Greetings Bright Thunder!
This is the season
of transition that every species participates in! Everything around us
is growing pollinating and responding with unbelievably bright
enthusiasm to grey skies and rain. And what about us? This
life-changing May Brilliance Remastered has a number of ways to honor
transition and to prepare for the best summer ever! Scroll down or click
on the links below to learn more about:
Locally Grown Garden Walks Continue
Special Online Office Hours in May
Community is Not A Luxury Summer Cohort Sign Up
Summer Lovin' Custom Organizational Retreats in NC
Remastered Tools 101 Downloadable Course
Garden Walks Continue!!!
I
enjoyed April's Garden Walks so much that I am continuing to celebrate
my favorite season in Durham, focusing my energy on the community I
love!!!!! Are you or someone you know someone who could benefit from a
personalized Brilliance Remastered Conversation this Spring?
Maybe you are
about to graduate from something or about to embark on your own social justice minded project. Maybe you are
ready to have a breakthrough around making your creative or intellectual work more community accountable. Maybe you are
hoping to launch an art project that will make our world a better place. Maybe you need to
quit your job and are looking for a way to transition out. Maybe you want to
make your side project the center of your life. Maybe you just know a walk and conversation with Sista Docta Lex about your
passionate work would increase its value for our whole community. If that is
you or someone you love
you should sign up for a garden walk! (Also if your accessibility or
allergy needs call for it we can certainly sit in a garden or walk near a
river or do something else.)
So here is how it works!
1. Sign up for one of only
6 available one hour walks (Monday and Wednesday afternoons from May 8-27)
2.
Send an email to Lex at brillianceremastered@gmail.com about what you
are up to right now and your hopes and dreams for our conversation.
3.
Recirculate the love! Donate $50 to Eternal Summer of the Black
Feminist Mind (the same donation that folks not lucky enough to live in
or near Durham pay for a phone consultation)
OR donate $25 and a delicious healthy vegetarian meal that can feed Lex and Julia!
Talk with Lex During Transition Time: Special May Office Hours
Since
May is a time of major transition for many intellectuals, during May
2013 I will be conducting special online office hours on Wednesdays
10am-2pm EST free for existing participants and at the regular hourly
($50) rate for new folks!
The theme for May's office hours is
transition. Has
Spring outside shown you how much you have grown inside this season?
Have you outgrown a previous intellectual/activist role and into
something new? Are you starting a new organization? Are you graduating
from a program and thinking about how to prepare for what is next? Are
you simply determined for next semester to be significantly more
sustainable and community accountable than this semester has been.
Holler at your girl :)
Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com with the subject heading "office hours" to sign up.
Community is Not a Luxury Summer Cohort:
It is about time to sign up for the
Community is Not A Luxury Summer Cohort!!!!
"Look how you print yourself on my heart." -Audre Lorde
This intermediate stage of the coaching curriculum trains you to
implement and build a community of accountability outside
of the limits of your university setting. Community accountability is
what distinguishes meaningful intellectual labor from elitist word
games. This coaching module is for scholars who are committed to
making a difference in the lives of the communities that inspire them and also
activates community as a superpower to sustain your wholeness and to support and celebrate you in your degree process.
The
cohort model allows a set of aligned visionaries to experience the
life-changing curricula and to benefit from one-on-one attention from
Sista Docta Lex while building community with each other. Doing it
together also allows Brilliance Remastered to provide this service at a
lower rate. (However the
one-on-one version of this curriculum is still available for those of you who want me all to yourself! :)
Cohort Participants Commit to a 3-Month Experience with:
- weekly transformative assignments
- bi-weekly google-hangout discussion sessions with fellow cohort members facilitated by Lex
- weekly email check-ins with Lex
- access to Lex's online office hours
- song dedications and motivation
all for $750 per participant. Payment plans are available. I am committed to making this accessible to you!
Participants
join the cohort through a phone assessment conversation where we will
determine the best way to engage the curriculum. Email
brillianceremastered@gmail.com to schedule a phone assessment for $25.
More on phone assessments
here.
Summer Lovin' Organizational Retreats in NC
Another part of the Brilliance Remastered
Durham Advantage!
Summer 2012 is all about the brilliance of deepening and strengthening
relationships. As part of my long-term investment in the important and
experimental community institutions in and around Durham, NC I am
offering custom organizational retreats focused on relationship building
for shared leadership and long-term victory.
Drawing
on a unique curriculum based on Audre Lorde's body of work these
retreats will be customized to the emergent breakthroughs of your
organization or group and will use embodied, creative techniques that
will allow your group to access many dimensions and generations of
wisdom. These retreats are an especially timely opportunity for
organizations transferring leadership, working through conflict,
changing structures or just getting started.
To see if your
organization is a good match for some Summer Lovin' and to start a
conversation about designing a retreat set up a
phone consultation.
Remastered Tools 101 Available for Do It Yourself Download!!!!
After the major success
of the Remastered Tools Webinar Series, I am offering them as
downloadable courses that you can do anytime with my love and support at
about half the rate of actually taking the webinar. Get started now
with
Remastered Tools 101 with special audio support,
brilliant poems and mantras by the Remastered Tools 101 graduates and
full access to my online office hours included!
Remastered Tools 101 is an opportunity to
examine our relationship to knowledge and our theories of change
as they relate to the work we do as scholars and the work we empower
with our scholarship. We will investigate how dependence on systems
that are NOT community accountable are cultivated even in the most
seemingly radical fields and
support each other in creating visions for our own community accountability.
Click below to preview the course:
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I also have a couple coaching slots so if you want to set up one on one coaching set up a
phone consultation
so we can see if we are a perfect match and as always if you want
specialized feedback on your thesis, dissertation, statement of purpose
or syllabus hit me up for a PhDoula
belly blessing!
Love,
Lex
“I love the word survival, it always sounds to me like a promise. It makes me wonder sometimes though, how do I define the shape of my impact upon this earth?” –
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