The Emotional
Self-Defense Course
(for women & nonbinary people)
Patriarchy coerces us to sever connection from our body's felt knowledge of our own experiences.
It also silences the language we need for both naming its harm and connecting the personal to the political.
The Emotional Self-Defense Course combines training in somatic awareness and trauma with the feminist analysis we need to name the systems shaping
our lives.
Is this course only talking about patriarchy?
No. Any sound feminist teaching is rooted in the decades of research in intersecting systems
(race, class, sexuality, colonialisms, etc.)
Patriarchy coerces us to sever connection from our body's felt knowledge of our own experiences.
It also silences the language we need for both naming its harm and connecting the personal to the political.
The Emotional Self-Defense Course combines training in somatic awareness and trauma with the feminist analysis we need to name the systems shaping
our lives.
Is this course only talking
about patriarchy?
No. Any sound feminist teaching is rooted in the decades of research in intersecting systems
(race, class, sexuality, colonialisms, etc.)
The online fully self-guided course releases late January 2020.
$197 by Dec.1 (Early-Early Bird Tuition)
$247 by Dec. 15 (Early Bird Tuition)
$347 regular price after
Or, get a 1:1 consulting session with the course material and & join the
The Emotional
Self-Defense Course
is about bringing feminist teaching to more people in an age of #metoo.
The Emotional
Self-Defense Course
is about protection and healing practices
for women and nonbinary people within the daily realities of patriarchy.
The Emotional
Self-Defense Course
is about our collective movements for change.
The course's online & self-guided
learning format provides:
trauma-informed teaching
(but we also question the patriarchal,
white, and class-privilege based assumptions in
neuroscience trauma studies!)
feminist theory for naming the
power dynamics of patriarchy
("theory" is about having language
to name our embodied and relational experiences
inside larger, intersecting systems)
self-assessment guides and exercises
(to reflect contemplatively as we connect the feminist
teaching to our identities and lived stories)
recommended readings
of feminist foremothers
(readings are optional, but you will be
introduced to a lineage of brilliance
we are denied in most of our education system!)
frameworks for intergenerational healing, creative awakenings, and community care
(to intervene in cycles of pain and harm, to heal unhealed stories,
to change the world together in small and big ways)
12 lessons
4-hours of teaching videos
& self-assessment guides
(to do at your own pace)
Lesson 1:
Mind-Body and Earth Reconnection
as the Foundation of Emotional Self-Defense
why mind-body reconnection
is your feminist emotional self-defense superpower
how patriarchy, white supremacy, and
capitalism disconnect us from our body and the earth
Lesson 2:
Trauma as Feminist Knowledge
why trauma studies holds important
insights— and, why most trauma
studies is still entwined in male, white,
and class-privilege based models of the body
how your daily exhaustion is a source
of expert feminist insight about intersecting systems
how to notice what your body already
knows about your own healing process
Lesson 3:
Power, Gender, History
a very short introduction
to the history of heterosexuality
why we still need Virginia Woolf's 1929
theory of the looking glass linking patriarchy to
other forms of domination
Lesson 4:
Engaging Men Who Use
the Language of Feminism
understanding the power dynamics of
male feminist privilege in a time of #metoo
spotting the red flags of
male fake feminism
(or, when narcissists or sociopaths go
undercover as a "male feminist")
Lesson 5:
Preventative Feminist Medicine
deprivation assessment guide + joy assessment guide
how our wounds from patriarchy, capitalism ,
and white supremacy are then targeted and exploited
crumb magnification theory
(or, when we are socialized into scarcity,
we will perceive crumb offerings as feasts)
Lesson 6:
Everyday Patriarchal Emotional Abuse
how male fragility and
male rage keep us swallowing
our voices— and how our
body will keep holding what we know
when intense erotic bonding
comes after belittling, stonewalling,
withholding, or raging at you first
why we make excuses for
the men we love
(and why our enabling is not love)
the necessity of returning to
somatic data and emotional self-honesty
Lesson 7:
A Primer on Gaslighting
why we lose connection to our
emotions in relationships or environments with
frequent gaslighting
how patriarchy socializes men to deny
the range of their feelings then gaslight ours—
and how to raise young boys differently
how to spot and not negotiate with
gaslighting and male defensive mechanisms
Lesson 8:
Feminist Grief Work
how to grieve how patriarchy
hurts everyone of all genders
how to trust the
transformations of grief
how to turn collective grief into
birthing creative power,
healing, community,
and a better world for all children
Lesson 9:
Community Care Practices
as Emotional Self-Defense
coming soon...
Lesson 10:
Community Care Practices
as Emotional Self-Defense (continued)
coming soon...
Lesson 11:
Intergenerational Healing
as Emotional Self-Defense
coming soon...
Lesson 12:
Awakening Your Creative Power
as Emotional Self-Defense
coming soon...
Join the
Patron Program
for $497 to receive a
1:1 session with the material.
Online course releases late
Jan. 2020
$247 early bird until Dec. 15, 2019
$347 regular tuition
2020 Workshops
Emotional Self-DEfense
NYC
&
San Francisco
