for change.

This course outlines the skills and awareness needed for non-BIPOC counselors and psychotherapists to promote racial justice in both their individual counseling and community advocacy. Health care providers will develop greater awareness to foster growth regarding implicit bias. Clinicians or other interested allies can also practice handling situations where inadvertent mistakes are made so that they can restore trust with their clients and engage in repair.

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Raising Mixed-Race Children

Sometimes, good intentions, love and living in the right neighborhood works well when your child is still an infant. Until it doesn’t.
In this course we draw upon insights from helping disciplines such as sociology, psychology and social work to learn a framework that will support your children’s identities and help you develop a deeper understanding of the issues they face in today’s changing racial climate. You’ll be able to identify common and contemporary issues regarding racism and/or oppression of minorities and gain confidence in relevant discussions related to authenticity, privilege, intersectionality and colorism to help your children navigate their space as they mature to adulthood. You will also be able to distinguish nuanced experiences that counter typical Black/White binary racial discourse.
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