About The Good Woman School
Rename your past. Reclaim your power. Reveal your destiny.
The Good Woman School is a black-woman-centered self-development program based in philosophy, spirituality and leadership theory.
Our Mission
To provide a culturally relevant curriculum to help black women shift from the archetype of strong black woman to powerful black woman.
To create and curate the best black-woman-centered content on philosophy, spirituality and self development.
To promote storytelling, writing and personal history exploration as acts of healing for black women.
To serve as a connection point between black women seeking healing and black woman healers.
What We Do
What you don't know can hurt you.
What you don't know about yourself can hurt you even more.
But there's a lot about yourself that's been left out. It's been left out of your early upbringing, your formal education and the messaging you get from… well, almost everywhere.
Going back and filling in all those missing pieces about yourself is not only a long, slow process, it is, at times, a frightening one. Especially if you’re going it alone.
The Good Woman School offers learning content and exercises as points of intervention for black women self-healers and for coaches, counselors and therapists doing healing work with black women.
Our curriculum is a rapid re-learning program. Designed to take you on a journey through the core elements of your life, allowing you to:
reconsider some of the things you were taught that may no longer be working for you, and
gain awareness of some things that you didn't know were hurting you.
You will then create a new set of ideas that ARE centered around you, and through the recording and sharing of your personal history and future dreams, you will weave those ideas together to reveal your destiny.
What We Believe In
Our Values
Naming and renaming
Giving our own names to the self. The past. The future.
Energy Work
Creating, preserving and redirecting energy. Not destroying unwanted energy; but leaving behind, evolving.
Narrative and storytelling
Transformation through expression. Sharing instead of holding on to.
Repatterning
Re-doing our foremothers’ ‘quilts’. Respecting our legacy, without being bound by it.
Supporting Research
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Processing societal messages and mainstream stereotypes in therapy may lead to the deconstruction of externalized self-perceptions, where Black women can learn to differentiate their self-image from the external views of others.
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With the current political and social climate being so vulnerable, feeling respected, heard, and understood are more critical than ever for African-American clients in the therapeutic setting.
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Carefully assessing and incorporating African Americans' religious and spiritual values into treatment where appropriate could serve to make treatment more relevant and engaging.
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Interventions that solicited outcome goals from the client and utilized metaphors / objects from client cultures were associated with better outcome…
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Our Founder
Kisha Solomon
is the founder of The Good Woman School. A writer, traveler and thinker, Kisha has made a career as a strategic advisor to corporate executives and small business owners. As an intrepid solo traveler, she has collected insights on culture, language and spirituality from all corners of the globe. Her ‘big why’ includes elevating the status of black women and people of color around the world.
“We are addicted
to our thoughts.
We cannot change
anything
if we cannot change
our thinking.”
― Santosh Kalwar