What is liberatory coaching?

“Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation seeks to uncover and rediscover traditional and adaptive ways of living out our value systems of expansiveness and liberation for collective healing. We do this in a way that leans into the innate resilience and traditional wisdom of the cultures of our participants."  

“We believe that through engaging in individual and collective healing, and through the victories of social justice movements for those most-impacted by systems of oppression, we will achieve liberation for all people."

https://healingjusticeliberation.org/about

Liberatory coaching is a process of holding space for my clients to access their highest self, potential and their own guidance systems to navigate the challenges faced from the personal, to the professional. It is a deeply spiritual process of connecting to self in the pursuit of aligning with one’s deepest longings, values systems, and way of life that will support one’s ability to thrive, maintain integrity, impact and hope even in the most challenging of times.

WHO I WORK WITH

I work with activists holding marginalized identities and are rooted in intersectional social justice values. Social justice activism is a lens applied to one’s way of life, and not confined to those with day jobs in movement spaces. Inclusivity is a fundamental value of my practice across all lines of difference, including age, economic circumstance, ethnicity, sex, range of ability, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and gender identity/expression, etc. The majority of my career has been in activism and in resourcing social justice activists to ensure we have thriving, growing movements with strong legacies that iterate through time to meet the needs of the most marginalized in our societies and that protect all of creation.


testimonials

  • SUMAYA HAS A GIFT FOR LIBERATORY COACHING. IT MATCHES HER VALUES AND HER ESSENTIAL NATURE. SHE HAS LED ME THROUGH COACHING SESSIONS WITH COMPASSION, INSIGHT AND POWERFUL QUESTIONS. I WAS ABLE TO SEE THE BEST PATH FORWARD, UNCOVER HARD TRUTHS TO MYSELF, AND ACCESS MY ABILITY TO CHANGE COURSE WITH HER SUPPORT.

    EDINA LEKOVIC, Strategist, community historian, storyteller, trainer

  • In our sessions I have found profound healing and clarity in my relationship with myself, and in all my relationships. Sumaya has a deep sense of empathy and the gift of guiding one towards their own internal wisdom, while also leading and intuitively sharing at just the right time. My work with Sumaya has been a blessing in my life and I am truly grateful.

    JULIAN BORREGO, Artist, environmental activist

  • Sumaya is a person who exudes compassion and love. Every time I speak with her I feel seen and held. Her most potent healing method for me, is her ability to radiate love through a myriad of creative and joyful ways. She is a person who genuinely cares. The visual methodologies Sumaya uses during our sessions are incredibly helpful for me, both in terms of heightened awareness to the issue at hand, attaching visuals to the pain and concretely finding a way to navigate through it. After years of talk therapy it’s refreshing to have found a more inclusive, somatic, creative and concrete way to heal.

    HAYV KAHRAMAN, Artist

  • SUMAYA'S COACHING HAS TAKEN MY INNER WORK TO A NEW LEVEL. BY ACCESSING THE DEEP BLOCKS AND STORIES HELD WITHIN ME THROUGH AN EMBODIED APPROACH, I'M ABLE TO MAKE PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING AND HEALING MYSELF ON A PROFOUND LEVEL.

    KELLY THOMAS, Acupuncturist

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Lean on me
When you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on...

for it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need somebody to lean on

You just call on me brother
When you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on

— Bill Withers, may he rest in eternal Love. This is what community building means to me.