Adult Leadership + Wellness · Ages 26+ · 8-Week Cohort
Say Less is an 8-week cohort for Black women 26 and older who are done performing, done over-explaining, and done operating at a fraction of what they are actually capable of. This program is for the woman who has already done some of the work — personal development, therapy, leadership experience — and is ready for something that meets her exactly where she is with no handholding and no filler.
Say Less combines reinvention, community leadership, sustainability, and deep mental and somatic wellness. The arts are the delivery mechanism because at this stage of life, the most honest access point is creative — not clinical, not corporate, not curated. Say Less is what happens when a Black woman stops explaining herself and starts becoming more fully herself.
| Week | Theme | What We Do |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Where Have You Been | A reckoning and a homecoming. Honest stock of where you are, what you have been carrying, and what has gotten you here. Through narrative writing, name the arc of your own story without apology. |
| Week 2 | The Work Underneath | The interior labor that holds everything else up. Mental wellness, somatic healing, and the nervous system realities of Black women navigating a world that was not built to sustain them. |
| Week 3 | Redefining Leadership | Leadership on whose terms? Dismantle inherited definitions of leadership and rebuild your own — honest about power, rooted in culture, sustainable for the long run. |
| Week 4 | Letting Go as Strategy | What are you still holding that is costing you more than it is giving you? Through visual art and facilitated reflection, intentional release — of relationships, beliefs, roles, and ways of being that no longer serve. |
| Week 5 | Community Leadership | Leading in and for community — not just professionally. Examine your role in your communities, the legacy you are building, and what it means to lead with accountability to something larger than personal success. |
| Week 6 | Sustainability | How do you build a life you do not have to escape from? The practical and the sacred — rest, rhythm, boundaries, and the architecture of a sustainable life. |
| Week 7 | The Next Chapter | Strategic visioning and planning for what comes next. A concrete next-chapter plan — grounded in who you actually are, what you actually have, and where you actually want to go. |
| Week 8 | The Say Less Ceremony | No more over-explaining. Share one declaration — who you are, what you are claiming, and what you are done with. A closing ritual of presence, power, and community witness. |
Eight weeks of hybrid sessions, online community access between sessions, materials, the Say Less Ceremony, and ongoing access to the Say Less alumni community.