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From Abundance: I know the tangible impact of working a dream. I was houseless for 18 months. I had no running water, I had no resources, I had no stability. Despite that, I still had dreams. Dreamwork is not only an eternal beginning, but also the effort done in order to achieve your desired purpose or result. Because with very few resources, I listened to my dreams. I put them to work. Then 4 years later, I closed on my first home.
From Zakiya: As a diabled person, the world gave me the narrative that “I'm often meant to feel that I’m not worthy of care”. After awhile, I believed I was disposable. I became a self-fulfilling prophesy. But deep down in my roots, I knew something about those narratives were not true. I had dreams that were bigger than those narratives. And when I listened to dreams and put them to work, the narratives were replaced. My dreams said money is here; love is here; community is here. We have everything we need. I found workplaces that valued disabled folks and community spaces of acceptance and places that valued me and my lineage.
From Abundance: Together, we know listening to our dreams is everything. We realized that dreams do not flourish without the work. DREAM School’s curriculum was forged based on my family’s oral histories and the strategies I used when I went from houseless to home ownership in 4 years. I realized others could benefit from this curriculum. One of our students, Yaya, had a dream that guided them of what to do in the physical realm. This led to a series of events to be featured in them magazine as a fourth generation herbalist. Yaya received sponsorship to complete an Master of Science in Clinical Herbalism and stepped in their generational calling.
From Zakiya: My dreams lead me to Abundance. The DREAM School curriculum held the tools I knew I needed. A scholarship gave me access to the class. I received these lessons at a pivotal point in my life. I received the tools to materialize the stories in my dreams that told me I had everything I needed. This class helped me gather and build the language of my ancestors. Listening to our dreams turns history into power. We recognize that people don’t always have the tools to transform their lives. DREAM School provides the tools to reclaim your history and your destiny so that you can transform your lives and the lives of others.
From Abundance: DREAM School needs your support. These transformations need to continue. We have students that have filled out their scholarship forms and they’re ready. We have students who are desperate. We need to share these tools with others because this work is regenerative. Being a part of this regereative cycle requires your finances.
We want you to come alongside us to provide scholarships to fund the Fellowship so that others can benefit from the tools.
If you’re listening to this, someone or some systemic institution has made a way for you. Now you get to help others.
Elder Council Members
Raised in Kenosha, WI – Abundance Zaddy aka Tyrell Blacquemoss (pronouns: he/they, wealth, wellness, and sovereignty) initiates Black Indigenous creatives into networked net worth. Blacquemoss is the child of Venus and Carleton Childs. Sovereignty is an 8-spirit queer Black Indigenous (Maroon-Cherokee-Choctaw-Blackfoot-Bantu) non-binary neurodivine (disabled) trans man and the eldest sibling. Wellness teaches people to dream with their ancestors to build strong relationships and strong money. Blacquemoss applies ancestral dream traditions to organizational development, fund development, social practice art, and birth work. Wellness builds infrastructure for Black LGBT dreamers to rest while creating generational wealth. He believes uplifting Black LGBTQ+ caregivers and their families creates a ripple effect of more wealth and wellness. Sovereignty is a culture bearer who inherited his spiritual gifts, was called by his ancestors, and trained globally with elders to hone his crafts and show up in their communities in ways that honor his lineage. He has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in Social and Environmental Arts Practice.
Wealth serves his community part-time as the Co-Executive Director of Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, Co-Founder of Rooted Doula Collective, Founder and Principal Dreamworker of DREAM School and KindeziCare™, and Founder and Managing Director of W3AVING W3BS (pronounced Weaving Webs). The rest of his time is spent preparing his home and relationships for the arrival of the next Blacquemoss generation. You can find out more about sovereignty at www.causereign.com and www.w3avingw3bs.com.
Iya Christina Springer (she/her) listens to the messages found in the spaces between molecules and then acts accordingly. Iya Christina Springer is an artist and entrepreneur whose work has been seen internationally. She has published four collections of poetry most recently through (Frayed Edge Press,) worked in television, film and radio, exhibited in galleries, and designs for her own e-commerce business, Mmmm, Yes! She is an Omo Obatala. https://www.mmmmyes.com/
Jen the Rainmaker (she/her) is a Native Life and Dream Guide, Wisdom Carrier, and Medicine Carrier known as Jen The Rainmaker. She teaches ancient native traditional manifestation, healing, and dreaming practices that have been passed down for thousands of years by her Chichimeca/Toltec ancestors known as dream planting. She dedicates her life to guiding others by teaching them how to plant dreams and reprogram their subconscious while they sleep. She also teaches super lucid dreaming to create your reality and super lucid dreaming. Jen is a former corporate coach with a mission to leave a legacy that will help trillions of people live their dream lives. https://www.dreamyouuniversity.com/
Zakiya Bediako-Blake was born and raised in the Black radical tradition in homes between Atlanta, GA and Memphis, TN. In 2017, Zakiya heard about Abundance when he was homeless and touring. Abundance performed a ceremony teaching about herbalism, poetry and his testimony in a bookstore in Atlanta. At the time, Abundance was working under Blache (Blake) Marie, which is Zakiya’s grandmother’s name reversed. In dream tradition, we often experience dream realm inversion in which the physical realm iteration is reversed from the dream realm experience. Examples - up/down; left/right; blue haint vs haint blue. Thus, his name was meaningful to Zakiya. Zakiya found Abundance again in 2019 and requested dream interpretation. Wealth explained that it is more effective to be able to understand one’s own dream lineage language than to receive dream interpretation. While there can be overlaps of symbols within a culture’s collective symbology, everyone has a specific codex of symbols and the symbols' relationship to each other. Zakiya began Level 1 in Fall 2019; has been a Teaching Apprentice for two semesters, performing weekly divination for students and providing insight on collective direction; completed Level 2 and approved to sit on DREAM School’s Elder council and develop a course on the Black Lullaby Tradition for DREAM School. In 2022, Zakiya became our Decolonial Program Manager. Zakiya preserves family wisdom and serves a family mediator. https://www.instagram.com/griefwerk/
Visiting Advisor
Dr. Stephanie Burns (she/her/hers) describes herself as the journey. She finds freedom in allowing herself to feel, experience, and learn from her life paths/choices. Stephanie is an intuitive consultant who provides holistic spiritual care, specializing in generational and past traumas. Stephanie facilitates the Connecting with the Ancestors apprenticeship. She is a member of spirit grove - a collective of Black women intuitives committed to healing ourselves, our communities, and our Earth. They can be reached at spiritgrovecollective.com and their patreon site is https://www.patreon.com/spiritgrove.
Diviner
Roldine Richard (They/Them) Based in Philadelphia, PA, Roldine Richard is a Graphic Designer and Branding Strategist With a commitment to producing quality results, they combine novelty and analytics to design media that communicate your brand’s unique message. Their work seeks to address the dissonance between the current landscape of design solutions and the dynamic issues QTPOC experiences. They aim to leverage emergent programming skills in technologies such as web applications, and 'new media', to uplift the stories of these largely ignored communities. They are the founder of Creative Conjuring Etc. and have been practicing, studying, and teaching astrology for 10+ years.
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