Fire & water is about coming of age in this age
because this age CALLS FOR wisdom.
because time passing is inevitable, but Growing WISE is a choicE.


​The times we live in... 

are challenging across all domains of work, family, and community. Narrow, polarized perspective is often privileged and perpetuated. Inclusion and diversity are championed in word, yet often not in practice. Increased complexity is creating reactiveness and defensiveness rather than compassion and understanding. Systems are collapsing at scales ranging from local to global. Cumulative challenge is exhausting too many of us. The times call for depth, not shallow. The times call for communal ability, not more isolation.

In North America excessive resources of time, money, and even despair, are spent annually on leadership development programs. However, results so often fail to live up to hoped-for expectations. Too many individuals and too many organizations are settling for convenience, when what is needed is the heavy lifting of inner and outer work. 

We don’t lack leaders -- people who have others following them. We lack wise leaders -- those who remain grounded when gale winds blow, those who can think strategically with heart, those who can create conditions for groups to bring forward their gifts individually and collectively, and those who remain committed to what is beyond the storm.  

For PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEADERSHIP

We welcome managers, facilitators, team leaders, consultants, coaches, entrepreneurs. We welcome educators, artists, poets, musicians, faith community leaders. We welcome those working with the older and those working with the youngers. We welcome community organizers, social change activists, government, and all positions of all people seeking a substantially better way of heart, mind, and belly.​

For PEOPLE WHO CAN'T HELP BUT DWELL near or over THE EDGES

 We welcome people that can’t help but dwell on the edges of possibility, that tremble in newness, that cannot be satisfied with only toes in the shallow end. We welcome those just starting. We welcome those who've been at it for a while and are transforming. We welcome those that can’t not go beyond the edges of the known, and those who can’t live in the complacency of the superficial, as engrained as it may be.​
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FOr PEOPLE WHO'S HUNCH IS THAT THE INSIDE TRANSFORMS THE OUTSIDE

We welcome those whose hunch is that much of what is needed comes from the inside, that in turn, transforms the outside. We welcome those searching to revamp how meaning is reached and to contribute with simplicity, courage, and clarity. We welcome those wanting to step into next level of personal leadership in work and life. We welcome those who follow the prompt to explore together, as community and as cohort.
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This experience has changed me because my guides (Quanita and Tenneson) believed and held that we as cohort could grow up ourselves and together. That prayer has held true, been tended to and pushed me to get clear about my path in leadership. This journey is about what leads you and will you listen to that call inside you. If someone is searching and ready to grow up in this world, this program is for you.
Prentiss Haney, Co-Executive Director at Ohio Organizing Collaborative
​2019-2020 Cohort Participant 
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Fire and Water is not your typical leadership program.  It is a deep dive into self analysis and discovery.  It is journey that requires you to get comfortable in your "skin" so that you can show up as authentically as you can in whatever pathway your journey has you on.  If you are open to being pushed outside of your day to day "box" to allow your truest self and deepest accomplishments to come forth, then begin the journey.  Your Guides, Quanita and Tenneson, will open vistas within you that you never knew existed.  Would I do it again? Yes, a thousand time yes!
​Angela Griffin, Director of Service at IvyGate International
​2019-2020 Cohort Participant
Claim unique genius for times such as these.

Rediscover
​Unique gift and genius

Leadership
Fire & Water is a leadership program that calls forward unique gift and genius in leaders of all ages. It calls forward abilities and instincts to work with clarity and kindness, humility and confidence, transparency, and awareness that we all seek meaning in our complex environments.

Reclaim
wise collectives

Community
Fire & Water is a 16-month cohort program that requires commitment to not just external knowing, but internal grounding. So as to better serve and unite in community, in family, in social movements, in corporations, in governments, and in all systems that call for more wise collectives.

remember
 Forgotten knowing

Ritual
Fire & Water is about reclaiming wisdom and how we source that wisdom. It is for a time when we have urgent need to mature at the scale of sensibility, to dare to welcome a much needed transformation of leaders from adolescent to initiated and grown adults. 

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