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MY STORY
MY STORY
We all deserve to live our purpose. We’re necessary pieces to get us to liberation.
WHY THIS MATTERS /
MY STORY /
This creates the world we’re after: one with liberation and love.
When we realize our own purpose and move from it, we can live the life we deserve.
We can experience what it feels like to freely love and embrace ourselves fully. This is how we undo white supremacy—it starts with loving ourselves from within.
MY STORY & JOURNEY
I didn’t have any boundaries or balance to how much I worked. I feel like I definitely inherited this from seeing my mom work so hard every day and not stopping and I thought that’s how you need to be. Because I had never organized before, I already came in with this thinking I wasn’t good enough or “who was I to think I could be an organizer?”, especially in Oakland, where there’s a deep history of racial justice organizing.
When I came into my organization at CFJ, I immediately thought I had to constantly prove myself. I felt that I just had to put my head down and grind in order to keep this job I thought would define who I was.
About Me
MY STORY & JOURNEY
What I soon learned from that whole experience, was that our self-love and ultimately our healing was just as important as the organizing work we do with our communities. In order for our people who are the greatest resource in this movement to stay and thrive we need to provide healing like coaching to them. That's going to help sustain our people and build power in our movement.
Then a friend of mine who was also an organizer heard my story and said to me I think you should try coaching before making any decision. So after that, I started attending peer coaching sessions and I remember my mentor Stacy Kono hear my story and ask me "What if nothing's wrong with you?" And that really blew my mind. I remember from that one question I had an out-of-body experience and I could finally see my situation outside of the narrow hole I was in.
About Me—
MY MISSION & VALUES /
Leadership that Works Coaching for Transformation Certification.
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Education for Racial Equity Somatic Abolitionism Training for Therapists and Coaches.
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Leadership that Works Parts Work 1: Discovery - Building Relationships with Protectors and Healing Child Parts.
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For new and emerging organizers looking to develop their skills and knowledge. We’ll focus on your specific areas of growth—from organizing skills, leadership development, campaign strategy to organizational leadership.
Education & Training
To awaken folk’s intuition so they can step fully into their power.
My Mission
What I Stand For
VALUES
PURPOSE
FREEDOM
PLAYFULNESS
CONNECTION
→ BELONGING
My work as a coach and organizer is guided by my belief that no one is ever meant to be alone—we’re meant to be in this world in relationship with each other. By seeing others for who they are, it allows us to make deeper connections with ourselves and each other while building a community where everyone feels a sense of belonging, partnership and feels invested in making change happen.
Belonging
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PURPOSE
FREEDOM
PLAYFULNESS
→ CONNECTION
BELONGING
I believe that our disconnection is caused by the oppression we experience. When we live in harmony amongst each other and nature, we’re able to see the interconnection that tie us together: our individual selves to others, to nature and to spirit. I facilitate a space where folks are free to bring all of themselves so they can learn to experience the full joy and freedom that awaits through deeper connections.
Connection
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PURPOSE
FREEDOM
→ PLAYFULNESS
CONNECTION
BELONGING
I help my clients exercise playfulness and curiosity to find new perspectives about themselves and their experiences. Curiosity brings imagination, play and humor. It allows us to experience joy and newness through the journey of self-discovery which doesn’t have to be so serious all the time. I believe that having fun along the way brings our passions forward, helping us uncover new and unexpected things about ourselves.
Playfulness
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PURPOSE
→ FREEDOM
PLAYFULNESS
CONNECTION
BELONGING
As humans, we deserve the freedom to be our full selves in all areas of our lives. My clients are encouraged and invited to speak their truth and be as vulnerable as they wish to be so they experience what it feels like to be free in a safe space. Through this experience, they’re able to make the choice to be their full selves and have the freedom and confidence to live as their truest selves out in the world.
Freedom
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→ PURPOSE
FREEDOM
PLAYFULNESS
CONNECTION
BELONGING
We're not meant to be in this world in servitude—there’s a divine calling to why we're here. That is why I support others to find and live into their own purpose. Because when we move from servitude, there’s a lack of freedom when we realize our own purpose and move from that purpose, we can live a life where we’re fully alive, one that we fully deserve and own. I believe this creates the world we’re after: one with purpose, liberation and love.
Purpose
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We're not meant to be in this world in servitude—there’s a divine calling to why we're here. That is why I support others to find and live into their own purpose. Because when we move from servitude, there’s a lack of freedom when we realize our own purpose and move from that purpose, we can live a life where we’re fully alive, one that we fully deserve and own. I believe this creates the world we’re after: one with purpose, liberation and love.
Purpose
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As humans, we deserve the freedom to be our full selves in all areas of our lives. My clients are encouraged and invited to speak their truth and be as vulnerable as they wish to be so they experience what it feels like to be free in a safe space. Through this experience, they’re able to make the choice to be their full selves and have the freedom and confidence to live as their truest selves out in the world.
Freedom
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I help my clients exercise playfulness and curiosity to find new perspectives about themselves and their experiences. Curiosity brings imagination, play and humor. It allows us to experience joy and newness through the journey of self-discovery which doesn’t have to be so serious all the time. I believe that having fun along the way brings our passions forward, helping us uncover new and unexpected things about ourselves.
Playfulness
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I believe that our disconnection is caused by the oppression we experience. When we live in harmony amongst each other and nature, we’re able to see the interconnection that tie us together: our individual selves to others, to nature and to spirit. I facilitate a space where folks are free to bring all of themselves so they can learn to experience the full joy and freedom that awaits through deeper connections.
Connection
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My work as a coach and organizer is guided by my belief that no one is ever meant to be alone—we’re meant to be in this world in relationship with each other. By seeing others for who they are, it allows us to make deeper connections with ourselves and each other while building a community where everyone feels a sense of belonging, partnership and feels invested in making change happen.
Belonging
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Geordee Mae Corpuz (she/her/hers) is a coach, organizer, and facilitator in the Bay Area. She understands that systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, life experiences, and the different parts of a person (their joy, pain, and desires) are intentionally invisibilized in the day-to-day spaces we navigate. This often causes us great pain because we are forced to compartmentalize ourselves, making us feel not all of our parts are worthy. Through coaching, Geordee works to support clients to show up fully in all aspects of their lives, by building deep self-awareness and channeling the power of self-love.
Geordee also brings with her a decade of experience in grassroots organizing and deeply understands what is being demanded of leaders who are fighting for liberation for Black and Brown working-class communities. Along with coaching, she's the Program Director at Center for Empowered Politics - a practitioner-led movement capacity organization that trains and develops new leaders of color to grow their power building and co-governing infrastructure, as well as the Board Chair for Filipino Advocates for Justice.
When she’s not doing movement work, Geordee Mae loves to enjoy basketball (especially her team the Warriors), being in nature, and being a dog mama to Izzy.
Bio
professional bio
Geordee has a powerful way of connecting with people and truly getting to the root cause of the issue. Through Geordee’s coaching I really learned how to set healthy boundaries with my work place, protect myself from negative energy, have transformative conversations with difficult leader staff, and tap into my inner child when I was dealing with challenges. I’m different now because I freed myself from those environments and I was able to leave and reflect on what transformation can look like for myself outside of working for non profits. Geordee is amazing sweet and caring!
