Let me help you re-member your Self in service of Black liberation.
Let me help you re-member your Self in service of Black liberation.
I am a transformational coach,
educator, writer, and facilitator
with 25 years of professional experience diffusing systemic oppression.
I support radical self + societal liberation
by helping you:
unlearn false narratives;
embrace
connection + interdependency;
release fear;
and achieve personal freedom.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Our extraordinary present highlights our connection with all forms of life. Indigenous wisdom reminds us that our survival remains inextricably bound with that of Mother Earth and all creatures—both human and more-than-human—and encourages us to humbly and actively cultivate our mutual reliance. Denial of our integrated future leads to desecration of Nature and premature death of ourselves and the resources upon which we rely.
Our relationship with the natural world is indistinct from our human relationships. When we see ourselves as separate, we misuse our environment and each other. When we have been abused by others’ entitlement, misled by isolationist principles, and alienated from community, we learn to distrust our senses and deny our self-worth. As a result, we lose sight of the effects of our actions and harm others and our social web with devastating results.
On a macro level, hierarchical beliefs and practices fuel human-made systems of oppression such as capitalism, colonization, white supremacy, slavery, and their afterlife.
We do not need to help these systems.
We can resist by freeing our minds and bodies using techniques employed by our ancestors that embrace our interdependence and need to live freely.
Radical Empathy Disrupts Entitlement (REDE) developed from my career as a university professor of Literature + Liberation Studies. REDE combines bespoke skill-based training, tailored to suit your unique needs, with decolonizing + antiracism techniques to enhance your cultural literacy and red-e you to:
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I have been fortunate to receive coaching from Béalleka over a number of years. With her guidance and support, I have worked on challenges related to fulfillment in my professional life as well as family relationships. Béalleka has been crucial to my growth in recognizing and understanding the impact of race, gender, and identity on each person’s life experience, including my own.
Consistently, I find that Béalleka is patient, constructive and kind. I particularly appreciate that she helps you not judge yourself, but rather learn and grow. She asks excellent questions that can reveal unexamined assumptions or unnoticed connections. I believe that her many years as a professor, facilitating difficult conversations about identity, privilege, bias, and society give her a unique breadth and depth of experience to leverage in coaching individuals or organizations toward greater cultural competency. She is a warm vibrant person, from whom it is a delight and privilege to receive coaching.
-Erin Warner, EXEC Consulting, LLC
In October 2020, along with two brilliant colleagues, I presented "Redressing Power," insights on instilling equity in organizations + what makes this process sustainable as part of
The New School's Management + Social Justice Conversation Series and BLD PNW 2020: B-Corp.
Guest on Take Nothing When I Die podcast episode 19 July 2020
Live Storytelling Performances:
Back Fence PDX; Mortified (Portland, San Francisco, Oakland); The Mystery Box Show; SLANT! Live Queer Storytelling; All Kinds of Fur; Wildfang: Free Speech; Tender Table; Get Nervous
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