Train the Trainer Fellowship
East Side Cafe // El Sereno, Los Angeles
Launched Fall 2024 at Eastside Cafe in El Sereno, Green Arrow Co-Lab introduces "Train the Trainer," a transformative leadership program designed to empower young adults with lived experience of incarceration and systemic inequity. This 18-week fellowship fosters environmental stewardship, cultural exploration, and urban agriculture skills to cultivate future community leaders.
A Transformational Experience
The Train the Trainer Fellowship is a four-month rite of passage rooted in earth connection. Participants will cultivate deep relationships with the land, gain knowledge of urban agriculture ecosystems, and explore the intersection of liberation and storytelling. By centering joy, mindfulness, and the power of the garden, this program nurtures leaders equipped to create lasting change in their communities.
Environmental Stewardship
Participants engage in hands-on learning, developing essential skills in:
Connection to land and natural elements
Food justice and access to green spaces
Composting and sustainable land stewardship
Biodynamic farming and community gardening
Entrepreneurship and economic sustainability in agriculture
Cultural mythology in plant medicine
Trauma-Informed Life Skills Training
Utilizing a healing-centered approach, the program supports personal growth through:
Leadership development and behavioral awareness
Community connection through creativity and embodiment practices
Financial literacy, relationship-building, and energetic awareness
Co-regulation, ceremony, and capacity-building
Social Justice Education
Participants are equipped with tools to navigate and address systemic challenges, including:
Layers of racism and the impacts of racial capitalism
Food and environmental justice within the framework of systemic inequity
Historical context of mass incarceration and abolitionist perspectives
Advocacy, policy, activism, and community engagement
Intersectionality, queerness, and neurodivergence
