The Grounded & Growing Live Course is BACK!
Establish Your Own Process for Reliably Cultivating Authentic, Agile Strategy, Wisdom & Wholeness in Your Leadership & Life
Reg. Closes Sun, Mar 10
Course Begins Mar 13th & Concludes May 22
Course Portal Opens: Mar 1st
All course sessions are recorded; More timing information is provided below!
"Learning how the S.H.E.M.A. Process can be both a mechanism for internal growth, as well as a tool to help me be proactive in changing my own ways of interacting with individuals and communities
across lines of difference has been incredibly helpful." ~Grounded & Growing Alum
In an era marked by profound challenges—from the Israel/Hamas war to attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) initiatives—our ability to navigate adversity and conflict with wisdom, compassion, and effectiveness has never been more critical.
Grounded & Growing is your invitation to an accessible, transformative journey, offering deep dives into decolonized and trauma-informed social justice practices, enriched by both ancient and cutting-edge spiritual insights.
Following our wildly successful inaugural sessions in 2022, which sparked the creation of a year-long leadership and group coaching program, we're excited to welcome new participants to our growing community. Our alumni, including organizational executives, clergy, lay leaders, professionals with advanced degrees and doctorates, students, and other justice-minded individuals, have experienced profound growth and are renewing their commitment for even deeper exploration.
At the heart of our course is the S.H.E.M.A. Process & System: a highly integrative, yet simple groundbreaking framework that leverages multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional wisdom for navigating complex challenges in both professional and personal arenas.
This approach not only equips you to understand and mitigate the effects of collective and individual trauma but also to transcend common reactive patterns, fostering responses marked by greater intention, ease, authenticity, consciousness, and joy.
Grounded & Growing is a 10-week live, interactive course designed for individuals ready to elevate their leadership and advocacy through a holistic, trauma-informed lens. Whether you're grappling with conflict across differences of race, class, gender, sexuality, or ideology, this course offers practical tools and techniques to enhance your effectiveness and resilience.
Join us to:
- Shift from default patterns to intentional, wise strategy and agility: learn to navigate and mitigate conflict with compassion and mindfulness.
- Deepen your understanding of intersectional trauma-informed practices and social justice.
- Integrate regenerative practices into your daily life and work, bridging the gap between spiritual growth and social action.
- Participate in interactive, content-rich weekly sessions with April, benefiting from real-time instruction and support, with additional prompts and/or materials to deepen your learning even further in between session.
This course is ideal for those who are committed to creating a more just world, ready to deepen and empower their own racial and social justice analysis and leadership efforts with intentional and compassionate practice.
Embark on this journey to not only show up more fully for yourself, but to contribute to our collective wholeness and healing. It's time to rise together, equipped with the knowledge, tools, and community support to navigate our world's complexities with grace and inspired, well-resourced tenacity.
Schedule a Quick 1:1 Convo with April
Are you considering signing up, but don't see your question(s) answered below, want to clarify if this course is a good fit for you, and/or want to think through this decision with April? You're encouraged to schedule a conversation!
Yes, I'd like to book a quick call with April!
Our pilot cohort learned important skills and deepened their self-awareness.
But don't take our word for it.
Here's what our Grounded & Growing alumni are saying:
"Grounded & Growing was a really amazing experience to weave together trauma-informed work, racial justice and Jewishness. It resonated in a completely different way than any other justice training I have participated in to-date."
"Learning how the SHEMA process can be both a mechanism for internal growth, as well as a tool to help be proactive in changing my own ways of interacting with individuals and communities across lines of difference has been incredibly helpful."
"I have tried to bring Grounded & Growing principles into my professional life, especially as I lead conversations internally and with clients around DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) work."
"As Jews, 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."
"This is an incredible investment in yourself and the community to take a deep dive into social justice work and how it intersects with the world around us. "
"As a member of the Racial Justice Committee at my Temple, I have noticed that I have more confidence, more clarity about what I want to say, and more willingness to say what I want to say out loud. The emotional awareness model you teach has helped me when I encounter barriers. I really like using it."
"I know the S.H.E.M.A. Process will definitely be helpful at work. But more broadly when I find myself triggered by any experience."
Our clients' results and praise...
Citrinepointe rediscovered her embodied and spiritual self.
Joelle realized she finally has the owners manual for being human.
Michael, a regional director of a social justice nonprofit, learned how to be a better co-conspirator while navigating the nuanced complexities of social justice work.
Nina, a social justice lay leader and retired licensed therapist, transformed conflict into connection, across lines of difference.
Rabbi Scott found a one-of-a-kind coaching experience and supportive community among his Grounded & Growing cohort.
Grounded & Growing participants will come away with:
Greater analysis and strategic agility
of predictable behavioral patterns, their source, and how to efficiently navigate it
Ability to expand your window of tolerance
with wisdom & tools that help you heal and effectively navigate adversity & conflict
A new or renewed capacity to intentionally evolve
Shift into consistent, mindful growth, on your own terms & pace, while pursuing justice
The participants in this intimate program will learn our S.H.E.M.A. Process: a series of practices integrating multi-disciplinary wisdom and knowledge and providing a practical guide for a trauma-informed social justice and conflict/adversity navigation practice.
The techniques and tools in this course will provide support for navigating conflict across lines of difference (including and especially racial difference), whether professionally or personally.
If you’re ready to show up more fully in your wholeness for the sake of our wholeness, it’s time.
We built this experience for people who are ready to deepen their existing social and/or racial justice analysis and integrate them with (self-)compassion and mindful practice.
The ideal participant has a commitment to a more just world and a desire to humbly and mindfully–but efficiently–advance your learning journey.
This transformational curriculum will be delivered in real time through weekly group sessions with April, with a thoughtful, kind and interesting cohort of remarkable and wonderful participants.
You don't have to continue accepting "business as usual," nor feeling stressed & overwhelmed. Let us show you an alternative.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
This 10-session journey will give you practical tools & insights that will:
- Provide you with a simple, reliable process to help you access greater clarity.
- Help you access greater understanding and compassion for everyone with whom you interact, especially yourself.
- Prepare and position you to more consistently and easefully achieve the outcomes you desire.
- Offer you incredibly adaptive and supportive insights that are applicable across a diverse array of circumstances & cultures.
- Help you replace your frequent feelings of stress & overwhelm with greater wisdom, clarity, and confidence/rootedness.
- Help you establish--or enhance--your capacity to effectively navigate adversity (conflicts, challenges, and other tough or undesired circumstances) in such a way that you not only get through it, but intentionally adapt and evolve in alignment with your desired growth.
- Learn, overall, you have access to being/becoming far more powerful, resilient, adaptive, and effective than you may have realized (or always knew!) you had the capacity to be!
What's different about this cohort?
We knew we had a gem when April first conceived of this program, yet strove to account for participants' busy lives. So, we condensed the program to 6 weeks. The first cohort made it clear that they wanted--more time. Shamatnu -- We heard you!
For the upcoming cohort, instead of 6 sessions with a bonus session, Grounded & Growing will span a full 10 weeks, from the bonus/recommended Kick-off session, to the closing siyyum/conclusion.
Also, now that we have members of 3 prior Grounded & Growing live cohort experiences, new participants not only get to benefit from the wisdom and strategic insight we teach, but also be enriched and supported by experienced "G&Gniks" who can offer their perspectives and examples of what's possible through the application of Grounded & Growing principles
Tuition for this experience is $772.
A variety of payment plans are available.
Meet your facilitator, Kohehet April N. Baskin:
Kohenet April N. Baskin is the executive director of Joyous Justice and host of the Joyous Justice Podcast.
Recognized as a Faith Leader to Watch by the Center for American Progress, April is an interspiritual, Black & Cherokee Ashkenazi Jewish woman who is a multi-award-winning social justice leader, strategist, and life & executive leadership coach. She is also an ordained Kohenet, a feminist, Earth-based Jewish priestess.
Over the last 20 years, April has pursued extensive training, education, and real-world experience and recognized expertise (in both “traditional” and abolitionist, counter-oppressive spaces) as a:
- grassroots community organizer (6 years),
- social justice leader (20 years),
- non-profit director/c-suite executive (10 years), including of a national $60M non-profit,
- liberatory life & executive leadership coach (8 years), and
- international, counter-oppressive trauma peer-counselor (10 years)
An avid observer and analyzer of what undermines our movements and leaders in our pursuit of progress and justice, April helps people like you—socially-conscious professionals and leaders—do what matters most, while also increasingly taking better care of yourself and those you love.
TOP 10 REASONS TO SIGN UP FOR GROUNDED & GROWING
- The principles & practices we teach in this program can change your life. (Hey, why should we waste your time beating around the bush?!)
- This program attracts incredibly thoughtful, committed, and inspiring executives, leaders and individuals to participate.
- You’re guided by a seasoned, multi-award-winning, and authentic facilitator and leader.
- The time commitment is flexible, depending on what you have available. We recommend you attend some sessions live, but you can catch the recordings some weeks if you have personal or work conflicts with the live sessions. Our past participants found the content of the program so beneficial, that most who missed sessions easefully caught up when necessary and were also supported by their fellow participants.
- You’ll likely notice from the first lesson how immediately relevant and applicable Grounded & Growing insights are in your daily life and leadership.
- Once you sign up, you’ll have access to all the Grounded & Growing materials from your cohort for 6 months! We anticipate your need to revisit and/or clarify as you deepen your roots and continue to grow–we’ve got you covered!
- Given how rich and transformative the course content is, we’re likely to expand the program going forward. Now’s the time to hop aboard if you’re interested in a more compact/shorter–and likely less expensive–version (and potentially receive discounts to join future iterations to deepen your understanding and application).
- Need a boost to help you advance toward your personal or professional aspirations, but are daunted or stuck? Grounded & Growing will absolutely, concretely help you with that.
- Social justice analysis and deep intercultural competence are woven throughout the S.H.E.M.A. Process.
- This program is phenomenally rich and unique. The S.H.E.M.A. Process we teach in Grounded & Growing is a sophisticated, yet approachable/practical framework that ensures you ask more of the right questions to access greater insight and wisdom and utilize more transformative practices. Your life and career will be increasingly enhanced when you regularly apply the insights and reframes Grounded & Growing provides.
Key Dates:
Registration Closes - Sun, March 10 @ 11:55pm ET
***All sessions are recorded, so you can catch up if life gets in the way! ...or attend many sessions asynchronously, so that G&G can align with your schedule.***
Welcome & Kick-Off - Session 1
- Wed March 13 @ 12-1:30pm ET | 9-10:30am PT (1.5 hrs)
Sessions 2 - 9 & Siyyum/Closing & Next Steps
- Wednesdays, @ 12-1:30pm ET | 9-10:30am PT (1.5 hrs), from Mar 20 - May 29
- No class / solo-learning / integration time on Wed, April 24th (Passover)
Celebration & Next Steps - Course Siyyum/Closing
May 22 @12-1:30pm ET | 9-10:30am PT (1.5 hrs)
Schedule a Quick 1:1 Convo with April
Are you considering signing up, but don't see your question(s) answered below, want to clarify if this course is a good fit for you, and/or want to think through this decision with April? You're encouraged to schedule a conversation!
Yes, I'd like to book a quick call with April!
More praise for Grounded & Growing from participants:
"What’s been a welcome surprise for me during this program is the confirmation that what I am processing IS difficult, amazing new friends I’ve made, and the connection to ancestral trauma coping mechanisms that are still controlling my/our daily life/lives."
"What I’ve learned through Grounded & Growing helped me successfully navigate a recent lay leadership challenge I faced. Instead of reactively responding to a problematic email from a committee leader right away, I used the self-coaching framework which helped me realize I had gotten into a pattern of getting overly frustrated with him without doing anything to change the pattern. I ultimately reached out to a trusted confidant to talk it through and then checked in the person of color who was impacted by the white committee leader's original email and then back with the committee leader. In the end, I think I had a much looser grip on the outcome and also had the chance to mindfully connect with the new committee member and the committee leader in ways that I think were generative and forward-moving.""One notable success I’ve already had in applying the S.H.E.M.A. Process is a friend and colleague came to me with an overwhelming professional situation in their community, and I was able to use the S.H.E.M.A. Process and tools to help them understand what was actually happening, why it was causing them to panic, and helping them work to a thoughtful place where forward steps were possible."
“It has definitely given me perspective on my work culture--I work at a synagogue where my boss is very much of the "form ten committees to solve a problem" mentality. Knowing this impulse is part of a Jewish survival pattern makes me feel a bit more confident in my instinct for stillness and processing before acting.”
"What I’ve learned in Grounded & Growing is relevant and helpful in both my personal and professional life. It offers a reliable, yet customizable framework for things I might have hodge-podged together before without the intention needed for forward movement."
"I’m noticing that the reframes and insights you taught for the H of the S.H.E.M.A. Process are coming up daily and it brings so much helpful perspective to any situation I’m experiencing or witnessing."
"I have been surprised with the amount of hope these sessions have generated. It is hard for me not to feel like we [our society, some of our communities] are going backward in many ways, and also not to let my frustrations with where my community folks are overwhelm me. Looking at the framework that April has laid out, I have found ways in which I can still take the work and the challenges seriously without it consuming every part of my mind and heart."
FABULOUSLY ASKED & ANSWERED QUESTIONS!
We're including the questions we've received and the answers we've given in the past, but if you don't see your question covered here, you can email April at [email protected], and we'll respond...and also add that fabulous Q&A to this list here!
