For all Warriors-Healers-Builders
I trust that life has been kind, and in any case that you have been making it good. This note contains three annoucements and three requests.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: AYA is expanding in 4 new ways to influence our Youth, Adults, and Community-at-Large:
2. COMMUNITY: Our newly forming AYA Speaker's Bureau (not officially launched, yet)
3. COMMUNITY: Free "Community Healing Events" every quarter and in speciality situations i.e. (Trayvon, Mike Brown, Powell, etc.) At these events we expose community to the WHB personal and leadership development construct, and 3 WHB solutions: Cracking the Code (CC), Circling the Line (CL) and Solving the Riddle (SR). We conducted a prototype in ATL a couple of years ago. It was a great success - bolstering the interest in AYA and WHB approaches and solutions. The first of these AYA Community Healing Events (ACHE) for 2014 is slated for September - October and will center around issues raised by Ferguson.
4. Expanded Weekend Academy as "Teacher-Training" for parents, grandparents and other Afrikan adults engaged in formal or informal education with our youth. The emphasis is on both content and methodology www.ayaed.com Target: Parents-Grand Parents:
4. ADULTS & COMMUNITY: We are also creating a membership program with two broad goals in mind:
A. Create a space and mechanism for our Warriors-Healers-Builders (aka HOW) family to stay more connected to each other and to the tools and afri-entation of Warriors-Healers-Builders
B. Create a pipeline to help those who have been introduced to the WHB/AYA tools to move to deeper levels of exposure and connection.
There will be levels of membership.
For a monthly membership fee and commitment to the AYA Way... people get:
a.Two free web-conference based interactive classes highlighting an application of WHB approaches and solutions,
b. A private growing local and national community with which to exchange ideas, stories, discoveries, etc.
c.Discounts on AYA's local face-2-face events (i.e. One Day or Weekend Retreats),
d. Discounts on ongoing AYA classes from our full day program and our Weekend Academy for youth an adults.
d. Discounts on ongoing AYA classes from our full day program and our Weekend Academy for youth an adults.
We've not finished working the kinks out of this plan. We're still putting the web and adminstrative infrastructure in place to maintain it, so please share any ideas or questions. If you have any successful examples that you've been involved with, please let us know about them. Also, if you have ideas about what you'd like offered via this membership, we'd like to hear about it.
3. Requests:
*Please update your information in our data bases so you can stay informed.
*Please become an a active force supporting our middle and high school educational programs - full time, part-time and weekend academy.
HOW:
Become a part of our Guardian Force: Give 35 min per week for a month - 4 Sessions.
Specifically, right now, we're looking for those of you become a formal AYA Guardian - spending 35 minutes per week with AYA students to share with them something that you love and/or knowledgeable about (preferrably, from experience.) There's also the option of teaching a mini-course to supplement what they student may need to ehance their experience @ AYA
Here are some mini-course areas:
Art and Art History from an African perspective.
Memory training (Kumbuka)
ACT-SO Coaching for students who will compete academically
Geography
African Cultures and Languages
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Telling OurStory,
Helping to find the students and families that are looking for us,
Helping to raise money for our causes
This monthly membership monies will also provide a needed stable revenue stream for AYA's growth.
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This is for all in the WHB / HOW family.
I trust that life has been kind, and in any case that you have been using the tools of Warriors, Healers, and Builders (aka HOW) to make it good.
AYA youth and their families need your help.
Baba Asa Hilliard taught - and AYA embraces - that re-socialization / re-Afrikanization is a community process that extends beyond academic skill development. We want our students and their families to know that they are a part of a larger family of Afrikans committed to challenging oppression, healing the wounds of oppression, and building with and for our people.
Our GUARDIAN FORCE is a key part of AYA's resocialization process for our students and families.
Guardians become a protective and guiding force by simply sharing their stories, lessons, and somethings they love, are knowlegeable about, or an accomplished skill. Guardians support students and families by creating community with students beyond the academics of the classroom. We have both Guardian Elders (grand-parent aged) and younger Guardians.
Join our Guardian Force.
Guardian sacrafice 30 minutes a week for a semester. Even if they can give only a month or two, the students will benefit and appreciate it. The 30 minutes you give will return to your multiplied.
You are special - you're a member of the WHB family. You are committed to challenging oppression, to healing and building in our community and with our people. You have been exposed to and embraced the WHB tools. Students will "catch that." Math and science are not enough. If we don't help them heal oppression's wounds, they'll be manipulated to use their smarts in service of aliens at our community's expense.
Our middle school and high school youth need your guidance, your love, and your example - a WHB example. We've created the transporation device that enables you from whereever you are in the Country. All you need is the will.
You can touch them by simply sharing your stories, the things you love, your WHB filters applied to your life lesson, and skills that you have acquired. It's simple but all to rare: touch them with your love, enthusiasm, and your authenticity.
AYA's morning guardian period is 8:20 am - 9:50. The Afternoon period is from 12:45 - 1:15. Choose your time, and choose your day. For example ever Thursday@ 12:45-1:15. Both periods provide a short 30 minutes to interact with youth through our web-conference platform. They can see you and hear you, equally important you get to see and hear them.
Benefits to Guardians:
You get to see what questions your stories or lessons stimulate. You'll get to measure the impact and nature of current oppression on our youth while you - and we - develop soft intervention and preventative strategies.
Every month, Guardians and AYA parents get to attend a two hour WHB session where we explain to some and review for others how to apply the WHB approaches and solutions to life's conflicts and road blocks.
You will learn and you teach. More than that your becoming an AYA Guardian provides an opportunity for you to use the Golden Triangle of Touches (aka strokes) and other WHB tools to help heal oppressions wounds, and to help insulated the youth from future wounds, and manipulation.
Please join our Guardian Force. Sign up to learn more, or if you're ready, Sign up to for the free Guardian Training. If you want to go beyond Guardian and teach an actual course, we'd love to talk to you about that too.
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