Healing Oppression’s Wounds (HOW) is part of the larger Warriors & Healers Personal Leadership Developmental Series for people of African descent.  AYA Educational Institute holds the HOW Workshop Retreat in Atlanta, GA; Washington, D.C; Chicago, IL; New York, NY, Bermuda and will begin in Toronto, Canada this year.

The workshop is for any person of African descent that has done or is interested in doing anything of positive significance with and for African people. Such action rings us face-to-face with oppression and "internalized oppression."  Unfortunately, no school, university or job has taught us how to navigate, combat, and heal oppression or internalized oppression.  That is why Healing Oppression's Wounds (HOW) is so needed. A goal is for us to know our and our people's wounded-ness and to practice and develop African-Centered skills to facilitate healthy challenging and healing.

The workshop is designed to be experiential and very interactive. We work to make it a safe place to do deep work and skill building.  

Some components of the workshop include:

* Conquering the YURUGU Infection: W.S.L.K.A.
* Discovering family and personal injury born of oppression
* Learning skills to heal self and others

* The Dyanamics of Oppression
* Challenging Oppression (modern and old-fashioned)
* Feelings As Messengers: A tool for handling conflict and building family and community
* Our Story (Memory and Culture) for Our Success
* Seven Steps to Recovery
* Bringing our Sons & Daughters to African Adulthood
***and much more***

The implication is that if we don’t identify the respective wounds and get busy healing them, we will pass them onto our children.  The participants of the workshop are always motivated to engage their healing energies to ensure that their children have the best chances to be spared these generational wounds of oppression.