Beyond Diversity 101: Whole System Transformation - Training 3

With Niyonu D. Spann

September 26 - 28, 2025

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Online Program Online

Sep 26 - Sep 28, 2025

Date and Time Details: September 26th to 28th, 2025

Location: On Zoom

Contact: Lacey
laceyh@kirkridge.org

  • – Program Price
This page and registration form are for people returning for Part 3 of “Beyond Diversity 101.” If you are not part of the cohort that began meeting in March of 2025 at Kirkridge, please do not register using this form. If you would like more information, please contact Logan. (Use the button on the right.)

When you mean to radically change the system, including YOU!

The BD101 WST Series invites those who hold a deep commitment to liberation, wholeness, and the well-being of all. It is a response to a world crying out to remember. Some are called to sit on councils helping community to run smoothly, others bring artistic expression, some are led to teach while others master plant medicines and other forms of healing. Regardless of the particular role or the medicine that you bring, making the jump from dominator culture to realizing interconnection and shared responsibility – whole system transformation – requires re-engaging the imagination,  skillful practices and courageous movement.

While we are in absolute crisis as a society, there are also beautiful expressions of human interconnection, resistance, imagination, and nurturance.  While many hold on to the illusion of power based in separation and domination, some of us are called to not only reject and de-structure those systems but to boldly create and sustain life-affirming communities organized around radical truth and love.

BD101 – WST is a learning laboratory with a focus on organizational systems.  We learn and practice to increase our ability to consciously interrupt patterns of oppression that keep us stuck, read energetic shifts, and ride natural progressions.    We cultivate understanding, strengthen skills, and practice through application and feedback.

Cohort members work and play together inviting and developing conscious ‘creator-ship’ (to know self as creator within communities of co-creators).

The BD101 WST Series Structure: Niyonu D. Spann, Lead Teacher

Part 3 – September 26 – 28, 2025 
On Zoom

  • Workin’ At the Roots ~ Foundational Change

  • Working within the field of knowingness

  • Why BODY is essential

  • Applying The Flower, Three Circles & Eliminating Patterns of Oppression

  • Polarity Thinking/”AND” Thinking

About the Leader

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Niyonu D. Spann

Niyonu D. Spann has been assisting organizations and individuals to effectively fulfill their mission since founding Niyonu Spann Associates in 1994. She is a visionary leader, highly experienced in group facilitating and leadership coaching, with a focus on whole systems transformation and liberation training. Drawing on a graduate degree in Organization Development, she designs and facilitates interventions and […]

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