Courses
Using a popular education framework, we create learning forums that allow students to bring in their lived experiences and build collective knowledge. We believe that popular education learning informs action for liberation. Read more about our 4-course offerings below. Check back soon for enrollment openings.
Black Spiritualities
The Black Diaspora has been through centuries of struggle, resistance, and joy since being scattered from our original homelands. And through it all, many of us have connected with those original practices as a way of healing and building community with each other. There has been less spaciousness to discuss their relationship with God and the Black Church. This 3-month course offers Black people a space to reflect on their feelings towards God, spirit, and their faith communities. Over the term, we will learn and unlearn by dialoguing, listening to gospel music, studying sacred texts, cosmology, intention setting, ancestry tracing, altar building, and writing biomythography. We hope that students will be able to process how their beliefs move across time and space.
Transnational Black Feminism
In this 9-month course, students will explore transnational geographies of Blackness, specifically the social construction of race and gender, as well as the sacred knowledge of intersectionality through rituals of embodiment, cultural appreciation, and community building. The goal of this course is to encourage students to dive into academic and creative works analyzing racial identity construction for deep reflection, solidarity building, and healing. We will utilize a variety of materials that make space for all bodies and knowledge absorption, including interactive mini-lectures, movement exercises, and art. This course will allow for sensitive topics to be held with care, and invite play & radical curiosity for not only individual expansion but for larger community connection and building.
Love, Care, & Community Praxis
Black and Indigenous folks have borne the brunt of American violence, harm, and destruction. Our responses to choose to love, care, and create community with one another are not only inspirational but instructional. For 6-months, students will learn how to build rapport and practice facilitation and social change strategies in the lineage of these two groups of people. We will engage the wisdom of Black and Indigenous people from various positionalities, including those who are differently-abled, queer, and terminally ill. This course will travel through history, is deeply experiential, and honors the theories and praxis of those from whom the elite population most systematically disinvests. The ultimate goal of this course is to allow students to grapple with the resilience of Black and Indigenous communities.
Black Expressive Arts & Embodiments
The goal of this 12-month course is to decolonize your relationship with your body through collective reflection and craft. Students will regularly engage in free writing, meditation, mixed media, drawing, design, dialogue, reading, and embodied movement. We create a sacred learning forum that allows students to recognize the relationship between their embodiment and their individual and ancestral experiences of trauma and oppression. By integrating the various creative processes and somatic exercises, we offer access to multiple resources for healing, clarity, illumination, and creativity. It is our sincere. hope that all enrolled students learn to practice self-expression and self-determination and experience new forms of healing and wellness.