Christena Cleveland – Embody Your Sacred Wholeness Through The Black Madonna
With Social Psychologist, Public Theologian, Author & Activist Dr. Christena Cleveland
What You’ll Learn In Embody Your Sacred Wholeness Through The Black Madonna
A 7-Module On-Demand Video Training
Co-create a more integrated spiritual life with divine guidance from the Black Madonna, who’s ever-present and ready to accompany and empower you as you discover and embrace your authentic essence… and move toward healing for your life and our world.
In this inspiring 7-module course, you’ll explore:
- The Black Madonna’s divine power and unconditional love as an example of self-acceptance and transformation
- The interfaith history and meaning of the Black Madonna and why She urgently matters in our contemporary world
- How connecting with the Black Madonna can transform your thoughts, emotions, and behavior
- Practices to release your needs to the Black Madonna so you’ll feel fully supported and transformed
- The ways our patriarchal society keeps us trapped in what Christena calls the resource-scarcity-and-fear vortex — and how to transform these fears that can manifest in sleepless nights, hunched shoulders, a constant sense of urgency, and more
- How to trust the Black Madonna with your grief so you can connect to your spiritual empowerment even during life’s toughest times
- Ways to let go of the need to control others and lead from a place of love, not fear
- Embodied practices that root your identity in the Black Madonna and empower you to heroically speak your truth and stand up for the wellbeing of others
- How to co-create your spiritual experience with the Black Madonna through embodied and somatic practices — including play, guided meditations, singing, and movement practices
- How you can follow the Black Madonna’s path of embodied justice and sacred activism to make a difference in the world
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Christena will guide you to experience deep levels of spiritual healing, self-acceptance, and feminine empowerment when you connect with the Black Madonna.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Christena. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to co-create your spiritual experience with the Black Madonna — as you embrace your deepest truths and love yourself for who you are.
- Module 1: The Transforming Power of the Black Madonna’s Love to Guide Your Steps Toward Healing
- Module 2: Release Your Needs to “She Who Cherishes Our Hot Mess” to Feel Fully Supported & Transformed by Her All-Embracing Love
- Module 3: Relinquish Your Tightly-Held Fears as You Pivot From Fear to Abundance in the Presence of “She Who Showers Us With Miracles”
- Module 4: Offer Your Grief to “She Who Holds the World in Her Womb” So You Can Connect to Spiritual Empowerment During Life’s Toughest Times
- Module 5: Relinquish Control to “She Who Loves by Letting Go” So You Can Lead From a Place of Love, Not Fear
- Module 6: Speak Your Truth Alongside “The God of Joan of Arc”
- Module 7: Follow “Our Lady of the Side-Eye” Onto the Path of Embodied Justice & Sacred Activism to Make a Difference in Our World
About Dr. Christena Cleveland
Christena Cleveland, PhD, is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal and its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. A weaver of Black liberation and the Sacred Feminine, Dr. Cleveland integrates psychology, theology, storytelling, and art to stimulate our spiritual imaginations.
Christena Cleveland recently completed her third full-length book, God is a Black Woman, which details her 400-mile walking pilgrimage across central France in search of ancient Black Madonna statues, and examines the relationship among race, gender, and cultural perceptions of the Divine.
Christena holds a PhD in social psychology from the University of California Santa Barbara as well as an honorary doctorate from the Virginia Theological Seminary. An award-winning researcher and author, Christena is a Ford Foundation Fellow who has held faculty positions at several institutions of higher education — most recently at Duke University’s Divinity School, where she led a research team investigating self-compassion as a buffer to racial stress.
Though Christena loves scholarly inquiry, she is also a student of embodied wisdom. She recently completed the Art & Social Change intensive body wisdom training for millennial leaders, and is currently deepening her mind-body-spirit integration in a year-long embodied leadership cohort for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
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