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For high-achieving, kind-hearted leaders & helping professionals
Grounded & Growing
Build a leadership rhythm that advances your impact and wellbeing, while more skillfully working with power, adversity, and your dreams.
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LISTEN, I GET IT.
You're an accomplished, highly-sensitive and/or kindhearted leader who has achieved remarkable success in your field, yet despite your skills, you find yourself either shutting down or overworking when faced with increasingly complex challenges.
Even though you know you're smart and capable, when triggers arise, you can't help but question your effectiveness (and second-guess yourself)
You've spoken up, you've landed the role you wanted, and while you're confident in your expertise, you feel your power eroding when faced with situations you can't control.
You want to create true change and make a meaningful difference, but you recognize that getting results requires more than just working harder or using better coping strategies.
Grounded & Growing is a 6-month advanced leadership training program & community of practice for livable and inspired liberation—building resilient, agile leadership for wise & strategic responses under pressure. Feminist, trauma-informed, and counter-oppressive, it accounts for bodies, systems, power, and relationships.
Leadership training for resilience, agility, and repair
Grounded & Growing is a structured leadership training experience with a relational container.
It is designed to help you build capacity that shows up where it matters most:
—in high stakes conversations
—in conflict and repair
—in leadership decisions that carry real consequences
—in the moments you can feel yourself tipping toward panic, shutdown, or composure that is more performance than grounding
This is not about becoming unbothered. It is about becoming more strategically resourced.
Appreciation from Current and Past G&Gniks
Rabbi Scott Shafrin shares how this program helped him move from narrowly focused coaching to a truly holistic transformation—so that he could show up as a more grounded, balanced leader in justice work. By gaining tools to navigate never-ending, emotionally demanding social justice issues, he found a rare space where he could be honest, feel less alone, and recognize that his reactions were human—not a personal failing—so that he could support both his own humanity and the humanity of those he serves with greater clarity and compassion.
Nina, a licensed therapist and social justice lay leader, explains how this program has been truly transformational—so that she could not only change her own life, but also confidently recommend it to loved ones. Through real, honest teaching and carefully curated materials, she learned practical tools to make mistakes, repair, and keep going, so that she could feel stronger, more resourced, and better equipped to navigate challenges without collapsing into fear or perfectionism.
Citrinepointe, a renowned artist and environmentalist in training, Citrine reflects on a profound inner shift—moving from seeing themself as “generationally traumatized” and spiritually disconnected to someone re-opening a relationship with the Divine—so that they could reclaim their spirituality and feel more whole. Through embodied practice, they learned to listen to their body as a partner in healing, even “craving” that practice when they need to process—so that they could experience a deeper sense of safety, humility, and gratitude in their everyday life.
What becomes possible when you can choose your response
Over six months, you strengthen your ability to respond and navigate any set of circumstances with greater wisdom, strategy, and care.
That often looks like:
More resilience: You recover faster and stay steadier
Increased agility: You can adapt without abandoning your values or needs
Greater clarity: You know what matters and what comes next
Strengthen repair capacity: You can stay in relationship while being and holding others accountable
More flourishing, personally and professionally, because your leadership becomes sustainable.
Grounded & Growing
6-Month Advanced Leadership Cohort
At a Glance - What you gain here
Resilience without hardening
You foster consistent and reliable perseverance under pressure without numbing, bypassing, or turning into a “tougher” version of yourself.
Agility rooted in values, purpose, and authenticity
You learn how to rapidly and authentically adapt when confronted with complexity, staying rooted in your principles, your relationships, and your purpose.
Repair that is real & usable
You practice rhythms and straight-forward and effective processes for accountability and repair that you can recall and use when it matters.
Joy and wellbeing you can actually sustain
You build a steadier rhythm that includes permission to pause and reconnect with what strengthens and delights you, so your leadership stays grounded and you are not carrying it alone.
PROGRAM LOGISTICS
Who it is for: Accomplished leaders (executive directors, senior leaders, helping professionals, etc.), organizers, and spiritually grounded humans who want cultivate enduringly resilient and agile leadership rooted in liberation, wise discernment, and intentional evolution, fertilized by authenticity, compassion, appreciation, and healing.
Start window: March 2026 (This is being finalized, exact or updated dates will be shared with those who sign up for the waitlist)
Live session time: 12:00pm Eastern/9:00am Pacific/5:00pm UK, depending on daylight savings
Typical options: Tuesday or Thursday at 12:00pm Eastern
Live rhythm:
Weekly 60-min group coaching calls on alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays
Live class or bonus practicum/Q&A sessions on most weeks on Tuesday or Thursday
[If you are very interested in joining the next G&G cohort, but can make these program times, send me a message telling me when you could, and—no guarantees, but—I’ll see if we can accommodate you!]
Community spaces: Course portal hosted online, Live Zoom calls, WhatsApp group, and 1:1 Listening Partnership calls G&Gniks schedule with each other.
Cohort size: Usually around 4-6 leaders
Cohorts per year: One, sometimes 2
Features
6 month leadership training cohort with wonderfully thoughtful, inspiring (yes, you, LOL!), and committed leaders
6 learning modules covering the S.H.E.M.A. Process - A leading-edge, trauma-informed, highly-adaptable framework for intentional, strategic navigation of adversity, opportunity, and evolution guiding
Weekly live group coaching and/or Q&A/application sessions (60 min) at 12:00pm Eastern
Bonus additional sessions (when offered)
Regular Listening Partnerships Sessions that enhance healing, mental clarity, resilience, and strategic agility
Access to a manageable treasure trove of recorded curriculum and resources through an online course portal, including all previous live classes and your cohort calls
WhatsApp community space for connections, integration, and real-time updates
Grounded and Growing workbook and reflection prompts
Coaching, guidance, and practice that is appreciative, trauma-informed, and rigorously and compassionately counter-oppressive
Option to continue in an alumni Community of Practice after the 6 months
Investment:
—$5,000 pay in full*
—Or 6 payments of $1,000
* Via a one-time payment or installments within the first month.
Risk reversal: If within 30 days it feels misaligned, you will receive a pro rated refund (minus up to one month of participation), with appreciation and respect.
Bonuses included:
Grounded and Growing Digital Course Workbook
Ritual and Reflection Bundle - Practices and insights to support between-session integration.
Trauma-Informed Peer Listening Training & Resource
15 Minute Leader Reset Mini Course
Awareness Accelerator Course
After the 6 months (optional continuation)
Many people complete the training and carry what they built forward on their own.
If you want ongoing support for continued intentional evolution, you will have the option to join an alumni Community of Practice after the 6-month intensive cohort experience concludes at a reduced rate of $250/month for 12 months or $3,000/year. It is a lighter touch way to maintain and enhance your practices, stay connected, and continue intentionally evolving in real time at a rate much faster than you could do on your own with a single coach or therapist.
More Appreciation & Praise from Past G&Gniks
Joelle B. shares how the program felt like receiving a “secret superpower”—so that she could meet other people’s trauma and unprocessed emotions with less judgment and far more compassion. By learning to recognize what’s happening beneath the surface, she now feels uniquely equipped with rare tools—so that she can respond more skillfully in difficult moments and honor the depth of others’ experiences instead of reacting from confusion or frustration.
Michael, the City Director of Repair the World LA, describes how this course strengthened his social justice lens and his inner emotional skills—so that he could show up as a more responsible, self-aware co-conspirator in complex justice spaces. As a white, cis man committed to dismantling systems he’s been conditioned to align with, he learned to navigate “how much space to take up” and move beyond paralysis—so that he could act with more integrity, emotional regulation, and care. Because the program was experiential rather than academic, and April modeled the S.H.E.M.A Process in real time, he felt deeply seen, fully listened to, and guided to integrate self-care and emotional awareness into his ongoing work.
Photo Credit: Mirah Curzer
Meet Your Coach & Strategic Mentor
Kohenet April N. Baskin is a multi-award-winning Afro-Indigenous & Jewish social justice leader, strategist, and ordained Earth-based, feminist priestess.
For more than 20 years, April has pursued extensive training, education, and real-world experience (in both “traditional” and abolitionist, counter-oppressive spaces) as a:
grassroots community organizer,
social justice leader,
c-suite executive of a national $60M non-profit,
liberatory life & executive leadership coach, and
international, counter-oppressive trauma peer-counselor
A graduate of Tufts and former Kennedy School researcher, April is an avid observer and analyzer of what undermines our movements and leaders in our pursuit of progress and our personal well-being. April coaches kindhearted, high-achieving leaders in doing what matters with increasing sophistication, agility, authenticity, and joy. ✨
OVERVIEW - WHAT’S IN THE MODULES
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Reclaim Your Power When Knocked Off-Balance
We'll teach you how to easily identify & subtly intervene to position yourself for better outcomes by shifting from default to intentional action.
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Skillfully Account for Histories of Harm
you'll learn how to account for this "highly-influencial* factor that most don't adequately nor properly account for. This will help you stop "spinning your wheels."
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Access the Keys of Intentional Transformation
Conveniently (note the sarcasm), you've been conditioned to suppress & ignore your natural pathway to power & joy. We're gonna fix that. ;)
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Navigate Complexity with Greater Sophistication
...with an integrative self-coaching method that helps you systematically account for multiple factors & achieve desired outcomes.
MODULE OVERVIEW: A CLOSER LOOK…
Reclaim Your Power When Knocked Off-Balance
Learn how to easily identify & subtly intervene to position yourself for better outcomes by shifting from default to intentional action.
Learn how to identify different mental and physiological states and what is and isn’t possible within each.
How to diplomatically and reliably navigate stressful inter-personal or leadership situations for the best outcomes
Equip yourself so that you can not only navigate stressful moments, but avoid them altogether in the future.
RESULTS:
You avoid less-than-ideal decisions and the consequences that follow from them, and position yourself as a thoughtful and discerning leader, while creating space for you to later process what you need to take the most strategic and aligned action available.
Why is this important?
It puts you back in the drivers seat when you’ve been temporarily (almost) been knocked off-course and positions you well for taking effective action, navigating conflict with greater intercultural competence, building better relationships, and steadily accessing your best insight and cultivating your co-creative wisdom.
There can be joy & meaning found, even in the mistakes. “This experience was full of so many insights...the work of transforming communities, institutions, and systems into more just and equitable ones is long and hard, but it does not have to be completely frustrating or hopeless. There can be joy and meaning found even in the small steps forward, or even in the mistakes. It has really given me...a lot of energy to tackle these challenges in my own life and work."
—Mark, Rabbi & social justice leaderSkillfully Account for Histories of Harm
Learn how to identify and dissolve deep-rooted patterns that unknowingly drive your reactions, so you can access your natural wisdom even in triggering moments. This revolutionary approach helps you stop overworking and overachieving your way through challenges by addressing and transforming them at their source.
How to identify how and when historic harm is influencing your present moment perspective.
How to transform your energetic orientation to a stressful issue or challenge.
Learn to leverage emotional and embodied awareness and expression for intentional self-evolution.
RESULTS:
You'll develop an unshakeable trust in your leadership instincts, maintain your effectiveness & grounding, and navigate complexity with grace and wisdom. Instead of pushing harder when triggered, you'll pause to access a deeper well of insight that allows you to truly respond rather than react.
Why is this important?
Most leadership approaches focus on managing triggers better or becoming "untriggerable" - but this keeps you stuck in cycles of achievement-based compensation. By dissolving these patterns at their source, you unlock your capacity to lead from sovereign presence rather than reactive compensation. This transformation is essential for creating lasting impact without burning out or sacrificing your wellbeing.
It was a really amazing experience... "It was a really amazing experience to weave together trauma-informed work, racial justice and my identity. It resonated in a completely different way than any other justice training I have participated in to-date."
—Sandra, Organizational DEI consultantAccess the Keys of Intentional Transformation
Transform your relationship with emotions and energy from what feels like a liability into your greatest leadership asset. Instead of suppressing or managing these vital aspects of yourself, learn to access them as powerful sources of insight and inspiration that enhance rather than derail your effectiveness. This is the foundation of true sovereignty & co-creative wisdom in your leadership.
Establish and refine a regular rhythm for surfacing and honoring your energetic state and emotional truth as central components of mindful living and strategic leadership.
Recognize that emotions and energetic frequency are not threats to avoid but key allies (sources of insight and mechanisms) for healing reactive responses and stopping stress cycles.
Learn to agilely utilize your emotions and skillfully apply energetic frequencies with co-creative wisdom to achieve increasing fulfillment and to make remarkable progress and contributions in your living and leadership.
RESULTS:
You develop a meaningful, dynamic relationship with your emotions and energetic state, learning to trust and utilize them as powerful resources in your life. This alignment fosters a sense of grounded confidence, flow, and authenticity that amplifies your impact and joy in both your personal and professional realms.
Why is this important?
Emotions and energetic frequency are the gateway to transformation and unlocking your greatest potential and deepest joy. When ignored, they create blockages that leave you stuck in reactive patterns and inaccurate perceptions. By embracing and mastering them, you access a profound source of insight, creativity, resilience, and alignment that enables inspired, sustainable transformation.
A shorthand for how to deal with life. "A complete method to gain access to one's own thoughts and feelings. A way to process past experiences and/or trauma so that the experience can be used for growth and moving forward. Briefly - a shorthand for how to deal with life. Shema - listen and learn."
—Nina, licensed therapist and social justice lay leaderNavigate Complexity with Increasing Sophistication
We teach you how to sustainably visionary leadership in complex times so that you can transform challenges into opportunities for deeper wisdom, maintaining your effectiveness while advancing meaningful change. Instead of just surviving complexity, you'll learn to anticipate, quickly adapt, and thrive in it, creating innovative solutions that serve your leadership aspirations and the interests of your organization/communities, all while making progress toward collective liberation.
Weaving mindfulness and right pacing into how you’re navigating complex terrain.
Accessing a range of tools and insights that support you in deepening your sophistication, strategy, and ethical & liberation standards.
Fully completing the shift from chronically operating in stressful response cycles to applying that energy to consistently, proactively, and appreciatively exploring and applying methods to optimize your experiences and outcomes.
RESULTS:
With repeated application, you gain and can eventually master the ability to integrate your knowledge, intuition, and leadership skills into your own seamless, visionary approach. This step equips you to remain balanced (and perhaps even thrive!) in complex situations, make effective and ethical decisions, and consistently deliver innovative, impactful outcomes while nourishing, instead of sacrificing, your well-being.
Why is this important?
Our world deserves better than us merely surviving, which, on a societal and global scale, we’re not even doing so well at the moment. This means simply being great or excellent isn’t enough. Those who are committed to bringing more healing, justice, and well-being to our world must have reliable tools that assist us in not only staying afloat, but triumphing in the face of some of the most daunting challenges humanity has ever faced. The stakes, quite literally, could not be any higher.
Noticeably more equipped to encounter tension. "I feel noticeably more equipped to encounter moments of tension within racial and social justice work and just in life, with more groundedness and a sense that it can be opportunity for growth and connection. The tools, rituals, and practices I've learned here, and as well as the group I went through this experience have felt like a real gift. I am so grateful for April and this program!"
—Tamara, Non-profit health professional and social justice advocateGUARANTEE REMINDER
If within 30 days your participation in Grounded & Growing feels misaligned, you will receive a pro-rated refund (minus up to one month of participation), with appreciation and respect. We appreciate and honor your trust and value your satisfaction.
Fabulously Asked & Answered Questions
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