the fortification cohort

Beloved survivor, if you are feeling depleted, defeated, lost and confused, I see you. I feel you. We are living through a genuinely challenging time in history: the slipstream, as Norma Wong calls it, is moving very fast. And amid this great current of change, violence, unraveling and unveiling, many of us are relying on outdated worldviews, internal stories, and relational patterns that do not serve us well in navigating the current.

If this sounds like you, I want to invite you to apply into my Fall program, The Fortification Cohort. It’s an 8 week process of collective and self study, where we learn how to practice fugitivity, and in so doing, map a new internal landscape defined by agency and courage, instead of dissociation and collapse. 

Fugitivity is more than escape. It is making ourselves powerful, both individually and collectively. It is remembering a much longer timeline for our freedom fight, and holding connection to that reality no matter the conditions around us. It is a process of conditioning the soul for the righteous fight.

This program is for you if:

• You want to practice freedom in your own life, but you are not sure how.

• You have an existing practice for self-regulation and have already done some of your own healing work. 

• You have a working understanding of trauma, but you find the victim/oppressor dichotomy to be limiting and overly simplistic. You want an updated framework for understanding conditions as they are. 

• You want to make change in the world, but struggle to turn your values and wisdom into action. 

• You desire to work in multiracial and multiclass formation using black feminist principles, without throwing anyone away. 

Apply here, or continue reading for more details.

The Fortification Cohort is an 8-week virtual cohort experience that builds individual and collective capacity to navigate conditions of fear and uncertainty. In multiracial community, we learn to orient ourselves to our biological and communal practices for safety and belonging. Cohort members will build individual and communal resilience skills that support them to act courageously as we collectively survive a historical period rife with existential threats and the attempted erasure of civil and human rights.

This cohort includes both coursework and practice, drawing on Black Feminist poetic, cultural, and academic lineages, as well as Black and indigenous approaches to trauma healing and cultural practice. As the sessions progress, we will explore trauma as both a biological, geographic, and collective experience, with a focus on the practice of fortification through biological and communal resilience. We will explore the political framework of fugitive practice as an antidote to the chronic conditions of dissociation and collapse under empire. 

Each session we will gather in study, reflection, embodiment practice. Participants will be provided with an 8-week guide to self-study that includes journal prompts, practices, links, and recommended readings. Additionally, cohort members will have access to “open office” hours, to come together in a more casual and unstructured window to explore lessons, questions, and new learnings as they arise week by week. At the end of the 8-week experience, participants will have the option to continue in a deep-dive coaching intensive.

For participants who wish to deepen their individual practice after the completion of the course, there is an optional Coaching Intensive Add-On. Cohort Members who select the add-on will extend their cohort experience by 4 weeks, and will have access to individual coaching as well as two half-day group coaching intensives.

See below for more detailed information about the Fortification Cohort experience. Scroll down for detailed information about Fees and Schedules.