VALUES
If we don't do our work, then we become work for other people.
-Lama Rod Owens- Love and Rage
VALUES
Embodying Liberation
developing a holistic toolkit to address the impact of systems of oppression on our abilities to experience liberation.
Collective Growth & Impact
To ensure that equity and wellness is fully integrated into the aims and operations of collective work and growth.
Wellness
The optimal sense of well-being; being your best cared self; thriving > surviving
Mindfulness
Exploring our awareness of our mind and body’s intelligence and experience(s) affects how we show up in the present moment.
Somatics/Meditation
Regulating our parasympathetic nervous systems is central to how we physically and mentally experience life, build relationships, and perceive risk, safety, and/or harm.
Self-Care & Healing
Heal from internalized oppression as expressed through the body and mind.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare," Lorde wrote in A Burst of Light" and Other Essays.
Payment
Black women deserve to be paid for our labor. Liberation for our bodies means respecting the labor that involves our bodies, minds, and emotional/intellectual genius @TheTrudz
Decolonization
Decolonization is the active practice of increasing awareness of the harmful impact of colonization on all living and non-living things, and creating strategies to reduce/eradicate the long-term effects of colonial violence by amplifying ancestral, spiritual, eco-equitable and holistic solutions. (Thea Monyee)
“When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision—then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Lorde wrote in the The Transformation of Silence into Language & Action.
“The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one’s being experienced, explored, enriched, and thereby educated”.
— Thomas Hanna
By giving ourselves permission to heal from within, we can rewrite the unconscious energetic contracts we carry that are negatively impacting our lives.
- Maryam Hasnaa