Workshops

The academic industrial complex breaks us.

Many underrepresented scholars face anxieties like overwhelm and imposter syndrome that obstruct our research and writing possibilities. Imagine healing from academic oppression and writing from a place of radical self and collective love? It's within your reach!

Through workshops and coaching, I help people liberate themselves and their research in order to transform systemic violence into writing prosperity, joy, and revolution. My workshops rely on my "3 Steps Towards Liberating Your Research:"

Healing anxiety, imposter syndrome, and overwhelm by claiming our core beliefs and our radical self/collective love and power.
Claiming and naming our own set of liberated theories and methods.
Designing a liberated research project in alignment with who we are and what we stand for.

Participants leave Nadine's trainings with tools for fostering radical self and collective love in relation to their writing projects. They learn how to frame their theories, methodologies, and scholarly interventions in ways that balance the demands of academia with what they stand for and the liberated futures they envision.

Many have experienced outcomes like completing their dissertations, book proposals, books, and grant applications after years of writer's block; landing postdoctoral or tenure-track positions; and achieving tenure or promotion to Full Professor.

Workshop Testimonials

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Liberate Your Research
Workshops

This 3 hour workshop can accommodate any number of participants and relies on the beauty of collective care and support to uplift one another. The activities foster strategies for healing from academic oppression; naming and claiming one's core beliefs, politics, and ideas; and affirming a set of liberated theories and methodologies. Workshop participants are given brief homework assignments beforehand. In addition to the training I provide, we workshop these assignments together. These workshops serve academics at all levels and ranks. Here is what people have to say after participating in a Liberate Your Research Workshop.

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Customized
Workshops

Customized Workshops are organized for specific kinds of challenges. For example, I held a customized workshop for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkely targeted the particular kinds of academic challenges scholars of Middle East Studies face. My workshop for the National Women's Studies Association, addressing the struggles interdisciplinarity feminist studies scholars face also exemplifies my customized approach.

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Workshop
Series

Workshop Series entail working with a group of writers over a period of time. I provide individual support and coaching to each workshop member as they work to achieve a particular writing goal during our time together. For example, my summer workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor provided 8 scholars with support in crafting a summer writing plan; strategies for maintaining well being and accountability while working towards these goals; individual and collective feedback on their writing, theories, methodologies, interventions, and contributions; and support in crafting future writing goals.

FAQ's about Nadine's trainings:

Who are Liberate Your Research workshops for?

I provide customized workshops for diverse groups of writers including doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows, tenure track faculty, associate professors, undergraduate students, non-profit researchers, creative writers, and anyone striving for writing prosperity. Workshops can focus on one rank (i.e. all assistant professors) or diverse ranks (i.e. a mix of scholars at different ranks).

I can customize my workshops for specific disciplines and inter-disciplines and for people facing specific types of writing or academic challenges. For example, I have led workshops directed towards the particular challenges radical scholars in Middle East Studies, American Studies, Sociology, or Feminist Anthropology face.

What takes place during Nadine's workshops?

Participants first learn how to notice and heal from the oppressive structures of the academic or non-profit industries. We draw on this new sense of liberation to learn strategies for claiming and naming one’s ideas and contributions from a place of radical self love, inner power, and confidence. Next, participants learn techniques for justifying radical, unconventional theories and methodologies clearly and unapologetically in the face of institutional evaluations, promotions, and anxieties.

Overall, workshop participants learn how to shift oppression into power by drawing upon the wealth of their inner/collective resources in the process of clarifying their interventions. Participants leave my workshops with new skills for affirming their creative brilliance boldly and unapologetically. They also leave with a new sense of motivation, possibility, and love towards their writing projects.

How long is a Liberate Your Research workshop?

How much does Nadine charge?

How do I book a workshop?

There are two ways to book a workshop.

An institution (i.e. academic center, academic department, academic association, fellowship program, or non-profit organization) can invite me to lead a workshop. Most workshops are scheduled after an individual proposes my workshop to their unit, institution, or organization.

An individual can organize a group of at least 8 people and contact me to schedule a workshop for your group.

Where do Nadine's workshops take place?

How do I make my payment?

Does Nadine coach writers?

What is Nadine's approach to supporting writers?

I work to equip myself with radical self and collective love so that I can co-create with others from a place of genuine abundance for all rather than one of competitive performance. I am guided by the flow of receiving and giving that grows between myself, my workshop participants, and the infinite possibilities of the universe. By drawing upon the energy each workshop participant brings to the table, I help workshop participants collectively transform their desires (i.e. to finish a book) into writing prosperity, success, and liberation. The collective energy my workshops foster reminds us that we are not alone in our writing anxieties and struggles and that we have the power within us to liberate ourselves and achieve our writing goals. I believe humans are interdependent. By uplifting liberatory vibrations for one of us, we uplift them for all of us.

I serve writers through a 3 step process that focuses on

liberating ourselves from internalized oppression;
affirming what we believe about our research and our politics; and
naming and claiming our theories and methods from a place of radical self/collective love and power.

University And Academic Associations

Liberate Your Research workshops have been featured at the following university and academic associations.

Association of Feminist Anthropology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Delphi University
Lindfield University
Queens College
Purdue University
University of California, Berkeley
Georgetown University
New York University
University of California, Santa Cruz
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Southern California
National Women’s Studies Association
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Michigan State University
Garrett Seminary
Loyola University
Harvard University
University of Richmond
DePaul University