Crises create opportunities to reshape our lives
OUR APPROACH & CORE VALUES
At Conversations by Courage, we draw from Black healing traditions that see resilience as a collective practice—where restorative practice, contemplation, and dynamic storytelling are woven together to help us navigate the in-between, and create the next and the new.
We define resilience as the ability to remain soft during instability. Softness is not weakness—it is the flexibility, sensitivity, and openness that allows us to adapt, transform, and survive. We work with individuals and organizations to create soft spaces during hard times: We do this by integrating our four pillars—culture, community, contemplation, and creativity—as living practices that help people make meaning, sustain care, and carry forward wisdom in moments of upheaval.
OUR VALUES
Change begins with connection.
Beneath every grievance is a grief. We speak to the level of loss—so we can connect, engage, and move through transition without conflict or resistance.
Pain is the foundation of new possibilities.
Pain holds the power to transform. Every wound invites us to choose: to remain stuck in conflict or to create something new
Courage is a bridge to truth-telling.
Healing awaits on the other side of honesty. There can be no breakthrough without a breakdown.
Creativity is making meaning from loss.
Creativity transforms what has fallen apart into the raw materials for rebirth. Imagination is essential for renewal.
What remains unexamined remains unchanged.
We must confront the taboo and the forgotten. By facing the darkest parts of ourselves, we unlock our potential.