Leading Liberation retreat series
Leading Liberation is a retreat initiative that provides vision, healing and relationship supports to Black, Indigenous, Women of Color who are advancing social transformation and community liberation through their positional leadership and/or change-making efforts. A critical mass of these women now exercises formal and informal power within their organizations, communities and geographic regions. Their gains are real, yet they frequently find themselves ideologically and culturally isolated within their institutional settings and larger operating contexts.
The consequences of such isolation include chronic stress, targeted interference from systems and structures they work within, routine positional trauma, and increased difficulty manifesting their visions of community liberation and well-being.
Though the above-mentioned consequences are dire, they are not insurmountable. Affirmations of their visions for personal and community liberation, cultivation of healing and well-being practices, and the development of intentional community with similarly committed leaders can serve as positive resources that fortify them on their leadership journeys. Fortification is key in these times of widespread turbulence and gross systems dysfunction. Positive resources, invested in BIPOC women who are at “the tip of the spear” of change, can help to develop their abilities to turn change, disruption, stress and shock into new opportunities, strengths, social innovations and solutions. Stated more plainly, these resources can help to facilitate the emergence of transformative resilience among those who are working to evolve our systems, structures and societies.
Would you like to learn more about Leading Liberation ?
Contact us at Community@InPowerInstitute.com and we’ll follow up with you.