“Look how you print yourself on my heart.” -Audre Lorde

This intermediate stage of the coaching curriculum trains you to implement and build a community of accountability outside of the limits of your university setting.  Community accountability is what distinguishes meaningful intellectual labor from elitist word games.  This coaching module is for scholars who are committed to making a difference in the lives of the communities that inspire them and also activates community as a superpower to sustain your wholeness and to support and celebrate you in your degree process.

Community is Not a Luxury 1 on 1 includes:

• 3 months of one on one coaching with weekly emails and bi-weekly phone calls.
• Support identifying your community of accountability and a specific plan to activate and nurture your work as a community accountable scholar.
• Free enrollment in any concurrent webinars.

Rate: $1500-2000 (payment plans available)

Community is Not a Luxury Cohorts makes this curriculum available for less than half the regular coaching fee.

Cohort Participants Commit to a 3-Month Experience with:

• weekly transformative assignments
• bi-weekly google-hangout discussion sessions with fellow cohort members facilitated by Lex
• weekly email check-ins with Lex
• access to Lex’s online office hours
• song dedications and motivation

all for $750-1000 per participant.  Payment plans are available.  I am committed to making this accessible to you!

Priority will be given to graduates of the fundamental “Doing What I Came to Do” coaching process.  But a FEW select visionary underrepresented graduate students may begin at this intermediate stage.  Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com to schedule an assessment call ($25).*

*Whether or not I take you on as I client, I will provide concrete next steps during the assessment call.

Remastered Tools

Remastered Tools is a series of 4 webinars based on my alchemy of the insight of Audre Lorde into practical tools for community accountable scholars and an opportunity to connect with other aligned underrepresented visionary graduate students.

1.  Remastered Tools 101

Remastered Tools 101 is an opportunity to examine our relationship to knowledge and our theories of change as they relate to the work we do as scholars and the work we empower with our scholarship.   We will investigate how dependence on systems that are NOT community accountable are cultivated even in the most seemingly radical fields and support each other in creating visions for our own community accountability.

Required Reading:  Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House 

The Remastered Tools 101 Webinar includes:

• a workbook based on Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools
• 4 live webinar discussion sessions facilitated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and attended by aligned visionary underrepresented scholars
• inclusion in an ongoing networking google-group for webinar graduates
• group theme songs to rock to while you smash the system

Rate:  $25-50 per participant per session ($100-200 for the whole course) or FREE for one-on-one coaching clients.

2. The Angry Intellectual: Channeling Rage for Transformation

The Angry Intellectual is an opportunity for visionary underrepresented scholars to transform our venting about the injustice we experience in the university industrial complex into clarity, decision and motivation in our own lives and in the institutions we want to create.  It is also an opportunity to see connections between the different nonsense that is making us all rightfully angry and to make partnerships to transform the conditions of our outrage.

Required reading:  Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

The Angry Intellectual Webinar Includes:

• a workbook based on Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger
  
• 4 live webinar discussion sessions facilitated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and attended by aligned visionary underrepresented scholars
• inclusion in an ongoing networking google-group for webinar graduates
• a get crunk and meditation mixtape while we channel rage into transformation!

Rate:  $25-50 per participant per session ($100-200 for the whole course) or FREE for one-on-one coaching clients.

3.  Eye to Eye: Radical Collaboration for Community Accountable Intellectuals

Eye to Eye is an opportunity to get real about how individualism, internalized oppression and a capitalism-produced need to seem smart can get in the way of creating meaningful collaborations and useful intellectual partnerships with the communities that we love the most.  It is also an opportunity to find partners to collaborate with and to create plans for becoming the unstoppable, interconnected, community accountable scholars we want to be!

Required reading: Audre Lorde’s Eye to Eye: Black Women Hatred and Anger

The Eye to Eye Webinar Includes:

• a workbook based on Audre Lorde’s Eye to Eye
  
• 4 live webinar discussion sessions facilitated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and attended by aligned visionary underrepresented scholars
• inclusion in an ongoing networking google-group for webinar graduates
• theme songs to release internalized oppression as we reach out into collaboration!

Rate:  $25-50 per participant per session ($100-200 for the whole course) or FREE for one-on-one coaching clients.

4.  Beyond the Feel-Good: A Sustainable Erotics of Community Accountable Scholarship

The Beyond the Feel-Good Webinar is an opportunity to get in touch with our deepest desires and passionate motivation in our community accountable scholarly work.  It is also an opportunity to find scholar that share your passions and to support each other in transcending superficial university-serving  (aka phony) community engagement and to step up our transformative impact on the world!

Required reading: Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic/ Power of the Erotic

The Beyond the Feel-Good Webinar includes:

• a workbook based on Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic
  
• 4 live webinar discussion sessions facilitated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and attended by aligned visionary underrepresented scholars
• inclusion in an ongoing networking google-group for webinar graduates
• a passionate playlist for our inspired future!

Rate:  $25-50 per participant per session ($100-200 for the whole course) or FREE for one-on-one coaching clients.

“I am who I am doing what I came to do.”-Audre Lorde

This is the first and most crucial coaching module in the Brilliance Remastered curriculum.  In this coaching process also known as the “purpose-keeper,” I will facilitate and support you in remembering/crafting and supporting an intentional, generative, empowering and energizing greater purpose for your degree work.   This process will give you a touchstone for every step of your degree work giving you consistent access to the superpower of PURPOSE which will provide energy and perspective when the going gets tough.

Doing What I Came to Do includes:

• 3 months of one on one coaching with weekly emails and bi-weekly phone calls
• Support in creating a specific, generative, empowering and inspiring affirmation of your purpose.
• Your very own song dedications to keep you moving and grooving on your purpose.

Rate: $1500-2500 (payment plans available)

I will be working with a select set of visionary under-represented graduate students. Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com to schedule an assessment call ($25).*

*Whether or not I take you on as a client, I will provide specific next steps for you during the assessment call.

PhDoula:  Push Out that Dissertation and keep your balance with my Love and Support!

A doula is a person who assists and supports someone while they are giving birth so that they can have their ideal birth experience and focus on creating a beautiful relationship with that which they have brought to life!  Wouldn’t it be great to have someone on your team accountable SPECIFICALLY TO YOU (not caught up in the desires of the department etc) to have your back as you push out this piece of original knowledge and move on into the world that your ideas will make possible!?  Wouldn’t it be great to have a person making sure you keep your ideal balance in the sometimes toxic environment of ABD life?  That’s me!

Here are the elements of the PhDoula program:

The Belly Blessing: Specialized Dissertation/Thesis Feedback

If your dissertation or thesis research is related to Black women, motherhood, Caribbean women’s literature, diaspora, activist publishing, print culture, activism, queer theory or any related topic, I would love to read your dissertation/thesis proposal, a chapter of the dissertation or (in some cases) the whole dissertation to give specialized feedback.

Belly Blessings include:

• One reading of your document with written feedback and comments.
• One phone call to discuss questions and next steps.
• A song dedication to keep you moving on your inspired path!

Rates: $25-45/hour plus page legnth

Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com to set up a $25 assessment call.

Dissertation Doula: Get It Done (Accountability Coaching)

It’s that time!  Get your dissertation out of your big brain and into the world where it belongs!

I wrote my dissertation while at the same time opening up a community school, traveling the country on a speaking tour to raise money for my national experiential archive project and making a long-distance relationship into BLISS!   For many of us the dissertation process takes forever because we stall by reading more, doubting ourselves more and believing in ourselves LESS.  This specific accountability coaching series is designed to remind you that YOU ARE PREPARED to write your dissertation and  YOU DO HAVE THE TIME to get it done.   And I am here to metaphorically rub your back  and feed to you ice chips aka to provide writing accountability exercises and coaching calls to make sure you get it done and are prepared to make the most of it for yourself, your future and your community!

As with everything, I am called to work with a select group of visionary under-represented graduate students with inspiring projects.  Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com to set up an appointment for a $25 assessment call!

Dissertation Doula services include:

• Accountability check-ins via email and phone.
• Unstoppability coaching calls.
• A custom plan for how to make your complete dissertation most useful for your vision of your future.
• Song dedications to keep you moving!

Rates: $250-500 per month depending on dissertation stage.

If your research is related to Black women, motherhood, Caribbean women’s literature, diaspora, activist publishing, print culture, activism, queer theory or any related topic, I would love to read your personal statement, manuscript/dissertation/thesis proposal, manuscript chapter, a chapter of the dissertation or (in some cases) the whole manuscript to give specialized feedback.

I provide feedback to a select set of visionaries whose work makes my heart dance and my soul remember how to sing.  Phone consultations about the purpose of your work are required before I read your work.  If I choose not to read your work I will definitely provide you with concrete next steps and other folks to reach out to for feedback.

Belly Blessings include:

• One reading of your document with written feedback and comments.
• One phone call to discuss questions and next steps.
• A song dedication to keep you moving on your inspired path!

Rates for thesis, dissertation chapters manuscript or writing samples: $100-150/hour.

Rates for personal statements: $125

Rates for Syllabi: $95-300 (depending on whether it is feedback on the whole document, one component or partnership in the syllabus creation process.)

Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com to set up a $25 assessment call!

A doula is a person who assists and supports someone while they are giving birth so that they can have their ideal birth experience and focus on creating a beautiful relationship with that which they have brought to life!  Wouldn’t it be great to have someone on your team accountable SPECIFICALLY TO YOU (not caught up in the desires of the department etc) to have your back as you push out this piece of original knowledge and move on into the world that your ideas will make possible!?  That’s me!

PUSH IT OUT

It’s that time!  Maybe your dissertation is even overdue!  Get your dissertation out of your big brain and into the world where it belongs!

I wrote my dissertation while at the same time opening up a community school, traveling the country on a speaking tour to raise money for my national experiential archive project and making a long-distance relationship into BLISS!   For many of us the dissertation process takes forever because we stall by reading more, doubting ourselves more and believing in ourselves LESS.  This specific accountability coaching series is designed to remind you that YOU ARE PREPARED to write your dissertation and  YOU DO HAVE THE TIME to get it done.   And I am here to metaphorically rub your back  and feed you ice chips aka to provide writing accountability exercises and coaching calls to make sure you get it done and are prepared to make the most of it for yourself, your future and your community!

As with everything, I am called to work with a select group of visionary under-represented graduate students with inspiring projects.  Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com to set up an appointment for a $25 assessment call!

Dissertation Doula services include:

• Accountability check-ins via email and phone.
• Unstoppability coaching calls.
• A custom plan for how to make your complete dissertation most useful for your vision of your future.
• Song dedications to keep you moving!

Rates: $250-500 per month depending on dissertation stage.