Heal Thyself, Heal The World
A Transformative Initiation for People Racialized as White
(Heal Thyself XVIII May 1 - August 6)
“The confidence I gained through the course has paid huge dividends.”
– Graduate Testimonial
What You Get
14 week intensive (including one onboarding week and a one week grace period for completion).
6 units of semi-self-paced content (video and essays to complete between live sessions).
Literacy, competency, and bias self-assessments at the beginning, middle, and end of the course so that you can witness your own growth.
Attentive support from the Curriculum for Diversity Consciousness Sau Team (Sau means “protectors” in the Kemetic language), our exquisitely trained care and integrity team who are all Heal Thyself alumni and who are racialized as white.
Access to ReMember Institute Network and all of its dynamic open spaces.
Access to your private Heal Thyself 2.0 cohort space on ReMember Institute’s Network for the duration of the course.
6 live lecture and Q&A interactive Zoom sessions led by ReMember Institute Master Teachers (who are distinguished spiritual teachers, sociologists, historians, DEI experts, activists, all identified as members of marginalized groups) and viewing access to the live lecture recordings throughout the duration of the course.
“Tears of gratitude. This program is genuinely life-changing. I don't even recognize myself. My commitment to integrity is unwavering and impacting all areas of my life.”
– Graduate Testimonial
By the end of the program, you will achieve:
Profound transformation in your awareness of a wide variety of complex social and systemic forms of marginalization.
Measurable personal and professional growth in the area of cultural competence, enabling you to achieve more nurturing relationships.
Empowered and easeful ability to actively contribute to dismantling systemic oppression, through an increased capacity to serve your marginalized clients by creating tailored solutions specific to overcoming obstacles unique to marginalized people.
Learning what it takes for me to remain emotionally sober, curious and inquisitive without collapsing into defensiveness, in the midst of subject matter of an intense nature is a life skill that makes this course worth it’s weight in gold.”
– Graduate Testimonial
INTENTIONS
Fostering Trustworthiness: The evidence of your personal investment in providing services optimized to include solutions for marginalized clients will pay off by reducing the amount of vigilance they feel when establishing rapport with you, making it easier to serve them.
In-depth Knowledge: You will gain a comprehensive understanding of systemic oppression, including imperialism/classism, racism, ageism, ableism, and cis heteropatriarchy, with a focus on the historical contexts and contemporary manifestations.
Personal Awareness: Through rigorous self-reflection, targeted mindfulness, and somatic exercises in a well-held, brave space, you will develop heightened self-awareness, enabling you to recognize and disrupt your own conscious and/or unconscious oppressive behavioral patterns and beliefs, improving client retention.
Professional Acumen: You will acquire practical tools and strategies for fostering inclusivity and equity in your workplace and personal life, making you a more effective advocate and leader for change.
Lifestyle Transformation: The program will offer you suggestions for long-term, sustainable, decolonizing lifestyle shifts, empowering you to actively contribute to improvements in the quality of your life in every facet of human activity, both personally and within your communities.
Cultural Perspective: All of the above will be offered through a Black American lens, providing a unique cultural perspective and insights into the intersectionality of oppression and its impact on white people AND marginalized communities.
Eradicating Microaggressions: Through targeted training and practice, you will develop the ability to recognize and address microaggressions in both personal and professional settings, creating safer and more inclusive environments for yourself and others.
Measuring Cultural Competency: You’ll learn to assess your own and others' cultural competency and provide constructive feedback and guidance for improvement.
“What have I gained? Being able to navigate in diverse spaces without causing as much harm as I have done in the past. Being aware that I will cause harm and how to restore integrity when I do.”
– Graduate Testimonial
WE WILL...
Equip you with practices and philosophies from Buddhism, Kemeticism, and Hermetic Metaphysical Psychology, that aid you in improving your ability to manage your anxiety and discomfort around difficult conversations.
Practice conflict resolution skills that can help you to be more impactful in how you relate to people who have diverse experiences in the world.
Provide a roadmap for manifesting the possibility of contribution to peace and harmony for humanity.
Begin the journey of disrupting the conditioning of systemic oppression in your perspective of everything.
Facilitate the release and relinquishment of the shame, guilt, and anxiety that systemic oppression creates in people racialized as white, by lifting the veil of aversion and confusion through a holistic approach to cultural competency in regards to all marginalized peoples.
Empower you with skills for creating deeper connection and nurturing relationships.
Help you define your own personal iteration of social activism.
Help you defeat hidden biases and cognitive disconnects regarding diverse peoples.
Liberate your capacity for empathy, therefore, behavioral changes.
Enable your ability to possibly change the lives of marginalized friends, employees, and others you are in relationships with.
Increase your self-confidence and boost your personal and professional growth potential.
Better your judgment regarding matters of diversity.
Empower you to thrive in personal and professional communication methods with diverse people.
Improve employee motivation and quality of experience in order to lower turnover and increase employee retention.
Provide a wealth of information and other forms of resources to support you when the course is finished.
Transform your perspective in ways that will allow you to feel hopeful and empowered.
Offer a framework for establishing a reputation for integrity and empathy for diverse peoples in your business, communities and personal relationships.
Broaden your cultural literacy, competency, sensitivity, and capacity for providing tailored solutions, through understanding the complexities of cultural history and experiences.
BONUSES
Morning Transmissions - complimentary access to our 45-minute weekday morning, live streamed transmissions on the ReMember Network, including inspirational music, guided meditation, group ThetaHealing, readings (*for the duration of the course).
Curriculum for Diversity Consciousness Alumni Lifetime Membership - private group on the ReMember Institute Network with video archives, civic activation prompts, discussion threads, current news, and so much more!
Purchase Holistic Business Practices add-on at a reduced price (*discount valid through the end of Heal Thyself)
“I took the Heal Thyself course because I wanted to learn more about being anti-racist. And what I got is a lifestyle change and an awareness you can't shut off. What I also got from this course is the inspiration to learn more about my own country's culture and heritage before the British invasion. It has made me want to address my family’s inherent trauma and so much more. All that and more I've gained from Rev. Brig Feltus and the other amazing instructors.”
– Graduate Testimonial
Course Outline
Dates: May 1 - August 6
Live Session Schedule:
7 Lively Lecture and Discussion Sessions, via Zoom
**Course content to be completed between our live sessions**
Every 2 Weeks on Wednesdays , 11:30am-3pm PST
May 8, 22
June 5, 19
July 3, 17, 30
Grace Period July 31 - August 6
May 1 - 7 | Onboarding: The Groundwork
Meet your teachers, your Sa Team (Guardians of Learning), setting the container with rules of engagement and intentions, introduction to recommended practices, preliminary self-assessment, a semantics compass, and our first live session w/Rev. Brig.
“I'd love to recommend this course for people racialized as white, who have a desire to not only know the history of racism, but (in many ways even more importantly) also lean into the emotional, spiritual, and energetic ways it can show up in our psychology and somatic awareness.”
– Graduate Testimonial
May 8 - 21 | UNIT 1: To Feel, Hear, See, and Understand Racism
The psychology of dehumanization, understanding Black pride, tone policing, virtue signaling, other microaggressions, racism/colorism/ anti-Blackness amongst people of color, 2nd live session featuring Seba Inpu Ka Mut and 20,000 year flyover of the history of racism and colonization.
“Thank you so much, Brig Feltus! This course has been transformational and I am so grateful to have had the privilege to participate during such a crucial time in history. This course has given me so much to think about and I am excited to see where I can continue to learn and grow as well as dismantle racism and white supremacy in myself and the world. Xoxo”
– Graduate Testimonial
May 22 - June 4 | UNIT 2: Economics, Crime, and Reparations
The prison industrial complex, policing in America, economic hegemony, the reparations argument, spirituality, religion, and liberation, christo-fascism, live session 3 featuring Rev. Brig.
“I expected this course would help me dismantle subconscious limitations and pathologies I had yet to discover through my own integrative healing work and processes; what I didn’t know is that this course would restore integrity and my ability to navigate the world through the lens of integrity. This course shifted my perception of myself, my relationships with the world and everyone/everything in it, as well as restored right-relationship with myself.”
– Graduate Testimonial
June 5 - 18 | UNIT 3: Cis Heteropatriarchy, Genderism, Feminism and Womanism
Cis heteropatriarchy, understanding the Hermetic principle of Gender, feminism vs. womanism, intersectionality, and the 4th live lecture featuring sociologist and womanist Nikki Blak.
I can create more safety for the women I support now that my blind spots have been more fully revealed to me. I can speak to the reality of the impacts of racism and its ongoing prevalence in a way that I have literally seen them exhale and then open up more about whatever business issue I'm helping them navigate because they don't have to explain that part to me. It helps us get focused & achieve more in our time together.“
– Graduate Testimonial
June 19 - July 2 | UNIT 4: Body/Soma Politics, Ableism, Sexuality
Ableism, looksism, body oppression, ageism, fetishization of black and brown bodies, sexual imperialism, homo/bi/trans/queer-phobia/antagonism, and live lecture 5 with sexology professor, artist, activist, author Dr. Heru Khuti.
“One of the things that has been so deeply liberating about my own anti-racism work is that it has supplied me with the ability to actually stay present in my body amidst deeply uncomfortable conversations about the truth of our society's history and present, without dissociating and contracting in shame.”
– Graduate Testimonial
“My desire is to stay in my body in humility of my unconscious compliance to an oppressive system, while simultaneously being compassionate to my inherent innocence. My desire is to be available for the conversations that need to be had, with other white people, with black people, and other marginalized peoples so that the unspoken but deeply felt aggressions that have run our culture for so long can be systematically and devotionally dismantled.”
– Graduate Testimonial
July 3 - 16 | UNIT 5: White Supremacy Harms Everyone
Inherited trauma, epigenetics, second hand trauma, intergenerational trauma, and how white supremacy is harmful to white people, 6th live session discussion with Rev. Brig.
“This course has renewed my faith and given me concrete tools I can use with confidence. I know I can be part of the change we so desperately need as a species. Heal Thyself has given me the courage to look truth straight in the eye and make the necessary adjustments in my life with humility and ease.”
– Graduate Testimonial
July 17 - 30 | UNIT 6: Putting Your Awareness to Work
Lifestyle adjustments and social shifts, amplifying marginalized voices, crafting relationships that disrupt oppression, using your voice, introduction to holistic business practices, final assessment and Rev. Brig’ closing talk.
July 31 - August 6 | Grace Period for Completion
“It’s incredibly deep, powerful work to dismantle the deeply repressed inner workings of white supremacy and systemic racism, and Rev. Brig has my unwavering gratitude for her willingness to show up compassionately to each group through such deep emotional waters. I am still integrating the teachings into how I show up for myself, my loved ones, my community, and the world at large… I will forever be changed by this experience, and I am committed to the ongoing challenge of applying what I have learned.”
– Graduate Testimonial