*looking for our Virtual Collective Incubator for Radical Entrepreneurs? This workshops is a prerequisite!*
We have ideas, creations and projects for days. Wholistic ones. Intersectional ones. Genius ones. ‘We-All-Need-This’ ones. But we’re struggling to manifest them fully. We’re struggling to make a living doing the things we love while staying true to ourselves, our Radical Purpose and our values. When it comes to ‘the struggle’: we’ve been through it, under it, around it, above it and now…we’re over it.
We already know what it’s going to take to build a radical community. We’re just under-resourced, stressed, tired, worn out, giving too much and pulled-in-a-million-directions.
We don’t need more work. We don’t need more information. We especially don’t need more ‘saviors’.
Several years ago, after struggling to grow and maintain our own creations and enterprises, we (Ije and Samia) started to think about how we could design a way of working that uplifted our whole selves. A way rooted in Radical Love and Freedom, in practice. We wanted to work FROM love and freedom, not simply FOR love and freedom.
We designed a strategic framework to bring the sacred back to work. It is rooted in nature, in our body’s wisdom, in the wisdom of afro-indigenous approaches and queer, people of color strategies for thriving. We did it for us first and then started to share it with our communities.
*looking for our Virtual Collective Incubator for Radical Entrepreneurs? This workshops is a prerequisite!*
At Turtle Tank, everything starts with Radical Purpose. It is our center of gravity.
How come?
When rooted in a practice of Radical Purpose, we move away from “duty”, from shoulds and have tos. From work that drains and beats us down -- regardless of the outcome. We move away from work as drudgery, as a place of pain, struggle and oppression. We center in desire as a force of well-being, a source of creative power, a fire that fuels us in unimaginable ways. Our labor is of and for love. Meeting and feeding our personal desires is EXACTLY what enlivens, lifts and empowers our communities (no more guilt and shame around enjoying the work we do -- and yes, it’s still work even if we enjoy it).
When living in Radical Purpose, we are able to bring our unique, sacred gifts and contributions to our communities from a place of deep fulfillment, wholeness, love and freedom rather than a place of depletion, exhaustion, stress and lack. Yes, it’s just as important to be in love with the process (the work itself) as we are with the outcomes of our work. Having a healthy and enjoyable process, a wonderful way of working, is our birthright.
How we work now is killing us… because we’ve taken the sacred out of work. At Turtle Tank, we believe that being in love with HOW WE WORK (not our product, outcome or solution) is what makes life worth living, what births truly radical works, projects, enterprises and movements. How do we bring the sacred back to our day-to-day work life?
Being in love with our creation process, THE WAY WE CREATE is what makes work a sacred ritual. Being in love with our creation process IS what revolutionizes the way we work and produces creative, effective and highly impactful outcomes rooted in love and freedom. More importantly, having a love-based creation process, a way of making and doing things uniquely designed for and by us is what aligns us with a state of personal and collective well-being.
Centering in your Radical Purpose is the first step in our foundational nature-rooted framework that guides you in developing a creation process you love and want to be alive for. A creation process rooted in well-being, desire, wonder.
A practice of Radical Purpose awakens our deepest place of strategic power from which we make the most effective and efficient decisions. It aligns us with our inner navigational compass from where all our creative ideas, strategic decisions, intuitive nudges and powerful realizations emerge. When we are present with this practice, we can eliminate unnecessary struggle and adopt the most impactful strategies that are aligned with who we are and how we work.
We become magnetic. Our people and opportunities seem to find us or we simply run into them with ease. We become responsive to opportunities that we didn’t even know existed. We embrace challenge as opportunity for growth and transformation. We embody our most creative, powerful and impactful selves.
We say that Radical Purpose is a fundamental organizing principle. It is the guiding force behind the most effective forms of organization and creation. Every system naturally self-organizes through the Purposes of its parts.
As we develop a practice of aligning with our Radical Purposes, individually and collectively, we set ourselves up to engage in the most powerful, fitting and wonderful relationships. We draw and create the most robust, resilient and creative teams, partnerships, relationships, projects, enterprises and communities.
When we organize around our unique individual Radical Purposes, we move away from the need to control others. Instead, we tap into the ever-emerging power and gifts of the unique self as a cohesive, creative force in tune with the larger collective. With that, we grow the power of our communities exponentially.
We share a Concept class (90mins) and a Practice class (60mins) to help you understand, implement and practice the Radical Purpose framework and tool.
A virtual concept sharing class where we learn about the core concepts of Radical Purpose (the framework, tool and practice)
A virtual live coaching session where we practice, discuss and provide collective coaching around implementing the Radical Purpose concepts
Our program is held virtually via online education and video conferencing platforms. Yes, live sessions will be recorded though we recommend you show up live to get the most out of this program.
We examine our current definitions of “Work” and engage in radical re-visioning that move our relationship to work from drudgery to desire to bring the sacred back to work.
We learn about the Radical Purpose framework and root in our Why.
We understand who we have to be to embody our Radical Purpose.
We define the unique, day-to-day work that manifests our Radical Purpose.
We compare our “current compass” with our new “radical compass” that centers us in radical purpose and consider how to re-root in the “radical compass” moving forward.
We create strategies that move us from how we’re currently operating to how we want to operate and learn how to generate effective strategies and actionable steps from the Radical Purpose tool.
We outline our Radical Purpose practice and learn about the many applications of the framework (team building/facilitation, products creation, strategic decision-making etc.)
Once you submit your email and hit the APPLY button, you will be directed to a payment form where you will be asked to submit your payment information before receiving your application form. Once you submit your payment information:
1) your application will be due within 24hrs. The link for the application form will be sent directly to your email with submission instructions. If you need to review the application questions before submitting your payment form and being on the 24hour deadline, please review by clicking here.
2) you will hear from us about a decision within 48hrs
YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF SUBMITTING YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION IF:
1) you are accepted by our team WHETHER YOU CHOOSE TO ATTEND OR NOT
2) you don’t submit a complete application (ex: submit payment information but forget to apply). So, Please make sure you are 100% committed to paying and applying if you submit your payment information.
If your application is not accepted this round, your payment plan will be cancelled Automatically and YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED At all.
By submitting the payment form, you are agreeing to be charged once we send you the acceptance notice via email OR if you never submit the application. Your first charge of $200 will be automatically deducted 48hours from the time you entered your payment information. Your second charge of $200 will be deducted 30 days from the time the first charge was made.
As a POC-centered (people of color-centered) community we want to give POC members the option to explore the vulnerable content of Turtle Tank in a space with other POC folks where the focus of the work can be solely rooted in the POC experience. For this reason, we offer 2 cohort options. One mixed (POC + white folks) and another POC Only.
Please note: Mixed Cohorts tend to be majority white folks cohorts as most POC will choose the POC ONLY option. That said, we still give POC the option to join any cohort they want and make decisions that suit their schedules. If you’re a POC and really want a POC experience, please join the POC ONLY cohort.
(People of Color + White folks)
2 Payments of $200 (first payment is due 48hours from entering payment information if accepted or if application was not submitted, second payment after 30 days from the first payment)
Concept Classes: Sundays from 5-6:30p EST || on 4/7, 4/14. 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26
Practice Classes: Thursdays from 8:30-9:45p EST || on 4/11, 4/18, 5/2, 5/9. 5/16, 5/23, 5/30
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(People of Color only)
2 Payments of $200 (first payment is due 48hours from entering payment information if accepted or if application was not submitted, second payment after 30 days from the first payment)
Concept Classes: Sundays from 5-6:30p EST || on 4/7, 4/14. 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26
Practice Classes: Thursdays from 10-11:15p EST || on 4/11, 4/18, 5/2, 5/9. 5/16, 5/23, 5/30
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Plug into a series of stories from our community of Radical Creators, Radical Entrepreneurs and Radical Leaders. We are sharing about how putting ourselves first through Turtle Tank’s incubation framework has revolutionized our lives and work, creating more impact than ever before and bringing us closer to a world of Radical Love and Freedom.
We preach what we practice. All of our frameworks are born from years of practice. And all of that practice happens in collective community. We invite you to join our community wherever you see fit.
Public Workshops are introductions to our frameworks
Deep Dives are deep re-alignments that center you in who you are and your desire
Collective Communities are spaces of continuous practice, evolution and development where we witness and support each other in our lives, our loves, our work, our purposes, our endeavors. We find these spaces to be the revolutionary learning and development communities. This is where we live the day-to-day of what we teach, together.
Samia Abou-Samra (Co-Founder and CEO)
Samia is an artist and Radical Entrepreneur. Samia is the founder/owner of Whale Wonder: a creative playspace that grows radical systems for a more human world and the original incubator for Turtle Tank.
Samia serves as a strategist, consultant, educator and creative director for Radical Entrepreneurs (makers, healers, artists, activists, educators) dedicated to love and freedom. Samia enjoys all aspects of the creative process particularly in the areas of music/media, entrepreneurship, indigenous knowledge and radical health.
Samia has a BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (with a focus on Ritual, Medicine & Performance) from Stanford University and an MBA in Environmental and Social Management from Antioch University of New England (along with many other certificates and specializations you can find out all about when you join us).
Ije Ude (Co-Founder and Chief Transformation Officer)
Ije is a health & wellness strategist and Radical Entrepreneur. She has coached Radical Entrepreneurs for the last 10 years on managing their energy and revolutionizing how they work.
Ije has 20 years of work experience in social justice and non-profit organizations as an organizer, trainer and facilitator. She has designed research-based curricula for organizations such as Girls Inc, Planned Parenthood and The Freedom institute. Today, alongside being a founder of Turtle Tank, Ije is a certified Resilience Toolkit facilitator who works with individuals and organizations to provide effective solutions to stress and trauma.
Ije has a BA in Human Biology (with a specialization in Black Women's Health and Well-Being) from Stanford University and an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies. (along with many other certificates and specializations you can find out all about when you join us).
India Harville (Community Engagement Specialist)
India is a performance artist, somatic educator, and social justice educator. India serves as the Community Engagement Specialist for Turtle Tank where she helps facilitate the member journey for collective incubator members. The unifying thread in India’s work is supporting people working with their bodies as vehicles for personal and collective growth and transformation.
India has a BA in psychology from New College of Florida and a MA in Integrative Health Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as many trainings in somatics, bodywork, social justice education, and coaching.
Once you submit your email and hit the APPLY button, you will be directed to a payment form where you will be asked to submit your payment information before receiving your application form. Once you submit your payment information:
1) your application will be due within 24hrs. The link for the application form will be sent directly to your email with submission instructions. If you need to review the application questions before submitting your payment form and being on the 24hour deadline, please review by clicking here.
2) you will hear from us about a decision within 48hrs
YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF SUBMITTING YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION IF:
1) you are accepted by our team WHETHER YOU CHOOSE TO ATTEND OR NOT
2) you don’t submit a complete application (ex: submit payment information but forget to apply). So, Please make sure you are 100% committed to paying and applying if you submit your payment information.
If your application is not accepted this round, your payment plan will be cancelled Automatically and YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED At all.
By submitting the payment form, you are agreeing to be charged once we send you the acceptance notice via email OR if you never submit the application. Your first charge of $200 will be automatically deducted 48hours from the time you entered your payment information. Your second charge of $200 will be deducted 30 days from the time the first charge was made.
As a POC-centered (people of color-centered) community we want to give POC members the option to explore the vulnerable content of Turtle Tank in a space with other POC folks where the focus of the work can be solely rooted in the POC experience. For this reason, we offer 2 cohort options. One mixed (POC + white folks) and another POC Only.
Please note: Mixed Cohorts tend to be majority white folks cohorts as most POC will choose the POC ONLY option. That said, we still give POC the option to join any cohort they want and make decisions that suit their schedules. If you’re a POC and really want a POC experience, please join the POC ONLY cohort.
(People of Color + White folks)
2 Payments of $200 (first payment is due 48hours from entering payment information if accepted or if application was not submitted, second payment after 30 days from the first payment)
Concept Classes: Sundays from 5-6:30p EST || on 4/7, 4/14. 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26
Practice Classes: Thursdays from 8:30-9:45p EST || on 4/11, 4/18, 5/2, 5/9. 5/16, 5/23, 5/30
View/Add the Google Calendar here
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(People of Color only)
2 Payments of $200 (first payment is due 48hours from entering payment information if accepted or if application was not submitted, second payment after 30 days from the first payment)
Concept Classes: Sundays from 5-6:30p EST || on 4/7, 4/14. 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 5/26
Practice Classes: Thursdays from 10-11:15p EST || on 4/11, 4/18, 5/2, 5/9. 5/16, 5/23, 5/30
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