Nurturing BLACK: For Professionals
Nurturing Baby's Lived Experience as Cultural Kinship
Next cohort starts in SUMMER 2023, stay tuned!
Humility + Responsiveness + Confidence
Session Outline
Equity
Gain tools to recognize, talk about, and dismantle racism in all its forms
Responsiveness
Uplift Black and biracial identities in a culturally-responsive way
Confidence
Increase confidence in learning to guide parents and children as they navigate being Black in US
Connections
Make peer connections and build a support system.
Meet the Leader...
Welcome! I’m Ayisha, creator and leader of Nurturing BLACK.
As an Equity & Inclusion facilitator, I was inspired to create this program because I see how important it is that Black and biracial babies are being raised in homes that are not only loving, but are prepared to help guide and navigate through an increasingly racialized society. To create a home that is culturally responsive and collectively centered in Anti-Racism. In this space, you can expect to feel supported in uncomfortable realizations, but empowered in the possibility of a grounded, equity-based awareness that will buoy your self esteem, self efficacy, and sense of purpose in this work
Create a Home that Empowers Equity
Testimonials of Parents
A program like Nurturing BLACK could have helped me feel validated and better understood, and
prevented me from feeling like there was something terribly wrong with me. It could have helped me see who I really was and what I was actually capable of through a caring lens.
As the white parent of a Black child and an educator, I have so much work ahead in my role within my family and this community. Ayisha provides the safe space for real anti-racism conversations for individuals and for community groups
I am a Black woman who was raised by a white mother who didn’t do the work and was unwilling to acknowledge who I was. Instead, she tried to make me look like her. I suffered. I didn’t know who I was. I didn’t look like neither my family nor friends. It was traumatizing, and that trauma continues today
My experience with Ayisha’s Cultural Mentorship has been eye opening to say the least. My absolute greatest take away was refocusing my attention from the struggle to the triumphs. That the struggles are there to understand but not dwell on because too much greatness is occurring.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This course + community is for professionals. This mentorship program was designed to give parents the tools to affirm the racial identity of their child. In all Nurturely programming, we work to ensure our facilitators, materials, and internal culture are inclusive and equitable. Read more about our values here. Interested in chatting with our group leaders before the course to determine whether it is the right fit? We’d love to hear from you. Contact us here.
Anytime before the starting time if you want to attend the live sessions. If you are not able to join us for the live sessions, you can register after for access to recordings and our learning platform.
The four weeks of content will include weekly meetings where we will learn together and and share tools for confident parenting that empowers equity and builds cultural humility. Between meetings, there will be extra sessions and opportunities to engage with the other professionals to grow your network.