Our Offerings
Communal Consultations
in somatic abolitionism
for ALL Bodies of Culture
Resmaa Menakem is a visionary Justice Leadership coach, organizational strategist and master trainer. To help Justice leaders really realize their potential in the areas of Equity & Racee, Resmaa created cultural somatics which utilizes the Body & Resilience as mechanisms for growth. Resmaa is a dynamic and fully engaged justice leadership coach who is dedicated in partnering with leaders whose intention is to assist others in leading better lives and organizations. Resmaa is passionate about coaching those courageous leaders who dedicate their lives toward making the world a better place.
As the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a Justice Leadership consultancy firm, Resmaa Menakem dedicates his expertise to “coaching justice leaders through civil unrest and restlessness; justice leaders who feel isolated; and for those who sense that their voice is unsupported and feel somewhat cynical but who still have the fire and desire for change and creating justice for all.” Resmaa is an accomplished author of three books; My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, 101 Tips for Emerging Justice Leaders, and a powerful book on conflict in relationships titled Rock the Boat: How to use Conflict to Heal and Deepen Relationships.
As a prodigious public speaker, radio and television personality, Resmaa has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil shows as an expert on conflict mediation, self-care and healing. Resmaa has been a non-profit executive and business owner for over 28 years. He possesses vast expert experience in strategic planning, equity leadership coaching and marketing. Visit him at JusticeLeadershipsolutions.net
Resmaa successfully coaches and trains a diversified array of Justice Leaders who are community activists, police leaders, clergy, and non-profit executives in achieving their objectives of change and justice, while partnering with them in achieving meaningful work experiences, as well as accomplishing life and career balance. Resmaa is also available for keynotes and 1-2 day workshops.
As an impressively experienced international trainer and skilled effective communicator among diverse ethnic populations, Resmaa has instructed and trained personnel extensively in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) police departments, as well as provided years of experience as a Trauma Counselor and trainer to military and US contractors in Afghanistan.
Ja Young Ahn-Williams (she/her) is the founder of Attunement Coaching and Consulting. Ja Young brings over 15 years of experience working with leaders and organizations in the non-profit and education sectors. She works with individuals and organizations that are committed to healing and unlearning the ways that white supremacy distorts our sense of belonging - to ourselves and to each other.
Ja Young believes in the innate wisdom of individuals and groups and uses coaching and facilitation to harness that power for her clients. She brings an authentic and embodied approach to creating the conditions for risk-taking and deep transformation. She feels honored to accompany her clients on their path towards healing and liberation.
Ja Young is a native New Yorker, a daughter of Korean immigrants, and the mother of a multiracial child. Her identities have gifted her with a capacity to hold multiple realities and a passion for interrupting the silence of marginalized voices. Both as a mother and a facilitator of change, she is in a daily practice of humility, vulnerability, and self-compassion. Her joy comes from laughing with her son, harvesting fruit and vegetables from her garden, and hiking in the redwoods.
As a certified professional coach, Ja Young is focused on transformational coaching through Leadership That Works. She is an affiliate executive coach through LeaderSpring and the Alvarez Porter Group, and is a part of a network of transformational consultants through the Social Transformation Project. Ja Young is a facilitator and lecturer of interpersonal and group dynamics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley Haas Business School, and The New School. She is a graduate of The New School where she received her MS in Organizational Change Management.
Jennifer-Lee Koble (she/her) is of Métis/Cree and mixed European ancestry. She was born on Treaty 6 Territory and the homelands of the Métis (Saskatoon, SK). She is a mother of three, partner, auntie, daughter, sister, niece, and friend. These relational connections guide her - providing daily learnings, responsibilities and joy.
Jennifer-Lee has a Master’s in Social Work and is currently living, working and raising her family on the stolen ancestral homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). She has a private clinical practice exclusively supporting Indigenous community members in the healing from the historic and ongoing impacts of colonization. Jennifer-Lee also provides clinical consultation to therapists seeking to explore the impacts of racism within their practices. As an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia she taught Indigenous perspectives and decolonizing courses. Jennifer-Lee has been invited to facilitate Anti-Indigenous Racism workshops in the health, education, social services and private sectors for numerous years. She has also sat on boards and committees focusing on decolonizing & Indigenizing structures and policies.
Jennifer-Lee’s strong voice and heart-centred practices come from the deep connections she feels with her ancestors. She has been influenced by teachings from many Elders and Knowledge Keepers and most especially from the fire and courage passed on from her Métis kin.
With Resmaa Menakem &
Co-Facilitators Ja Young Ahn-Williams & Jennifer-Lee Koble
2024 Dates Coming Soon!
A 9-month communal journey of healing and practice for bodies of culture.
Countering white body supremacy and the restoration of wholeness for Black, Indigenous and all other bodies of culture requires an embodied approach. Cognition is ineffective in dealing with white body supremacy because the brain will always be part of the body. Any project, strategy, scheme or idea that is not embodied will be tossed into the cultural bonfire of “Curing Race-ism.” The roots of white body supremacy run deep and are often implicit to our experience. It’s from our embodied experience, therefore, that our work begins…
What is a communal consultation?
Our time together will introduce participants to an embodied understanding of how personal, collective, cultural and historical trauma have impacted our individual and communal bodies. We will work with how and where trauma shapes our experience with one another, as well as our capacity to heal and return to our birthright state of embodied wisdom, connection, and wholeness. YOU ARE NOT DEFECTIVE, and you deserve to know that in your bones.
We use this time to build a cultural container through which our intrinsic value can be cultivated and held, and the energies of structural value can be contended with and metabolized. During this journey, there may be a need to slow down and work with a therapist or somatic practitioner in order to respond to what may be overwhelming. There is no shame in this. As our ancestor Nelson Mandela stated: We don’t lose, we either win or we learn.
What is the commitment?
In the spirit of creating a common communal start, all participants are required to attend our Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism course on February 9th, 2023 with Resmaa Menakem. This event offers a foundational base for cultivating a practice of somatic abolitionism personally and communally.
There will also be a required retention space, held by Resmaa, on February 16th, which will support participants in integrating the information and practices offered in this course.
Following the foundations course, the commitment for the communal consultation includes once a month meeting with facilitators for 2 hours, as well as 1-2 meetings a month with your communal triad, to which you will be assigned in order to work the practices in between our larger group sessions. If you have already participated in prior communal consultations and you already have a triad and wish to continue with them, this will also be possible.
Who is this for?
Resmaa Menakem, Ja Young Ahn-Williams, Jennifer-Lee Koble will meet once a month with the consultation group for Bodies of Culture.
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture (CCBOC) is open to anyone who identifies as Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latine, brown or any other Body of Culture. This group is open to women, queer, trans, men, and non-binary BOC. We intend for this to be an inclusive space and wish for all bodies to feel welcome and nourished. Triads will be mixed groups, unless noted in the application for same body designation groups. We will do our best to honor your requests.
For white bodies, we ask that you join the Reparative Communal Consultations for White Bodies (RCCWB).
For white passing bodies of culture, we realize that part of the strategy of white body supremacy is to erase culture and dilute meaning. We ask that people who walk through the world with white privilege and have a lived experience of being treated as white in the world, please attend the group for white bodies. For those who are white passing and live as a body of culture in the world, please feel free to join the BOC group with the recognition that both your proximity to whiteness and your experience as a body of culture will be asked to be worked with.
~ Nelson Mandela
Important Registration Details
SLIDING SCALE TUITION
$1000-$1,800 USD
Maximum of 175 participants.
Participants have three options to pay
Option 1:
Payment in full at time of registration.
*Option 2:
Pay in 2 monthly installments (this option is available until December 15th).
*Option 3:
Pay in 3 monthly installments (this option is available until November 30th).
*All payment plan payments will be fulfilled by January 15th, 2023. In order to qualify for the payment plan option, you must consent to have your card automatically charged each month for your two or three payments.
ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: All participants are required to attend the Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism course in February 2023 (it is included in your CCBoC tuition), and attend LIVE a minimum of 7 out of the 9 monthly sessions. Participants are also required to meet monthly with their assigned triads. We will be tracking attendance.
Recordings of sessions will be made available for private use only for two weeks following each session and will not be available after that.
These offerings are being offered online held over Zoom. Please come prepared to be fully present in a non-public space. Please do not attend while driving in your car.
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February 20239th / 8am - 4pm PT
Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism Course
Session for All Bodies with Resmaa Menakem
16th / 9am - 10:30am PT
Retention Space for Bodies of Culture with Resmaa Menakem
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March 202318th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
April 202329th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
May 202320th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
June 202324th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
July 202329th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
September 20239th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
October 202328th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture -
November 202318th / 8am - 10am PT
Communal Consultations for Bodies of Culture
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Refund / Dispute Policies
Cancellations requested up to 14 days prior to the event are eligible for a full refund minus a $75 administration fee.
Cancellations requested within 14 days of the event are not eligible for a refund.
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