The Studio

Where your power syncs up with your portals. Seeda Studio is a black feminist design studio specializing in crafting transformative learning experiences and income generating worlds on the web for intuitive thought leaders.

The Implementation Accelerator

 

An all-in-one design, strategy and implementation service that creates pathways of ease for worldbuilders like you, identifying as an intuitive powerhouse ready to…

1

Sync Your Power

With your portals and create a web world that acts as a business partner, communicating your message and cultivating trust with your potential clients.

2

Reclaim Your Capacity

So you can step into new paradigms of leadership while holding, experiencing and enjoying the power your clients so often benefit from

3

Accelerate Your Timeline

Toward developing and launching an interdisciplinary, income generating offer that leverages the fullest expression of your skills within 3 months

4

Finalize Your Framework

Informing your Offer, Sales Page and Marketing System  so you can focus on the creative curiosity, expression and strategy that is the nutrient rich soil of your world.

5

Shorten the Gap

Between idea and recurring revenue. Let's work together 1:1 so you can quickly gather data, iterate and make informed business decisions.

If these are results you’ve already committed to having, I want to invite you to apply. There are 5 spots available for fall 2024. Applications close September 13th, 2024. If there is alignment we will reach out to schedule a consultation call to dive deeper into working together to actualize your desires.

Apply and Implement

“Do not leave the arena to the fools”

 — Toni Cade Bambara

What We Will Create Together

 

You need a learning experience designer, technology maven and business strategist wrapped in one. That’s me, who are you? You are a worldbuilder, intuitive thought leader and powerful creative entrepreneur whose status quo destabilizing ideas will be felt by generations forward and back. All that power needs a portal. Let’s work together to create a framework for your flagship offer, compelling sales page and repeatable sales system that reflects your limitlessness while expanding your impact and income.

Flagship Offer Framework

STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSE

 

Do you find yourself repeating the same exact words or process, just to different clients? You need a framework! Together we will translate and organize your genius into a single framework informing your flagship offer. Your flagship offer synthesizes your years of experience, research and practice into a transformative journey your clients can follow asynchronously  with or without your physical presence or calendar constraints. Whether it’s a course, membership or coaching program your framework has the power to inform and transform your entire business ecosystem for years to come.

Compelling Sales Page

FRONT OF THE HOUSE  

 

Have you spent hours troubleshooting tech, watching YouTube tech tutorials at 2x speed or found yourself googling CSS hacks to update the font on your web page knowing it wasn’t the best use of your time? Work directly with a software engineer who has built full-stack web applications from scratch instead. Together we will create the landing page for your flagship offer where you will inspire, educate and sell potential clients on the transformative value of your offer. Get back to what you do best, spending less time in front of the website editor and more time in front of your customer, your altar, your card deck, yourself.

Repeatable Sales System

BACK OF THE HOUSE  

 

If you’re launching a brand new offer every 3 months, you’re re-inventing the wheel every 3 months. But you already knew that, which is why you want to work together to create a repeatable sales system for launching your flagship offer seasonally, bi-annually, or annually, with accessible payment plans that provide supportive revenue you can count on monthly. By creating a single sales system for a single offer we’re able to analyze consistent sets of data providing insight on what’s working and what’s not, empowering you to make incremental tweaks based on feedback and metrics that matter to you.

What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying

"It’s been so incredibly powerful to see the way each prompt, each assignment, each framework, in such a short amount of time, brings the threads of my practice into harmony and makes it so the universe can clearly respond. I can’t even count the number epiphanies I’ve had since I’ve started working with you. Thank you."

Ravon Ruffin, Steward of ABC Glossary, Fall 2023

The Implementation Timeline

 

Applications for the Implementation Accelerator are open from August 19th-September 13th. Enrollment into the Accelerator opens to applicants September 16th. Consultation calls will be conducted between September 16th-October 4th. Access to the entire Seed A World Course begins October 7th and your first deliverable is due October 25th.

Milestone #1: Framework Your Offer

Due Date: October 25th

Inside the Seed A World Course you will learn how to map your entire creative ecosystem and decide on an offer that leverages the fullest expression of your interdisciplinary skills to maximize your earning potential. Then we will translate your offer idea into a framework that maps the journey of transformation and momentum for your clients.

I will invite you to submit this pre-work for review and sign up for Kajabi ahead of our 1:1 Framework Implementation Call.

Milestone #2: Framework Implementation Call

Scheduled Between: November 4th-8th

Inside this 1:1 call we will review the recommended updates and points of clarity for your flagship framework before screen sharing to set up the offer, modules, lessons, worksheets, assessments, live coaching sessions, etc. for your clients inside Kajabi. We will discuss decolonial learning experience design practices rooted in care, co-creation, play and mindfulness of your delivery capacity.

This session will be recorded as we walk through how to make any updates to your offer modules and lessons, providing lifetime access to a bespoke tech tutorial you or a member of your team can reference for years to come.

Milestone #3: Land Your Sales Page

Due Date: November 15th

Inside the Seed A World Course you will learn how to craft and clarify the mission, vision, values and customer profile of your offer and the world you’re building. This clarity and the resources shared inside the retreat will be used to seed your sales page with intentional and compelling copy that is aligned with your values. I will share an easy to fill out Sales Page Wireframe Template with suggested places to write your own sales copy.

You will submit this pre-work for review. Seeda Studio will asynchronously make suggested edits to your copy and set up your sales page inside your Kajabi account ahead of our 1:1 Sales Page Implementation Call.

Milestone #4: Sales Page Implementation Call

Scheduled Between: November 25th-29th

Inside this 1:1 call we will review the sales page that has been crafted in your Kajabi account based on your submitted Sales Page Wireframe Template. I will walk through all the changes Seeda Studio implemented to your landing page to communicate the balance of poetry and practicality embedded in your flagship offer.

This session will be recorded and I will invite you to share your screen as we walk through how to make any updates to your sales page, providing lifetime access to a bespoke tech tutorial you or a member of your team can reference for years to come.

Milestone #5: Implement Your Sales System

Due Date: December 6th

Inside the Seed A World Course you will be introduced to the Growth, Nurture and Sales cycle of creative marketing. We will review Relationship Marketing strategies to spur growth, Weekly Dispatch/Email Marketing strategies to nurture your audience and craft Discovery Workshop/Calls to secure sales. You will receive an easy to fill out Marketing and Sales System Map that will provide clarity on your customer’s journey from awareness to taking action on your offer.

You will submit this pre-work for review. Seeda Studio will use your Marketing and Sales System Map to asynchronously set up opt-in pages, lead magnet delivery, sales workshops, sales calls and suggested email sequences inside your Kajabi account.

Milestone #6: Sales System Implementation Call

Scheduled between: December 16th-20th

Inside this final 1:1 call we will review the implementation of your repeatable Sales System inside Kajabi. We will discuss how this sales system can stabilize and scale your income and impact as your business evolves. We will also review your launch calendar dates to ensure you’re feeling complete and on track to launch your flagship offer and generate recurring revenue immediately after this accelerator.

This session will be recorded and I will invite you to share your screen as we walk through how to make any updates to your sales system, providing lifetime access to a bespoke tech tutorial you or a member of your team can reference for years to come.

What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying

"11/10 recommend joining The Retreat with Ayana Zaire Cotton. It was deeply transformative: from re-rooting into new affirmations that better support our world-building to having the guidance and community support to actually build the thing. In 9 weeks!

 

For years, I've worked on creative projects but avoided creating a framework because I was afraid it would feel too contrived for both me and my clients. The Retreat changed that: I now feel clear-minded and excited about guiding others through my process (I have a process!). I can't believe what we were able to create in 9 weeks together, piece by piece, week by week.

 

The community was one of my favorite parts of The Retreat: it felt living, breathing, and magical. The poetry! The bookish fanfare! The expressions via multi-media! Every week, I felt completely inspired by how the fellow retreaters were translating their interests, desires, and visions into offerings rooted in their rituals, too.

 

Ayana's teaching structure, content, and language left me feeling focused and encouraged—two vital things you need when you're world-building—after every class, every session, every week. I loved that their entire approach was informed by Black feminist teachings and guides that moved us through each topic. I come back to our Worldbuilder's Handbook daily, if not for the templates, then for the affirmations.

 

They've created an incredibly important, helpful, and inspiring space to participate in if you want to deeply resource your own world-building. Again, 11/10, y'all."

 Karly Borden, Spring 2024

The Support You Can Expect

6 Implementation Milestones

 

To maximize our time inside our 1:1 calls there is monthly Framework, Sales Page and Sales System Pre-work to complete with the support of the Seed A World Course, Retreat Open Studio Sessions and Cohort Feedback.

3 Implementation 1:1 Calls

 

Inside our three, 90 minute, 1:1 Calls I will walkthrough the Kajabi set up we’ve implemented asynchronously on your behalf. The remainder of the time will be spent offering learning experience design insights, business strategy consulting and Zone of Desire visioning support.

3 Implementation Tutorials

 

A recording of every 1:1 call will be uploaded to your personalized Implementation Accelerator Library for support and reference when making future edits and updates to your offer modules, sales page or sales system in Kajabi.

Seed A World Retreat

 

You will be automatically enrolled in the 9-week Seed A World Retreat and invited to worldbuild alongside your cohort in weekly Open Studio sessions. You will receive immediate access to the entire Seed A World Course for reference and support during the accelerated implementation process. For more information on the retreat, visit this web page.

The Treehouse Membership

 

You will get 12 months of access to The Treehouse Membership for monthly workshops, open studio sessions and black feminist breathwork meditations focused on Weekly Dispatch and email list building support as you grow and nurture your audience in between launches. For more information on The Treehouse, visit this web page.

Discord Community

 

Join a community of worldbuilders committed to practicing inside desire and creating irresistible change in their lifetimes and across generations forward and back. Although creative entrepreneurship can be lonely, we were never meant to do this work alone. Get entangled in a web of other feminist creatives taking uncomfortable action toward their desires and a future that hasn't happened yet but must.

“The grammar of black feminist futurity is a performance of a future that hasn’t happened yet but must. It is an attachment to a belief in what should be true, which impels us to realize that aspiration. It’s the power to imagine beyond current fact and to envision that which is not, but must be. It’s a politics of prefiguration that involves living the future now.”

 — Tina Campt, “Quiet Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity”, Listening to Images (2017), p. 17.

 Pictured: Grada Kilomba in Conversation with Tina Campt

The Implementation Accelerator

 

Accepting Applications for Fall 2024 from August 19th to September 13th

 

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Payment Plans Available

  • Live 9-Week Seed A World Retreat ($1,500 Value)
  • 12 Months of Treehouse Membership for List Building Support ($800+ Value)
  • 3 1:1 Worldbuilding Implementation Calls
  • 3 Bespoke Implementation Tutorials
  • Voxer Support in Between 1:1 Calls
  • Monthly Implementation Milestone Map
  • The Worldbuilder’s Handbook
  • 1:1 Framework Feedback & Implementation
  • 1:1 Sales Page Feedback & Implementation
  • 1:1 Sales System Feedback & Implementation
  • 9 Weeks of Live Open Studio Sessions with Retreat Cohort
  • 12 List Building Workshops with Treehouse Members
  • 12 Open Studio Sessions with Treehouse Members
  • Lifetime Access to the Seed A World Course
  • Library of Black Feminist Breathwork Meditations
  • Private Seed A World Fall 2024 Podcast
  • Private Worldbuilder’s Way Podcast
  • And more...

Close the Gap Between Idea to Revenue

 

Let’s take implementation off your plate so you can focus on what your clients are actually after: the magic, power and transformative insight pouring out of your practice. Maybe you’re a service provider needing to create an asynchronous version of your existing offer so you can scale back on 1-to-1 client work. Maybe you want to create a course to generate additional income for your next hire, creative sabbatical or rented studio/office space. Maybe you want to create a 1:Many container as a research incubator and income generator for your next book, film, in-person event series, brick and mortar location etc. Whatever your reason for packaging your power into a portal, you don’t have to do it alone. Let’s work together this fall on designing and developing an irresistible offer wrapped in a world on the web that has the power to generate recurring revenue in the seasons to come.

 

Application Closes September 13th

 

Apply Today

What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying

"The Seeda World Retreat has been instrumental in bringing my coaching program to light. When I joined, I had just drafted my framework and had a fuzzy idea for my offer. Every single week of the Retreat helped me clarify and strengthen my initial ideas. It felt like starting with a block of marble and then sculpting and chiseling until what was truly important emerged.

 

I loved the structure of the Retreat. It has everything you need to birth your offer and business. We had the tools and time to work autonomously and in-depth. Then, we had our amazing Open Studio Calls, where the communal revolutionary spirit made its magic. In between, the asynchronous support via Discord and email was a guiding light and helped me feel never alone.

 

Today, just two weeks after the Retreat's end, I started softly launching my program. I may not have been here without the Retreat!

 

More than this, the 9 weeks together have been a time of creative expansion and personal and political evolution for me. I'll always be immensely grateful to Ayana and the marvelous human beings I was honored to have by my side during this journey."

Giada Centofanti, Coach at Care to Impact, Spring 2024

This Accelerator Is For You If...

You don’t need more coaching, you need more implementation. You don’t need more strategy, you need more action.

Beyond a bias toward action, you have a bias toward actualization and shortening the gap between idea to product is your kink.

You are an in-demand service provider with a mighty group of loyal clients but have hit max capacity on the number of people you can softly serve.

You want to organize your genius into a framework that shows up and delivers impact with or without your physical presence or calendar constraints.

In your care clients feel deeply held but at times you feel deeply depleted wondering when you will experience the spacious possibility you inspire in others again.

You are ready to step into new paradigms of leadership and spaciousness that require you to expand your creative capacity for visioning and strategic decision making.

Adding or revamping a 1:Many Offer in your business ecosystem has been on your list for months, maybe even years and you know it’s time to take uncomfortable action.

You have the offer idea, business strategy and audience, now you need support implementing your strategy inside the online portals and pathways that activate what you’ve already dreamed up and attracted.

You don’t need limits, you need support. You are ready to expand your business and understand more income doesn’t have to mean more time or more work.

You refuse to subscribe to “enough numbers” when creating revenue goals, understanding expansive worlds need expansive resources and you will only be satisfied when more livable worlds are actualized for everyone.

The Worldbuilding Framework

 

Within the last year Seeda School has served over 150 members through this Worldbuilding Framework. Not only will we work together following this framework to develop your Flagship 1:Many Offer or Coaching Program, we will work 1:1 to create your own framework outlining the journey of transformation for your clients, creating the landing page acting as your offer's evangelist and set up the sales system that you can run again and again for monthly cash flow injections in your current business ecosystem.

Meet Your Developer and Designer

 

Aka your Desire Doula, you have new schools of thought you want to usher into the world and I want to support you in breathing through that stretch and implementing the worldbuilding ideas that can only be actualized through your constellation of gifts. I have 10 years worth of experience designing and developing businesses and creative projects.

Most recently, a career pivot into teaching Software Engineering introduced me to the powerful overlap of worldbuilding on the web and black feminist pedagogies. Inside my previous role as a Software Engineering Lead instructor not only did I build dozens of web applications from scratch, I taught others how to do the same.

Guiding students through the process of harnessing their desire, imagination and power to take a project from start to finish with an ethos of care, creativity and play is how I fell in love with Learning Experience Design. Fun fact, Seeda School started as a program teaching coding through a black feminist lens until I remembered the ability to harness our desire, imagination and power is medium agnostic and can be applied to almost any creative practice such as coding, writing, gardening, hair styling, coaching, parenting, facilitating and more.

From a tech startup to a magazine, clothing line to a coding school, the most consistent theme of my career has been entrepreneurship for the creative actualization and financial empowerment it affords. Seeda School is now a school for the worldbuilders, let’s work together to accelerate the building of your world on the web while being intentional about designing your client’s learning experience inside your income generating offer.

 

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What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying

“Being led through the Seed A World Retreat by Ayana offered me the sea I know I can rely on to float me above all that attempts to drown me. Each of the nine action steps helped to buoy my practice & deep sense of embodiment utilizing the full power of Audre Lorde's uses of the erotic.

 

Ayana's excavating groundwork reminds us that the ability to float already resides in the power of our expansive breath. If we can dream it, then it is safe to trust that it is already done for not just ourselves but folks dreaming of the work we are producing.

 

The world you desire to build already exists within you & the worldbuilding framework helped me realize that our work can support so many others if we break through the fertile ground where we stand alone. In fact, through the worldbuilding framework, Ayana facilitates that we are never truly alone because the Sankofa sensibility circularly connects us to our past, present, & future.

 

If you're ready to invite folks to wade into the sea of your worldbuilding & transformative offer then sign up! Trust that when it rains it pours & your abundant desires will grow & be witnessed by the outstretched limbs of folks in the Seeda School community with you.”

Kay Brown author of Assemblage: Baby's Breath, Spring 2024

Why Now?

You don’t need limits, you need support

This offering is for you if you are an in-demand service provider that wants to reclaim your time and creative spaciousness. Whenever in your care, hands or space your clients feel deeply held but at times you feel deeply depleted wondering when you will return to the felt transformation and impact you’re activating in others. It wasn’t always like this. Your business or the set of skills you’re currently praised for inside your career started as a seed of curiosity. Maybe piles of books, a string of degrees, a number of podcasts on the topic, a series of conferences or late nights studying on YouTube University. That spark of curiosity, turned into you taking action and running experiments, those experiments led to competency, that competency led to financial validation and that validation or current work load has encroached, if not completely taken over, the creative spaciousness that allowed your seed of curiosity to take root and grow.

I’ve been there. I was my first client, creating tools, processes and practices for re-centering my work inside my Zone of Desire — the place from which both my business and creative practice enjoy regenerative abundance instead of stifling competition. Our curiosity, creative capacity and self-prioritization are the building blocks that allow us to remain whole inside a sustainable flow of service. Obedience to spirit may be what brought us to the altar of this work. But love is what keeps us inside it. Self care, spiritual practice and creative curiosity is how we love ourselves simultaneously inside this calling. It is these erotic energetics that will keep us charged and coming back inside our assignments.

Let’s reclaim your time and creative capacity inside your business, practice and team. If you’re at capacity this is a good sign, it’s evidence your work is deeply needed. But now you want to expand your impact beyond the limitations of your calendar and capacity. You also want to spend more time experiencing your own power because it’s being dispensed at a rate and way that doesn’t allow you to hold on to any for yourself. Whether you are a ceramicist, hair braider, human resources consultant, graphic designer, home garden starter, public educator, wedding photographer or doula, you have felt the financial tension of trading time for money. It's possible you want to expand your impact but cap it for fear it might lead to complete burn out. Again, your vision doesn't need limits, constraints or caps, your vision needs support.

No matter if you’re creating a Flagship Offer for your clients, team or other service providers…the result is the same: an expansion of the number of people you can serve and a reclamation of your own time, power and creative capacity. Allowing you to return to curiosity, return to play, return to desire — where it all began.

Accepting Applications for Fall 2024 from August 19th to September 13th

 

Let's Begin Again

How to Join the Accelerator

Apply to the Accelerator

AUGUST 19TH - SEPTEMBER 13TH 

 

Apply for the Accelerator so we may learn more about your business and creative goals, desires and intentions. If there is alignment I follow up with a link to book a Discovery Call so we can dive deeper into your vision for your work and gauge the Accelerator's support alongside your current business needs.

Book A Discovery Call

SEPTEMBER 16TH - OCTOBER 4TH

 

Inside the call I will share a personalized Milestone Map outlining our implementation deliverables. Ahead of the call I will share resources to learn more about the school, the framework, my facilitation style and worldbuilding community so you may bring any questions you have to the call.

Join The Accelerator

SEPTEMBER 16TH - OCTOBER 4TH

 

Enrollment into the Implementation Accelerator opens September 16th. If Seeda Studio feels like an aligned fit for your current business needs you will be invited to enroll into the accelerator after your Discovery Call and receive immediate access to the Seed A World Course. Enrollment is open until October 4th or until all 5 seats are filled.

Start Implementation

OCTOBER 7TH

 

Once inside the Accelerator you will be invited to conduct a Creative Ecosystem Audit, allowing us to map the fullest expression of your skills into a Flagship Framework informing the modules, lessons, worksheets and supportive resources of your Flagship Offer. This framework will also be our organizing document for creating your sales page and system.

What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying

"Words cannot express enough how grateful I am for the blessing that is both Ayana and Seeda School. Enrolling in the retreat was an immediate yes for me — where the weekly meditations and facilitations from Ayana felt like sacred invitations to return — return to community, return to self, return to Spirit, return to our gardens. Like The Artist's Way, but through a decolonial Black feminist lens, I continue to find Seeda School and its Retreat as an evergreen gift and artistic nourishment that, as a result, enriches the tending of my spiritual and literary practice — The Conflicted Womanist.”

Chinyere Erondu, Fall 2023

“It was such a pleasure being part of Seeda School retreat and be in community with a cohort of talented, caring and loving souls. This offering is a soothing and refreshing balm to each and everyone wanting to delve deeper into their inner being to bring out unknown treasures to the world. Ayana, the creator and facilitator of the retreat is its living proof. They are a bottomless well of inspiring, exciting, creative, experimental and spirit-led knowledge and I’m deeply grateful for their work and their willingness to share with us all that they know with so much grace and care.”

Keren Lasme, Fall 2023

“I find it difficult to express in words just how impactful the Seeda School Retreat was for me as a clayworker, herbalist, teacher, and activist. Seeda School contextualized our work as multidisciplinary artists in the revolution and helped us all to abandon mentalities of scarcity that are upheld by colonialism and white supremacy. Ayana has put so much time, effort, and care into every piece of her retreat and it shows. Even as someone who already had a creative offer established, I gained so much wisdom from the content and discussions that I am confident will only improve the success of my offers, along with one of the most tender, caring, and uplifting communities that anyone could ask for. I am infinitely grateful for the work Ayana does in bolstering us artists and creating containers for the radical dreaming of better worlds.”

Taylor Rae, Fall 2023

“Ayana Zaire Cotton, is, to me, a being whose radically tender ways of loving, teaching, and questioning mirror the revolutionary labours of love of bell hooks, Octavia Butler, Toni Cade Bambara, and the list goes on. Through Seeda School, Ayana plants seeds of responsible hope, of revolutionary reimagining(s), and most importantly, of communal (and personal) pursuit(s) of the erotic into the body, mind, and soul of whoever has the chance to waltz with their teachings, with their being. Being a student of Seeda School is constantly being reminded that one’s desires are needs, and therefore that we — as people — have the power to materialize the conditions we yearn to have in order to thrive, to be free. Receiving teachings and exchanging with Ayana and the lovely beings who tap into their care-full-y crafted [offers] is a blessing that keeps on giving, and I trust that this will remain the case in near and distant futures.”

Gloria-Sherryl François (G L O W Z I), Fall 2023

"After grinding for over a decade in the nonprofit sector, I needed support building a viable, self-directed career path to generate income rooted in my values and creativity. The Seed A World Retreat offered both the practical tools and community encouragement I was seeking to heed the creative call I have been feeling. Now I look forward to sharing this work that feels personally terrifying and necessary, and I believe in my ability to do it using the Seeda School tools. During the retreat, Ayana held space with such admirable curiosity and generosity! If you want an experienced, informed, Black feminist, imaginative hype-person to put a loving battery in your back, sign up for the Seed A World Retreat immediately."

 

— Jasmyne Gilbert, Winter 2024

“The Seed A World Retreat offered by Seeda School was an invitation to revisit the primordial womb; a safe and warm place for meaningful growth and expansion of our deepest desires. Ayana's passion and deep community care shone through as she guided/facilitated the cohort to transform the seeds of our deepest desires into tangible and beautiful offerings to the world. The carefully curated Retreat Workbook allowed us to seed, tend to, grow (and prune when necessary) our ideas into structured next steps. I'm so happy to have had the opportunity to commune with other like-minded, community-oriented folk who share the same passion for building worlds that provide ample space and opportunity for radical, free existence and communion.”

— Yen C, Fall 2023

"The Seeda School experience has been such an affirming and generative experience for me. I am often seeking out classes and opportunities to learn new skills, be in process with my peers, and engage in self-development and personal growth. My experience with Seeda School, via Ayana's generous facilitation and framework, felt so deeply aligned with my values, my creative praxis, and my worldview. Guided by the brilliant offerings of Black feminists, Ayana has cultivated such a sacred space with an inspiring cohort of people. Since participating in the cohort, I have revisited the curriculum, and it continues to be a transformative guide as I chart my path forward."

 

— Jessica Valoris, Winter 2024

"The Seeda School is unlike anything I have experienced before. It's a mix of personal, intimate, and necessary inner groundwork, visioning for the future, and practical tools for business and financial sustainability, all within a liberatory framework of black feminism and worldbuilding. I found it to be such a necessary container for reflecting, visioning, developing ideas, dreaming up possibilities and then bringing them to life with the many tools that are offered throughout the course. Ayana is a brilliant and generous facilitator, and has thoughtfully curated a safe community of support among like-minded artists and creatives. I am telling everyone I know about Seeda School as I feel like all interdisciplinary artists and creatives need this kind of facilitated retreat experience to bring their ideas to life and offer them to the world."
Steph Rue, Winter 2024
“The violence is endless under empire and white supremacy, but so is our capacity to imagine new worlds and to love on each other” – a thought Ayana offered us early on, amid the grief, heartbreak and rage at the apocalypses taking place close and far, is also the best summation of this heart-and-possibilities-expanding retreat. Under Ayana’s effervescent, loving, wise guidance and expansive vision, these 9 weeks were a space for us to practice loving ourselves – breathing through fear, taking our desires, curiosities and oddities seriously, seeing a divine throughline in our journeys, choosing to start without having all the information – in order to answer the call from our people, past and present, and bring about the futures we need today. I told everyone I care about of the gift that is the Seed A World Retreat, looking forward to revisiting our session recordings and completing the worksheets (that I know my life depends on). I am so grateful I followed my intuition (and desire!) and chose to invest in myself through this course. I am grateful and forever charged/changed by this offering, that Ayana had dreamt up and powerfully-beautifully woven into being.”

— Aisha Jandosova, Fall 2023

“Ayana has created a retreat that is immensely valuable. Seeda School has been able to anticipate needs that I was uncovering myself with richness and depth in ways I never expected! I wholeheartedly recommend this retreat for creatives ready to immerse themselves in their hearts desires.”

— Vanessa Murchie, Fall 2023

"Seeda School gathered me and all the threads of my creative practice. I came in with an idea and left with a digital course rooted in ease and pleasure. The workbook is beautifully laid out to include a framework for building out a curriculum, sustainable marketing plan, and sales funnel. Ayana's affirmations each week are a remedy to the uncertainty I experience beginning something new. This retreat has been grounding and deeply supportive."
Brandi Cheyenne Harper, Winter 2024
“This Seed a World Retreat has been been such an eye-opening journey that has shown me that I don't have to fear claiming the things that I am because the current world that I participate in says that I can not be all the things that I am. Ayana, it is clear what you want to put forward - a world where everyone is fully themselves and living in a world of love. I felt that throughout the experience, and felt as if I was being asked to take a chance in believing in and being a part of that type of world - a world built from love. Through a facilitator of love, a community of love, and words/frameworks of love, I felt affirmed and empowered to go on an be the interdisciplinary researcher, director, curator, and writer that I want to be. I feel as though I have so much of the foundational tools and essence from Seed a World and I can wait to launch, and see all the other worlds that are launched from this beautiful retreat.”

— Bo Dautruche, Fall 2023

“Through the Seed A World Retreat, Ayana offers rich, juicy, tangible frameworks for attendees to tap into our deepest desires so that we may then be led by them in our endeavors to develop and share values-driven creative offers. Each retreat session was equal parts meditation, sermon, and playdate. It was an invaluable experience to imagine within a world where Black feminism was the bedrock, where attendees could start replacing self-rejection and scarcity with self trust and generosity, where showing up fully for our practices would sustain our livelihoods in the ways we dream of and deserve. I’m eternally grateful and excited for how what I learned in the Seed A World Retreat will propel me into a more expansive and abundant future.”

— Dkéama Alexis, Fall 2023

"Seeda School is the most nourishing, electric, brilliant, inspired, held space I have been lucky enough to be a part of. I entered the retreat from the depths of a creative winter, and Ayana built the container for a true and revelatory spring. She has architected the balance of structure, rigorous tools, juicy inspiration, accountability, and relational support that will help you (finally) recognize and birth the thing that has been calling you. And more than that, Seeda is the invitation to manifest the luscious version of a life you didn’t know you were allowed to have."
Olivia Vagelos, Winter 2024

Join the Implementation Accelerator

 

Application closes September 13th

 

Apply to work with me 1:1 inside Seeda Studio where we sync your power with your portals. If you identify as an intuitive thought leader ready to reclaim your creative capacity, package the fullest expression of your skills and experience into a single offer, and create an intellectual asset expanding your impact and income for years to come, join us.

 

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