READY TO BE
UNSTUCK?
You are exhausted.
In your career, or in a relationship, or in piles of mail and phone calls and tasks, or in [gestures broadly] all of this?
You're stuck.
Sometimes it feels like the whole world is falling apart and you with it.
Your attention moves from notification to notification, and there’s a constant sense that you *should* be doing something (what was it, again?).
Or maybe you know what you “should” be doing, but you look up and realize you’ve just spent hours scrolling on your phone.
Many days, the hurts of the world and the demands of your life leave you feeling powerless and overwhelmed.
On paper (and social media) it looks like you’re succeeding, but something is missing. You feel a nagging sense that though you’ve made progress, happiness, contentment or true healing are still out of reach.
You can’t remember the last time you felt real joy, in part because you’ve replaced joy with accomplishment, and “accomplishment” is an external validation (money, status, “likes”) that requires constant hustling.
You’re always chasing the next thing. You can’t rest or reward yourself, because you haven’t “earned” it or, worse, you don’t deserve it.
And all of this happens while you are alone, often staring at your phone or another screen, and so you think you are the only one going through it, leaving you feeling profoundly lonely.
In short, you’re stuck.
There is an explanation for your stuckness.
There's nothing wrong with you.
You're stuck because you're afraid.
You're afraid you’re not enough.
Or that you’re too much.
Afraid you’ll be rejected.
Afraid you’ll cause harm.
Afraid you’ll disappoint them.
Afraid you’ll fail.
Afraid you’re not worthy–of happiness, of success, of love.
Believe it or not, you’ve been conditioned to be afraid.
Many experiences taught you if you’re not perfect, or not constantly trying to be perfect, bad things will happen. As a result, you learned to be afraid of so much–everything from genuine danger to basic parts of being human, like conflict and (big) emotions.
It’s not a coincidence you’re feeling stuck. You have been taught to be afraid, but fear is the number one obstacle to success, happiness, true connection, and freedom.
But there are two truths you need to know:
All fear is the same fear: you’re afraid you can’t handle it (whatever “it” is).
AND
You. Can. Handle. It.
We know you can handle it.
We’ve been where you are.
INTRODUCING...
THE JOYOUS JUSTICE COMMUNITY
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 students–members of the Joyous Justice Community–study and practice the 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.
In the Joyous Justice Community, you will find the tools and community to courageously face what’s been getting in the way. You’ll come out on the other side knowing you have the tools to overcome just about anything with greater ease, consciousness, compassion, and even joy.
Here's what our students are saying about the S.H.E.M.A. Process:
It is "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 that we've been missing all along."
S.H.E.M.A. provides "Ways of working to remove one's own hindrances and step forward into authentic engagement with other people."
"The S.H.E.M.A. process is 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."
The S.H.E.M.A. Process
- S - Slow Down, Stop: (Create) Space b/c Something's Important!
- H - Hidden/Historical Dynamics
- E - Enable Evolution - Embodied/Emotional Awareness & Expression
- M - Manage Your Mind, Move in New Ways
- A - Agency Anchored in Analysis & Awareness
S.H.E.M.A. is deceptively simple.
But simple is rarely easy.
You’ll have to do the work–serious thinking, feeling, and processing as you understand yourself and your world better.
When you do it consistently, you’ll learn to cut through the daily chaos and clutter that bombards you with don’t, should, and ought, and endeavor, instead, to be your whole self, on purpose.
S.H.E.M.A. invites you to fully account for all of the richness that is you and the complexity that is the world you move through.
You can learn to stop checking parts of yourself at the door and start living into your best you.
Through the S.H.E.M.A. Process, the Joyous Justice Community will help you recognize and account for the hidden dynamics that show up in your and others’ behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
In the Joyous Justice Community, you’ll develop:
- better/deeper relationships with everyone
- more calm/less anxiety
- greater confidence
- more success in negotiations
- greater ease
- greater capacity to achieve your goals
- greater understanding (and therefore courage!) when navigating friction/conflict/resistance
- more grounding in yourself / greater compassion for yourself
- greater (and faster) resiliency
- greater awareness of your needs
- the ability to show up (more) in your wholeness
- a feeling of being held and deeply supported
You’ll be able to name and face what has you spinning your wheels and frustrated you’re going nowhere.
Instead of telling yourself or others to “get over it,” you’ll actually address old and new hurts so that you can move past them.
You’ll stop resenting how things are and figure out how to move toward how you’d like things to be.
You’ll stop agonizing over this or that option and see clearly your whole host of options.
You’ll deepen your connections with loved ones and find greater ease in your interactions with colleagues, neighbors, and friends–especially across lines of difference.
Our students report truly transformational results such as:
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Confronting a local organization for veiled racism in their behavior and being invited to join their board to help them do better.
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Addressing a friction point with a fellow volunteer immediately (instead of stewing over it) and establishing a deeper friendship and greater trust.
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Navigating a difficult instance at work, and being able to take a learning and accountability position instead of a more defensive one.
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Interactions with a spouse that had been driven by old, urgent, and exasperated energy were transformed into being characterized by curiosity, compassion, and more spaciousness.
Each of the components of the S.H.E.M.A. Process is a powerful intervention in itself. Taken together, it is a toolkit for more compassionate, more easeful, more joyous, and more authentic living.
MEET YOUR COACHES
HEAD COACH APRIL
April N. Baskin is an award-winning Black & Native Jewish woman who has been a dedicated organizer and movement leader within the Jewish community for nearly 20 years.
The founder and CEO of Joyous Justice, LLC, former Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism, and sought-after consultant for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, she’s helped shift institutions toward more equitable outcomes within and outside of the Jewish world.
April is and has been a faithful advocate of building just, diverse, and inclusive spaces that cultivate belonging and empowerment.
A rising Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess), April is a long-time trauma transmuter and (self-) healer. Since childhood, but especially in the last decade, April has been testing, implementing and integrating different healing modalities for mind, body, and spirit. April currently lives in Dakar Senegal with her partner.
COACH TRACIE
Tracie Guy-Decker is a writer, consultant, and organizer. She is the co-host, with April, of the Joyous Justice Podcast (formerly Jews Talk Racial Justice with April & Tracie).
Tracie spent 20 years in marketing, fundraising, and operations for Jewish and higher education non-profits. She now uses that experience facilitating learning and healing for members of the Joyous Justice community.
Tracie is based in Baltimore, Maryland where she lives with her spouse, their not-quite-teenaged daughter, an anxious dog and a long-suffering cat.
The origins of this community
For many years, while leading Jewish racial justice efforts, April has been quietly building–for her own use–the tools that make up the pillars of the Joyous Justice Community.
In early 2022, it became clear that it was time to share the wisdom April had been collecting–both April and the ideas themselves were ready.
Through conversations and planning sessions with Tracie, not only was April able to articulate a curriculum to teach you her hard-won insights, but to package them into a comprehensible and memorable framework.
The course Grounded & Growing was the result of those conversations articulating and packaging April's accumulated wisdom, punctuated with a few road-tested practices from Tracie.
Through two cohorts (first 6 weeks and then 10 weeks), April and Tracie were completely convinced of two things:
1. The S.H.E.M.A. Process works. And it works even more universally than intended: initially developed to support individuals’ and organizations’ work toward racial and social justice, S.H.E.M.A. is a blueprint for navigating adaptive challenges in general.
And
2. S.H.E.M.A. is most effective as a regular practice bolstered by a supportive community.
Thus, the Joyous Justice Community was born.
The Joyous Justice Community is for you if...
- you have a commitment to our shared humanity
- you are (or want to be) living in ways that dismantle oppression and minimize its impact
- you appreciate and welcome the chance to weave spirituality, groundedness, or mindfulness into your daily life--especially your politics and/or activism
- you are ready to make advancing well-being and justice a part of your daily living
The Joyous Justice Community is not for you if...
- you don't see a problem with the current state of the world
- you won't consider changing your thoughts, beliefs, or behavior
- you aren't ready to do the hard work of healing
- you believe you (or others) must suffer in order to make change
- you aren't interested in greater joy, ease, or confidence
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