(pictured: our Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training class, and our Teachers, on our graduation day in Summer 2019)
Reducing ourselves and our value to what we can produce unfortunately has become the popular and predominant approach to working and existing. It's also inhumane, unsustainable, and it breeds inequity. Thankfully, it's not the only way. The Opposite Way™ is for leaders who want to move and choose differently - in humane, sustainable, and equitable ways.
It's for leaders who want to go the way of wholeness. Wholeness is the opposite way™ because:
- It invites us to swim against societal currents which demand disconnected and siloed selves, disembodied approaches to working, and grand gestures that look shiny on the surface but lack substance in depth.
- It asks us to seek connection among our layered selves, be in right relationship with each other, to stay with our bodies, to acknowledge cycles and patterns, and to grow in the discomfort of the mundane everydayness of our lives because that is where depth is built.
I curate rites of passage and pilgrimage that support and prepare leaders to take wobbly yet assured and sustainable steps of being on this journey. Learn more about these rites of passage and pilgrimage here and here.
Background:
Some of my education and training to do this work is rooted in my lineage of freedom fighters. Some of it is rooted in my love of Black feminist writers. Some of it is rooted in my practice of yoga and meditation. And some of it is rooted in my doctoral training and 9+ years as a professor who studies and teaches topics related to organizational behavior, human resources, and equity + wellness at work. Read below for more specifics.
- I am a professional coach and am in process of earning certification in personal development coaching from The CAPP Institute (coursework completed in 2025).
- I was certified to be a yoga teacher (RYT) 200 from Sacred Chill {West}, under the teaching and training of Octavia Raheem and Meryl Arnett. I am also completed the 300hr Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certification. I first stepped onto a yoga mat in the summer of 2004. Grief and work-related burnout brought me to the mat then, and continued to bring me back to the practices and teachings, no matter how long I stepped away. Being in an inclusive and social justice oriented community, rooted in liberatory praxis at Sacred Chill {West} in Atlanta, Georgia helped me to commit to the teachings and practices in 2017. My curiosity about the connection between my research and my personal experiences led me to Yoga + Meditation Teacher Training there with Octavia Raheem and Meryl Arnett in 2018. I have also studied with and respect the teachings of Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts, Tracee Stanley, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez and my friends and family.
- Off the mat, I teach organizational behavior and I do research on work, equity, and wellness. I do my best to bridge my research with practice in my daily living, in the classroom and through WHOLE - a community for Black Indigenous and Women of Color (BIWOC) in academia - a community that lasted for 5 years (from 2019 -2024).
You may find me in several places. But no matter where you find me, I will invite you to feel connected, to access your wholeness, to laugh, and to feel free. No matter what.
P.S. I sometimes write about going the opposite way™ - ahas, resources, and offerings to support your journey. Sign up for my Substack newsletter here.