Embodied Leadership Towards Liberation for All
Each ELLA cohort will launch with an EL (Embodied Liberation) Summit. EL Summit is a biannual (every 2 years) convening to celebrate, support, and cross train women of color social change agents through a multi-day summit which will serve as a springboard for the other programs, retreats, and training activities geared to cultivate embodied leaders intensely and acutely.
Embodied Leadership (EL) Summit 2024 Objectives:
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Connect and synergize the diverse strands and manifestations of women of color-centered leadership, healing, and racial justice work.
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Convene an inclusive make up of 100 US-based organizers and social change agents who are representative of WOC and the many intersections of our identities.
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Center healing and transformation, as foci points of workshops and trainings, that serve individuals’ relationship to self and others.
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Establish regional networks to support WOC during and post the EL summit that can simultaneously create local pockets of support and learning comrades.
Embodied Leadership Tenets
Leadership that is aligned with one’s own mind, mood, & body, with constant awareness of oneself & others. To navigate from this awareness is to harness the inner wisdom of maintaining this alignment.
Leadership that is driven by a deep purpose, to understand that every action & inaction, every spoken word or intended silence is in service to one’s higher purpose.
To exert one’s leadership, in all manner, as an expression of one’s core values & principles.
Leadership that is guided by a multi-layered, interconnected image of success; a vision for our world, a vision for our communities, and a vision for ourselves.
Leadership that realizes & embraces the full breadth of one’s own power in absence of fear, regret, and/or shaping from patriarchal & white supremacist values.
Leadership that deeply understands & works towards using one’s own force to create balance & equality in any space one occupies.
Leadership that embodies a return to center, one’s own base of power, despite internal and/or external conditions.
Leadership that embodies one’s core values in what one thinks, feels, & acts towards oneself & others.
Leadership that embodies one’s core values in what one thinks, feels, & acts towards oneself & others.
Intensive Trainings & Certifications Post-EL Summit:
Leaders of Embodied Organizing (LEO)
Embodied Organizing (EO) is a comprehensive model for community organizers, designed for both new and experienced organizers, that seeks to develop skills, with somatic and embodied leadership lenses, to develop effective organizers while uniquely cultivating leadership that creates necessary balance and self-care so organizers feel and are able to do movement work for the long haul.
The LEO Intensive, following in the tradition established by its creator, Rusia Mohiuddin, takes on a two-pronged approach in developing skilled organizers:
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Theoretical learning of a broad set of organizing skills and healing, embodied leadership, and self-care methodologies; and
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Deepening theoretical learning through application and practice to add a critical layer of experiential learning to deepen and enhance overall organizing knowledge.
Warriors for Embodied Liberation (wel)
A 2-year, certified embodied leadership and coaching training program, that centers the experiences and realities of women of colour as tools to support our own healing and growth. Broadly, wel imparts work towards:
The LEO Intensive, following in the tradition established by its creator, Rusia Mohiuddin, takes on a two-pronged approach in developing skilled organizers:
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Embodied coaching™: embodied coaching integrates both how unique experiences shape individual as well as integrating a model of how we tend to change, intentionally & unintentionally.
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Embodied training & facilitation: This work serves first as a grounding in lived experiences of transformation, then as a springboard for people to take those experiences to create models & methodologies of their own to use in their own communities.
