COURSE CANCELED
Unfortunately, with enrollment lower than anticipated, it wasn’t financially feasible to run the LEADRRS program this year.
For those who registered, we were deeply honored. By committing your time, energy, and resources to this learning, you affirmed not just the value of this course, but the importance of anti-oppression and personal growth in leadership. Your courage and commitment have inspired us.
Though this particular course was canceled, we remain committed to creating spaces for learning, healing, and leadership in the year ahead.
LEADRRS 2025-2026 Cohort
Leadership in Equity and Development of Racial Responsibility (LEADRRS) is a 9-month series designed for leaders, managers, and supervisors in the mental health and wellness fields who are in pursuit of equity and invested in learning to lead, manage and/or supervise from an anti-oppressive and racially responsible lens.
Race is not just a social construct—it is an organizing force with profound implications in both our personal and professional lives. Whether we acknowledge it or not, race shapes how we see the world, how we show up in our work, and how we lead and interact with others. For healthcare and wellness leaders, recognizing the impact of race, racial dynamics, and racial identity—our own and those we work with—is essential in making informed decisions, delivering effective leadership, and building meaningful relationships. Each of us has the power to act as a space holder, fostering healing and equity through racially responsible choices.
Yet, because society has long discouraged open conversations about race, many leaders haven’t had the opportunity to develop the tools to recognize or address how race impacts their leadership. This course is designed to build that capacity, equipping participants with a racially responsible lens that they can apply across both personal and professional relationships. In each seminar, the facilitators will support honest and courageous reflection about power and racial dynamics. We invite you to join us in this co-created space, committed to honoring the vulnerability and journey of each participant.
Transcend Boundaries
Deepen your capacity to see and name race and racism, be accountable for racial harms committed/witnessed, and engage in repair/healing.
Empower Dialogues
Increase the will and skill to engage in constructive conversations about race and racism.
Dismantle Barriers
Increase capacity to see how white supremacy norms have shaped organizational structure and clinical supervision and develop liberatory practices rooted in justice.
Elevate Equity
Co-create an anti-racist leadership community and organization.
Meet Our Instructors
Dr. Bukky Kolawole, PsyD
Dr. Bukky Kolawole is a Black, queer, gender non-conforming psychologist in pursuit of equity with love, boldness, empathy and vulnerability. Her purpose is to boldly disrupt systems of oppression with love so that we can all show up in the rest of our humanity (i.e., with authenticity and vulnerability). She is the Founder and Executive Director of Relationship HQ, a place that exists to nurture vibrant human connection so that anyone seen feels whole, served, and celebrated in the mirror and in the world. As a trainer, Dr. Bukky is dedicated to the design and delivery of dynamic, experiential learning experiences in which participants increase their knowledge and skills while feeling emotionally inspired through the learning process. Her unique facilitation style is racially sensitive, culturally informed, emotionally engaging, and captivating of participants’ hearts and minds. The combination of her passion for teaching, unique training style, and the emotionally tuned environments sets her apart from other facilitators.
Deidre Ashton, LCSW
Deidre Ashton, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and equity consultant who collaborates with non-profit organizations and educational institutions on their continuous endeavors to transform into liberatory institutions that deliver services and foster work environments grounded in racial justice. They offer customized workshops and learning experiences, clinical supervision, and executive coaching to achieve these goals. Throughout their career, Deidre has occupied both clinical and executive director roles in organizations that provide mental health care to communities marginalized based on race, gender identity, sexuality, and economic status. Deidre has educated therapists, counselors, and other human service professionals at graduate and post-graduate levels in creating and executing socially just and culturally sensitive counseling, healing practices, and services. As a parent volunteer at their child’s school, they founded and co-lead the Parent and Caregivers Association Committee for Advancing Racial Equity in our School (PCA CARES).
LEADRR Prerequisites
You must be in a leadership or management role at your company or organization, and/or providing supervision or consultation to mental health therapists, healers, or wellness professionals.
You must have already started doing your own anti-oppressive and racially responsive work.
Course Details
NEW BONUS SEMINAR!!! Now 27 Hours Total
This ONLINE course consists of 9 Monthly Seminars over 9 Months (Sept 2025-May 2026). This long term commitment is meant to allow for integration of information and to promote community building. The course will have a maximum of 23 participants. Each seminar will be taught in an experiential format through self reflection, small group activities, large group discussion, and focus on the present-moment experience.
Dates & Times
Sept 12, 2025
11am-2pm MST
Oct 17, 2025
11am-2pm MST
Nov 14, 2025
11am-2pm MST
Dec 12, 2025
11am-2pm MST
Jan 9, 2026
11am-2pm MST
Feb 13, 2026
11am-2pm MST
March 13, 2026
11am-2pm MST
April 10, 2026
11am-2pm MST
May 8, 2026
11am-2pm MST
LEADRR Requirements
Attend 8 out of the 9 seminars. You may only miss one seminar.
Meet with an assigned listening partner once per month between seminars.
You must attend the 1st and Final seminars for group formation and closing.
Sit with discomfort and choose courage, compassion, and vulnerability over comfort.
Complete any recommended readings or exercises between seminars.
Be willing to let down your protective barriers to fully engage with others.
Guiding Principles
- RACE is a social construct
- We all SUFFER under the DELUSION of White Supremacy
- We live in a MULTI-RACIAL WORLD and racial dynamics are ALWAYS at play
- Supporting others to have a positive anti-racist identity means WE must have a positive anti-racist identity
- AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIP with those we lead is primary
- Significant organizational or societal CHANGE must originate with LEADERS, DECISION MAKERS, and those who hold more POWER
- The work requires RISKING
- This Work is best done in COMMUNITY
- The Work is the HEALING
- Both POWER and LOVE are necessary for JUSTICE
- We are committed to seeing the HUMANITY of ALL
Course Topics
- Entering into Brave Conversations
- Commitment to Healing & Recovery
- Seeing, Being, & Doing Model by Dr Kenneth Hardy
- Exploration of Messages Received
- White Supremacy Norms & Practices
- Identifying How We Uphold White Supremacy
- Seeking out Narratives of Survival, Resilience, and Thriving
- Internalized Superiority & Internalized Inferiority
- Interrupting and Acting Differently from White Group Level Behaviors
- Self-Evaluation in Intersectional Conversations
- Leading with Intention & Responsibility
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Advocating for Norms Centering Humanity, Justice and Equity
- Seeing Self & Others as Racialized Beings
- Racism as an Intentional System of Oppression Rooted in White Supremacy
- Being in Self Interrogation, Reflection, Naming, & Owning
- Micro and Macro Moves We Make
- Benefiting and Suffering from White Supremacy
- Exploration of Family History & Ancestry
- Attunement to How the Self/Soul is Damaged
- Defining, Relating To, and Using Power
- Rage & Emotional Regulation
- Operating from Subjugated Parts of Self
- VCR Tool by Dr Kenneth Hardy
- Challenging Oppression & Racial Repair
- Application to Leadership Roles
Our Space
"There is no such thing as a 'safe space' —
We exist in the real world.
We all carry scars and have caused wounds.
This space
seeks to turn down the volume of the world outside,
and amplify voices that have to fight to be heard elsewhere,
This space will not be perfect.
It will not always be what we wish it to be
But It will be our space together,
and we will work on it side by side."
Untitled Poem by Beth Strano
What Participants are Saying
There are things I can keep doing, tangible things I can keep doing"
Pricing & Registration
TOTAL 2200.00
490.00 Deposit
9 Monthly Payments of 190.00
Regular Rate
TOTAL 1100.00
290.00 Deposit
9 Monthly Payments of 90.00
Equity Scholarship Rate
Registration Now Open!
Registrations will be accepted until all participant spots have been filled. If for any reason your request to be part of this event cannot be fulfilled, your deposit will be immediately refunded and you'll be notified.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Cancellations received 60 days before this event will be refunded 100%. Cancellations received less than 60 days before this event will receive no refund or credit. If there is a waitlist and if your spot can be filled before the event begins, a refund may be available. Once registered, all payment installments will be charged to you regardless of whether you attend the event.
Equity (BIPOC) Scholarships
We have 4-6 Equity Scholarships available for participants in need of a reduced rate. This registration option is available for members of one or more historically marginalized communities with historical/instituational barriers to access. To apply for an Equity Scholarship, select the Equity Scholarship Rate below. If all scholarships spots have been filled, we will reach out to inform you, discuss options, and refund your payment as needed. For questions about Equity Scholarships, please email emily@experiencechange.net.
Certificate of Completion
No CEs are offered for this event. A certificate of completion, which may be used to satisfy your state's continuing professional development requirements (see your state's profession and rules), will be emailed to every participant who attends each 3-hr seminar. Certificates will not be provided for partial attendance of a seminar.