A year-long program to help you
GAIN THE SKILLS TO NAVIGATE (NEARLY) ANYTHING
Unlock your superpowers and improve the world and your life with ease, grace, and more than a little fun!
MANY PROGRAMS FOCUS ON ONE SPECIFIC AREA OF LIVING OR LEADERSHIP.
But you are a WHOLE person.
YOU DESERVE
NOURISHMENT, HEALING, AND SUCCESS
IN ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE.
Which is why we've curated timeless principles from a multi-disciplinary array of fields, and coupled them with do-able practices and mindsets to unlock your potential to anticipate, mitigate, and leverage whatever life throws your way.
Justice & Liberation
We bring a powerful social justice analysis to all of our work with colleagues and clients.
Thriving & Well-Being
Cultivating a life that you love is not secondary to other pursuits, it's essential.
Healing & Resilience
A trauma-informed, decolonized lens fosters deep healing and irreppresible resilience.
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 what you've been through
- 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
If that sounds like you...
There's a spot waiting for you inside our program.
Are you ready to unlock your SUPERPOWERS, and REDISCOVER yourself, so you can MEET THE MOMENT (and every moment after)?
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.
It's time to fall (back) in love with your life.
You want to live your values.
You can.
And you don't have to suffer to do it.
What you really need is:
- A set of practices to ground you when things get weird
- An understanding of what's behind and underneath "irrational" thoughts and behavior
- The discernment to know what is urgent, what is important, and what is neither
- Capacity to access what you've been conditioned to ignore
- A system that integrates all of you⏤in all of the spaces you inhabit
If you're ready to stop spinning your wheels and start living the life⏤and making the impact⏤you were meant to...This program was designed for you.
We have created and curated a suite of tools that allow you to transform obstacles into opportunities while rediscovering your best you.
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.
with...
✔️ Personalized coaching that unconditionally assumes your goodness (think: freedom to learn from mistakes, move past stuckness, and feel supported the whole time)
✔️ Hands-on support (regular group calls and 1:1s). We don't hand you a membership site login and send you on your way
✔️ Rigorous but Compassionate Instruction that integrates lessons, frameworks, and best-practices curated from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines
✔️ Community + collaboration individualism is not the way toward collective liberation. We need and are needed by one another.
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.
Picture it...
You're confident in your own capacity
to handle what comes, because you understand yourself and the situation
You feel connected and supported
when pursuing social justice goals (instead of isolated and overwhelmed!)
Your joy and well-being are must-haves
Not a nice-to-have, if we get around to it.
with the Grounded & Growing experience, it's all within reach. AND...it's closer than you think.
It's time to say goodbye to:
- Sacrificing yourself for the greater good
- Wringing your hands on the sidelines because you don't know what to do (next)
- Beating yourself up because you aren't doing more/better/enough
Will you see outstanding results if you apply what we teach? YES.
Will your life, leadership, and well-being improve as you practice and metabolize what we teach? OF COURSE.
Will you be pleasantly surprised as you try S.H.E.M.A. practices on and notice you can increasingly pivot, and more consistently & confidently navigate challenges? NO DOUBT!
If you're ready to be the leader, change-maker, and radiant human being you were meant to be ⏤ then we're for you.
APRIL: COACH & GUIDE
Joyous Justice, LLC CEO, Founder, Podcast Host, Visionary Leader, Alchemist & Transporter
April N. Baskin is an Afro-Indigenous Jewish woman who is a multi-award-winning social justice leader and life coach. She is a rising Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) and will be ordained this coming Summer 2023!
Over the last 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 national non-profit, and
- liberatory life & leadership coach
- international trauma peer-counselor
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—do what matters without undoing 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!
IS GROUNDED & GROWING RIGHT FOR YOU?
Are you ready to stop feeling stuck and start living into your best you?
Grounded & Growing teaches you how to recognize and account for the hidden dynamics that show up in your and others’ behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
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 deepen your connections with loved ones and find greater ease in your interactions with colleagues, neighbors, and friends–especially across lines of difference.
In short, Grounded & Growing will make you a better leader, partner, parent, and friend; it will make you a more effective change-agent, ally, comrade, or accomplice; and it will leave you feeling more centered, more capable, more confident, more content.
If any of this resonates, Grounded & Growing is for you.
Fabulously Asked & Answered Questions!
Why is it a year-long program?
I'm so busy! I'm afraid I won't have time for this. What is the time commitment?
Can you sketch the arc of the year for me?
I'm a CEO / middle manager / activist / not-an-activist. Is Grounded & Growing for me?
Will I have access to April and Tracie once I join?
What if I'm not Jewish, or I'm Jewish but not religious? Is Grounded & Growing only for me?
I already see a therapist (or other mental health / healing professional). What can you give me that's different?
I'm [insert your racial Identity]. Is Grounded & Growing for me?
Do you have an incentive if I refer a friend?
What if I still have questions?
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."