Warrior - Healer - Builder
Family Network
We’ve always believed if you live right, then once is enough. Like a mighty river, AYA is always moving and always the same.Come November, AYA will begin its 27th year. AYA Educational Institute is an African-Centered Educational Institute for youth and adults.
We are proud of our history and even more of our movement and our growth. We are so glad you joined us. We aim to heal as we balance traditionally required subjects with those needed to help us become stronger warriors, healers, and builders.
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Our Current Offerings

Adult Courses
These courses are built to empower your Afrikan self. It enables you to tell y(our) stories beautifully and in a way that truly reflects who you are.

Coaching
With our background and many years of experience, our coaching style will guarantee a personal and leadership development with you.

AYA way Training
AYA certifies teachers, parents and affiliates (institutions) in the AYA Way. We seek to heal alienation -separation or estrangement from our people ancestors, our ways

Community
Here you will be at home among folks of like mind who are working to become stronger warriors, healers and builders.
Story Healing Power Courses
What if the stories you are telling yourself about your future and your past are holding you back? Your memories are powerful but are they empowering?
Join our movement
Aimed to rewrite and retell our stories

Bundle Offer:
Story Healing and Storytelling Power Courses, Journeys and Circles
Get all the stories and the journeys and the circles starting February 9th through May 25th. Take the courses whenever you wish, and attend all the classes if you want. Get the recordings; also, get a mini-course online for each of the four courses. AND, did I say attend all the story healing and storytelling circles to tell your stories.
ABOUT US
Afiya and Wekesa Madzimoyo married on December 31, 1988 and have since then worked side-by-side building several businesses and organizations, chief among them AYA Educational Institute.
Baba Wekesa & Mama Afiya and many Warrior, Healer, Builder (WHB) consultants, ambassadors, and supporting members have been helping our people find their center and live in alignment with our ancestors' highest aspirations for over 40 years.
WHB—Story Healing Power continues this tradition with innovative story courses, safe spaces, support journeys, sacred storytelling circles, and proven techniques to get you moving—living and telling your greatest story.

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