We Are Hiring
Liberation School South ​Co-Coordinator 

Liberation School South is a healing and spirituality school based in the US South. 

We coordinate and catalyze a yearly leadership cohort of changemakers who desire to integrate more healing and spirituality into their lives and movement work. We connect, support and foster healing space to address inter-generational trauma, overwhelm, burnout and the everyday trauma changemakers experience inside of in movements and in their lives. Additionally, we collaborate with other healing and spiritual projects and efforts across the US South and nationally, with an intention to center how we work, live and build a better world from a foundation of healing and spirit.

Co-Coordinator of Liberation School South

This leadership position requires someone with passion, adaptability, logistical and visionary thinking. We are looking for an innovator, collaborator and risk taker who firmly believes in the necessity of integrating healing and spirituality into our movements through the support of an intergenerational cohort.

The ideal candidate:

• lives and has experience working in the US South (defined as LA, TX, MS, AL, AR, TN, NC, SC, FL, MD, VA, GA, DC, KY).
• desires to work in a relational work environment that centers practice and co-leadership.
• Exhibits a strong commitment to anti-oppression and demonstrates knowledge of how organizing, healing and spirituality intersect.
• Has a long-term practice in one or more healing modality and has led the practice(s) with individuals and in collective environments (for ex: Herbalism, dance, somatics, singing/songleading, or another practice).
• Is able to travel for retreats, cohort visits and fundraising.
• is connected to networks of folks and organizations engaged in the work of anti-oppression, ancestral healing, healing justice, spiritual activism and/or cultural organizing.
• Is willing to engage in restorative justice and address conflict with intention.

Responsibilities include:

• Planning and outreach for cohort selection process.
• Handle logistics for in-person retreats.
• Curriculum development for in-person retreats (two retreats per cohort).
• Facilitating online meetings for the whole cohort and small groups.
• Planning and implementing online and in-person fundraising campaigns.
• Grant writing.
• Building and maintaining relationships with donors.
• Facilitate and hold space alongside other movement partners at conferences, gatherings and workshops.
• Website management.
• Evaluation and communications about impact.

This liberatory project is a contract position that averages 20-35/ hours a month, with less time in the summer and more time around cohort and retreat times. The cohort runs for 5-6 months. Leading up to the annual launch of the cohort, there is significant planning, curricula development, logistical planning and outreach. There is a resting, reflection and evaluation period after the cohort concludes.

Additionally, for the last two years Liberation School South co-coordinates the POC and non-POC spiritual care space and workshops at the  Mystic Soul Conference. A small additional stipend is offered by Mystic Soul for this labor.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a project that is growing and is an incubator for experimenting and learning how to do healing justice and spiritual activism in an emergent setting.

COMPENSATION
Compensation is $20/35 hours/month---averages $700 per month paid out in three installments, December, February and May based on cash flow and fundraising goals achieved.

HOW TO APPLY
Send a cover letter explaining your interest in this position, a resume, and 1-2 samples of your work—either as attachments (max. 5 MB) or as links—to: [email protected]. Include “Co-Coordinator” in the subject line. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis and interviewing candidates in February and early March, with an intended start date of April 15, 2019. Job search closes March 1 2019, or until position is filled.

Liberation School South is an equal opportunity employer. People of color, LGBTQ candidates, women and trans/gender queer, persons with disabilities and persons with contact with the criminal justice system are strongly encouraged to apply.

Meet The Co-Coordinators 

Liberation School South coordinates a spirituality and healing leadership cohort that supports, connects and catalyzes changemakers in their work to show up for liberation and center liberation in the world. 

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Amber Burns-Jones is a writer, artist, dreamer and co-coordinator of Liberation School South. Born and raised in Louisville, Ky, her roots run the length of the American South, carry salt from many seas and are laced with magic.

A seasoned community organizer, Amber has worked at the intersections of food equity, racial justice and cooperative economics. As an artist and poet, she has co-founded two chereo-poetry troupes, S.H.E.! and Mother Tongue Techniques, creating performances and zines that explored feminism, racial justice, ancestry and southern queer displacement. Amber also co-created the arts and healing program of a Kentucky-based youth shelter where she and a collective of artists facilitate visual art, poetry and theater workshops for youth to process and heal from trauma.

Amber believes radical imagination is key to liberation. She spends her days laughing, cooking and learning to cultivate her sparkle with her twin children and partner.

The medicine I bring is unapologetic Black Joy, mothering and radical imagination.

The medicine I need is deepened relationship, deepened spiritual practice and the courage to release all the stories I have to tell.

Sara Green is a southern, cis/queer/poly, Black femme minister living in Nashville, TN. She is co-coordinator for Liberation School South. Sara, a graduate of Vanderbilt Divinity School, currently works for the Unitarian Universalist Association as the Youth and Young Adults of Color Ministry Associate. She enjoys making herbal medicine, traveling and training for her next triathlon. She imagines liberation/salvation/beloved community as communities that have the ability to eat good food together, experience pleasure in our bodies and regularly put their hands in soil- all the while free from fear and violence by way of all of the cultural and legal changes that must happen in order for this world to exist. She understands herself as part of a legacy of cultural workers, healers, maroons and creoles, southern queer freedom fighters and artists trying to shape god.
 

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Our Founder and Current Co-Coordinator,
​Jardana Peacock is Cycling off the Co-Coordination Team In July of 2019!

Jardana Peacock is a queer writer, spiritual activist and the co-coordinator of Liberation School South. She is author of Practice Showing Up: A Guidebook for White People Working for Racial Justice. She has been studying and practicing subtle energetics, body-based healing, spiritual healing and traditional yoga for over 17 years and is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher in the Tantric yoga tradition. She has worked with thousands of changemakers globally to address trauma through an anti-oppression lens.

She is writing a play about ancestral healing, often travels to other worlds through her imagination and in her car, and prefers to be barefoot. She’s entirely way too serious, but is practicing slowing down and being silly. 

​She is happiest by water, in the mountains or desert, listening in to spirit, and playing in the sun with her kids. She lives in Louisville, KY. You can reach her at www.jardanapeacock.com.

​Biggest love and respect to others from our founding faculty team of 2017/18:
Will Brummett, Kate Werning and Sarah Nunez and advisor Tufara Waller Muhammad. 

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