I'm excited and humbled to share a sneak peek of the newly redesigned Brave Sis course: "Unengaged to Ally, Advocate to "Sister."
This course is for women from white or white-adjacent backgrounds who want to build genuine trust and collaborate across difference, as well as for Women of Color looking for tools and clarity to navigate and lead conversations with aspiring allies.
Every module brings real opportunities for self-reflection, new vocabulary, honest dialogue, deep exploration, fun, and practical strategies for meaningful change. Together, we’ll challenge the fears and misunderstandings that hold us back, discover the motivations that move us forward, learn key concepts and tactics that break down barriers and bias, and develop tools for starting authentic, transformative conversations—so we can build stronger solidarity and connection for collective action.
Course One: Foundations for Collaboration Across Race and Culture
This course is for women from white or white-adjacent backgrounds who want to build genuine trust and collaborate across difference, as well as for Women of Color looking for tools and clarity to navigate and lead conversations with aspiring allies.
Every module brings real opportunities for self-reflection, new vocabulary, honest dialogue, deep exploration, fun, and practical strategies for meaningful change. Together, we’ll challenge the fears and misunderstandings that hold us back, discover the motivations that move us forward, learn key concepts and tactics that break down barriers and bias, and develop tools for starting authentic, transformative conversations—so we can build stronger solidarity and connection for collective action.
Course Lessons:
1. Introduction: Why We Gather
2. Looking at Emotions, Motivations, and How We Got Here
3. Privilege and Position: Naming and Navigating
4. Interrogating Monoculture: Challenging the “Default”
5. Banishing Nice-ism: Beyond Comfort to Brave Engagement
6. Deconstructing Fetishization: Respect Over Objectification
Course Two: Sustaining Change, Deepening Learning, Leadership, and Liberation
This “advanced” course carries on from the basics and takes things further, hoping to help you lead real change in your organization, community, or family; modeling collaboration and allyship in a way that transforms culture—not just conversation; and building deep relationships grounded in accountability, transparency, and a true commitment to shared liberation.
1. Dismiss Tone Policing and Stereotyping
2. Power: Understand It, Interrogate It, Shift It
3. Abandon Your White Savior Complex
4. Trash the Tokenism
5. History out of Hiding
6. The Heartbreak of Over-Intellectualizing
Those who have been part of my cohorts and other work will recognize some of these lessons from the ‘Beloved Community” work I’d fostered over the past couple of years. But we are now in a different world, and beloved-ness is great, but we are dealing with survival now.
Let me just state for the record, a lot of the updating has to do with the obvious devastating dismantling of the systems, practices, and norms that we have so valiantly sought to build and codify in our society.
And a lot of it is now infused with what I’ve learned, heard, consulted others around, or sadly—as many of you know—experienced firsthand. I’m still healing from the enormous harm I endured in the American workplace, particularly the so-called “DEI” space, but with time, distance, reflection, and gratitude, I see myself coming through to the other side.
And as I wrote to someone recently, if I can do it, baby, so can you.
So can we.
Priced sliding scale: $60-$500.
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113 Cherry St #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205
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