Move Out of Disillusion & Create the Joyful Impact You Desire.
A 6-month full body transformation for mission-driven leaders ready to evolve into a career path or business rooted in their values & desires.
You got into this work because you "wanted to help people” and "make a difference."
But today "helping" is happening at your own expense and you no longer feel like you're making a difference.
Are you staying in a role that once fit you perfectly but is no longer aligned with who you are and who you’re evolving into?
You're questioning your impact.
You're "pushing through" versus being moving from a grounded place.
You're forcing yourself to "show up."
You're beginning to cross your own boundaries.
And it feels like you're stuck in a cycle of auto-pilot, following the next thing they offer you. After all, it is “good work.”
Leadership is not about overextending yourself. It is not about abandoning yourself so that you can meet others’ expectations. That is not leadership.
Leadership is about how you lead others to be the best version of themselves.
It is about how you guide others in turbulent times, supporting them through the haze, and fostering transformation through a praxis of truth, love, and justice that disrupts oppressive systems and supports our collective healing.
Leadership is love. It is a love so deep for humanity that it makes you a better version of yourself and opens up new possibilities for you and others, while at the same time changing the world around you, and creating a ripple effect that is felt by everyone you touch, in every room you walk into.
Liberatory Leadership is a commitment to Self that transcends hierarchies and challenges old power.
The truth is that Women of Color Senior Leaders are exhausted, disillusioned, and burnt out.
You have done everything you were supposed to. The degrees… the career.
But you are just not fulfilled anymore and haven’t been for some time.
You don't have to live like this. You get to desire what YOU want—not what others need or expect of you.
There is a newfound path within you that is calling you forward. Asking you to be seen and heard. To be expressed and fully witnessed.
That looks like going after that new role you've been eyeing.
That looks like kicking off that project that's been on your heart.
That looks like starting that business that you've been journaling about for months…years even but are afraid to admit you want.
You've accomplished so much and it has taken a lot of work to get here. But your soul wants more. It wants to evolve. It seeks expansion & creativity.
That's what we do in the Lab.
Expansion + Creativity looks like:
Moving into your next career role.
Launching that business you keep putting off.
Giving yourself the time & spaciousness to be able to focus and bring your vision to life.
You are not who you were a few years ago. Your values have changed. Your identity has changed. We are experiencing a societal collapse and you are feeling the pull.
You get to explore something different--even if it's a bit blurry right now.
You get to tap into your desires and begin to move in that direction.
You get to evolve beyond the identities you are holding right now.
You get to slow down and create spaciousness for yourself, for your body and for your nervous system.
I know it can be hard and scary to take such a leap. Especially right now.
But you have done “scary” things before. That’s exactly how you got here.
I’ve coached clients through this journey and what I see over and over is that once you allow yourself to take that first step and say YES to yourself – expansion, creativity & evolution usually follow.
The truth is you have outgrown the space you're in and even those around you, and your body is letting you know you are ready for an evolution in your leadership, life and career.
"I am filled with forever gratitude for Cristina and my cohort members. It has really shifted me in indescribable ways...."
“Through self-discovery in the Lab, I have identified what my values are and have been able to align them to my business offerings. I went from thinking the ultimate outcome of the Lab would be me launching a virtual assistant business to totally shifting and launching a spiritual wellness business that makes me so happy, excited, and grateful. I am filled with forever gratitude for Cristina and my cohort members. It has really shifted me in indescribable ways.”
Brenda Mendoza, Lab Cohort 2 Participant
That’s why I created the Liberatory Leadership Lab – a space to transform how you show up in your leadership and in the world.
This 6-month program is an all-in-one approach to Theory + Practice + Coaching + Experiential Learning
It is a thorough compilation of my Liberatory Frameworks, Decolonized Leadership Models and Healing Justice Practice.
The Liberatory Leadership Lab is a 6-month full body transformation for values-driven women of color executives and senior leaders who are ready to clarify their purpose, redefine their leadership and reclaim their authority through a co-creative and immersive process where they reposition their skills and talents and create the bold and audacious business or career they’ve been dreaming of.
The time in the Leadership Lab is yours to co-create and bring your unique heart-born ideas and visions to life.
The Lab is an experiential, interactive, hands on approach to learning and leading. It serves as a “laboratory” in which we allow for trial and error, allowing you to test new ideas, concepts and designs with me and with each other. This allows you to flow at your own pace, not restricted by how a process “should be.”
In the Lab, your transformation is holistic and embodied.
You undo and unlearn old archaic leadership models and replace them with embodied, unshakeable identity-rooted leadership that honors your humanity and process.
Through my tools, processes and methods like the Gifts & Talents inventory, Narrative Reframing Process, Identity-Rooted Leadership and others, you’ll:
GAIN CLARITY & CONFIDENCE
Get clear on who you’re becoming in this new season of life and career so that you stop second guessing and doubting yourself.
LIVE AND LEAD FROM YOUR DESIRES
Understand what you truly need and want so that you can live and lead from your desires and stop compromising your dreams and overriding yourself for the sake of others.
STEP INTO YOUR VISION
Stop questioning what you already know and step into your vision with clarity, confidence and conviction so that your actions, behaviors and thinking all align towards your heart-born purpose.
REPOSITION YOUR GIFTS
Uncover your gifts and talents and reposition them into a new business offer, project or career path rooted in your unique qualities vs generic skills.
BUILD A PERSONAL LIBERATION FRAMEWORK
Build a Personal Liberation Framework that informs and integrates all areas of your life and career so that you can move through the world in alignment with your vision & values without compromising your identity.
BRING IT ALL TO LIFE
Bring your unique values, vision and mission to life and develop the business/career path you desire so that you can start living in alignment with the Evolved Leader you are today, not the identity you've already outgrown.
If you struggle to find the expansion and capacity in your body to help you take the leap into your next career move, Somatic Awareness (one of the pillars in my framework), is woven into the Lab and helps you work with your nervous system to cultivate safety, feel more grounded and excited to make the needed changes in your life and career.
Discovering your unique vision requires unearthing your own, truest Liberatory Leadership Voice and Power.
In the Lab, I help you integrate liberatory practices and decolonized leadership models confidently into your life and work by:
Adapting your facilitation skills to a more relaxed style that invites reciprocity and connection.
Skillfully setting the tone and creating the experience you want in a group through your own unique “curation process.”
Creating anti-oppressive practices within your own organization or business.
What is the curriculum of this program?
Personal Liberation work is all about the integration process. Liberatory Leadership is the same way. It is a learned and embodied behavior. I.e. It is absorbed through the body, creating muscle memory—this is the part that allows you to move differently through the world.
"I feel confident and have clarity on what I want to offer in my career. I feel connected to a purpose and trust my wisdom. I am practicing what I want to teach my clients..."
"Prior to participating in the Lab, I was a therapist feeling lost in my career path. I knew I wanted to do things differently in my practice but did not feel strong enough nor did I have clarity. I just knew I wanted more and wanted different things, and did not feel that I was using my skills or voice to its capacity. Now I feel confident and have clarity on what I would like to offer in my career. I feel connected to a purpose and trust my wisdom. I am practicing what I want to teach my clients-to reclaim their identity, use their voice, and overall step into who they want to be. I am living my wildest dreams."
Susie Moya, LCSW, Founder of Embrace Corazon Counseling
This program centers the lived experiences of People of the Global Majority, and is open to all bodies and identities, sexual orientations and gender identities. Liberatory work is for all people who want to create real transformative change.
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR:
Leaders at Non-profit organizations and institutions
Corporate Leaders wanting to recalibrate their leadership
Entrepreneurs and business owners
Therapists and other private practice practitioners
Other leaders who manage staff and programs
Ready to step into your Liberatory Leadership?
GREAT CANDIDATES FOR THIS PROGRAM:
High achievers who have historically over delivered
Introspective, intentional folks
Intellectual types who operate from their brain but have trouble leading with their heart
Folks who have experienced burnout, want to heal & lead differently
Mid-senior leaders looking to position themselves more strategically
Senior leaders who want to transform their organizations or businesses
Folks at a crossroads between career move
Folks up for a promotion who want to enhance their Leadership skills
Ready to step into your Liberatory Leadership?
I’ve taken all of this experience and my training as a Macro Social Worker and transformed them into a full coaching and consulting practice.
I went on to have an 18+ year career in nonprofit work in the areas of program development, leadership, advocacy and community organizing. Today I help leaders, entrepreneurs and organizations redefine their own leadership practices and develop curated training programs and curriculum for leaders and their teams.
This program is one of those projects born out of a desire to revolutionize how we lead. I am so glad you are here!
Hi, I’m Cristina, Liberatory Leadership Coach, Speaker and Trainer helping you redefine your Leadership Identity and lead with clarity, confidence and conviction.
I believe our stories need to be elevated in all corners of society and that the key to reclaiming all parts of who we are is by leading with our own unique voices and staying rooted in the richness of our multidimensional identities and cultures.
I am a daughter of Mexican immigrants. I was politicized at a young age as I marched for immigrant rights with my father in the streets of Chicago, the city that shaped my social and political identity. I understood systemic oppression first hand as I was raised in poverty with very little resources. I learned geopolitics at home over the dinner table before I ever got to college. I like to say grad school gave me the theories for the things I already knew and experienced first hand.
Frequently Asked Quesitons
Whatever it is you are grappling with, whether it is a full career pivot, an entry into higher Leadership, a complete reorganization of your life & business, or you simply want to get really serious about integrating Liberatory Leadership Practices into your current role and life – this program guarantees that you will gain the clarity & focus to develop your own Liberatory Values Based Framework & unique Leadership Identity, allowing you to operationalize your Liberatory Values into tangible actions and practices at your organization or in your business.
Safety is not something that can ever be guaranteed by the facilitator in spite of how skilled they are. In my own liberatory practice, I help my students think through and feel into the necessary conditions so that they can co-create safety with each other. This has to do with my own unique method of “curating a space” which is part of what I will teach and how I lead and facilitate any group.
I am very intentional in my facilitation style and have received dozens of compliments and praise in how I hold space. I skillfully apply an anti-oppressive and healing justice approach as we move through theory, frameworks and exercises. The Lab is designed to allow individuals to feel at ease, comfortable, and empowered as their own decision makers with self autonomy and inherent power.
The Lab will emphasize creativity, self-expression, and critical thinking, rather than having a prescriptive approach. I will not teach you my own framework but rather, guide you to create your own. You will have the ability to develop your own unique Value System, unique Vision and most importantly - your WHY!
You will have the opportunity to socialize your unique ideas with your cohort while also receiving direct coaching from me.
While active & live participation is highly encouraged, it is completely understandable if you have to miss some sessions. In fact, most if not all participants are professionals & have many other responsibilities. I also give quick overviews of where we left off after each session since they tend to build on one another.
Absolutely! The idea behind this program is to help you redefine your leadership identity and help you reposition yourself according to your own value system & unique desires – this is true whether you are leaving your job for another one; realigning your current business; OR, just about to launch your new business. The program acts as a support system to help you overcome any old oppressive narratives that may be impeding you in being able to take that leap. You will gain the language, confidence and will to go through this transition in a way that helps you feel secure & self assured in your decision!
Yes, in past Labs, cohort members were able to do this. After going through the program, they were able to clearly articulate what the new vision and values of their business was, and what they needed to do to structure their business to reflect this versus continuing to do what they had been doing before without any real direction or a renewed vision.
The program is designed to help folks who are interested in recreating a vision for who they want to become as Liberatory Leaders; folks who want to unlearn old hierarchal leadership models and learn liberatory practices they can implement them into their work – whether that is in their own current roles at their organizations OR into their own businesses. Typically all folks being called to this work want to be able to articulate a values-driven mission and vision grounded in anti-oppressive and healing justice practices.
Yes, as part of the Lab, there are three individual 60-minute coaching sessions which will be scheduled every other month.
When we want to make a big change in our life, leadership and identity, there is a significant amount of unlearning & healing we have to do before we can allow ourselves to redefine who we want to be as a Leader, to realign our value system & to determine how we want to show up. This is PRECISELY why this program is 6 months – in my experience having coached countless professionals, that is the amount of time in which someone will be able to INTEGRATE these concepts into their work tangibly AND in their body.
Yes, there is a payment plan and if needed, you can request a sliding scale. I like to encourage folks to ask for what they need & this is part of that. A sliding scale can be offered as an additional option. In an effort to make this program more accessible, I can offer various entry levels based on your economic means while also ensuring I do not forget myself and honor my own labor and needs. Please email me at cristina@liberation-leadership.com with a desired scale.
Liberatory Leadership Lab Investment
$5,000
pay-in-full
Weekly 2-hr. LIVE teaching and discussion sessions for six months
Monthly interactive 2-hour Peer Support Learning Lab
In-group Participant Spot Coaching
Three (3) 1:1 Private Coaching sessions with Cristina (valued at $900)
Peer to Peer Coaching
Opening & Closing Ceremony Gathering
A supportive online community via private platform
Somatic practices & body regulation exercises
Journaling Prompts & PDF handouts
$625/mo
8 total payments
Weekly 2-hr. LIVE teaching and discussion sessions for six months
Monthly interactive 2-hour Peer Support Learning Lab
In-group Participant Spot Coaching
Three (3) 1:1 Private Coaching sessions with Cristina (valued at $900)
Peer to Peer Coaching
Opening & Closing Ceremony Gathering
A supportive online community via private platform
Somatic practices & body regulation exercises
Journaling Prompts & PDF handouts
Paid in full receives a $500 discount.
There is a reorganization of power and structures happening at this moment. A shift away from the old top-down, archaic, patriarchal traditional style of leadership to a more Conscious & Liberatory Leadership.
It is time to be the Revolutionary Leader and Visionary you were meant to be.
Have you asked yourself what your role is in this Cultural Revolution?
The Liberatory Leadership Lab was designed exclusively for leaders like you who have felt the call to lead differently. Leaders and entrepreneurs who have a strong desire to revolutionize the leadership space and lead with their whole hearts, creating their own paths, and helping usher others along the way.
The Lab is for audacious leaders who are tired of being constrained by conventional leadership models and reject hierarchical forms of leadership.
We need the bold, courageous visionaries who see what others cannot yet see…
Those who have the audacity to steer us into a different path; the audacity to pivot and redefine their leadership. The audacity to create. To dream up new spaces and places and new leadership models.
"I feel confident and have clarity on what I want to offer in my career. I feel connected to a purpose and trust my wisdom. I am practicing what I want to teach my clients..."
“I am more grounded. I see a path forward. I am more disconnected from my job. I have a business that is more reflective of who I am at my core. I have a mission that aligns with my gifts, talents and skills I wasn’t even aware of. I feel more confident in what I bring to the table. I am more aware of my magnetism and can name some of the skills that I do naturally - rather than shrugging when someone asks me what I am good at.”
Brittany King-Pleas, Lab Cohort 2 Participant
