Each of us are at various stages of healing and we know we can't build sustainable communities with broken people. Tomorrow, our team is sponsoring a 3-hour workshop for all members as an intentional investment in our well-being and healing. Make the space to do the work we are inclined to avoid like the plague/Covid...the internal work on our emotional well being. 

Until you complete this training, you will not be endorsed/recommended to do business with others in our network. We need shared language for healthy relationships and partnerships to succeed!! Come and grow! 

We have the skills, expertise and technical know-how. What we are missing, and what EVERY community-led organization and group needs, are the tools to confront injected oppression. 

Join us - Invite your family and friends - Intentionally carve out the space for this session on emotional literacy and authenticity. 

Warriors - Healers - Builders

After years of research and training in history, psychology, and education, and after years of clinical experience in the area of personal and leadership development for Black people under the yoke of oppression, Baba Wekesa & Mama Afiya Madzimoyo learned that this three sided triangle (WHB) provides the balance, depth, self correction, and protection against oppressor-injected scripts that misdirect our thoughts, feelings, and actions away from protecting and nurturing our families and our community.  

WHB is a multi-generational journey of countering these psycho-social scripts and healing and building with and for our people for us to become whole Black men, women, children - families, communities, and people again.  The ultimate goal is African sovereignty.

Becoming a warrior alone doesn’t heal my wounds; instead I become a wounded warrior. The wounds reveal themselves as alien implants directing me (often against my better judgment) to inflict pain on those that love and trust me. Betrayed, they often feel the pain equal to or greater than that inflicted by the oppressor directly.

Becoming a builder alone doesn’t heal me. Instead, I become a wounded builder. The organizations or structures I build  often end in the hands of the oppressor, or the process of building re-opens old oppressor-inflicted wounds causing pain, distrust, and dissolution among the very people with whom I’m trying to build.

Wounded, as either a warrior or builder, my responses to those who hurt me - even when it is unintentional- are wildly amplified. I either retreat or explode. My retreat and self deprecation deepens and secretly I beg for a rescue of any kind - even delusional ones offered by the oppressor.At other times, my response to the one who touched my wound is swift and painful. My explosive  light-saber-like response may serve as a cathartic release saving me from the deep valley of self blame and self deprecation, while at the same time  it fools me into thinking that I”m powerfully responding to the enemy – when I am not.

Untouched, the real enemy -  the one who inflicted the original wounds and those who continue to do so - laughs and grows stronger while the family bleeds and struggles holding to a hope thinner and more illusive than a  spider’s web. 

Becoming a Warrior-Healer-Builder starts with our healing ourselves from the old and new wounds of oppression. Join us on this path...OFFERED FOR ALL MEMBERS OF OUR NETWORK!