OUR SANKOFA RETURN | CELEBRATION TEN
We’re marking 10 years. A sacred milestone. 10 years of KDPM Group. A living archive. And a thank you to you, because you are part of this story.
A decade of practice, of remembering, of building with intention.
A decade of choosing cultural trust, even when life demanded more than it's willing to provide, protect or preserve.
This year, KDPM Group celebrates our 10th anniversary, our KDPM Sankofa Celebration Return. As part of this milestone, we are offering a Sankofa Gift to the partners, communities, and circles who are building alongside us.
Sankofa, the Akan symbol of reaching back to retrieve what is needed, captures exactly what this moment calls for: not just a celebration of how far we have come, but a deliberate return to what matters and to the people who have been part of this journey.
What I know now that I could not have articulated then: I was practicing Sankofa before I had the full language for it. Going back. Retrieving. Returning to what had been left behind — by me, by the institutions that trained me, by the cultures that shaped me and were then systematically erased from the rooms where I spent my days. I was not leaving a career. I was beginning a homecoming.
Ten years later, that homecoming has become a movement.
Most anniversary letters celebrate what was built. This one does that — but not first. First, I want to name what had to be unbuilt: the belief that borrowed frameworks could ever hold our full intelligence. The conditioning that told us to leave our ancestral knowing at the door of the boardroom, the academy, the nonprofit. The quiet erasure that dressed itself up as professionalism and called the cost of that erasure "resilience."
CULTURE AS COMPASS. TRUST AS DAILY PRACTICE. COMMUNITY AS POWER.
A decade of returning, again and again, to what matters most. The practice in and with community, rest as technology, self-trust as daily practice, naming systemic harm and more.
In the spirit of Sankofa, to go back and retrieve, we are not only reflecting. We are also retrieving the lessons, wisdom, betrayals, and more. All necessary chapters and moments in our journey.
We share the wisdom of The Betrayal Box here with host Dina, Breakfast Television
As a thank you for walking with us, learning with us, working with us, trusting the practice and building alongside us, we are sharing a few offerings with you:
* Complimentary access to select cultural leadership resources
* Special invitations to upcoming gatherings and experiences
* A first look at tools and practices from our evolving body of work
PURPLE PAPER SERIES | Issue 1
Our #WAFA 13 Trust Principles Framework (Women as Future Ancestors) for healing betrayal, building trust and creating real community together.
You are a sovereign being who carries forward her dreams, embroidered with the dreams of generations, and needs no permission to shine. Your light is not contingent on approval or acceptance; it is your responsibility to be obedient to the whispers and lanes you're meant to shine brightly in. Your lane is already provided for. Your lane is well-lit. The clarity you seek will be revealed the second you own your lane. Vision comes with provision. So own the lane your presence commands.
Indulge in the being and becoming of who you are, and honour every sacred pause along the way.
Below, we share a snapshot from our 2016 SisterTalk Group in-person gathering.
We hope you will join us as we bring the 13 WAFA Trust Principles to communities aligned with this work through a village dinner series.
Most anniversary letters celebrate what was built. This one does that — but not first. First, I want to name what had to be unbuilt: the belief that borrowed frameworks could ever hold our full intelligence. The conditioning that told us to leave our ancestral knowing at the door of the boardroom, the academy, the nonprofit. The quiet erasure that dressed itself up as professionalism and called the cost of that erasure "resilience."
KDPM's Sankofa Celebration Return is named deliberately. In Akan wisdom, Sankofa teaches: go back and retrieve what was left behind so you may move forward. For us, this is not nostalgia — it is a sacred reckoning. It is the act of coming back to the community, the research, the circles, and the scholars who made the work whole, and saying: we see what was built. We honour where it came from. We carry it forward.
That is what ten years has asked of us. And that is what ten years has given us back.
This is why the Culture House matters. Building Community and Culture together, collectively
In ten years of doing this work, here is what I know to be true: transformation without community is lonely. And it doesn't last.
The KDPM Culture House & our SisterTalk Collective Group exists because the research, the retreats, the publications, and the coaching should not be isolated events in your life.
They should be part of a continuous practice of returning to yourself — with the right resources, the right relationships, and the right community holding you accountable to your own becoming.
A closing word.
Ten years ago I was learning, in real time, what it cost a woman to build her life on frameworks that were designed without her in mind. I was learning it in my own body, in my work, and in the stories that women were trusting me to hold.
I am still learning. And I am returning — with the gifts.
The 13 WAFA Trust Principles are not mine. They belong to every woman who sat in a SisterTalk circle and trusted that her truth mattered. Today, and every day of this tenth year, we give it back.
If you have been waiting for an ecosystem that takes your whole intelligence seriously — ancestral, emotional, neurological, cultural, relational — the SisterTalk Collective is ready for you.
