New Teacher Onboarding
DREAM School Teaching Assistant: asks as a doula or birth worker. on DREAM School students journey through a course.
A birth worker “provides information, physical and emotional support, and advocacy for birthers and their partners during and after the birth process.”
A birth worker “assists in the preparation of birth preferences to facilitate communication with the birth team.”
A birth worker “models, teaches, and encourages effective communication.”
The enrollment goal is 25 students ($600-$1332 each) signed up for this semester.
Please continue to share praise reports and speak blessing over DREAM School.
Established in 2017 as grassroots workshops and conferences, Cause Reign is a public oral and cultural history project & spiritual and personal development service focused on mental-emotional wellness through energy healing and the study of dreamworking. Cause Reign has served over 500 clients and specializes in serving LGBT family, Black and Indigenous folks, trauma survivors, and those seeking ancestral connection and wisdom. In 2019, Cause Reign transitioned their workshops into a semester-length online course and standardized their consultation offering into divination ceremonies. The online courses and divination ceremonies are housed under Dream Reclamation, Energy and Ancestral Healing, and Matriarchal Praxis (DREAM) School. DREAM School has served 38 Black, Chicano, Queer, and Trans students ages 22-34 since Fall 2019. Cause Reign’s vision is to expand DREAM School into a K-20 Afro-Indigenous school, sustenance learning farm, and clinic that provides both traditional and allopathic services.
Commitment Overview
New Teacher Onboarding session - 1-2 hours
Check-In
Watch Brief History of & Vision for Cause Reign video
Review DREAM School Core Competencies & Practice Guidelines
Technical overview (Teacher Resource Page, Classroom, eDoula.biz, Slack, Zoom)
New this semester: eDoula.biz, Ocean Hour, ebook
Review Commitment Outline & Name Strengths/Areas of Vulnerability
Q&A
Sign your MOU, complete your payroll signup
Gratitude
After Onboarding: complete the Care Plan and familiarize yourself with all the tools.
Take special note of additional spiritual hygiene practice & any healing/initiatory journey that you are already on.
Two student divination Meetings - 90 min each
During these meetings, each student will be assigned a Dream cohort guide using divination methods.
4 hours per week of direct student support
Onboard each of your students.
Have they completed their intake form and intake interview with TBN or another 2nd+ semester TA?
Be sure they know how to log in to Classroom, have Slack access, are aware of the different methods of support (their ancestors, guides, and living family (blood and chosen), book a call with TBN, best contact method for their Dream cohort guide, communicating with their cohort in Slack, Slack for announcements, Ocean Hour via Zoom, moon calendar.)
Receive feedback on their best learning methods and how they would like support moving through the modules (How do you learn best? Why would you like a guide in learning about your dream medicine?)
1st Semester TAs - 3-5 students
2nd+ Semester TAs - 5-7 students and Intake Interviews* 5-15 students
*based on your capacity/training w/in DREAM School
Lead Teacher: Initial application phone call and intake interviews of 12-25 students; lead 5-7 students; backup Dream cohort guide to all TAs
Document all student interactions within client tracking system
This allows for a smooth transition if you need to take an emergency or planned hiatus
Twice monthly teachers meetings
WhatsApp Group participation with teaching staff
Recommended weekly Ocean Hour and irregular Community Rituals/Events (such as Solstice Ceremony or Listen: A Story Circle)
Closing recorded conversation with each of your students
Exchange
$400-800 monthly or 12%-25% of tuition paid
Collective Blessing Ceremony from Tyrell