Radical Roots

A supportive space for organizational social change leaders* to grow, heal, and step into our most authentic and powerful selves. This space centers and affirms our inner wisdom while also activating our collective wisdom, building on our strengths within a circle of peers. When fierce and committed womxn of color come together, we are unstoppable.

*People in decision-making roles within an organizational context

This nourishing and dynamic virtual learning experience includes...

• Six weekly group sessions (two-hours via live video)

• Access to a private online space with curated resources on radical wellness topics

• Accountability buddy to exchange insights and check-in about goals between group sessions

...in order to enhance your ability to…

• Amplify your purposeful leadership by learning and practicing generative listening within a group*

• Be a catalyst for braver spaces that build trust through people-focused leadership

• Practice self-accountability and self-actualization through weekly growth intentions

• Receive targeted support for your specific professional challenges, dilemmas, or questions

*Generative Listening is a dynamic act of co-creation that connects to the source of who we really are, with our authentic self. Those who practice generative listening listen to more than our words; they listen from a place of holding our highest, most fully realized possibility.

As womxn* working within social change spaces, we experience a seemingly never-ending pace of work that is unsustainable. Add on top of that the daily presence of micro or macro aggressions against our intersectional identities, navigating systemic oppression based in patriarchy and white supremacy and the end result is the erosion of our physical, mental, and emotional health.

Social change organizations and movements lose out when badass womxn of color don’t get the support we need to thrive. In order to create the just, equitable, and peaceful world that we so deeply seek, we need strong and vibrant leaders to guide the way. We believe those leaders are womxn or color. And we believe that we deserve spaces to nourish our growth, inner wisdom, wellbeing, and leadership in a new and affirming way.

As womxn, we know the power of being in community. It is the antidote to the stressful, toxic environments that many of us experience in our daily lives. Having a supportive and nourishing space that supports us to heal, grow, is not only critical to our emotional, physical and spiritual health and wellbeing but critical to our social change movements. When we are well, we can be more fully present and available for ourselves, our work, our families and our communities.

*Womxn includes cis-womxn, transwomxn, gender-expansive, and non-binary folk

This space is for you if:

• You’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed and want deepen your sense of renewal and wellbeing

• You’re feeling isolated and want to receive support in your professional and personal growth from a compassionate circle of womxn

• You question your leadership skills because they are not considered normative or valued by dominant (white, male, hetero) organizational culture and seek spaces to affirm your innate brilliance

• You want to receive feedback, reflections, and new insights in areas where you feel stuck

• You feel challenged in professional situations and you seek fresh perspectives from peers who have had similar experiences to help shift internal beliefs and interpretations to experience a different outcome

• You recognize that traditional deficit-based professional development options aren’t cutting it and you seek a strengths-based orientation that recognizes and values the skills you already have

We draw inspiration for our name from tree forests, the lungs of mama earth.

Trees of all varieties grow as a community, thriving in cooperative, interdependent relationships, close communication and collective wisdom. Interconnected through root systems, they share nutrients and resources to support one another. Each tree is an individual, yet all are connected in community. We believe humans can learn from the wisdom of tree forests, to live and thrive in community and in cooperative relationships as we support one another in our work.

Radical? Yes! We believe it is a radical act to affirm our inner wisdom and wellbeing.