We help our clients: Slow Down to relax... return to your breath, your roots, your purpose... then clarify and steadily strategize so you/your organization/community can actualize your desired outcomes, experiences, and aligned, vibrant, embodied existence
〰️ The inner affects the outer, always 〰️
We help our clients: Slow Down to relax... return to your breath, your roots, your purpose... then clarify and steadily strategize so you/your organization/community can actualize your desired outcomes, experiences, and aligned, vibrant, embodied existence 〰️ The inner affects the outer, always 〰️
KOHENET APRIL N. BASKIN
Credit: James Dumeus
My journey to developing Co-Creative Wisdom began through my own experience of navigating multiple marginalized identities while becoming a nationally-recognized social justice leader. As an ordained Black & Cherokee Jewish priestess, I discovered something profound: brilliant leaders weren't struggling because they lacked skills or talent - they were trying to achieve their way out of patterns installed by systemic oppression and unhealed historic harm.
Over my 20+ year career, from becoming the first Black & Indigenous VP of a $90M nonprofit organization at the age of 31 to being ordained as a Jewish Priestess, I've consistently seen one major challenge holding visionary leaders back. I call it the High Achiever's Historic Bind. This tendency to overwork and overachieve our way through triggers doesn't just exhaust us - it reinforces the very patterns that are: 1. keeping us stuck, and 2. the internalized forms of the systemic oppression we want to to eradicate.
What makes my approach different is that I don't just teach better coping strategies or trauma-informed leadership. I help leaders transform their entire relationship with challenges by integrating: social justice and leadership expertise, trauma-agile™ healing, and practical spiritual and energetic insight and wisdom. This isn't about becoming “untriggerable” - it's about dissolving triggers at their source while building genuine sovereignty.
The guiding premise behind Co-Creative Wisdom is that we need to heal our relationship with achievement and reality itself if we want to create lasting change. We can't achieve our way out of patterns installed by systemic oppression - we need to dissolve them at their source while accessing our natural wisdom.
Through this work, I've helped 300+ organizations and thousands of visionary leaders transform their relationship with challenges, from clergy and executive directors to medical professionals and community leaders and activists. My clients consistently discover that when they stop trying to achieve their way through triggers and instead access their sovereign presence, they create more meaningful impact while maintaining their center and experiencing more fulfillments in their work and lives.
ABOUT JOYOUS JUSTICE
We are a multi-award-winning Black & Cherokee Jewish woman-led, holistic social change leadership coaching firm offering life, leadership, and executive coaching and expertise for kind-hearted leaders who are interested in cultivating more visionary and joyful outcomes for their lives, organizations, and movements.
Kohenet April N. Baskin has expertise in:
trauma-informed social justice and leadership,
compassionate transformative justice,
rigorous multi-dimensional, intersectional DEIR, social justice, and liberation analysis, and
an enduring belief in our individual & collective capacity for tenacious, intentional evolution rooted in a deep and abiding appreciation of our inherent intelligence, divinity, and goodness.
Consider working w April and her team by learning more and signing up for our services here.
