BOOK CLUBS

One of the core goals of BECOME and Becoming Change Makers is to build communities. We hope you'll use the book as a reason to gather together and have meaningful, unifying discussions. Below, you'll find some helpful resources for your Book Club or Sisterhood Circle to engage with the work together!

BOOK CLUBS

Utilize Becoming Change Makers: The Exquisite Path to Leadership and Liberation for Women of Color to engage in a dynamic discussion about leadership, self-development, and the impact it will have on communities and individuals. This book is also designed for both personal and collective reflection. There are reflection questions at the end of each chapter as well as a book club guide with all the chapters’ reflection questions at the end of the book. We invite you to delve into reflection independently, as well as convene a group of friends, colleagues, family members, or the like to journey together.

SISTERHOOD CIRCLES

We aim for Sisterhood Circles to read the book and travel through life together. Share with others the importance of leadership and liberation and the impact it has made personally and professionally in their journey. We hope that sisterhood groups are formed or strengthened through reading this book collectively and supporting each other in your leadership journeys.

PROFESSIONAL GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS

If your professional groups are seeking to explore diversity in leadership, we hope you'll consider Becoming Change Makers as your next collective reading. Creating change in community isn't limited to social circles and friend groups. Professional groups hold great power and influence through thought leadership in professional environments. Our goal is that your professional groups learn and grow together with this book.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Chapter 1: Trauma & Resilience

1. Reflecting on your journey, how have you transformed obstacles into
golden opportunities?

2. How have your trials evolved into powerful testimonies?

Chapter 2: The Heart & Healing

1. What does healing mean to you?

2. What healing moments have you experienced? How can you build on them?

3. What's your next step on your healing journey?

Chapter 9: Cultural Self-Awareness

Chapter 10: Intersectional Practices for Organizations

1. What is something that you have learned about yourself and your community
that gives you hope or strength?

2. What have been moments of learning that have given you strength and who did
it involve?

1. Take some time for storytelling. Listen to another’s story. What did you learn about that

person from their story?

2. How could neighbors, friends, or colleagues be lovingly responsive to others’ stories?

3. How can organizations be shaped by and responsive to the stories of our lives?

Bonus Questions

Chapter 13: Using Power for Good

1. How can we embrace and embody the synergy of both masculine and feminine

power in leadership?

2. What strategies can we employ to cultivate nurturing environments that empower

individuals to fully express and embrace their innate strength?

3. How do you lead with both masculine and feminine power?

4. How can we nourish spaces that allow people to feel and be powerful?

1. How do you envision yourself as a leader?

2. What drives your sense of purpose and personal philosophy as a leader?

Chapter 3: Self-love & Finding Your Authentic Voice

1. Name three things you love about yourself.

2. Name an area within you that is calling for more love and tenderness.

3. What is a truth or insight from your life or experience that you want to share

with the world?

Chapter 4: The Heart & Healing

1. What healing spaces have you experienced, growing up, in your neighborhood,
in your home, and/or in a professional setting?

2. How have you created healing space or moments for others in your life?

Chapter 5: The Importance of Relationships
on Every Level

1. What tacit and explicit agreements or informal contracts do you hold in your

relationships with others? How do these relationships honor your values andneeds?

2. Within such a rapidly changing technologically dependent environment, how does

one remain balanced, while progressing professionally yet remaining supportive of

others?

Chapter 6: The Role of Mentors and Relationships in Professional and Leadership Development

1. Have you ever had a mentorship relationship before? What was helpful? What

would be helpful from a mentor in your current phase in life?

2. What is your (potential) mentorship superpower? How can you use this to

mentor others?

Chapter 7: Relationship Building Practices for Organizations

Chapter 8: The What and Why of
Intersectionality

1. In organizational or community cultures that overvalue individualism, how can we

place relationships as priority?

2. How can you facilitate authentic connection between others in your neighborhood

or organization?

3. What organizational or block-level structures and processes encourage relationship-

building?

1. A person’s identity has many dimensions. These dimensions do not exist in isolation. List all the identities you hold, including ones you were born with, ones that you have chosen, and ones that are placed on you by society.

2. Do you express your intersectional identities differently in different environments?

3. What might it look like to bring the fullness of your identities forward all the time, in all settings?

BOOK CLUBS

BOOK CLUBS

SISTERHOOD CIRCLES

PROFESSIONAL GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Chapter 1: Trauma & Resilience

Chapter 2: The Heart & Healing

Chapter 9: Cultural Self-Awareness

Chapter 10: Intersectional Practices for Organizations

Chapter 11: Using Power for Good

Chapter 12: Using Power for Positive Societal Change

Bonus Questions

Chapter 13: Using Power for Good

Chapter 3: Self-love & Finding Your Authentic Voice

Chapter 4: The Heart & Healing

Chapter 5: The Importance of Relationships
on Every Level

Chapter 6: The Role of Mentors and Relationships in Professional and Leadership Development

Chapter 7: Relationship Building Practices for Organizations

Chapter 8: The What and Why of
Intersectionality