BOLD Training Institute

Transformation for Collective
Liberation

BOLD is a catalyst for transformative embodied leadership. Through training, project incubation, and network cultivation, BOLD supports the infrastructure of powerful and coordinated movements.

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BOLD is a leading organization working at the intersection of personal transformation and collective liberation. We are a national capacity-building organization supporting issue-based Organizers and Directors to lead from a place of wholeness, healing, and long-term sustainability.

We train organizers and leaders nationwide to build the inner and collective capacity needed to last.
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For nearly 16 years, BOLD has been committed to transforming leaders and organizations.
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REST AND RESTORATION

The Mawón Center exists because we believe that the fight for collective liberation starts by being grounded and intentional. The Mawón Center is available to organizations seeking a grounded, intentional space for retreats, strategic planning, and organizational gatherings.

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Our Trainings

Quilombo

Builds the leadership skills, base-building capacity, political clarity, and organizing effectiveness of directors/lead organizers and their organizations.

Amandla

Increases the effectiveness of frontline organizers and deepens their skills in movement building, campaign management, political education, and transformative leadership.

Gatherings

Our gatherings are joyful, catalytic interventions that bring the full BOLD community together to reflect on what we are learning, sharpen what we are building, recommit to the work ahead, and where new collaborations take flight.

Practice Groups

Spaces where our alums deepen their embodied learning, reflect on how the work lives in their organizing, and offer one another the love and accountability that transformation requires.

“To be on the path to mastery, we must be intentionally practicing, and the best way to practice is to be in community.”

-Denise Perry, Founding Executive Director

Our History
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Transformations

Coming into BOLD I was exhausted, isolated and falling out of love with the work. The violence of gentrification in DC had made me doubt everything I knew, everything I loved and I was not sure if Black space that felt safe and nurturing like that I had in my childhood was even a possibility or something I even wanted. I was disconnected from my family, depressed and not working to be better. BOLD allowed me the space to reconnect to myself and fall back in love with pieces of myself I thought were gone. I have always struggled with confidence, even in organizing work and BOLD allowed me to strip down the false bravado of always having to be on. I could move beyond always having an answer and be fed.
Organizer, Director, Q-School
Before BOLD I had never had anyone invest in my leadership, yet alone my personal development. I jumped into this organizing work 13 years ago, as a young person from the Bronx, as a means of survival, not realizing that my existence was a form of resistance. It was through BOLD that I realized that I had a right to be in my wholeness: young, Dominican, and Black. It was through BOLD that I learned I had a right to take up space; that my body carried history, stories of struggle, and ancestral love. It was through BOLD that I stood in my contradictions and remained centered on my commitments.
Organizer, Amandla

The Latest from BOLD

A Black Love Letter

For sixteen years, BOLD has been my commitment. In 2010, it was an idea, a small project that became a space for leaders and organizers to be taught and coached, a space to practice and question.

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