Grounded & Growing, a 1:1 coaching and strategic mentorship with April Nichole Baskin, is a revolutionary opportunity designed for leaders to deepen impact & advance social justice and leadership best principles in innovative and liberatory ways. Ways that use joy and ancestral wisdom to help guide the leadership, management, and/or creation of systems, programs, and communities that move us towards liberation and renewal.
In mentorship, April coaches, guides, and teaches those who are interested in leading powerfully and more effectively, while accessing stability, courageous conviction, greater clarity, and even joy amidst adversity.
Instead of following a rigid syllabus, you will be invited to co-create with April as your guide to design, explore and implement a customized set of both conventional and visionary coaching objectives, ideas, and experiences for you and the teams/communities you lead.
Grounded & Growing is not simply "business as usual coaching," which is by design, given that we're facing far more than "business as usual" challenges. This is trauma-informed, multi-dimensional and profoundly efficient and transformative leadership mentorship and coaching that is customized to meet you where you are.
Together, we'll track current circumstances while not letting them hold us back, mindfully assess where moderate to dramatic change is possible, and devise visionary, but also deeply practical and implementable plan(s) (that we can always adjust along the way) that will help you actualize your desires outcomes that align with and/or achieve your highest values and aspirations, while also not forsaking other important and/or mundane "plates" you need to keep spinning!
The work I will guide you through within this professional coaching & strategic mentorship container is also personal & deeply transformative. You will be guided and facilitated each step of the way so that your focus and insight is sharpened and you're able to step into your next level of work & leadership with confidence and clarity that's firmly rooted in liberatory and trauma-informed self-awareness and appreciation.
Together, we'll intentionally design and co-create patterns and pathways that align with your aspirations (short- & long-term) that are in service of joyous justice.
Begin Where You Are
With personalized guidance and support to address what's holding you back and shift into more confidently & effectively leading transformative change.
Finding Joy
Being grounded in your own agency, replacing many of the every day fears & doubts with better perspective & insight, and explore & find joy in the work of building a better world.
Radical Transformation
Honor more of your whole self while increasing your capacity to identify & counter hidden dynamics that cause chronic distress & disappointing outcomes when not addressed.
APRIL: COACH & MENTOR
Joyous Justice Founding Director, Podcast Host, Visionary Leader & "Transporter"
April N. Baskin is a Black & Cherokee Jewish woman who is a multi-award-winning liberation leader, coach, and strategic mentor. She will be ordained as a Hebrew Priestess in August 2023!
Recognized as a Faith Leader to Watch by the Center for American Progress, over more than 20 years, April has pursued extensive training, education, and real-world experience (in both “traditional” and abolitionist, counter-oppressive spaces) as a:
- grassroots community organizer,
- social justice leader,
- c-suite executive of a $90M non-profit,
- liberatory life & leadership coach & strategic mentor
- international trauma peer-counselor (10+ years)
An avid observer and analyzer of what undermines our movements and leaders in our pursuit of progress and our personal well-being, April helps people like you—socially-conscious professionals and leaders—more strategically and intentionally navigate today's increasingly complex terrain, while also taking increasing better, more loving care of yourself.
Your long-term healing, growth & thriving in service of your and collective well-being > Matyrdom that often reinforces the very problematic dynamics and systems we dream of transforming for the better!
Many coaches and programs focus on only one specific topic or area of leadership
But you are a leader who's navigating on-going shift: adaptive challenges and systems of harm and dysfunction on multiple levels.
You deserve to receive a higher caliber of coaching & strategic mentorship that is integrative, intersectional, and rooted in adaptive award-winning leadership.
We meet you where you are with personalized guidance and support to identify what's holding you back from the personal thriving and the social or professional impact you're meant to enjoy.
Our clients' results and praise...
Robin, a rabbinical student and retired public schoolteacher, regained the confidence needed to step into a new life and career path.
Alexandra, the executive director of a national non-profit, launched her career after experiencing April's unique and multifaceted coaching curriculum.
Michael, the City Director of Repair the World LA learned how to be a better co-conspirator while navigating the complexities of social justice work.
Nina, a social justice lay leader and retired licensed therapist, transformed conflict into connection, across lines of difference.
Jon, a director at a national non-profit, found in April a professional and personal mentor unlike any other he has had before.
Joelle B. realized she finally has the owners manual for being human.
Rabbi Scott Shafrin found a one-of-a-kind coaching experience and supportive community among his Grounded & Growing cohort.
Citrinepointe rediscovered her embodied and spiritual self.
Grounded & Growing is for socially-conscious professionals, justice-seekers, and aspiring change-agents who are ready to:
- Stop fracturing yourself into so many slivers of who you are
- Break through feeling stuck in fight or flight
- Forgive yourself for not yet being able to more consistently live & lead in alignment with your values
- Understand the hidden dynamics that get in the way of progress
- Manage your fears and doubts instead of having them manage you
- Access proven and easy-to-use practices for when the sh*t hits the fan
- Feel grounded in your own agency, rather than battered by the whims and demands of others
- Find joy in the work of building a better world
We teach you how to:
Slow down
to reclaim your power & peace and prioritize what's important.
Weave in
historical, trauma-informed analysis and greater (self-) compassion.
Transform
through embodiment and emotional agility.
Manage
your mind with simple, yet powerful reframes so you can move in new ways.
Mindfulness
function more intentionally, as opposed to by default or "autopilot."
Agency
anchored in analysis and awareness. Authentic, rooted empowerment.
You don't have to martyr yourself.
Over years of study and trial and error with countless systems, experts, and coaches, April has distilled the most useful, the most healing, the most do-able practices, mindsets, and tools into a single, memorable framework.
Our clients study and practice of April's proprietary S.H.E.M.A. Process–a suite of tools, processes, and frameworks that, in the words of one of our practitioners, gives you a superpower: the power to navigate nearly anything.
The S.H.E.M.A. Process is your superpower because it is kryptonite for fear. Knowing you have the tools–and what it takes–to handle nearly *anything* is the antidote for the fear that you can’t handle *it.* And, since you sometimes need healing from what you handled, S.H.E.M.A. works beautifully as a complement to other healing modalities. It may help you to crystalize what you need, as well.
There are three specific ways to pay for the mentorship
It’s my expectation that everyone begin by considering your financial ability to pay my standard rate, which includes (re)considering organizational budgetary allocations and what line items can be appropriately applied to this caliber of investment in leading-edge leadership, as well as possibly pulling from savings , shared household resources, or budgeting/prioritizing differently.
How pricing works.
What better personal investment can you make than in significantly increasing your own mental and whole-being capacity to authentically, confidently, and clearly think, heal, and lead more adaptively and collaboratively, under any circumstance? What you will learn and gain through this experience are assets you will carry with you for the rest of your life, and they will appreciate with time, application, and practice.
What April's Coaching & Strategic Mentorship is like
April's coaching & strategic mentorship transcends & far exceeds the typical 1:1 coaching service. Access unparalleled support and guidance with April as not only your coach, but also as your strategic mentor, able to offer you her extensive knowledge, wise & experienced discernment, and multi-award-winning subject matter expertise for your targeted professional development and leadership evolution needs. Let April be your reliable ally and trusted mentor, providing you with unwavering support, as you embark on a more purposeful and courageous leadership path.
Experience the relief of being deeply heard and then skillfully coached by April, a highly-respected and sought-after liberation leader, twice monthly. You'll receive generative insight, prompts, and agile guidance to support your on-going progress, both in session and periodically via voice and text message between sessions as needed. They will be tailored to the nature & scope of your specific goals and intentions upon which you've both agreed to focus. She'll help you more skillfully address chronic and acute challenges, achieve outstanding progress and also adjust your professional (and personal) trajectory to be in greater alignment with your highest values and aspirations.
You're enthusiastically encouraged to seriously consider, earnestly commit to, and then sign up for 1:1 Coaching & Strategic Mentorship with April today! Equip yourself with more sophisticated, leading-edge social justice analysis and trauma-informed leadership insight that will also cultivate deeper self-awareness, as well as appreciation for yourself and those with whom you work & lead. Let's get started!
Wealth Sharing
& Community Care
You are an investor and leader with the capacity and income to not only pay my current rate of personal mentorship, but the ability to support other leaders in the community who can benefit from working with me. You also add to the work we do in the community where we can not charge at all.
You are investing in your own community and the communities you serve.
Thank you! When you choose this rate, you are directly sponsoring a radical sliding scale spot and greater financial stability for Joyous Justice for the duration of our work together.
Subsidized Rate
$599/mo
3-6 month commitment
Inspired, Impactful Leader
This rate will become available as Joyous Justice community members and clients register at the community care & wealth-sharing level.
You may be eligible to apply for the subsidized rate waitlist once funding becomes available if you meet all four criteria listed on the How Pricing for Works for 1:1 Coaching & Strategic Mentorship page.
Also as a reminder, substantial support and connection is available through Grounding & Growing’s Group Coaching Package,* which includes regular weekly access to April via live classes, group coaching, leading-edge and emergent curriculum, in addition to other features, and is available at a more accessible rate of $250/month. Click here to learn more and join today.
More praise for Grounded & Growing:
"I have been so heartened by the mindful positivity that is possible when putting some of the practices I learned into place. I tend, especially in recent years, to default to negativity, self-criticism, and hopelessness when trying to progress my own justice work.
The tools from our sessions together have been helpful in creating new frames for myself."
- Congregational rabbi & social justice leader
"...I think so many of us are already committed to social justice and activism. Grounded & Growing provided an abundance of tools to help further my work in those areas, but it also provided a framework for me to figure out whether my presence is useful in any given situation. Am I needed here or do I just want to *be* needed? This program has given me so many things to take out into the world - as an ally and when requesting allyship from others."
"A complete method to gain access to one's own thoughts and feelings. A way to process past experiences and/or trauma so that the experience can be used for growth and moving forward. Briefly, a shorthand for how to deal with life."
"This is the education in being and staying human we've been missing all along!"
Joelle B., Organizational & DEI Consultant
"Ways of working to remove one's own hindrances and step forward into authentic engagement with other people."
"A framework for grounding oneself in order to show up as our best and most liberated selves in moments of conflict, especially across lines of difference."