The Root Learning Series
This learning series is designed to meet individuals and organizations at different entry points, while remaining grounded in a shared process of awareness, inquiry, and embodiment.
Each pathway includes a range of sessions that are woven into a larger, more sustained learning experience.
Pathways for Learning, Practice, and Integration
Embodied Leadership & Relational Practice
For individuals and teams exploring how to lead, relate, and make decisions with greater awareness, accountability, and intention.
Sessions may include:
- Embodied Leadership: Awareness, Power, and Practice
- Feedback as Relational Practice
- Positionality & Power: Understanding Social Identity
- Patterns of Harm: Oppression, Trauma, and Response
- Bias & Microaggressions in Practice
- Interrupting Harmful Language & Patterns
- Applying an Embodied Lens to Hiring, Retention, and Culture
Race, Identity & Cultural Context
For those seeking to deepen understanding of identity, culture, and the historical and social contexts that shape lived experience.
Sessions may include:
- Race, Representation, and Cultural Narratives
- History & Context: The Water We Move In
- Identity, Power, and Erasure
- Bias, Stereotypes, and Lived Impact
- Cultural Patterns & Dominant Norms
- Social Identity & Positionality in Practice
- Racial Identity Development (with somatic integration)
Systems, Culture & Collective Change
For organizations and groups working to better understand and shift the systems and cultures they are part of.
Sessions may include:
- Understanding Systems (interactive mapping)
- History & Context in Organizational Culture
- Power, Identity, and Organizational Dynamics
- Building Cultures of Trust & Accountability
- Cultural Norms & Organizational Patterns
- Sustainable Change: Moving Beyond Urgency
- Developing an Embodied Organizational Lens
Embodiment & Healing-Centered Practice
Cultural Humility & Intercultural Practice
For individuals and affinity-based spaces exploring healing, integration, and the relationship between lived experience and the body.
Sessions may include:
- Context: History, Culture, and Lived Experience
- Trauma, Protection, and the Body
- Internalized Patterns of Oppression
- Relational Practice & Feedback
- Interrupting Harmful Patterns
- Sustaining Change & Personal Practice
- Collective Liberation & Interdependence
Cultural Humility & Intercultural Practice
Cultural Humility & Intercultural Practice
Cultural Humility & Intercultural Practice
For those building capacity to navigate difference with greater awareness, care, and responsiveness.
Sessions may include:
- Cultural Humility as Ongoing Practice
- Intercultural Awareness & Communication
- Navigating Difference Relationally
- Embodied Intercultural Competence
- Conflict as a Site of Learning and Growth
Facilitation, Practice & Space-Holding
Cultural Humility & Intercultural Practice
Cultural Humility & Intercultural Practice
For facilitators, leaders, and practitioners who hold space for others and want to deepen their approach.
Sessions may include:
- Embodied Facilitation & Presence
- Holding Space for Tension and Conflict
- Somatics & Group Dynamics
- Co-Creating Responsive Learning Environments
- Navigating Power as a Facilitator