OPEN ENROLLMENTS
2026 Programs with Small-Group Courses
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Online, Cohort-Based Curriculum by
Dr. Kimberly B. George
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The following courses are part of cohort-based programs to equip leaders working toward a vision of a feminist, multireligious, multiracial democracy. The courses support participants with creative writing prompts and contemplatives practices that weave spiritual reflection, history, and social theory.
Most groups are led by clergy or lay leaders who use Dr. George's online curriculum through Feminism School in their small groups. In addition, Dr. George may be available for Finding Voice Consulting services alongside the courses. Inquire here for course enrollments.
​Caliban and the Witch in a Time of Covid-19
(self-study for women, cohort-based learning , 9-months of online course access + small group reflection)
Tuition: $1000/person for clergy; $500/person for lay leaders
The most popular audio course for women church leaders since 2020, Caliban and the Witch is for small groups of women clergy, contemplatives, or spiritual leaders. Through 15 audio lectures and a course workbook with 105 Meditations, this class teaches women about the entwined histories of racial capitalism and exploitation of women's gendered labor. The class creates a space for honest and much needed conversations on how patriarchy and white supremacy intersect with the abuses of capitalism—but it also gives tools for community-based practices that embody beloved community. Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch is a suggested reading, but it is not required.
This is an excellent class for building frameworks for how to have hard conversations that attend to systemic and historical violence. It is also a vital class for encouraging contemplative learning and creativity as part of midwifing a world with more justice.
Men Learning Feminism
(self-study for men, cohort-based learning, 9 months of online course access + small group reflection)
Tuition: $1000/person for clergy; $500/person for lay leaders
Men Learning Feminism is a transformative course that invites men into feminist learning and reflective leadership. For additional costs, the course can be led by male clergy or therapists who are facilitators with the audio course lectures and written materials. It includes 18 audio lectures and 18 contemplative writing exercises. There is no required reading.
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The feminism taught in this course is one that encourages men to self-reflect on all the intersections of their own identity, as well as to develop contemplative practices for attending to how patriarchy (and racial and class-based hierarchies) have shaped their lives and the lives of women and nonbinary people around them. This course asks participants for courage, vulnerability, and creativity. Men who are willing to engage its depths are given transformative tools to work toward a world of more flourishing for everyone.
​The Emotional Self-Defense Course
(self-study for women, cohort-based learning, 12-months of online course access)
Tuition: $1400/person
This course, which may be done in pairs or small groups, includes 13 teaching videos and 13 workbooks that help women navigate finding their voice within the complex forces of male-dominant institutions and relationships. There are no required books to read (though there are recommendations). The course workbooks invite participants into a journey of reconnection to embodied knowledge, while finding the language for how systems like patriarchy and white supremacy work through silencing women's knowledge and experiences.
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Spiritual Autobiography / Contemplative Reading
(taught live by Dr. George, 7-week course for all genders which may be requested by a group of 4-6 participants)
Drawing from fields as diverse as Pauli Murray studies; Jewish feminist history; Muslim feminist history; and Indigenous studies, this course provides multiracial, multireligious readings that support not only reconnection with feminist foremothers, but also a map for creative awakening in the form of contemplative reading and writing practices. Participants will be asked to write and share 300 words a week, based on writing prompts that are interconnected to course texts. Please note this is a reading heavy course. More information is found here.
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Why Do I Open the Enclosures of the University?
When I first gained access to a top graduate school— focusing on women's studies and religious history—I could not believe the knowledge on offer when one learned the legacies of how women created change in society. Most were without structural power, so they built power through coalitionary practices across differences of race, class, and religion. Many were fueled by spiritual commitments. I knew I wanted to spend my life researching this history and making it available to others.
While memory of their leadership has been erased, we live in the fruits of their bravery—from labor rights laws, to racial justice, to gender-based human rights.
For 15 years, I have created adult learning programs outside the university to bring alive their memory. I teach doctors, journalists, nurses, therapists, teachers, priests, rabbis, and philanthropists the implications of feminist study. ​​​ All courses use my writing doula methods. Since 2020, I have focused on empowering the U.S. religious left with feminist knowledge to build a flourishing multiracial, multireligious democracy. ​​
