Building Spirit + Resilience for Coliberation
A series of free coaching sessions for BIPOC racial equity and social justice practitioners
What gives us breath?
The capacity to hold complexities?
What limiting beliefs or conditions contribute to our burnout and disconnection?
In our work to honor our Earth, to care for our people, and to dismantle what harms us—
What sacred practices, grounding beliefs, traditions of care and wisdom gained over millennium,
Do we, can we, and should we carry into our ‘work’?
What furthers our health, elevates our joy and contributes to our spirit and resilience?
How do we create the spaces we so desperately need for ourselves and each other—
To rest, restore, reground, and revitalize our efforts with love?
announcement
Our Bodhi Project is thrilled to announce our latest offering for Spring and Summer 2021, ‘Building Spirit and Resilience for Coliberation’. These are *free* coaching sessions for BIPOC racial equity and social justice practitioners. Sessions are designed for individuals or pairs working in, with, and across networks and sectors.
This opportunity is made possible through a generous grant from a collective of social impact funders who prioritize healthy relationships with spirit, communities, ourselves, each other and the natural world. Join us in connecting with wisdom-based traditions that deepen and expand our spirit and resilience for transformative action.
Please note: The personal is political. Who we are and how we show up for our communities is intertwined. Naturally, we want to bring forward queries about our work into the reflective spaces we're able to access, out of love for our communities and ourselves. These particular spaces are designed to focus on your health, spirit, and resilience (with the recognition that learnings can be directed towards other actions for the collective). And for many of us, we need and desire these personal, more intimate spaces to unfold and better reconnect with what we love, what we struggle with, and what we want to protect.
If you would like to talk about other consulting opportunities that can more specifically focus on your organizing or work efforts, please feel free to reach out here.
who we are:
Our Bodhi Project is a spiritual and political project that centers collective wellbeing and collaboration. Bodhi grounds its relationships and engagements in the Embodying Belonging and Coliberation Frame, a series of guideposts and ways of being that center collective health and wellbeing of all living systems. Bodhi works with individuals and groups to facilitate creative learning spaces and strategies for healthy movement-building that center the whole of our experiences and the sacredness of our stories. These free sessions would be facilitated by founder Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, and supported by Project Assistant, Mila Buckland.
this is for BIPOC racial equity and social justice practitioners who:
Provide support, guidance, and/or facilitation that is rooted in an antiracist approach and may cover topics such as addressing institutional and structural racism; white supremacy culture and relational culture; and economic, gender, environmental, and/or disability justice
Engage with liberatory practices personally and in their work (for example, arts, culture, mindfulness, embodiment, queering practices and others)
Work across and/or with various sectors, levels, and collaborations (health, education, government, art, community based organizing, your own families, etc…)
Are called to work at various levels (such as supporting frontline activists to executive leadership, to organizing groups)
Have some familiarity and ongoing commitment to some form of spiritual, reflective, and/or contemplative practice, and/or
Deeply desire dedicated time and space to further practice and embody ways of being that center collective health and wellbeing
For sessions beginning in July, we are encouraging applications for pairs. Sign up with a dear friend / colleague. We will also continue to work w/ individuals
what to expect in the coaching sessions:
A loving, critical space to create deeper and more holistic analyses of our struggles while learning and relearning how to center spirit and health by engaging with practices from health and spirit practitioners
A restorative, contemplative, and nourishing space for those who are desiring and open to engage in deeper self- and community-reflection
A medicinal space that values all our relationships by bringing balance and health not just to ourselves at work and with our colleagues, but also family, community, and non-human living systems
An emergent experience loosely structured around the Bodhi frame and its five main guideposts. We will be arranging and sharing antidotal practices, beliefs, and ideas to both offer support and build upon
logistics
We are encouraging applications for pairs and will continue to work w/ individuals
Ongoing from May to Sep 2021
Includes a combination of 3-4 one-hour and 90-minute sessions, virtually
Sessions to be scheduled 1-2 weeks apart from one another, on the same day of the week for the entire series (Mon-Thur)
*Bodhi will work with your calendars + boundaries
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Registration for free sessions are now closed! Thank you so much for your interest. Please reach out to us about consulting possibilities of the same this Fall.
