Building a community
of trusted facilitators
Brave Sis Project is growing beyond a solopreneur effort. We are actively building a community of practitioners, educators, and community leaders to train in the SAIN et SAUF methodology and bring this work into organizations, classrooms, and coalitions. If you are a facilitator interested in bringing Brave Sis Project methodology into your work, reach out.
The Solidarity Lab Facilitator's Academy
Brave Sis Project Solidarity Lab is moving from a single-founder methodology into a network of certified facilitators and partner organizations. The Academy is a recasting of equity praxis for a post-DEI age—not the performative, checkbox-driven model, and not the harsher “you’ve done wrong” approach that left so many people burned out on anti-racist work. It’s a deeper practice of equity, solidarity, and unity: historical, relational, embodied, and accountable.
At the center of the Academy is SAIN et SAUF—a Sustainable, Authentic, Inclusive, Nurturing Solidarity and Unity Framework built across 11 lessons, from the Allyship Continuum and the Privilege Staircase which covers human response, power, privilege, monoculture and whiteness, microaggressions, embodied trauma, white saviorism, repair, accountability, history and a lot more. Facilitators will be certified to bring this material in real client and community spaces, not just to instruct around concepts.
The Inaugural Design Cohort
Planned for the second quarter of 2027, our inaugural Design Cohort will convene five experienced practitioners, alongside our founder, from across the equity and movement-building landscape to co-create, stress-test, and refine the curriculum in real time. We’ve identified several strong potential cohort members and are continuing to recruit the rest of the Founding Practitioner group.
This isn’t a passive training. Cohort members lead teach-backs, give feedback on clarity, pacing, and safety, and contribute the examples, language, and lived experience that make the curriculum usable across communities and contexts.
Each Founding Practitioner will receive a $3,500 participation and practitioner-development stipend in recognition of approximately 40 hours of training, practice, feedback, and methodology development over the ten-week cohort.
Upon successful completion, participants will receive the designation SAIN et SAUF Founding Practitioner, certification at no cost, and the right to deliver the core Academy curriculum commercially and independently, using approved materials and adhering to established standards for fidelity, attribution, accessibility, and participant care.
Certification is the permission to do the practice. There is no separate license application, no license fee, and no royalty on practitioner engagements. Workshops the Academy develops later require supplemental training rather than a second application, so a practitioner’s portfolio grows without a new toll gate each time.
Founding Practitioners will also receive access to:
- A community of practice.
- Facilitator and participant materials.
- Selected Academy intellectual property.
- Business-development resources.
- Ongoing professional-learning opportunities to support their independent practices.
This is a deliberately hybrid model: it offers more than a stand-alone, “buy a certification” credential, but does not require practitioners to join a consultancy collective, surrender their client relationships, or operate within a shared business structure. Practitioners set their own pricing, develop their own clients, and retain their own businesses and professional identities. The Academy never claims a share of consulting income it did not create.
Certification recognizes demonstrated competence and grants delivery rights. The two are not separate transactions.
Certification is current, lapsed, or suspended, which is a status rather than a rank, and remaining current depends on continued adherence to the Academy’s ethical, quality, attribution, accessibility, and participant-safety standards. Licensing in our model applies to organizations rather than individuals: an organization seeking unlimited internal delivery holds an annual site license, and must have at least one certified facilitator on staff as a condition of it.
Compensating the cohort is a design requirement, not a discretionary cost. A framework that asks participants to challenge extraction cannot be built on the unpaid labor of practitioners of color.
The stipend covers participation in the ten-week founding cohort only.
Continued access to current materials, the practitioner portal, and community-of-practice sessions, along with keeping certification current, will be governed by a separate, transparent renewal agreement.
The funding round will close on March 1, 2027. The inaugural cohort will convene in the second quarter of 2027, with Founding Practitioners certified by the end of the year. General certification enrollment will open in early 2028.
The Academy Launch Raise
We are raising $100,000, in two phases, to launch the Initial Design Cohort, refine the full 11-lesson framework, and bring on operational support. Please visit our Philanthropy page for more details.
Founding supporters are recognized as SAIN et SAUF Mamans: named permanently in the curriculum and Academy materials, briefed on the cohort’s findings ahead of publication, given advance access to the full eleven-lesson framework through a dedicated webinar series in early 2027, and offered first access to organizational licensing at founding rates. Recognition begins at gifts of $5,000 or more.
Founding support closes March 1, 2027, for the Q2 2027 cohort. A gift supports the cohort as a whole, not a named seat.
As we close this first round and assemble the cohort, we’re welcoming values-aligned funders, advisors, and early partner organizations who see the need for a post-DEI, solidarity-centered approach and are ready to help seed what comes next. Thank you!
Brave Sis Project is a fiscally sponsored project of The Funding Studio, an Arizona-based nonprofit fiscal sponsor. EIN 93-1576968. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.