Testimonials

"BLOOM's suite of elemental frameworks sits alongside Theatre of the Oppressed, Ubuntu and other African derived philosophies that enable my clients and colleagues for the African diaspora to work on themselves while acknowledging the wisdom of their ancestors.  I'm sure Malidoma is smiling right now. You have taken his work into new spheres and dimensions.

As a community leader BLOOM has helped me understand my true value and the value of each member of my community . The Essences and Becoming framework is both an audit on my key essences and my shadows. I get to track my journey and that of my clients, collaborators and team. The ⁠Promo 101 framework provided a powerful format for my collective call out. The structure is holistic and enables interested members  to see clearly if AWO is for them or not.  The  ⁠Finding your B.I.G creates a framework for a deep and rigorous visioning and goal setting process. The deep dive through personal story telling, excavating traumas and challenges, identifying purpose, distinguishing value, establishing societal role and crafting a Big I'mpossible Goal deepens relationships and helps establish alignment of values, beliefs, passions and motivators. The Value Matrix has become my go-to for forming the foundations of a memorandum of understanding with team members, collaborators, partners and investors. The matrix enables both parties to see each other's value in order to pursue equitable agreements.  The process enables me to continually reassess my value and that of my collaborators. BLOOM gave me the opportunity to see myself and a new way to understand my journey. 

~ Kweku  Aacht — Founder, AWO Community, Accra Ghana, Artist, Wellness Coach, Learning Development Specialist

“This work has been instrumental in shaping my trajectory and journey. I have been guided so much by this work. I think so much of my joy and centering comes out of what we’re doing here. As a director-producer and photographer, being part of BLOOM for over a decade has been genuinely transformative. Before BLOOM, one of my biggest challenges was figuring out how to show up in a creative space and speak confidently about my work, my mission, and my vision. BLOOM gave me the language to articulate exactly what I’m about. It helped me turn my intentions into a clear vision statement and gave me the confidence to share the “why” behind what I do with both clients and collaborators. It also helped me identify and embrace the unique qualities I bring into any creative space, shaping how I build teams and communicate my value.  In short, BLOOM gave me a framework that transformed the way I present myself and my work to the world.”

~ Sekou Luke, Creative Entrepreneur, Founder of Rebel Media 

“BLOOM has placed a spark in my life. It is powerful work. I did not realize that so many of my life choices were centered around a vision that was already born in me. When I create practices of self-care that serve my larger vision and goals, burnout or fatigue is not experienced the same way. These journeys have helped me understand the differences between my passions and my talents, and how they make me a unique contributor to my community.  As a therapist and health care administrator knowing my vision has helped me to give  language to my approach to my work with clients. This work has expanded my toolbox with other aids with which to engage my clients.  Personally, BLOOM  mantras and morning rituals inspire me with strength and focus. BLOOM  gave me community, a space to vision with others peers and be held accountable about how I communicate who I am, and why I am here.”

~ Chantal Georges, Therapist & Healthcare Administrator

“My BLOOM experience began as a healing journey.  I entered the BLOOM community during COVID when I was preparing for life before and after surgery.   Although I was scared, sitting in I don’t know, I knew I was in the right place to explore, to discover and to expand my relationship with myself, the Creator and the eternal now.    It was the first time I spoke truths that were buried deep in my bones.  It was the first time I heard myself without judgement.  I was inspired to hear and merge parts of myself that had been silenced, erased and made invisible first by others, then by myself.  As a result of the listening, my vision emerged: a world where everyone lives their innermost truth. As an education administrator, working in a highly intensive environment where everything is designated urgent, I was seeking yet another strategy to achieve work life balance.  My BLOOM journey provided clarity that I was balancing my life, not just work and the rest  of my life. As a result, I reduced my hours of work, no working after 6pm unless there is no other time to meet, and no working on the weekends.  This created more space for my passion projects, and I began to cultivate a deeper relationship with silence and stillness. On my BLOOM journey, I moved from Fear to Freedom.  BLOOM reminded me that I always had freedom within me, but I had to activate and claim it for myself, not wait on others to grant it to me. And, I was born enough. I choose now to be me, unapologetically.

~ Jacqueline (Jake) Lawrence,  Diversity & Inclusion Specialist, Ottawa School District

"Olubode taught me how to think, shift and bloom. During the formative years of my career his coaching and mentorship created a powerful environment to test and examine my modern ambitions and be held accountable, while balancing the spiritual scaffolding of my parents and ancestors. With his guidance my chaotic mindset was unearthed and a new type of thinking emerged. I am successful because of it. That foundation orders my world and informs my decisions every day."

~ Erika Alexander, Actor & Founder, Color Farm Media

"Olubode has truly given me and our community invaluable tools to navigate the waves of life.  In the process he has been gracious and honest about where his own journey has taken him. I couldn’t be more grateful."

~ Shawn Whitehorn

"I have a pep in my step. I am excited. My light is on again. My frequency has been elevated.  I am living in my vortex. I feel like I have purpose again. I have found my tribe and we are in it together! “

~ Betty Antoine

"This intensive placed me into the fire and I couldn’t be happier. The homework, the exercises, mantras, weekly calls and family energy lifted me up and hastened my steps to this point! I am proof that this shit works!"

~ Diana O'Gilvie, Urban Sass

“... while the themes were familiar, his questions were not, and that was one of the many gifts of FYBIG journey: Olubode has found a really unusual angle from which to examine familiar themes that helped me to see things anew and join up dots in my own journey that I hadn’t even spotted properly before.So for me the FYBIG was like a real launch pad into a new era in my life which I knew was coming but I didn’t know how to align this with my vision, my gifts and my network of friends and family."  

~ Petra Hilgers, Creative Facilitator and Mediator, Textile Artist and Writer

The Intensive has brought a lot of thing into alignment for me. Therapy helped me unlock hidden traumas and helped me to recognize how I have coped.  I would get to a certain point and not be able to move past it. But this journey has helped me to move past this to get myself unstuck professionally. It allowed me to understand that I have more control of my professional life than I thought I had. I have shown up for others, now I get to show up for myself.

~ Francesca Alexis

 “ I have been uncomfortable a lot of times during this process, so I know I’m on the right track! This program with Olubode came exactly at the right moment! No coincidences, there is a divine plan for me!"~ 

Marquerite Hamden ~ Co-Owner, Ecowrist