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Personal & Leadership Development
Presented by AYA Educational Institute -
For those working with and for our people!
Lead Facilitators:
Wekesa & Afiya Madzimoyo
Face-to-Face
Fri 7-10 PM | Sat 10 AM - 7 PM
Sun 10 - 5 PM
Baltimore, MD: April 12 - 14, 2024
ATL: June 21 - 23, 2024
San Francisco Bay Area: July 26 - 28, 2024
Chicago: August 9 - 11, 2024
Ghana, West Africa: Nov. 16 - 18, 2024
San Francisco Bay Area: Dec. 13 -15, 2024
Featuring Storyology - WHB Tools To Heal Broken Stories
Virtual WHB Weekend Retreats
• April 20 - 21 • May 18 - 19 • June 29 - 30
Emotional Authenticity
WHB is Powerful | Practical | Proven
Welcome to this Warrior, Healer, Builder retreat and to the WHB journey.
This is a journey for Afrikan people. This is a safe place to be Afrikan. This retreat is
for those who are currently or plan to work with and for our people. The concepts and
tools presented here are to help you succeed in that work by increasing your
awareness and skill in all three areas.
Bring your questions, your power, your tears, your fears, your confidence and your
confusion. Bring your relationships, your organizational victories and your blockages.
You are home.
Wounded by years of oppression and injected
oppression, my daily efforts are compromised.
Wounded, when I try to make friends, they to
often become enemies. When I try to build with
my people, they fail me, or I fail them. My efforts
at love often bring pain or failure, or both. Putting
my best foot forward is rarely enough.
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.
WHB: The S/I Line Script
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All of these and more are used to convince
me that I’m inferior. It started early before I
could defend against it.
I’ve been hoodwinked, scripted,
manipulated to *behave* as if I’m inferior,
even when I don’t believe it. I yield to
others without even knowing it.
The script is hidden in places I’m still
discovering.
On the flip side, the counter script is also a
trap. I then treat others who I care about as
if I’m superior to them - especially when
I’m challenged. That only creates more
conflict!
In those relationships, the goal is not to get
on top of the line or to stay on the bottom.
The goal is to bend it into a circle - then
step inside.
The tool that has brought more joy, peace,
and power to my life is circling the S/I line.
Join me and let the circle be unbroken.
Fri 7-10 PM
Sat 10 AM -7 PM
Sun 10 AM - 5 PM
Face-to-Face
ATL: June 21 - 23, 2024
Baltimore: April 12 - 14, 2024
Chicago: August 9 - 11, 2024
Ghana, West Africa: Nov. 16 - 18, 2024
San Francisco Bay Area: Dec. 13 - 15, 2024
San Francisco Bay Area: July 26 - 28, 2024
Wounded, as either a warrior or builder, my responses to those who hurt
me - even when 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 ones close enough to touch 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.
To heal oppression’s wounds we need a
combined Warrior-Healer, Builder WHB
response.
Emotional Authenticity
WHB is Powerful | Practical | Proven
That’s what I was told. Maybe you were too.
Forget it! Instead, AWARENESS, BALANCE AND
AUTHENTICITY has been the key to me using my
emotional and cognitive power.
The FEELINGS AS MESSENGERS protocol gave me
answers that I’ve been seeking for over 15 years. I didn’t
know that my learned emotional responses had been
falsified - so that I’d do the oppressors bidding -
abandoning or making war with my own family,
community, organizations and businesses.
No matter how hard I tried, my efforts to build trust always
ended in me hurting someone or me getting hurt. Now, I
know why. I also know what to do
DIFFERENTLY!
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Face-to-Face
Fri 7-10 PM | Sat 10 AM - 7 PM
Sun 10 AM - 5 PM
Baltimore: April 12 - 14, 2024
ATL: June 21 - 14, 2024
Chicago: August 9 - 11, 2024
Ghana, West Africa: Nov. 16 - 18, 2024
San Francisco Bay Area: Dec. 13 - 15, 2024
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San Francisco Bay Area: July 26 - 28, 2024
The Flow of Recognition
They called it
“The River of Touches.”
I call it “my lifeline.”
I knew that I was powerful. I just didn’t know how to
consistently get and give healing touches in my
relationships - even with family.
Too often my words came out like damning torches -
burning up my relationships and organizations. Often
I was right, but I was also alone. We can’t win alone.
While I knew that before, I didn’t know how to turn
my damning torches into healing touches - with
everyday conversation. The retreat helped me learn
to do this. Now, I’ve added some joy and peace to
my power!
Join me at the retreat and meet me at
The River of Touches!
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Our river of Touches
(recognition) has
been contaminated
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Every mistake is
proof that I
shouldn’t have tried.
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WHB: The River of Touches
Fri 7-10 PM | Sat 10 AM - 7 PM
Sun 10 AM-5 PM
Face-to-Face
Coming to a city near you.
See list above and below.