Empathic Leadership Cohort
Preparing experienced and emerging leaders to build a more equitable world
Relational - Somatic - Anti-Racist
How will you evolve your leadership to build lasting equity?
Where do we go beyond the anti-racist reading list repost? This cohort offers intermediate-advanced anti-racist education and guidance to help you apply your knowledge daily. Level up your leadership with tools to create meaningful and lasting change in your sphere of influence. With Kadijah and Haik as compassionate guides, you will start the journey to put your values to work and learn to lead with your heart.
The Opportunity
Think of the first time you felt truly seen by someone. What if you could harness the power to see, hear, and understand that deeply in every interaction? Imagine how our daily lives would change if everyone we encountered slowed down to listen to our collective need for connection beneath the exhaustion, overwhelm, fear, and anger. Empathic listening and nonviolent communication are entryways to valuing our full humanity even in the workplace. This careful attention to how we treat each other makes space for radical transformations in how we spend our time on this planet.
Building a more equitable world begins with transforming the quality of our relationships.
This cohort sets you on the path to close the gap between your intentions and impacts; address communication needs you have suppressed; make meaningful interventions when others mistreat someone; and make lasting repairs when you harm others. Join our team and a diverse cohort of leaders to learn, reflect, and strategize to develop empathic, equitable, and anti-racist relational tools for your team. We will stretch our leadership capacities to become innovators of structural change in our organizations and professional spheres of influence. We are inspired to collaborate with those called to end racism and enrich our world. Here, among emerging and experienced leaders, we unlock a way of life that emphasizes the human spirit of community.
What does it mean to lead with your heart?
MEET YOUR GUIDES
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Haik Adamian
Haik Adamian disrupts intergenerational cycles of trauma through mind-body awareness, anti-racist education, and empathic communication. He traces histories of oppression to the present moment so that we can uncover their deep-seated daily replications of harm. With years of experience educating communities past the barriers of generational trauma, Haik shares his trusted tools to transmute patterns of harm and make room for heart-to-heart connection. Together, we will learn to fully embrace ourselves and others–messiness and all–to build an equitable future for our communities.
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Kadijah Means
Kadijah Means weaves transformative justice, nonviolent communication, and anti-racist education to encourage individual and relational transformation. Liberation starts with a seemingly granular attention to our daily lives. Kadijah helps us sort the routines that bring more life and love from the life-alienating practice of domination, i.e, racism. Kadijah inspires us to address racism through compassionate listening, self-discovery, and lasting repair. By locating the center of our humanity, she calls on us to meet our most ambitious anti-racist goals with careful attention to how we care for ourselves along the way.
How do we go beyond the anti-racist reading list re-post?
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Learn the secret to connecting to yourself and others using the language of feelings and needs.
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To know history is to know self. The work of empathic transformation requires us to reflect on the impacts of systemic oppression on our past and present in order to chart an equitable future.
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Notice, navigate, and neutralize unequal power dynamics in your workplace.
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Practice listening and sharing using Nonviolent Communication. We will use our new understanding of the language of feelings and needs to practice responding to hard-to-hear messages.
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How do we use our relational tools and understanding of systems of power to build real, meaningful and lasting change around us?
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Receive one-on-one coaching to put your newly acquired knowledge into practice in your day-to-day life.
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The learning never stops! Enjoy unlimited access to our resources on nonviolent communication, anti-oppression, and self-empathy to guide you on your continuing journey.
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When: Applications close May 1st. Cohort begins June 2nd. Dates subject to availability.
Where: This is a virtual live offering.
How: Book a consultation to learn more about this experience.
For pricing information and additional questions, please submit a note.
Learn alongside leaders from all industries and identities
Somatic
Equity is an embodied practice that values both mind and body. Learn to listen to what’s alive in you and recognize the legacy of systemic inequities like racism, sexism, and trans-antagonism on your body.
Relational
Think of a time you communicated something sensitive that didn’t land well. Practice closing the gap between intention and impact using nonviolent communication.
Anti-Racist
Go beyond resharing a reading list by role-playing everyday workplace racism. Develop confidence to identify harmful policies, navigate high-stakes incidents, and make meaningful repairs.
Stay in the know
Stay in the know
April 9th
Free Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
Say What You Mean clarifies the importance of empathy in workplace communication. Attendees will learn Marshall Rosenberg’s groundbreaking framework for transforming conflict into connection. Utilizing NVC empowers us to recognize our unmet needs and advocate for ourselves.
Through a combination of lecture, small group activities, and guided reflection, attendees will learn how to make observations without criticism, take inventory of their unmet needs, differentiate between feelings and non-feelings, and craft requests to minimize workplace harm.
Zoom
10 am Pacific | noon central | 1 pm eastern
Q&A: COHORT I
Learn more about the Empathic Leadership Cohort
April 14
A private space for applicants to learn more about the Empathic Leadership Cohort.