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  • CURE Training Series

Healing-Centered Leadership

Grounded leadership for people doing work that matters.

A three-part training series for nonprofit leaders, organizers, government staff, and community practitioners ready to build the skills, frameworks, and practices that communities need right now.

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Level 1

May 2026

Level 2

May 2026

Level 3

June 2026

Format

Virtual · 2 Days · 4 Hrs Each

“The most effective community leaders aren’t just strategically skilled — they’re grounded, relational, and able to hold space for what’s hard. That’s what this series builds.”

 — CURE Healing-Centered Leadership Framework

  • Is This For You

You're doing important work.

You deserve better tools.

You’re navigating conflict, complexity, and broken trust in your organization or community — and you need practical frameworks for responding in ways that repair rather than deepen harm.

You’re facilitating meetings, coalitions, and community processes where power dynamics, race, and strong emotions shape everything — and the standard facilitation training hasn’t prepared you for what actually happens in the room.
You’re responsible for community engagement and trust-building and you’re looking for evidence-based, culturally grounded approaches that go beyond surface-level participation.

You want to lead more effectively  — staying present and decisive under pressure, building relationships across difference, and creating conditions where communities feel genuinely heard and empowered.

After this series, you'll be equipped to:

  • Stay grounded and decisive during conflict, crisis, and high-stakes community situations
  • Facilitate spaces where communities feel genuinely heard, respected, and empowered to act together
  • Respond to harm through accountability and repair — with concrete restorative justice tools you can use immediately
  • Navigate power dynamics, defensiveness, and difficult conversations with clarity and skill
  • Build long-term community trust through relational, dignity-centered leadership practices
  • Who Attends

Built for people doing

real community work

Nonprofit & Movement Leaders

Executive directors, program managers, and organizers navigating complexity, team conflict, and community trust.

Government & Public Agency Staff

Public servants, community engagement staff, and policy practitioners working directly with residents and communities.

Community Organizers

Grassroots leaders, coalition builders, and advocacy practitioners doing relational, long-term community change work.

Educators & Practitioners

Teachers, social workers, healthcare providers, and facilitators who hold space for people navigating systemic harm.

Consultants & Coaches

Independent practitioners building their capacity to support organizations and communities with a healing-centered approach.

 

Emerging Leaders

Early-career changemakers who want to build a sustainable leadership practice from the beginning — not after burning out.

This series integrates embodied awareness, cultural wisdom, circle facilitation, and restorative and transformative justice practices into a comprehensive framework for community engagement and leadership development. Grounded in research and practiced in real-world contexts — no prior experience with somatics, facilitation, or restorative justice required.

  • The Training Pathway

Three levels. One transformative arc.

01

Level

Two Days · 4 Hours Each · Virtual
May 2026
No Prerequisites

Grounded Leadership for Changemakers

Community healing begins with leaders who are grounded in their bodies, values, and boundaries.
This foundational module supports leaders in understanding how stress, trauma, and urgency shape leadership behavior — and how embodied awareness strengthens decision-making, relationship-building, and community trust.
  • Build embodied awareness and nervous system regulation for high-pressure situations
  • Practice somatic tools that strengthen presence and boundaries
  • Develop a personal healing-centered leadership declaration
  • Understand healing-centered leadership as a community trust framework
  • Explore how identity and ancestry shape your leadership
  • Connect with a cohort of values-aligned changemakers
Starting from

$297 individual

Register for Level 1

02

Level

Two Days · 4 Hours Each · Virtual
May 2026
Prereq: Level 1

Facilitating for Healing & Justice

Power, Process & Practice — learn to hold spaces where groups make decisions together and create real change.
This intensive training builds essential facilitation skills for changemakers working across difference and power. Drawing on circle process as a foundation, you’ll develop approaches that translate to any context — contentious community meetings, organizational change processes, cross-sector coalitions, and healing spaces after trauma or harm.
  • Facilitate with awareness of power — tracking who speaks and who doesn't
  • Use active listening to de-escalate conflict across difference
  • Navigate difficult facilitation moments with clarity and care
  • Intervene skillfully when harm occurs, including responding to defensiveness
  • Design questions that move groups from surface sharing to depth
  • Practice with realistic scenarios involving race, power, and conflict
Starting from

$297 individual

Register for Level 2

03

Level

Two Days · 4 Hours Each · Virtual
June 2026
Prereq: Levels 1 & 2

Restorative & Transformative Justice in Practice

Conflict and harm are inevitable. How leaders respond determines whether trust is repaired or further fractured.
his module equips leaders with restorative and transformative justice frameworks to respond to conflict and harm through accountability, repair, and collective learning — not punishment or avoidance. You’ll practice facilitating real restorative processes, navigating power and strong emotions, and designing collective care practices that build long-term community resilience.
  • Distinguish between conflict, harm, punishment, and accountability
  • Facilitate restorative processes supporting accountability and healing
  • Design solidarity practices that support leadership sustainability
  • Apply restorative justice frameworks to address harm through repair
  • Build confidence holding conversations involving power and strong emotions
  • Leave with a personal toolkit for community accountability and repair
Starting from

$297 individual

Register for Level 3
  • Complete the Series

Save when you commit to the full journey

The Full Series Bundle

Register for all three levels together and save 20% — plus get priority enrollment for future cohorts and access to a private post-series community space to stay connected with your cohort and continue the practice.
Save 20%

$891 individual value

$699

per person · individual rate

Register for Full Series
  • Pricing

Transparent pricing for every kind of organization

Individual

$297

per training · self-paying

For changemakers, practitioners, and leaders investing in themselves. Full day of live virtual training, materials, and cohort community access.

Most common
Nonprofit Organization
$497

per person · 1–3 staff

For nonprofits and small organizations sponsoring staff. Includes everything in individual rate plus an organizational invoice for reimbursement processing.

Government / Large Org

$697

per person · public agencies

For government agencies, large institutions, and foundations. Includes W-9, organizational invoice, and procurement-friendly documentation.

Scholarship spots available. We reserve 3–5 scholarship spots per cohort at $97–$147 for changemakers who cannot afford the individual rate. To apply for a scholarship, contact us at [email protected] before registering.
  • What Participants Say

Transformative for those doing the work

"This training gave me language and tools for something I've been trying to do instinctively for years — hold space for hard conversations without losing myself or the room."
— Participant Name
Director, Community Organization · City TBD
"I came in thinking this was a facilitation skills training. I left with a completely different understanding of what it means to show up as a grounded leader — and what's been getting in my way."
— Participant Name
Program Manager, Government Agency · City TBD
"Dr. Judy holds the room in a way I've rarely experienced — she brings her full self and creates the conditions for everyone else to do the same. The learning is real and lasting."
— Participant Name
Nonprofit Leader · City TBD
  • Common Questions

Everything you need to decide

Can I take the modules out of order?

Level 1 has no prerequisites and is the required foundation for Levels 2 and 3. We recommend completing them in sequence — each module builds meaningfully on the last. However, if you have equivalent facilitation experience, contact us to discuss Level 2 access.

What does the two-day format look like?

Each training runs across two consecutive sessions of four hours each — delivered live via Zoom. We recommend Friday afternoon and Saturday morning as the default schedule, so working professionals don’t need to take two full days off. Exact dates and times are confirmed at registration. You’ll need a stable internet connection, video capability, and a quiet space to participate fully. All links and materials are sent in advance.

How do I apply for a scholarship?

We reserve 3–5 scholarship spots per cohort at $97–$147 for participants who cannot afford the individual rate. Email [email protected] with a brief note about your situation before registering.

Can my organization send a team?

Yes — and we encourage it. Organizations sending 3 or more staff should contact us directly to discuss group pricing and private cohort options. A private organizational cohort can be arranged on a schedule that works for your team.

What is your refund policy?

Full refunds are available up to 14 days before the training date. After that, we offer a credit toward a future cohort. If CURE cancels or reschedules a training, you will receive a full refund.

Is this training only for people focused on racial equity?

No — while our framework is rooted in racial justice and the series centers changemakers of color, the skills taught are applicable to anyone doing community-facing, facilitation, or organizational leadership work. All are welcome.

What other programs does CURE offer?

CURE offers a range of programs, retreats, and convenings for leaders and organizations. Participants who complete the full training series are encouraged to explore CURE’s broader programming. Visit urbanandracialequity.org to learn more.

Can I get continuing education credits?

We are exploring CEU options for social workers, healthcare providers, and educators. Contact us at [email protected] to ask about your specific professional requirements.

Ready to lead with more

skill, presence, and impact?

Join a national community of changemakers building the grounded leadership practices that communities need — and that sustain you for the long haul.

R

Judy Lubin

Dr. Judy is an applied sociologist, racial equity changemaker, yoga and mindfulness practitioner, author, auntie, bestie and beach lover. Judy’s elemental nature is water, and with her she brings calming, reflective energy to hold space for deep listening, inner work and transformative dialogue. 

The curator of the Embodied Justice program, she hosts the accompanying podcast and co-facilitates events and dialogues focused on the collective healing and sustainability of Black changemakers.

At CURE, Dr. Judy has built transformative racial equity frameworks and change management processes that have impacted thousands of lives. She began her career focused on health disparities, recognizing that stress from societal racism can become embodied and manifested through “weathering” that prematurely ages the body and shortens the lifespan of racially marginalized communities. 

She is unapologetically committed to centering Black people and the communities that have inspired her life’s work. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, she grew up in South Florida surrounded by music, her grandmother’s herbal garden, and the struggle to make it in a country that saw her family as outsiders. 

In 2022, after experiencing multiple health emergencies coupled with burnout from the intensity of the “racial reckoning” that increased demand for CURE’s racial equity services, Judy began a process of listening to the wisdom of her body, healing old trauma wounds, and reclaiming rest and her love of mind-body healing. During this time she explored somatics, indigenous and and ancestral healing practices and earned certifications in multiple healing modalities including yoga and energy medicine.

Emerging from a place of rest and listening to what her soul wanted to share, she now weaves mindfulness, body-awareness and spiritual activism to support changemakers and organizations to regenerate their leadership and give to the world from a place of ease and wholeness. 

Long committed to promoting women’s health and wellness, she is the author of The Heart of Living Well: Six Principles for a Life of Health, Beauty and Balance.

Find Judy on instagram or linkedin at @drjudylubin, where she (occasionally) shares posts celebrating Black joy, healing and well-being.

Shawn J. Moore

Residing at the intersection of leadership and mindfulness, Shawn creates sacred spaces for stillness and self-inquiry to help social impact leaders align their strengths, intention, and impact. Through his integrative approach, he holds transformative containers for self-renewal, personal discovery, and capacity-building that ease clients on their journey towards peace, clarity, and freedom.

Shawn is committed to empower changemakers to become embodied leaders – unified in mind, body, and heart – with the tools to mindfully pause, reconnect to their inner knowing, make strengths-driven decisions, and lead the change they believe the world needs.  

Reckoning with his own contemplation of burnout, purpose, and alignment, Shawn transitioned out of his role as Associate Dean of Student Life & Leadership at Morehouse College in the fall of 2021 to focus more on mindfulness and stillness-based training programs and workshops. 

While leadership resonates with him deeply, it is his personal and spiritual practices that allows him to continue to show up for himself and others. He is a yoga teacher (E-RYT® 200, RYT® 500, YACEP®), sound and reiki practitioner, meditation teacher, Yoga Nidra facilitator, and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, all focused through a Buddhist lens and 17 years of personal practice. He has contributed workshops, practices, and educational opportunities for celebrities like Questlove and Dyllón Burnside, and various yoga studios and colleges, Yoga International, Omstars, Melanin Moves Project, the Human Rights Campaign, Spotify and Lululemon. He currently serves as the Facilitation and Community Manager for BEAM (Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective).

Shawn hosts a podcast called The Mindful Rebel® Podcast that creates a platform to continually explore this unique intersection of leadership and mindfulness. Find him on instagram @shawnj_moore 

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