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“The People remembered the truth of their Being, that they are The People who fly! And they rose up in the air… spiraling up and up in counterclockwise rings shouting all the while. They rode those hot breezes like currents, singin’ and wingin’ their way to Freedom Land!”
—excerpt from F R E E D O M L A N D ’s Origin Folqtellin’
FREEDOM LAND is a Liberatory
world-building platform
facilitating decolonial systems change, healing justice programs, organizational rites-of-passages, land-based retreats, cohorts, coaching and consulting services rooted in the sacred cultural strategies of our ancestors.
We cultivate Liberatory Creatrix— the Shapers-of-Change and Weavers-of-new-Worlds beyond outdated oppressive and limiting paradigms. We work with the Freedom Dreamers, the ones who dare to dream beyond the unjust systems we’ve inherited to shape worlds where all beings and lands are thriving and Free.
We believe in the Liberatory Power of the creative process.
That the practice of making a way out of no way is a spiritual and strategic skillset most urgently needed in this time. Like Auntie Harriet finding her way through the dark, tracing constellation cartographies to Freedom Land. We know creating something out of seemingly nothing is a magic our ancestral Creation Stories have been teaching us from the very beginning. It’s time to create new worlds—only this time, we are the Creatrix.
We believe you are the medicine for this moment.
That we have everything we need for such a time as this. We know in our bones that together we are the medicine for the wounds of this time, and we are being called to heal and re-shape our world.
We believe this work is Sacred.
That to heal the wounds of injustice is to heal across generations, backwards and forwards through time. This is ancestral work, and we are never alone. We root in the world-weaving technologies of ceremony, story, circle, movement and song to re-member who we are and why we are here.
Our embodied commitment
We embody a commitment to healing transgenerational impacts of oppression and decolonizing our social justice movements to steward Liberatory worlds into being. Together we re-member our relationship with Land, our bodies, and each other—daring to shape Change and let Change shape our Freedom dreams into a future where all people and Lands are Free.
Who we center
We center gender-expansive communities of the global majority working towards justice and Liberation. These include values-aligned organizations, non-profits, grassroots collectives, schools, health institutions, businesses, movement organizers, creatives, healing and spiritual practitioners who are committed to collective liberation.
What we offer
LIBERATORY COACHING
Somatic ancestral healing
Decolonial praxis
Transforming oppression
Leadership development
LIBERATORY CONSULTING
Decolonial Systems Change
Circle facilitation
Transforming oppression
Conflict transformation & mediation
Liberatory program design
Land-based Retreats
LIBERATORY RITES-OF-PASSAGES
Strategic planning as sacred process
Stewarding organizational rebirth
Liberatory restructuring & governance
LIBERATORY PRAXIS SPACES
Community Freedom School series’ and drop-in practices spaces for unpacking oppression and embodying Liberation
COHORTS
For World-builders to immerse in the decolonial living epistemology, Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis
Our Approach
art by ChE
We utilize a transdisciplinary Intersectional Justice approach known as:
Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis (AILP)—an ancestrally-rooted equity organizing framework emerging from the deep knowing that just as Black is The Beginning, so too does healing transectional anti-Blackness and Indigeneity uproot interlocking systems of oppression. We ground Intersectional Justice in the body through ancestral technologies of circle-based facilitation, somatic ritual, socially-engaged artmaking, intergenerational storytelling, and deepening relationship with the land.
Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis is rooted in radical movement traditions and theories-of-change led and imagined by lineages of QTGNC2-S+ BIPOC, some of which include:
Intersectionality
Anti-racism
Alternatives to ableism
Healing Justice
Queer Black & Indigenous Feminism
Indigenous Ecology
Afro-Indigenous Futurism
Liberatory praxis & pedagogy
Testimonies
“Working with ChE and the FREEDOM LAND Cohort is an essential part of how I have been able to step into the role of co-director of a movement organization. They have supported me in translating my way to functioning in a Liberatory Role administering a mid-size non-profit. The containers ChE creates have depth and spaciousness that allows for scrappy, nimbleness. I trust their grounding in Afro-Indigenous ways of being and how they have reflected my own practice for embodied centering that I can deepen and engage as I anchor our ship thru stormy times.”
— Wendi Autumn Moore-O’Neal (her-she), Co-Director of Southerner’s On New Ground, Founder of Jaliyah Consulting
“ChE’s facilitated conversations on equity, oppression, and liberation led to a personal and institutional transformation at our nonprofit, one that prioritizes staff well being. Their DEI consulting created space for staff trust building, visioning, and re-evaluation of our mission and values, that informed and strengthened our intentions. ChE is a gifted leader, facilitator, and consultant that I recommend to anyone looking to grow their freedom practices and advance equity and racial justice in their spaces.”
—Zerena Diaz (she/her) | Managing Director of CounterPulse
“Working with ChE [Founder of F R E E D O M L A N D] provided intuitive, spiritual, and practical guidance for liberating one's body and mind in the workplace. ChE is an excellent facilitator of worldly wisdom who effortlessly incorporates Afro-Indigenous praxis in a modern workplace setting. Through movement exercises, facilitated dialogue, and 1:1 coaching, ChE welcomes a new paradigm for collaborative productivity and digs into the essence of what it means to be free as a worker. Since working with ChE, CounterPulse has adopted self-care policies and radical honesty we previously could only dream of. Our employees are more intentional with how they hold their bodies and responsibilities while showing up in the spirit of collective care. I would highly recommend ChE for any organization or individual seeking to liberate their minds, bodies, and souls through this important work.”
— Justin Ebrahemi (he/they) | Director of Communications & Advancement, CounterPulse