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Minding Our Own Emotional Business™ for Teens & Youth
They feel everything. We teach them how to handle it.
Young people are more emotionally aware than ever — but often unequipped to manage it. This version of MOOEB meets them where they are: emotionally honest, culturally relevant, and grounded in emotional intelligence they can use in real time.
-Available as a workshop series or single session.
-Ideal for youth organizations, schools, and mentoring programs.
Minding Our Own Emotional Business™ for Workplace Wellness
Stress isn’t the problem — unmanaged emotions are.
We bring emotional intelligence down from the clouds and into the meeting room. Your staff will learn tools to regulate emotional overload, navigate difficult conversations, and reset without spiraling — even when the work is heavy.
- Available as half-day, full-day, or virtual series.
-Ideal for nonprofits, human services, healthcare, and mission-driven orgs.it.
Overcoming Barriers to Inclusion
Bias is normal. Leaving it unchecked is not.
This training invites participants into candid, emotionally intelligent work around human bias, inclusion, and power. We explore how bias works, where it hides, and what leaders can do to challenge it in real time — without shame, blame, or disengagement
-Available in half-day or full-day formats.
-Designed for organizations seeking equity-based culture change.
Minding Our Own Emotional Business™ for Leaders
The more people rely on you, the more your emotional clarity matters.
This version of MOOEB helps leaders sharpen their emotional intelligence under pressure — building cultures of stability, trust, and responsiveness. It’s not about being calm all the time — it’s about knowing what to do when you’re not.
-Available as a retreat session, leadership development module, or keynote.
-Ideal for managers, directors, and executive teams.
Workshops that Power the Revolution in caring
Hurt.
To care is to witness. To witness is to stay awake.
This immersive experience confronts the ways history, silence, and law have injured Black women’s bodies and spirits. Hurt invites participants into uncomfortable truths—and helps them stay there, not as bystanders but as revolutionaries in care.
The Violent Broken Hearts
When rage is inherited, healing can feel impossible.
This session confronts how structural racism fuels violence, heartbreak, and despair in African American communities. Through a historical lens, Yolanda explores systems that wound—and the emotional truths we must reclaim to heal.
Black Girls: High ACE Scores and Hyper‑Penalized
Resilience shouldn’t punish the children who already survive.
This workshop lays bare the cost of high ACE scores and biased discipline on Black girls. It exposes stereotypes, adultification, and institutional myths—then shifts toward strategies that honor their humanity, not just their toughness.
Elum: The Awakened Mule
Trauma isn’t the end of your story—it’s the beginning of transformation.
Yolanda intertwines her own journey of PTSD recovery with Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, revealing how healing awoke her—for so much more: purpose, presence, and raw beauty in the everyday.