The Curriculum

1 / The Bones Remember: Tending the Sacred Stories

Connecting to Spirit Beyond Doctrine

This module invites participants to rediscover the sacred in the stories, rituals, and practices that have sustained communities for generations. Drawing from Indigenous, African diasporic, and ancestral traditions, as well as Black, womanist, queer, and decolonial theologies, we will explore the many ways Spirit speaks beyond institutional religion. Participants will engage with ritual creation, interfaith wisdom, ancestral reverence, and personal spiritual practices to deepen their connection to something older, wilder, and more liberating than dogma. This is a return to what the bones remember.

2 / Reclaiming Sacred Resistance: Dismantling What Never Served Us

Tearing Down the Systems

This module invites communities into the sacred and often uncomfortable work of unlearning. Together, we’ll examine how faith traditions have been shaped by power and how colonization, conquest, and control have influenced the way we see ourselves, how we encounter history, and how we connect with the divine. Participants will trace the spiritual and cultural roots of domination and explore the cracks where resistance has always lived: in ancestral stories, land-based traditions, and communal survival. Through deep reflection, shared practice, and courageous conversation, this module helps communities begin to tell the truth about what we inherited, and to begin imagining what we might build instead. The work here is not just intellectual. It is spiritual and it is embodied. It is about remembering who we are beyond empire, and choosing a path that centers dignity, relationship, and repair.

3 / Restoring the Sacred Spectrum: Gender as Sacred Embodiment

Exploring Gender Identity, Expression, and the Sacred Witness

This foundational module invites participants to move beyond rigid categories and into the divine mystery of gender. We’ll explore cultural and spiritual understandings of gender expansiveness from around the world, including Two-Spirit, nonbinary, transgender, and gender-diverse traditions. Participants will unlearn colonial binaries and re-root themselves in liberating theologies that honor gender as sacred. Through stories, art, ritual, and practice, communities will begin to see gender not as a problem to solve, but as a sacred unfolding of what the Spirit has always known.

4 / All of You is Good: Reclaiming Sacred Desire

Honoring Bodies and Sexuality as Sacred

Sexuality is often ignored, policed, or spiritualized out of existence in religious spaces. This module centers the sacredness of queer love, bodies, relationships, and desire. We will explore how theology, scripture, and cultural narratives have been weaponized against LGBTI+ people and reclaim the body as a site of blessing, autonomy, and connection. Participants will engage with affirming sexuality education, consent culture, and theologies of embodiment, pleasure, and boundary-setting as core components of individual and communal transformation.

5 / Rest as Resistance: A Justice-Centered Approach to Wholeness

Creating Communities of Care for All Bodies and Minds

This module explores the intersections of mental health, disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and spirituality. Participants will learn how ableism and mental health stigma have shaped exclusion in religious and communal life and will be invited to reimagine care, access, and support as spiritual practices. Drawing from disability justice frameworks, trauma-informed chaplaincy, and communal healing models, the sessions will help congregations move from accommodation to full inclusion.

6 / Radical Belonging & Inclusive Love: Healing, Covenant, and Becoming Whole

Leading with Spirit, Listening Deeply, and Committing to Change

Transformation doesn’t happen only through information, it requires intention, relationship, and heart. This capstone module focuses on the inner and communal work of transformation: how to hold hard truths, navigate conflict, remain in covenant, and return to love. Participants will explore emotional resilience, accountability, forgiveness, and leadership grounded in care. The goal is to nurture leaders and communities who can live into the call of radical inclusion—not just as a practice, but as a way of being.