Warriors of Light™
Empowering youth of color to grow in both internal and external leadership
Healing Justice
Warriors of Light™ (WoL) is an organization devoted to returning an experience of innocence, freedom, and vitality to youth of color. WoL empowers and educates youth, their family and community support systems, as well as organizational leaders through healing justice offerings:
Public, community, and school based youth workshops
Teacher Training
Speaking
In support of these offerings, WoL produces and sells empowerment and practice tools.
The Difference.
While other organizations focus on addressing the trauma of youth of color, WoL picks up the conversation where they often leave off: going beyond identifying with trauma to healing racial trauma and returning innocence, freedom, empowerment, and vitality to youth of color.
There is a fine distinction between struggle that brings more struggle and suffering, and struggle that brings liberation. WoL walks this fine line with deep kindness, a bold and confident attitude, and an activism born of self + community reflection and collaboration.
The Acknowledgement.
We recognize that the youth we’re devoted to supporting have a greater context that informs their reality. Consequently, we educate and empower the adults in their lives to develop their internal and external leadership skills.
WoL has a woman of color founder and top leader.
Our Audience
PRIMARY:
Pioneering Youth of Color
Youth of color—primarily of the African diaspora—who are ready to explore dis-identifying with trauma who likely feel a call to leadership (whether known/conscious or unknown/unconscious). They are pioneers who are able to source a deeper sense of knowing and power from within that requires external support to cultivate and unleash.
WoL addresses them directly and offers them tools that clearly come from people of color.
SECONDARY:
1. Family and Community Support Systems
It is the responsibility of parents, family, and community support systems to engage with healing justice practices for both their own development and because of their positional power vis a vis youth of color. WoL take responsibility for this by addressing this audience segment both directly on their own and in conjunction with youth offerings.
2. Organizational Leaders and Teams
Healing Justice work in organizations extends WoL mission to returning an experience of innocence, freedom, and vitality to youth of color in two ways:
By supporting the organizational world to integrate healing justice into their internal and external leadership practices to reap the same benefits as our youth populations do;
By empowering leaders and organizations to model what “beyond trauma” looks and feels like for the youth of color who are paying close attention; and
By becoming a more solid and effective support for the youth they directly influence (in the case of organizations who directly serve youth).
WoL focuses their consulting work primarily with organizations who directly influence and support youth of color, and they engage with select clients who serve other demographics on a case by basis.
Who we are matters.
And we are…
Bold Truth Tellers.
We are direct and honest underneath it all. We trust that we can all handle so much more than we give ourselves credit for. We speak to you from this belief.
Vital.
We take deep care of ourselves through practicing what we teach in order to maximize and preserve our own vitality. It is from this overflowing well that we offer our services.
Brilliant.
We are meant to shine brightly and are dedicated to exploring and resolving anything that is in the way of shining our lights.
Innocent.
We connect to the innocence that is at the core of each and all of us. It is from this place that we connect with you and your innocence.
Peacemakers.
We are committed to creating peace from a state of presence, compassion, and connection to self and community. We are dedicated to practices that return us to presence when we drift.
Our value is defined.
We Value...
Wholeness of each person.
whole·ness
/ˈhōlnəs/
the state of being unbroken or undamaged.
Culture.
cul·ture
/ˈkəlCHər/
the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
Lineage.
lin·e·age
/ˈlinēij/
lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree
Ancestry.
an·ces·try
/ˈanˌsestrē/
one's family or ethnic descent.
Honesty.
hon·es·ty
/ˈänəstē/
the quality of being honest; free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere
The perfect imperfection.
adjective
per·fect
/ˈpərfikt/
having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.
im·per·fec·tion
/ˌimpərˈfekSH(ə)n/
the state of being incomplete.
Deep and lasting relationships + the time it takes to build them.
re·la·tion·ship
/rəˈlāSH(ə)nˌSHip/
the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected.
time
/tīm/
the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole
Rest.
rest
/rest/
cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself, or recover strength.
Play.
play
/plā/
engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose.
We Create:
Healing / Self-awareness / A life beyond trauma identification / Leaders of Color / Bridgebuilders / New Social and Leadership Structures / Peace / Love / Empowerment
We Believe:
In telling the truth / Listening to our instincts and bodies / There’s a difference between struggle that leads to more struggle and struggle that leads to freedom / The power of practice to connect us to our inner wisdom
