Design Freedom

Design Freedom is a place for you to dream up new creations, refine existing projects, or be open to inspiration. The series will create a safe-space for your imagination while providing you with the tools needed to make your dreams a reality. If you are an entrepreneur, cultural worker, artist, healer, consultant or anyone who wants to explore creating in these times- Design Freedom is for YOU! During each sessions you will experience somatic, spiritual, and land based practices alongside tangible tools to develop an infrastructure rooted in purpose.

DATE AND TIME: WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD TUESDAYS 6:30PM - 8:30PM ET MAY 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2026. Please save dates and calendar invites will be sent out for each date. Due to the intimacy of the space, sessions will not be recorded.

Session Overview

• Session 1 - Design Transformation: In this session you will have an opportunity easefully establish clear short-term and long- term activities, goals, and impacts of what you create from your purpose.

• Session 2 - Design Financial Ecosystem - Explore financial abundance by applying strategies aligned with building solidarity economies to sustain our purpose driven work in the world.

• Session 3 - Design Narrative -During this session we will apply common narrative strategy tools to solidify how you tell the story of your work.

• Session 4 - Community of Practice Day - In this culminating session each participant will have an opportunity to present their idea, economic strategy, and visibility plan to a small group, receive aligned feedback, and build your confidence giving voice to your dreams.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Who should sign up for Design Freedom? If you are a non-profit executive, consultant, social good entrepreneur, small business owner, or anyone launching an offering, service, or product this course will help you strengthen your leadership. You are ready to tap into your authentic offering, looking to expand your understanding of solidarity economies, and excited about activating your creation. 

• What will my experience be in Design Freedom? Design Freedom is a highly immersive and interactive workshop series. Expect to experience an integration of embodiment practices, emotional exploration, storysharing, and providing others feedback during the process. You will also have activities to complete between sessions that could take 2 - 4 hours depending on your experience level. Doing these activities ensures you are able to actively engage and contribute to the community of practice. Sessions will not be recorded and cameras will be asked to be on for the duration of the session. 

• Are white people able to sign up? While Octavia’s Garden is focused on QTBIPOC and BIPOC leaders, Design Freedom is also open to white allies who feel a resonance with this offering. Design Freedom will be centering the needs, stories, and experience of QTBIPOC, and BIPOC individuals. Please self-assess your ability to co-hold a space with QTBIPOC and BIPOC individuals, your ability to participate from your full humanity, and openness to feedback about white supremacy dynamics. 

• What is Octavia’s Garden? Octavia's Garden is a growing community of practice for BIPOC and QTBIPOC founders, creators, and initiators to build their capacity in healing justice, leadership, and collective economies. We are people who work with land, arts, emotional health, diverse capital, spirituality, and are building a new world rooted in freedom. If you would like to learn more about becoming a member of Octavia’s Garden, please book an Exploratory Call here.