How do we decolonize the way we work, live, and create worlds beyond the oppressive patterning we've always known? What tools have our ancestors left us to nourish, guide, and ground us?

F R E E D O M  L A N D, in partnership with the Resilience Initiative and the LeadersTrust facilitated a 9-month cohort program for social justice leaders to immerse in a mindfulness & healing justice community-of-practice from October 2024-June 2025. This program was funded by the Ho Family Foundation.

Facilitated by ChE, Founding Creatrix of F R E E D O M  L A N D, this cohort cultivated a sacred space for social justice leaders to build community and engage in Afro-Indigenous contemplative praxis as pathways to transforming oppression and embodying liberatory leadership. 

Through F R E E D O M  L A N D’s living pedagogy, Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis, participants received guided practice and learning in how to integrate decolonial frameworks, trauma-informed strategies, and culturally-responsive mindfulness techniques into their teams and organizations. 

 

In this cohort—

We are practicing to heal from ongoing unjust traumas of colonial violence and systemic oppression.

We are practicing to have the courage and clarity to embody Liberation.

We are practicing to wake up to our power to shape worlds beyond our ancestors' wildest dreams.

 
 
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Through monthly virtual praxis circles, 1:1 coaching, and assigned Freedom werq— participants immerse in the transdisciplinary, Intersectional Justice framework—Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Praxis, exploring how to integrate decolonial frameworks, trauma-informed strategies, Healing Justice, contemplative and culturally-responsive liberatory praxis into the culture and infrastructure of their lives and organization. 

 

This cohort introduces:

  • Mindfulness practices for moving through anxiety, fear, and shame—settling your nervous system and preventing burnout

  • Somatic practices to become more attuned and at home in your body—guiding how to live and lead from your Liberatory Center

  • Frameworks and practices for cultivating relationship with the land, plant allies, and a living kinship network—drawing strength and grounding to heal from impacts of colonization and root in eco-cultural justice

  • Tools for assessing capacity, clarifying discernment, and practicing healthy boundaries from an orientation of interdependence

  • Guided meditations and rituals for re-membering ancestral wisdom traditions to heal and transmute racialized trauma

 

COHORT OFFERINGS

Participants have access to:

  • a $5,000 flexible grant to support staff participation in the program

  • A designated Mindfulness & Healing Justice Guide to support cohort participants to bring tools and learning to their organizations and communities

  • A community of practice with cohort peers that gathers monthly via Zoom for 2-hours

  • A practice partner to meet with monthly providing peer accountability, accompaniment, and sacred Witnessing throughout the journey

  • 4 Lagniappe drop-in practice spaces to support with cultivating a consistent practice between cohort sessions, featuring a different Guide each time facilitating a liberatory contemplative practice from the deep well of their wisdom tradition/ lineage

  • Office hours with ChE to receive tailored decolonial mindfulness coaching support

 

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