Our Course

Our Course

We believe the practice of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is key to building our ability to imagine, create, and foster personal and professional relationships that endeavor to communicate and engage in ways that create less harm for ourselves and others. 

We believe the process of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership intentionally transmutes white supremacy and patriarchy and their influence on how we move in the world.

We believe the path of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership is a transformative journey that supports individuals and organizations in making the deeply systemic, strategic, intuitive, innovative, and necessary shifts away from old ways of being that no longer serve us, our organizations. or our communities.

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Module 1 offers a blend of experiences, including:

  • Dialogues between Diedra and Maureen as they practice Cultivating Intersectional Leadership’s tools (like Transmuting White Supremacy and Patriarchy™) and engage as Intersectional Leaders in inter-racial conversations

  • Lectures with slides and extensive content 

  • A journey through Self Reflection Assignments to process and practice our tools

  • A library of over 200 resources (articles, books, videos, social media) organized for easy reference by categories covered in the course

Here’s Diedra and Maureen in dialogue from our Introduction:

The full set of Cultivating Intersectional Leadership modules include: 

 

Module 1 - Individual

Module 2 - Interpersonal (in development)

Module 3 - Interdependent (in development)

By actively engaging in these three modules, participants can become Intersectional Leaders who: 

  • Center race while remaining mindful of other historically oppressive social constructs, as a means to be a whole and complete person

  • Engage the social inequities they are mindful of, without isolating themselves or others. Intersectional Leaders understand that interconnectedness bolsters their ability to see others fully and uplift those around them to advance the group or organization

  • Engage a room or a team authentically and inclusively

  • Actively use these tools to deepen their ability to unpack internalized oppression and/or internalized supremacy, so they can build healthy, anti-oppressive inter-racial relationships

  • Actively engage in Individual Identity Development

  • Analyze the ways that whiteness and anti-Blackness are present in our  relationships with ourselves, communities, and systems

  • Move collectively and respond with collective support,  even if their locus of attention is in one particular arena of interest. Intersectional Leaders eschew the “Oppression Olympics” of focusing on binaries or a “battle of the social inequities”