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SisterTalk collective
Building Trust SYSTEMS for Cultural Authorship
Transforming community care through communal practices of sisterhood
Our Mission: Cultural Authorship for Future Ancestors
The Reality:
Black, Caribbean, and African women are told to develop "cultural intelligence" to succeed in spaces designed for our exclusion. We're asked to adapt, translate, perform "professionalism"—paying enormous Adaptation Tax while our Creative Capital gets extracted but uncredited.
Traditional empowerment asks: How can you fit better?
Future ancestor work asks: What trust architecture will you leave?
At SisterTalk Collective, we are building trust practices as cultural architecture for Black, Caribbean, and African women ready to move from cultural intelligence (adaptation) to cultural authorship (creation of new cultural realities).
What We Do:
We recognize your cultural wisdom as valid cultural capital that demands systems change—in workplaces, communities, academic institutions, media, arts, and politics.
We offer residency pathways where you're mentored to position your endemic knowledge as foundational, not supplementary. Our residencies span:
Academia - Research methodologies rooted in ancestral epistemologies
Art & Culture - Cultural storytelling as architectural intervention
Leadership - Trust practices that reduce Emotional Tax for entire organizations
Media - Narrative sovereignty in how our stories get told
Politics - Governance models that center communal intelligence
We build psychological trust systems using bell hooks' 6 ethos of love—care, commitment, trust, knowledge, responsibility, respect—as relational intelligence methodology, not personal development.
We practice cultural reclamation together. Through SisterTalk Circle protocols, we restore the communal trust practices that professionalism systematically destroyed, creating trust architecture the next generation inherits instead of survival strategies.
Why This Matters Now:
The world is changing rapidly. The strongest organizations will be those that can adapt to cultural change as a whole—not by extracting Black and Indigenous women's Creative Capital while requiring self-betrayal, but by transforming systems to recognize multicultural expressions as excellence, not exception.
When we center Black women's frameworks as foundational leadership intelligence, we don't just shift individual careers—we shift what's possible for entire organizations, communities, and future generations.
This is the work of future ancestors. This is cultural authorship. This is what we're building together.
Access our Exclusive Study Findings
Access our Study Findings from our Research with York University on Black Women Flourishing in the Workplace.
Get our Course Psychological Safety & Workplace Wellbeing for the study, plus downloads, resources and a library of tools to cultivate psychological safety in your organization.
EMBODY YOUR FUTURE ANCESTOR PRACTICE
You know psychological safety isn't enough. You've calculated your Adaptation Tax. You're ready to build psychological trust as cultural architecture—not just in boardrooms, but in your body.
This is where trust practices meet ancestral wisdom.
In partnership with Wild Nature Retreats, we offer four seasonal residencies where you restore the communal intelligence that professionalism erased. Forest therapy isn't escape—it's reclamation of our relationship with land. Circle practice isn't a support group—it's sophisticated trust system.
Across 2026, we journey through bell hooks' 6 ethos of love seasonally:
Spring: DREAM - Care & Commitment into your purpose as future ancestor
Summer: ROOT - Trust & Knowledge deeper in lineage wisdom
Late Summer: GLOW - Responsibility to shine unapologetically
Autumn: SOAR - Respect for self-sovereignty as you strategize forward
This is embodied cultural authorship. This is where elephant stories transform into architectural power. This is where you remember: you are not adapting to nature, you ARE nature—returning home.
BEGIN YOUR FUTURE ANCESTOR JOURNEY →
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Free Micro-Learning
Psych Safety & Wellness in the Workplace
Hosted by Karlyn Percil with Guest Natacha Pennycooke, RP
Ancestral Knowledge & Purpose
Hosted by Karlyn Percil & Guest Tasha W. Thomas, Certified Holistic Growth Coach
STEP INTO THE HEALING POWER OF SISTERHOOD
In a world that often bombards us with expectations, judgments, and the pressures to conform and compete against each other, choosing love as a pathway to our collective liberation begins as a radical act of self-liberation. The profound impact of choosing love as a guiding force for sisterhood allows us to collaborate, celebrate, feast on life’s moments, connecting to the expansiveness of our potential through our cultural inheritance.
In a fast-paced world, where time slips through our fingers like grains of sand, this practice of savoring the present becomes a radical act of self-love. It becomes an act of Slower Urgency,
"what if how we responded to the crisis is the crisis?"
as reminded by Bayo Akomolafe.
Stepping into the practice of sisterhood as a ritual helps us reclaim and remember who we are. It involves slowing down, relishing the beauty of the ordinary, and cultivating a mindful awareness that allows us to rest in the healing wisdom of sisterhood, understand the collective power of sisterhood, our responsibility to each other and our connection to all living things.
Opportunities to lead your own SisterTalk Circle available through our Certification Program.
Gain Access to our Directory of Leadership Excellence
Becoming a SisterTalk member grants members full to the Directory of Leadership Excellence. This Directory is a cutting-edge platform highlighting Black, Indigenous African, Caribbean and all Women of Colour (BIWOC) leaders in academia, cultural and human equity research, art, culturally rooted wellness and leadership principles and lifestyle.
Focused on amplifying the living wisdom, ancestral knowledge and wisdom, this transformative directory showcases trailblazers who contribute significantly to diverse fields while preserving and disseminating cultural heritage.
By fostering collaboration and recognizing their invaluable contributions, the platform empowers communities and inspires a broader understanding of the profound impact Black, Indigenous, African, Caribbean and women of colour leaders have on the advancement of all women and humanity.
Become a Future Ancestor: Application Process
SisterTalk Collective is not a networking group. It's a trust practice community building cultural architecture.
We accept applications from all women, especially Black, Caribbean, and African women who:
Recognize their Adaptation Tax and are ready to reduce it through trust alignment
Want to position their cultural wisdom as valid capital demanding systems change
Are committed to leaving trust practices for the next generation
Seek mentorship in academia, art, culture, leadership, media, or politics
Understand psychological trust requires the 6 ethos, not just psychological safety
What Membership Includes:
✦ Trust Practice Training - SisterTalk Circle protocols and the 6 ethos as methodology
✦ Creative Capital Assessment - Name your unconscious competence across 5 pillars
✦ Residency Pathways - Mentorship in your field with cultural authorship orientation
✦ Directory of Leadership Excellence - Amplify your work to organizations seeking transformation
✦ Women as Future Ancestors Network - Community of cultural architects building together
✦ Monthly Masterclasses - Live sessions on trust alignment, SOAR development, cultural equity
✦ Research Access - York University partnership findings + KDPM frameworks
2026 Applications open.
We keep cohorts intimate (20 members per quarter) to build actual psychological trust, not performative community.
SisterTALK PROFESSIONAL
Memberships
Include our Cultural Activator Level in our Cultural House:
Selection of Ancestral Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness courses to support your purpose and professional goals
Purpose Lifestyle learning and creative inspiration to grow your own personal potential
Exploration of Culturally relevant and ancestral knowledge rooted in your own cultural experience
Tools & Training for New & Advancing Community Leaders