
BD101 Whole System Transformation:
When you mean to radically change
the whole system, including you!
Welcome to the BD101 Members Page. This page will serve as a central hub for all documents, media and informatiion you will need during your participation in the series.
You'll soon here from Nichola at Kirkridge regarding all the logisitcs around arrival, accomodations, and your stay at the retreat center, so please be on the lookout for that!
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We are thrilled to embark on this journey together and look forward to all we will co-create in these spaces.
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~Niyonu

February 10, 2025
Welcome and introductory information
Dearhearts,
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How completely honored I am to welcome you to our first series - BD101 Whole System Transformation: When you mean to radically change the system, including you! The theme that I heard throughout the one-on-one interviews about why you were making this commitment was, “the time seems absolutely right.” So, entering this cohort, we’ve made a huge commitment to each other. Over the upcoming 9 months, we come together for three in-person 5-Day Intensives plus a 3-Day Zoom Intensive. Let us see what we will create!
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In Toni Cade Bambara’s novel, The Salt Eaters, one of the characters, a healer, asks, “Are you sure you want to be well?…Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed cause wholeness is no trifling matter…” This is a question—a reality—that we will face again and again throughout this journey. It is a question that sits at the center of the interconnected systems that each of you are working within. Each time that you invite folks into a transformative process, that question lurks in the shadows: Are you sure that you want to be well?
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When we sign on to assist in a system’s transformative process, how ready are we, “the transformers” to be well, to be healed, again and again?
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These are some of the queries that we will enter courageously and to which we will offer bold and sincere responses. You have signed on for dedicated, slow and focused time in community—co-(re)membering, co-dismantling, co-creating, and simply resting in each other’s arms.
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Here's what you need to know right now:
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You are registered for this full series and therefore expected to be present from the beginning to the close of each Intensive
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This is a live page that will be updated bi-weekly
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BD101 Whole Systems Transformation Series (BD101 WST) is a program of Niyonu Spann Associates. All communication regarding program content, scheduling, homework, etc. should be addressed to either niyonu@niyonuspann.com or jill@niyonuspann.com
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For issues having to do with registration, payments, room and board, contact nicholat@kirkridge.org
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Please review the information in each of the links below: Course Description & Components, Course Schedule & Structure, Resources & Assignments (Pre-work)
