Live a life rooted in your deepest YES!

Oppressive systems and structures of this world can distance us from our divine nature. For most of us, the permission to be our full, authentic, and divine selves was interrupted early in our lives, replaced by people-pleasing, self-denial, and scarcity.

To experience liberation, we have to give ourselves radical permission to live our lives rooted in our deepest YES. That’s why Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown created the Institute for Radical Permission. The Institute offers a wealth of collected wisdom from Sonya, adrienne, and over a dozen different integration practitioners that shows you how you, too, can begin a liberatory journey into your own divine power.

As an Institute participant, you’ll have lifelong access to all course content so that you can experience this journey at a pace that feels comfortable to you.

adrienne maree brown + Sonya Renee Taylor present

the institute for

RADICAL PERMISSION

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Live a life rooted in your deepest YES!

Oppressive systems and structures of this world can distance us from our divine nature. For most of us, the permission to be our full, authentic, and divine selves was interrupted early in our lives, replaced by people-pleasing, self-denial, and scarcity.

To experience liberation, we have to give ourselves radical permission to live our lives rooted in our deepest YES. That’s why Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown created the Institute for Radical Permission. The Institute offers a wealth of collected wisdom from Sonya, adrienne, and over a dozen different integration practitioners that shows you how you, too, can begin a liberatory journey into your own divine power.

As an Institute participant, you’ll have lifelong access to all course content so that you can experience this journey at a pace that feels comfortable to you.

C O U R S E • C O M P O N E N T S
what
you
receive

For each of the six units in this course, you will receive:

  1. a video dialogue between Sonya and adrienne
  2. an instructional video from one or more of our 15+ integration practitioners chosen carefully by Sonya and adrienne to help you integrate what you learn into your daily life
  3. daily questions in your bonus journal to guide you in your work
  4. accessible content: video recordings have professional closed captioning and are also available as audio and transcripts
  5. lifetime access to all course content
instructor
dialogues
Six intimate, whimsical, profound video conversations between Sonya and adrienne to watch on your own time. In these dialogues, they lay out the foundational theory and concepts of radical permission.
integration
exercises
15 videos from integration practitioners covering yoga, dance, sexuality, somatics, and other ways to live your truth. Each video has closed captioning, audio files, and transcripts available.
guided
journal
Bonus digital guided journal: The Journal of Radical Permission, a daily journal with generative questions to help you connect with your own permission-giving capacity.
found family discussion guide
This discussion guide includes reflection questions and exercises to work through in a group. Learn how to apply the course teachings within your relationships and pursue collective transformation.
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resources
list
A comprehensive list of all resources—books, therapeutic techniques, and tools—mentioned in the course, along with participant recommendations. Go even further in your journey!
Now includes BONUS video with ALOK, adrienne, and Sonya:
What If You Get to Be Free?
C O U R S E
price model
The practice of giving ourselves permission has transformative possibilities for the entire planet and needs to remain accessible for as many people as possible.

Inclusive Institute pricing allows you to register at the economic tier that honors your resources and this offering. There are also payment plan options so that you can pay over a period of three months. 
Selecting the tier that is right for you ensures we can make the course accessible for all while compensating makers for their labor. 
"Trust the people and the people will become trustworthy."
~ adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy
exaltation
I’m an ambitious lark!
$499 
Or 3 payments of $166 💚
convocation
I’m a high-flying eagle
$599
Thanks for going above and beyond 🤩
flamboyance
We're a happy flamingo fam!
30% off
our found family discount starts at 30% off for groups of 2 or more! 👯‍♂️
wisdom scholarship
I'm a wise owl!
$99
Application required 📝
attendees say....
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  • The Radical Permission Institute has been AMAZING for my personal growth and love of self that in turns aids my ability to love others ❤️



  •  Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! So grateful your worlds came together to offer this beautiful gift to all of us!
     



  • Just what I needed in this moment. So blown away by the quality of the teaching in this program.


  •   I am so incredibly grateful that I've arrived at a place in my life where this sharing of wisdom and practice is available; that adrienne and Sonya lived the lives, opened themselves up, and created in a way that will be felt for the rest of my life. It feels really big. And I so appreciate that the content is available to be read as well.  

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    Thank you so much, I will continue to return to this work again and again and again. Permission as practice! 

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    the experience so far has been nothing but M A G I C A L. ✨ thank you thank you thank you for making this happen.

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    Thank you SO MUCH for the soul-nourishing offerings of the institute!

C O U R S E
outline
The practice of giving yourself permission returns you to who you really are and allows you to walk yourself back to your center.

To facilitate the journey back to our center, we will examine six practices in depth. We have to listen to our body, our nature, our shadow self, our community, our divine purpose, and whatever is emerging in our future before we fully embody radical permission. 

Unit 1:
Honing your body technology
How can you deepen your relationship with your body? How can you unearth the wisdom it is trying to share with you? Understanding and partnering with your body is part of claiming your full and free self.
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Honing Your Body Technology Practice, with adrienne & Sonya
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Surrender to Self-Acceptance in Yoga, with Jessamyn Stanley

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Discover Your Body’s Grace with Qi Gong, with Terna Tilley-Gyado
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Explore Your Body’s Curiosity with Twerkship & Dance, with Jazmine Walker
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Find Your Body’s Satisfaction in Meditation, with Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Rōshi
Unit 2:
Self worship
Is there any part of your divine nature you've been denying? Give yourself permission to embrace and honor your divinity! Self worship will help you return to your inner sacred space.
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Self Worship Practice, with adrienne and Sonya
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Surrender to Self Worship, with Rashida KhanBey Miller
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The Grace of Self Worship: Sacred Space Creation, with Empress Karen M. Rose
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With What Decadence Practice Can You Best Worship Yourself? with Sonya Renee Taylor
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The Satisfactions of Self Pleasure and Self Desire, with Che Che Luna
Unit 3:
Loving your shadows
What have you hidden from yourself? What have you deemed unloveable? There can be no light without dark. For us to fully shine we must embrace our shadows.
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Loving Your Shadows, with adrienne and Sonya
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Playing with Tarot to Free What’s Hidden, with Alta Starr
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Giving Your Shadow Grace and Accountability, with Daria Garina
Unit 4:
Mutual worship
In what ways are you closing yourself off to or withholding support, love, and care from and for others? How can you give yourself permission to help and ask for help? To trust and be trusted? To let yourself be known and cherished?
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Mutual Worship Practice, with adrienne and Sonya
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Relinquish Advice and Reclaim Solidarity, with Malkia Devich-Cyril
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Moving Towards the Satisfaction of Revolutionary Parenting, with Adela Nieves Martinez
Unit 5:
Life alignment
Your divine assignment is what you are called to do in this world, how you express your beliefs through action. Where are you frustrated with the tension between your aspirations and reality? How can you allow your most powerful gifts to emerge?
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Life Alignment Practice, with adrienne and Sonya
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Get Aligned by Surrendering to Your Sweet Spot, with adrienne maree brown
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Ritual for Cultivating Self-Forgiveness: An Antidote to Shame and Internalized Oppression, with MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo
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The Satisfaction of Centering, with Prentis Hemphill
Unit 6:
Emergent session
Deepen and expand the power of permission with yourself and others? As we unlearn limiting beliefs and free ourselves from oppressive systems, we can imagine and help create a different future. 
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Emergent Session, with adrienne and Sonya

— about your instructors —

Sonya Renee Taylor is the founder and radical executive officer of the Body Is Not an Apology, a digital media and education company. Her work as an activist and educator and her commitment to radical self-love and transformation have reached millions of people, and she is the author of the bestselling The Body Is Not an Apology.

adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. She is the author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism and the co-editor of How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Emergent Strategy podcasts.

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Berrett-Koehler publishes books and online learning events to help individuals, organizations, and societies become more compassionate, inclusive, and equitable. We help leaders serve the whole—not the few,—and prioritize meaning and purpose over status and growth.

Your Journal of Radical Permission

A bonus digital journal is included with the course: you’ll have access to a digital copy immediately upon registering. The journal is designed to fit perfectly with the course, so you’re connecting with the concepts daily. 

Based on the bestselling philosophies of radical self-love, emergent strategy, and pleasure activism, this journal gives you permission to love yourself, deeply, as you are. Journaling to these prompts will help you surrender to your body’s needs instead of forcing yourself into cramped disciplines. It will encourage you to:

  • become awed by the natural beauty of your divine self instead of being rampantly self-critical
  • aid you in embracing your shadows and accepting responsibility for your impact all while liberating you to just be

found family discount

Discounts start at 30% off for groups of 2 or more!

If you're pursuing collective liberation with friends or family, contact us for more details about a group discount.

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wisdom scholarship

The practice of giving ourselves permission has transformative possibilities for the entire planet and needs to remain accessible for as many people as possible.

If you would like to participate in the Institute for Radical Permission but are facing financial barriers, we would love to welcome you to our community. First we need to ask a few questions. Please apply for our scholarship below.

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