
Welcome Home.
Welcome to this Warrior, Healer, Builder retreat and to the WHB journey.This is a journey for Afrikan people. This is a safe place to be Afrikan. This retreat is for those who are currently or plan to work with and for our people. The concepts and tools presented here are to help you succeed in that work by increasing your awareness and skill in all three areas.Bring your questions, your power, your tears, your fears, your confidence and your confusion. Bring your relationships, your organizational victories and your blockages.You are home.

We are wounded ...
Wounded by years of oppression and injected oppression, my daily efforts are compromised.Wounded, when I try to make friends, they to often become enemies.
When I try to build with my people, they fail me, or I fail them. My efforts at love often bring pain or failure, or both. Putting my best foot forward is rarely enough.Becoming a warrior alone doesn’t heal my wounds; instead I become a wounded warrior.The wounds reveal themselves as alien implants directing  me  (often  against  my  better  judgment) to inflict pain on those that love and trust me.
Betrayed, they often feel the pain equal to or greater than that inflicted by the oppressor directly.Becoming a builder alone doesn’t heal me. Instead, I become a wounded builder. The organizations or structures I build often end in the hands of the oppressor, or the process of building re-opens old oppressor-inflicted wounds causing pain, distrust, and dissolution among the very people with whom I’m trying to build.
Wounded, as either a warrior or builder, my responses to those who hurt me - even when unintentional- are wildly amplified. I either retreat or explode. My  retreat  and  self  deprecation  deepens  and  secretly  I  beg  for  a  rescue  of  any kind - even delusional ones offered by the oppressor.Â
At other times, my response to the ones close enough to touch my wound is swift and painful. My explosive light-saber-like response may serve as a cathartic release - saving me from the deep valley of self blame and self deprecation - while at the same time it fools me into thinking that I”m powerfully responding to the enemy – when I am not.
Untouched, the real enemy - the one who inflicted the original wounds and those who continue to do so - laughs and grows stronger while the family bleeds and struggles holding to a hope thinner and more illusive than a spider’s web. Becoming a Warrior-Healer-Builder starts with our healing ourselves from the old and new wounds of oppression.

S & I Line
I’ve been hoodwinked, scripted, manipulated to *behave* as if I’m inferior, even when I don’t believe it. On the flip side, the counter script is also a trap. I then treat others who I care about as if I’m superior to them - especially when I’m challenged.In WHB, I learned to let the circle be unbroken.

Feelings as Messengers

River of Touches
They called it  “The River of Touches.” I call it “my lifeline.” "I knew that I was powerful. I just didn’t know how to consistently get and give healing touches in myrelationships - even with family."

Storytelling from the Inside Out (SIO)
The SIO tool taught me to tell the story of an unintended outcome in a way that inspires me as I go forward and apply the lessons learned.
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