Welcome to the Treehouse
Return to your creative practice and release an income generating offer inside the Treehouse, an annual membership with quarterly 9-week creative retreats, monthly live workshops and open studios, a library of guided black feminist meditations, a worldbuilding handbook, a community of accountability and more.
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For your interest in Seeda School! I'm so happy you're here. Seeda School's enrollment is currently closed but we will open back up in the next season. In the meantime, we want to invite you to sign up for the waitlist to receive updates on the next enrollment period!
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Your Journey of Transformation
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What is your “Journey of Transformation”? We all have one. That pivotal life decision, that time we had to grieve a past self to access a truer self, that time our refusal created new possibility…that time we literally had to create options when it seemed like we were out of them. Your Journey of Transformation is evidence of the persistent presence of your creative spirit.
Inside the Treehouse we return to this site of transformation to inform your creative offer and the journey your framework and skills will take your clients, students, customers or members through.
You're Already Building Worlds...
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Remember the people, prayers, places, projects, processes you had to invent to make it here. The worlds you had to retreat to. The worlds you had to build. The worlds you had to run toward to pull yourself across time to this exact moment where your creative spirit is calling you into an assignment larger than yourself.
How do we answer the call to translate the wisdom of our lived experience into an offering of service, into work we can respect and into work that is worthy of us? We will use your Journey of Transformation as a reservoir of seed data informing the story, framework and offer resourcing your interdisciplinary creative practice.
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, Fall 2023
Interdisciplinary Practice Doesn't Have to Feel Overwhelming
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You're in the right place if...
Your desire sometimes feels like a maze. Or your constellation of curiosities, crafts and creative ideas feel overwhelming. Or maybe you're unsure which project to start or which story to tell? You want to be specific but not too specific. You know that clear is kind but you don't want to put your practice in a box, foreclosing all the creative possibilities on the outside that are trying to get in.
This is the power of worldbuilding. We can draw a map that will organize your Creative Ecosystem into clear containers informed by your expansive desire for your unapologetic interdisciplinary practice.
There are new schools of thought only you can usher into the world — ideas and realities that are harmoniously shaped by your overlapping curiosities. 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.
In Search Of A Treehouse...
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"So how do we save or preserve ourselves? Sometimes we retreat into thought, sometimes we retreat into literature, sometimes we retreat into ideas and...find those to be a form, at times, of respite if not salvation. I used to climb into treehouses in Texas and just read for hours and just show up at home when it was dinner time. Maybe this becomes the attraction of the academy because, maybe, we think it's our treehouse, it is a sanctuary. That's not really how it functions. If it's a state university, it is an extension of the government...If it's a private corporation...It is literally capital."
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— Joy James, "How the University De-Radicalizes Students, Professors & Social Movements | Joy James & Rebecca Wilcox" published on Feb 18, 2022 by Villanova University
Learn More About the Treehouse
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An annual membership with a full year of support releasing weekly dispatches and developing an income generating offer through quarterly 9-week creative retreats, monthly live workshops and open studios, a library of guided black feminist meditations, a worldbuilding handbook, a community of accountability and more.
Creative Dispatch Support
LIVE MONTHLY WORKSHOPS AND OPEN STUDIOS
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Build worlds while building your email list. Build your email list while building worlds. Inside the Treehouse you will re-engage your creative practice while re-engaging your audience. Maybe you’ve been away from your audience because you’ve been away from yourself, your practice, your desire. I have been there. Inside The Treehouse our favorite ritual is return. Through monthly workshops, open studios and guided breathwork meditations we will support you in returning to yourself and your deep desire first. Then we will invite you to pick up your pen, paint brush, music instrument, voice, camera, etc. and once a week, share a creative dispatch that invites us to join you in this ritual of return.
We return to ourselves by returning to our creative practices. Our Weekly Dispatches are how we engage our curiosity, creativity and audience but how might we fund this practice?
Creative Offer Support
QUARTERLY SEED A WORLD RETREAT
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As a cultural worker or interdisciplinary practitioner, these days, it can feel like the options for financially sustaining a creative practice are: seeking brand deals, working for a university or non-profit and selling your physical work inside the art market. Inside the Treehouse we explore a fourth option: releasing an income generating creative offer that allows you to serve the folks you dream of worldbuilding alongside. We design and develop an offer that has the capacity to financially sustain your creative practice, all while working in alignment with your values. Through our 9-week quarterly, creative retreats you will be invited into 9 course modules and 9 open studios to live workshop your offer inside a community of support and feedback. Through engaging your imagination, pulling out your story and getting clarity on your platform we will support you with communicating and selling the interdisciplinary possibility brewing inside the world you’re building.
The Worldbuilder's Way
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The Worldbuilder’s Way is a cycle of creative practice informed by the elements speculative and visionary fiction authors use to build a world on the page, on the screen and in our minds. If the reality we’re inside of once existed in someone else’s imagination, we can imagine and actualize new worlds through our daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal practices. This is one way, out of billions, to return. This “way of being” is a cycle of practice rooted in memory, surrender, spirit and eroticism informed by 12 worldbuilding elements and actions. I invite you to worldbuild with us inside the Treehouse and perhaps, along the way, you find your own.
“What if it is not an experiment, this creative life of refusal. This rarely institutionally-funded disloyal life of practice for a world as yet unnamable. This insistence on transformation when the bank account screams “conform.” What if this life as an independent experimental artist is not itself an independent experiment? What if it’s an interdependent ceremony?”
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "The God of Everyday", Topical Cream
The Fall 2024 Treehouse Syllabus
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Outlined in the syllabus is the next 3 months of Treehouse programming detailing the asynchronous support and live programming with dates for the months of October, November and December supporting you with releasing creative dispatches and an offer.
The Fall 2024 Seed A World Retreat is anchored by 9 weekly modules helping you get clarity on the potential income generating creative offer already embedded in your practice and how to effectively communicate the interdisciplinary possibility brewing inside the world you’re building.
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What We Will Create Together
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Let's design your Creative Ecosystem, your "Big 3" nodes of practice, helping you cultivate the somatic capacity to feel safe, secure and trusting in your creative practice to financially sustain you and your loved ones. You are worthy of a life lived inside your desire and you are worthy of work you can bear. Your pleasure is not a safety hazard. Your pleasure not only extends your capacity to create and survive, it extends your capacity to feel. What will we create? A reality we no longer want to run from and work we no longer feel "stuck" inside of.
Your Art Practice
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This is where you allow yourself to explore and unleash the ungovernability of your desire. Our wildness is a state of being we were born into and it is a state of being we give ourselves permission to return to inside our art practice. This is where you allow yourself to take unmitigated creative risk inside a mixtape, book, quilt, painting, sculpture, film, garden etc. Freedom from fear is experienced here.
Treehouse Support: Your Element X will provide insight on the art projects emerging from your Zone of Desire.
Your Curiosity Practice
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Your weekly dispatches emerge from the soil of your research practice and creative curiosity. This powerful node of practice informs the questions, projects and experiments inside your art and business nodes. Your curiosity is the everlasting energy source charging your art and business, keeping you returning to your creative ecosystem.
Treehouse Support: Live, monthly workshops and open studios will hold you accountable to releasing weekly dispatches and building an email list in alignment with your creative curiosity.
Your Business Practice
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Your income generating offer financially sustains the improvisational and illegible projects emerging from your art practice and the research retreats your curiosity practice compel you to take. While your offer is what will help fund the entire ecosystem, it is important that no single node is prioritized over the other.
Treehouse Support: Quarterly, 9-week, Seed A World Retreats support you in building and systematizing an income generating offer that sustains the self-watering ecosystem of your creative spirit.
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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Dispatch Workshops
1ST TUESDAY @ 12PM EST
On the first week of every month we will gather for a list building workshop informed by The Worldbuilder’s Way Compass and engage in strategies and spells for seeding a weekly creative dispatch to release to your growing audience.
Dispatch Open Studio
3RD TUESDAY @ 12PM EST
On the third week of every month we will gather to engage in a “show and tell” style showcase of one of our weekly dispatches for the month. Not a critique session, more of a call and response ceremony meets research ritual, informing the next dispatch.
The Treehouse Dashboard
RECORDINGS, MEDITATIONS, DISCORD
Inside your Treehouse Dashboard you will find worldbuilding courses, private podcasts, workshops, open studios and guided meditation recordings for black feminist breathwork alongside a link to the Treehouse Discord Server for checking in with a global community of worldbuilders in between live gatherings.
Seed A World Course
9 WEEKLY MODULES
The Seed A World course is anchored by three essential worldbuilding tools: Imagination, Story and Platform. Worlds need resources. Through 9 weekly modules, the Seed A World course will help you build a world inside your practice and teach you how to resource it. In combination with the monthly list building workshops inside the Treehouse and the Seed A World course, you’ll be able to build an email list then release your creative offer in less than a year.
Offer Open Studio
9 THURSDAYS AT 12PM EST
The Seed A World course has weekly homework for incrementally building your creative offer. We will meet every Thursday at 12pm EST for 9 weeks to hold you accountable to weekly offer development, provide feedback and offer affirmations reminding you we’re eagerly awaiting the creative offering on your heart. In this group Q&A style open studio we will learn from eachother, challenge eachother and worldbuild alongside eachother.
The Worldbuilder’s Handbook
9 CHAPTERS AND TOOLKITS
Every module inside the Seed A World course accompanies a chapter in The Worldbuilder’s Handbook. Every chapter in the handbook is comprised of weekly tools, frameworks, journaling prompts, strategies and affirmations for completing the weekly offer development homework. If there are ever any questions that arise from inside the coursework or handbook, you can always join us inside the weekly open studios of the seasonal retreats.
“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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Kay Brown author of Assemblage: Baby's Breath, Spring 2024
Seeda School Tuition
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Fall 2024 Dates
Open Enrollment: October 7th - October 21st
Fall Retreat: October 21st - December 20th
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Join us in the upcoming Seed A World Fall 2024 Retreat from October 21st - December 20th 2024. Inside the retreat weekly worldbuilding modules and homework are released then, in Open Studio, we meet every Thursday from 12:00-1:00pm EST to live workshop and provide feedback on the offer development homework. All open studio recordings are uploaded within 24hrs and stored in your retreat dashboard in video and podcast format. Worried about missing an open studio session or "falling behind"? There's no such thing in this retreat! You'll be able to join the quarterly retreat four times as you iterate on your offer through your annual Treehouse membership.
Payment Plans
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Enroll using these payment options and receive a full year of access to the support and resources listed above!
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.
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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.
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Today, just two weeks after the Retreat's end, I started softly launching my program. I may not have been here without the Retreat!
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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."
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Giada Centofanti, Coach at Care to Impact, Spring 2024
Still wondering if you're in the right place?
The Treehouse Is For You If...
You are wanting to seed, deepen or return to an interdisciplinary creative practice that has the potential to become your primary source of income.
You are a multi-hyphenate creative with a constellation of skills and curiosities who craves a community that will support you in resourcing the constellation instead of flattening it.
You're craving support and values-aligned creative marketing and branding strategies for locating and communicating the narrative thread that weaves together your research, projects and offer.
You thrive in decolonial learning environments centering the values of collective liberation and benefit from structured frameworks, templates, timelines and accountability.
You love your full-time job or freelance practice and want to establish yourself as an artist while generating an additional stream of income.
You have an existing, income generating, creative practice and lately it has felt misaligned with your deep desire and values keeping you in loops of procrastination, disinterest and burn out.
You have an existing creative offer and have hesitated on scaling it to become your primary source of income, worried increased monetization will compromise its pleasure and integrity.
You are working a full-time job or stringing together gigs misaligned with your values, politics, income goals, pace of working, and/or the needs of your body.
The Worldbuilder's Handbook
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Based on Seeda School’s worlbuilding framework and the black feminist teachings informing the school, The Worldbuilder's Handbook is your go-to tool for navigating the 9 weeks of the Seed A World Retreat and beyond. Each chapter is a workbook with worksheets, templates, toolkits, frameworks, checklists and more helping you develop, market and sell your values aligned creative offer in 9 weeks. Completely informed by black feminist praxis, the Worldbuilder's Handbook is a toolbox you can return to for years to come as you scale and deepen the impact of your creative offer and practice.
Meet The Artist and Facilitator Behind Seeda School
I'm happy you're here. 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 on the building of your world on the web while being intentional about designing your client’s journey of transformation inside your income generating offer.
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Why Now?
You don’t need limits, you need support
Whenever in your care, hands or space the folks you serve 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. 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 spiritual assignments.
Let’s reclaim your time and creative capacity. 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, doula or employee at a Fortune 500 company, you have felt the financial tension of trading time for money or fighting for marginal raises with an employer. It's possible you want to expand your income and 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 an offer to supplement your current income or replace it all together…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.
Fall 2024 Enrollment is Open from October 7th-21st, 2024
What Seeda School Worldbuilders Are Saying
"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."
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— Jasmyne Gilbert, Winter 2024
“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
Chinyere Erondu, Fall 2023
"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.”
“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
Taylor Rae, 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.”
“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.”
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— 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."
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— 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.”
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— 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.”
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— 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.”
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— 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.”
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— 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
FAQs
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Question not covered below? Join the free upcoming Worldbuilding Workshop or reach out at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you.
