You read all the books, did the webinars, but when it comes to solidarity across diversity, you're still dealing with fear, frustration, and fatigue...

You didn’t need another book.
You needed a practice you could rely on.

You did the good work in 2022. Here's what you need to make it real, and lasting, today.

Allyship. You can’t just coronate yourself as an ally, it’s something that has to be earned and conferred on you by the people who wish to be in alliance with. And it’s a lifetime commitment, not a flash in the pan.

You’ve done some important things to show your commitment, webinars, book clubs, and more. And you meant it. But that was then, and what is now? Now is the continued doing, and for that, you need something more. You don’t want to burn out, but you don’t want to bow out either.

These ten lessons give you the practice, the push, and the power to stay in the solidarity zone, even when stepping away feels easier. Built over six years across more than forty organizations, and taught through the lives of Foremothers who held their ground under far higher stakes, Brave Awareness is there to help you stay focused, inspired, and growing.

From the everyday conversations to the PTA meeting, the hiring committee, the water cooler, the book club, this course will help you skill up your solidarity and unity powers in this post-DEI era. You are needed, and you are welcome here.

This practice meets you, where you are

Greta the Grounded Neighbor

Greta sincerely believes in in fairness, respect, and treating people well. She often hopes that if everyone just does their part, things will improve.

She’ll get: concrete, repeatable strategies for the moments she usually stays silent, and a structural-lens practice that helps her shift from sympathy fairness to informed, effective solidarity, without the overwhelm.

Paula the Pattern Seeker

Paula is drawn to history, data, and lived stories that reveal repeating dynamics of inequity. She wants to understand the bigger picture before she acts.

For her, this course provides: frameworks that connect analysis to action, plus rehearsed scripts and role-plays that turn pattern-recognition into real-time interruption, bridging, and sustained commitment.

Annette the Aligned Self

Annette is focused on the gap between her values and her everyday choices. She’s willing to examine her own behavior and change it, even when that’s uncomfortable.

This course gives her: a practice based in small, sustainable actions, with language she can adopt right away to strengthen her accountability, and tools to catch alignment gaps in real time instead of days later.

Bonnie the Bridge Builder

Deeply relational, Bonnie cares about showing up. She’ll sit in tension and keep a conversation going when others pull back.

She’ll learn the Bless-Release-Re-center sequence for handling rejection without pursuing forgiveness, swap-scripts to replace withdrawal with grounded responses, and ways to set boundaries so bridge-building isn’t so taxing.

Susanna the Systems Shaper

Susanna operates in the world of policies, institutions, and long-term change-making. She wants tangible shifts in access, power, and resources.

This course strengthens her structural-listening, making her analyses deeper and more equitable. With stronger, authentic solidarity across personal, community, and institutional spheres, her structural work remains connected tied to everyday relationships and long-term change.

Frances the Freedom Dreamer

Frances is totally committed to liberation and imagining and pushing society beyond current constraints. She holds a long view and won’t settle for less than collective thriving.

She’ll receive: strategies for those moments where passion starts to overtake patience. A six-month plan grounded in SAIN et SAUF helps anchor her vision in sustainable, embodied practice and keep her focused on the overall gain, rather than the short-term win.

Tricia, Who Is Tired

Tricia is a Black woman exhausted from navigating and explaining racism in cross-cultural spaces. But she must stay in these shared spaces all the same, for reasons both professional and personal.

This course gives her: language and structures to mentor others without carrying everything herself, real permission for boundaries, and ways to stay engaged while reducing the cost of constant explanation. It also helps her hold onto her mission without frustration.

Sistergirl Sofia

Sofia is a non-Black woman of color actively confronting the legacy of anti-Blackness in her own cultural and family narratives and histories, while committing to building bridges and sharing power with Black communities.

This course provides her with: historical and structural context for anti-Blackness across communities of color, concrete strategies for interrupting harmful narratives in her own circles, and practices for accountable, power-sharing relationships with Black colleagues and communities.

Tools to help you avoid Fear, Frustration, and Fatigue

Specific moves for the very moments when you hold back, practiced and personalized until they stick.

This course isn’t about how to manage your feelings, it’s about gaining specific, repeatable skills for the actual scenarios and moments that make it feel easier to stay silent or retreat: what to say first, how to deal with rejection from those you wish to ally with, how to interrupt harm, how to bridge, what to do after something goes south.

Across the ten lessons, here is what you will actually do:

Catch yourself holding back in real time, not three days later, with a short noticing practice you run in the first 48 hours.
Choose one small, sustainable action and commit to it for 30 days, instead of a grand gesture you end up abandoning.
Learn a structural-listening practice that grows your response from sympathy to awareness and action: recognizing and challenging the structures, patterns, and systems underneath
what’s actually going on.
Practice Bless, Release, Re-center, the three-step sequence for the hardest version of the moment: when a Black woman or other woman of color rejects friendship or relationship in that moment, and the work is to receive it without pursuing her forgiveness or labor.

Build the Five-Step Interrupt (Notice, Name, Pause, Redirect, Check-back) in your own go-to language, for the moment harm is happening in front of you.
Learn seven swap-scripts that replace stepping away with grounded responses you can actually say.
Map what solidarity means across the parts of your life, from the personal to the community.
Practice twelve out-loud role-plays that help you notice that typical knee-jerk or learned response, discover a more equitable and inclusive one, and integrate short scripts until the new response just feels natural.
Make a clear commitment and a six-month plan, grounded in the SAIN et SAUF philosophy (French for safe and sound: Sustainable, Authentic, Inclusive, Nurturing).

Each lesson introduces several Foremothers, such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Mary McLeod Bethune, Susan LaFlesche Picotte, and many others, even some living leaders, each one modeled on the lesson’s teaching.

“Thanks to this course, I stopped calling myself an ‘ally’ and instead used ‘advocate’ so I could focus on taking action instead of patting myself on the back. It’s my go-to recommendation for others seeking anti-racism resources.” — Mel. L, course participant

Built for You to Succeed and Sustain

No one trained you for this moment. That’s not your fault. We don’t do shame and blame here. But two things are true at once: it’s not your fault, and it’s still your accountability. The system was built to keep some groups in power and others out—you didn’t build that. Now that we’ve said so, the work to repair it is still partly yours to do, and very much yours to influence.

This curriculum treats you like the adult you are. You already know solidarity, unity, and trust need a different approach—and that it starts with how you think, act, and use your influence. Built to be finished in small, sustainable reps, not one heroic push: pick one, do it in twenty minutes, one prompt, one thing said out loud, and you’re done.

Mary McLeod Bethune—born in 1875, the first in her family not born into slavery—walked five miles each way to a one-room schoolhouse and built systems and universities that still stand today, one step at a time. Her life models the sustainable pillar of this work: staying in it over time, as an evolving, aware collaborator, activator, and friend to the people, communities, and causes that matter. She is one of dozens of inspirational women you will meet in the course, and who can inspire your courage and resolve in these times.

Ten lessons, digital workbook, additional playbook, and six months of mini-coaching emails: $149.

Here is everything that is included:

The full ten-lesson course, about twenty hours, self-paced, with lifetime access. Each lesson is an opening video, a Foremother spotlight, one practice, two to three writing prompts, and a closing quote card.
The digital workbook, included, to chronicle the continued doing, not to read.
The “Rephrase That” Playbook, normally a $29 product on its own, bundled in here at no extra charge. Sixty scenarios to practice and personalize, from dealing with Racist Uncle Ernie to having a hard conversation with a friend whose language has become problematic, to using your positional power and leverage to ensure junior or minoritized colleagues get the mic, and more.
Six months of short weekly emails, to keep you focused, inspired, and growing.

This bundle is prepared for your success, and when you finish the course, there is a deeper practice waiting for you if you choose.

How we craft our guarantee

I don’t offer a money-back guarantee, and here’s why: this course is built on partnership, not transaction. I can’t promise every ill of this post-DEI moment will evaporate because you took a course. What I can offer is a methodology, and a community practicing it alongside you.

When you finish Lesson 10, you’ll get a $75 credit toward the deeper curriculum, good for 60 days. The full “Unengaged to Ally, Advocate to Sister” curriculum runs $249 per course, or $500 for both plus three months of office hours.

Questions about the Solidarity and Unity Praxis

1. DEI is gone and I don’t know what comes next. Is this just another equity program?

No, and that distinction matters. Most equity programs were compliance-driven, dependent on institutional will, and built to satisfy organizational liability. When that will disappeared, the work disappeared with it. Solidarity and Unity Praxis is built to outlast any organizational moment. It is grounded in the SAIN et SAUF framework, Sustainable, Authentic, Inclusive, Nurturing, Solidarity and Unity, designed to be practiced in your life, your relationships, and your sphere of influence, with or without institutional permission. You don’t need a DEI office to do this work. You need a methodology, and you need encouragement.

2. What makes Brave Sis Project different from other equity or leadership programs?

In a word, the Foremothers. Brave Sis Project supplements these resources with a living archive of women to inspire us, Black women, Indigenous women, women of color across cultures and centuries who navigated impossible conditions and built something that changed the world, and their stories are not illustrations or decorations, they are the curriculum. The SAIN et SAUF methodology was developed by studying what they actually did: how they led, how they built coalitions, how they repaired relationships, how they sustained joy alongside struggle. When you learn here, you are learning from a tradition, not a trend, and that is what makes the practice transferable and what makes it last.

3. Am I welcome here?

Fully. Brave Sis Project was built for coalition, not separation. Anyone genuinely committed to equity, not as a brand or a performance, but as a practice, belongs here. What is asked of everyone is humility, consistency, and a willingness to follow as often as you lead.

4. What’s the difference between being an ally and practicing solidarity?

Allyship cannot be claimed. It can only be conferred, by the people you show up for, not by the identity you adopt. No one gets to decide they are an ally. That is not a title you earn once and keep. It is a verdict others reach about you, based on what you do over time, under pressure, when it costs something. Solidarity is the practice that makes that verdict possible. It requires shared risk, shared credit, and shared accountability, not a declaration, but a track record. The question is never “am I an ally?” The question is: what did I do, and how did my actions help or hinder?

5. I’ve attended, and maybe even led, trainings on this. Why hasn’t it stuck?

Because training is a one-time event and culture is a daily practice. Most DEI training was designed to reduce organizational liability, not to change how people think, relate, and act over time. If you’ve led trainings yourself, you may already know this, that attention and intention shifts for an hour but then, the organization goes back to what it was. Solidarity and Unity Praxis asks something different: not that you complete a module, but that you build a practice sustainable enough to survive discomfort, setbacks, and the absence of external incentives.

6. What does “decentering whiteness” actually mean in practice?

It means questioning the assumption that white experience, white comfort, white timelines, and white leadership are the default, the standard everything else is measured against. In practice: listening before advising, following before leading, funding without controlling, and remaining steady in the conversation when it begins to get messy or uncomfortable. It is not about self-erasure. It is about making more room.

7. What if I cause harm while trying to help?

Relax: you probably will at some point, and that’s part of being human. That is not a reason to stay on the sidelines, it is a reason to build relationships sturdy enough to withstand repair. The goal is not perfect performance. It is accountable practice: showing up consistently, naming harm when you cause it, and not requiring others to manage your feelings about your own mistakes. The Foremothers made mistakes. They kept working.

8. What role does joy play in this?

Joy is not incidental to this work, it is evidence that the work is real. The Foremothers celebrated. They sang, they organized, they built institutions that were also communities. Cultural competence that is genuinely generous, not extractive, not exoticizing, makes room for pleasure, creativity, and delight. If your practice of solidarity feels only like obligation, it will not last.

9. How is this different from charity or philanthropy?

Charity positions one group as giver and another as recipient. Solidarity is peerage, shared agency, shared accountability, shared protection. The difference shows up in who sets the agenda, who gets credit, who controls the narrative, and whether the “support” comes with strings. If any involvement requires deference, silence, or gratitude in exchange for access, it is not solidarity. Real partnership can survive disagreement.

10. Where do I start?

With Brave Awareness, a self-paced course built on the SAIN et SAUF methodology, taught through the stories of Black foremothers and other women of color who practiced solidarity across difference under conditions far harder than these. $149, ten lessons, lifetime access. You don’t need to have done anything before. You need to be willing to begin.

11. I’m a woman of color. Is Brave Awareness going to ask me to educate everyone else around me?

No. Brave Awareness is not a space where women of color are expected to perform their pain, explain their existence, or carry the emotional labor of other people’s learning. The curriculum is built on Foremother wisdom, the teaching comes from the tradition, not from you personally. You are here to deepen your own practice, reclaim a legacy that belongs to you, and find community with others doing the same. What you bring is yours to share on your own terms, or not at all.

12. I’ve been doing this work for years. Will Brave Awareness have anything new to offer me?

Possibly, and that depends on what “doing this work” has meant for you. If it has meant educating others, absorbing harm, and carrying the labor of institutional change without reciprocity, then what Brave Awareness offers may be less about new information and more about restoration. The SAIN et SAUF framework was built to be sustainable, meaning it was built with you in mind, not just the people who need to catch up. Many experienced practitioners find that naming the methodology gives them language for what they have always known, and community practicing alongside them.

You never needed another book.

You needed a practice you could rely on, for the hard moments: after you say something insensitive you didn’t mean to, or if you stay silent when someone else does it, or when a Black woman or other woman of color rejects friendship or relationship because she’s “had it with white people” and your heart breaks a little but you want to stay in the struggle for unity and solidarity, one way or another.

This is that practice. You will rehearse real moments out loud, learn from women who lived through even harder challenges, and build moves you can repeat until they are rock solid. Ten lessons. Twenty hours or so. At your own pace. Digital workbook included. One clean price, $149. And, when you finish, a thank-you that sets you further down the path.

No mastery required. Just the willingness to begin anew.