Investing in a training or program is always a very personal decision so we cannot give you a definitive answer to this question. However, here are some questions you can ask yourself to help you identify whether this offering might be for you. We hope they are helpful:

• Do you love your work, but you’ve started to feel isolated and burned out?

• Are you noticing feelings of hopelessness about your work during this current moment?

• Do you have values that seem hard to reconcile with your practice, and what you have been taught during the training you have undertaken for your current work?

• Do you yearn for a collaborative, nuanced space where we look for creative ideas together instead of receiving canned answers or “roadmaps to success” that do not feel in integrity with who you are?

• Have you found it difficult to find a space where all of you is not only included but welcome, centered, and celebrated?

We sincerely wish we could do this for free or charge much less, but we believe that part of this work is to be honest with ourselves about our capacities and needs. Like you, we’re also trying to survive under late-stage capitalism. As disabled and neuroqueer practitioners, we’re striving to not treat ourselves as commodities either. The cost reflects not just the investment of time spent face-to-face with attendees, but also the preparation needed, individually and relationally, to show up resourced, prepared, and present. It also helps us offer unlimited equity pricing for Indigenous, Black, Brown, and People of the Global Majority, and some limited spots for people with more limited financial means, and finally for people living outside of the so-called United States who are living in different economic realities from ours. This is not about paying ourselves “what we’re worth” under a capitalist mindset, but rather what is realistic for our bodyminds in our current individual and collective circumstances of living under late-stage capitalism.

The way we think about it, a renegade practitioner is a practitioner who is working for and towards cultural change in service to our collective liberation. This can mean so many things, of course! For example, it could mean that you are a mental health provider who is an abolitionist, or a white coach working on dismantling white supremacy culture. Those are just a couple of examples, there are so many possibilities that it would be impossible to list them all! If you feel that you are working in ways that push back against dominant culture, or that do not fit with the way you were trained, this space is for you. We also decided to use the word practitioner to include a range of professions, since we believe our scopes of practice are distinct yet complementary.

As disabled practitioners, we strive to meet the access needs of folks within this programme as best as we’re able. We will ensure that all sessions are captioned, that replays are available, and that everyone has access to the materials ahead of the class so they can prepare. You are always welcome to have your camera off, if you need to, and to communicate via chat functions instead of verbally. We would like to meet any additional access needs, so please let us know what would help you get the most out of the programme. If you require sign language interpretation, or other support that needs us to hire additional professionals, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can do our best to accommodate this. Thank you.

If you need Continuing Education credits, you may be able to get them for the educational portions of this program, depending on the requirements of your licensure and/or certification. This can vary greatly from profession to profession as well as from state to state and across different countries. We can provide you with our CVs on request, descriptions of all the educational portions complete with learning objectives, and this can often satisfy requirements for some professional licenses and/or certifications. We’re also working on evaluating whether we can offer something more formal when it comes to CEs. If you have specific needs around this, please let us know and we’ll do our best to support you in collecting the necessary evidence, although you will need to personally submit it to your own licensing and/or certifying board, if that is necessary.

We recognise that sometimes life gets in the way of attending every session, even when you start out expecting to attend them all. Sessions will be recorded so that you can catch up if needed. While attending all the sessions isn’t required for the programme, we think you’ll get more out of it if you can attend the live sessions. 

We both have different scopes of practice and work with others 1-1 in a number of ways. If you’re interested in 1-1 work, please approach us directly and we can evaluate whether we can accommodate this, and, if not, refer you to another colleague who might be better able to meet your needs.

Depending on interest, we may create an ongoing processing and coaching group to do this work at the end of the class. This would be a monthly group, only open to folks who have taken this programme, facilitated by Sophia and Alex.

Generally we do not offer refunds, sorry. However, we also understand that things happen! If you notify us before the course starts, and we are able to give your spot to someone else, we will be able to offer a refund minus a 10% administrative fee. If we are not able to fill a spot that had already been dedicated to you, we might be able to offer you a spot in a future cohort or a different program of similar value.

If you need to drop out as we go through the course, we will not be able to offer you a refund. However, you will still have forever access to all replays and materials.