We believe the practice of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is key to building our ability to imagine, create, and foster personal and professional relationships that endeavor to communicate and engage in ways that create less harm for ourselves and others.Â
We believe the process of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership intentionally transmutes white supremacy and patriarchy and their influence on how we move in the world.
We believe the path of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is a transformative journey that supports individuals and organizations in making the deeply systemic, strategic, intuitive, innovative, and necessary shifts away from old ways of being that no longer serve us, our organizations. or our communities.
This module is a powerful and transformative online course! It includes:
- dialogues & lectures (over 20 hours of video)
- assignments (a 60-page workbook)
- and a library of over 200 resources
This course is for people who want to co-imagine, co-create, and co-foster a healthy anti-oppressive culture. It is for those who seek support in growing their humanity and skill. Culture change takes time and practice. Module 1 is designed to help participants explore and digest critical information using reflective assignments and tools that support meaningful individual transformation and learning.Â
You are invited to engage in a deeply transformative process where you will practice using ideas, concepts, and tools that allow you to accurately perceive and interrupt white supremacy and patriarchy. You will come to understand how intricately these forces influence, dominate and control how we see the world, our role in it, and how we engage in relationships with ourselves and others.
Success requires that you intentionally and authentically engage. You will learn using submodules that include:
- Uprooting Perceptions: Impact of Power and Privilege
- Peeling Back the Tendrils: Reimagining My Reality
- Fostering Fertile Ground: Intersectional Inquiry
- Planting Seeds: What Is My End Game?
Module 1 Takeaways:
Cultivating Intersectional Leadership expands your capacity to work in community with others by understanding and developing key Learning Objectives on the path of becoming an effective Intersectional thinker/leader. Upon completing the course, you will leave with:
- An introspective and potentially transformative final project,Â
- An Action Plan that builds on your strengths and opportunities,Â
- A vision of your aspirations, concrete results, and strategies, with a support plan and pathway for engaging in the work
Here are your facilitators, Diedra and Maureen, talking about the course!
There are many ways you can engage in Cultivating Intersectional Leadership.
You can enroll in the Self Paced course (as a whole or in parts.)
You can add-on monthly group coaching with Diedra and Maureen, no matter where you are in the course!
*All enrollments include lifetime access to course materials
We invite you to enroll in the option that works best for you.
Please note: we offer discounts for any community group or organization that wishes to enroll more than 10 people. Please contact us for more information.
Who Are Your Facilitators?
I specialize in the needs of women, people of color, and queer leaders dedicated to social justice-induced systemic change and infiltration in their organizational culture, mission, vision, goals, product, and/or service. I have been a Director of Company Culture Transformation for a racial equity tech industry nonprofit, a Chief Development Business Officer, a Chief Operations Officer, a senior curriculum writer and training designer, and lead facilitator. Today I use these work experiences as well as important life experiences to Cultivate Intersectional Leadership in myself, coaching and thought partnerships for organizations and individuals, and supporting space for team/department and whole organization conversations at organizations interested in real racial equity and inclusion.
I focus on disrupting White Supremacy in my own practice, in my day-to-day engagement with the community, and in my work as a consultant for organizational development and systemic transformation. I have been a high school teacher and principal in Oakland, CA., a Chief Operating Officer of a national racial equity organization, and a lead facilitator and coach for equity with executive teams, boards, and staff at a variety of social impact organizations. As a community member, I’ve been a Police Commissioner and organizer with local groups dedicated to ending police violence against marginalized communities, specifically Black people who are exponentially targeted by state terror. After more than 20 years of work in education and supporting social impact organizations focused on racial justice and intersectional leadership, I feel even more strongly that we must engage tirelessly in our governmental and educational systems with an emphasis on interrupting our personal and systemic perpetuation of historical disparities. Using the tools of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is my commitment to a lifetime of brainwashing to undo.
Course Curriculum
- Diedra's Introduction (Dialogue) (3:40)
- Maureen's Introduction (Dialogue) (4:52)
- Welcome, Naming the Journey (Dialogue) (15:28)
- Self Reflection Journal (Dialogue) (6:21)
- Overview of the Course (Lecture) (20:40)
- Who Am I? (Self Reflection)
- Transmuting White Supremacy and Patriarchy (Lecture) (37:06)
- Transmuting White Supremacy and Patriarchy Tool (Self Reflection)
- How We Define White Supremacy and Patriarchy (Lecture) (34:30)
- Amending the Soil (Lecture) (16:24)
- Amending the Soil (Self Reflection)
- A Library of over 200 resources!
- Opening (Dialogue) (20:15)
- Identity Constructs (Lecture) (41:36)
- Identity Exploration Process One (Self Reflection)
- Reflective questions for Identity Map (Dialogue) (54:44)
- Guided Meditation and Journaling (Self Reflection)
- Identity Exploration, Dynamics of Diversity Process Two (Self Reflection) (19:24)
- Optional Additional Reflection Assignment for those finding they want to explore further their Identity Exploration and Dynamics of Diversity (4:48)
- Why we focus on race (Dialogue) (22:04)
- Why we focus on race (Lecture) (8:05)
- Racial Identity Development (Lecture) (17:49)
- Racial Identity Development (Dialogue) (20:21)
- Exploring the Racial Identity Development Tool (Self Reflection)
- End of Session Reflection (Dialogue) (12:35)
- End of Session Reflection (Lecture) (3:12)
- End of Session Reflection (Self Reflection)
- Defining Intersectionality and Interdependence (Dialogue) (12:45)
- Defining Intersectionality and Interdependence (Lecture) (30:03)
- Intersectionality as a Kaleidoscope (Self Reflection)
- Unpacking how power and privilege shape & impact experiences and expectations (Dialogue) (13:54)
- Unpacking how power and privilege shape & impact experiences and expectations (Lecture) (45:32)
- Unpacking how power and privilege shape & impact experiences and expectations (Self Reflection)
- Resistance- Triggers / White fragility (Dialogue) (29:22)
- Racial Trauma White Sensitivity (Triggers, Resistance & Fragility) (Lecture) (98:59)
- Racial Trauma White Sensitivity (Triggers, Resistance & Fragility) (Self Reflection)
- Transforming the Stigma of Failure (A tool to support vulnerability) (Lecture) (15:50)
- Transforming the Stigma of Failure A Process to Support Vulnerability (Self Reflection)
- Whiteness/Patriarchy as dominant cultures (Dialogue) (16:06)
- Whiteness/Patriarchy as dominant cultures (Lecture) (72:49)
- Whiteness/Patriarchy as dominant cultures (Self Reflection)
- How to develop and live with Vulnerability and Introspection (Dialogue) (8:03)
- Developing and Embodying Vulnerability and Introspection (Lecture) (14:36)
- Developing and Embodying Vulnerability and Introspection (Self Reflection)
- What is the process of getting to full honesty about self? (Dialogue) (12:20)
- What is the process of getting to full honesty about self? (Lecture) (10:05)
- Getting to Full Honesty About Self - Peeling Back the Layers (Self Reflection)
- End of session reflection (Self Reflection) (1:22)
- Intent vs. Impact (Dialogue) (19:29)
- Intent vs. Impact (Lecture) (22:38)
- Intent vs. Impact (Self Reflection)
- Letting Go of Judgment as a Tool (Dialogue) (15:58)
- Letting Go of Judgment as a Tool (Lecture) (32:34)
- Letting Go of Judgment as a Tool (Self Reflection)
- Confronting Limiting Beliefs (Dialogue) (22:37)
- Confronting Limiting Beliefs (Lecture) (51:22)
- Confronting Limiting Beliefs (Self Reflection)
- Centering Race (Dialogue) (25:03)
- Centering Race (Self Reflection) (6:56)
- End of Session Reflection (Self Reflection)
- Intersectional Inquiry - A Deeper Understanding (Dialogue) (22:31)
- Understanding Intersectional Inquiry (Lecture) (15:57)
- Composting Power (Dialogue) (20:38)
- Composting Power (Lecture) (34:14)
- Composting Power (Self Reflection)
- Intersections of multiple identities (Dialogue) (13:12)
- Intersections of multiple identities (Lecture) (21:38)
- Intersections of multiple identities (Self Reflection)
- Turning the Soil: Revisiting Our Identity Map (Dialogue) (39:11)
- Turning the Soil: Module 1 Recap (Lecture) (34:24)
- Turning the Soil: Module 1 Recap (Self Reflection)
- End of Session Reflection (Self Reflection)
- Clearing My Resistance (Dialogue) (52:18)
- Clearing My Resistance (Lecture) (22:00)
- Clearing My Resistance (Self Reflection)
- Excavating My Power and Privilege Patterns (Dialogue) (9:25)
- Excavating My Power and Privilege Patterns (Lecture) (27:07)
- Excavating My Power and Privilege Patterns (Self Reflection)
- Weeding Out My Limiting Beliefs (Dialogue) (23:24)
- Weeding Out My Limiting Beliefs (Lecture) (7:52)
- Weeding Out My Limiting Beliefs (Self Reflection)
- My Personal Action Plan: Sowing the Seeds (Lecture) (14:58)
- My Personal Action Plan: Sowing the Seeds (Self Reflection)
- Moving in our Journey from Individual to Interpersonal (Dialogue) (21:26)