SOWING POST-CAPITALIST SEEDS: 14 week pod
A grounded space to face the world as it is (without carrying it alone) and tend to the one we’re building instead.
You are not imagining it AND You are not powerless in it.
Our future depends on our collective ability to move beyond despair.
You’ve made the changes: read the books and listened to the podcasts, shopped local and independent where you can, planted herbs on your windowsill, participated in mutual aid, and built more connection and care. But it doesn’t feel like enough.
You understand some of the language of racial capitalism and can point to specific trends in the headlines. You may have a vague feeling that you don’t like what’s happening but can’t pinpoint exactly why it is happening. You may lack the analysis to understand the interlocking threads between systemic oppression in the current moment.
Sometimes you may feel like you are the only one in your circle (or workplace or meeting) naming it out loud. It can feel isolating. It can feel like an overwhelming pressure to solve it all by yourself.
You may feel burnt out and overwhelmed. Some of you may feel a growing sense of unease and precarity of day-to-day life.
The media builds up potential ‘heroes’ (and your hope) and then dashes them in guise of ‘culture wars’ along with your hopes.
You have shopped around for different answers in the form of courses or books. You long for the kind of learning that is less superficial, or intellectualized, but deeper, more embodied, integrated, and acknowledges your felt senses.
You might be a change maker, working inside a community, a movement, an organization built on values rather than extraction. Or you might be one of the growing number of people done with the current system and ready to link arms with others to build something new. We’ve had founders, artists, parents, organizers, healers, mayors, civil servants, and computer programmers take our course. Your role may vary, but your resolve is strong.
We can be like trees holding and nourishing each other below the surface, bracing and supporting new life.
As a facilitator I value: Black/Indigenous/queer led movements and sources, anti-fascism, Indigenous sovereignty and Land Back, our lineages of wisdom holders, relating with both our ancestors and descendants, community focus and mutual aid over personal empowerment, self-governance, anarchism, and dismantling hierarchies.
We look to people around the world working and fighting to build participatory and liberated communities. We center the voices of people marginalized by global systems of supremacy: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, people who are queer, trans, impoverished, undocumented, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, and sex workers who are fighting for the rights of all.
If this is resonating, let’s look at what the fourteen weeks will actually bring. Keep Reading ↓
What participants discover:
Here’s what we have found, time and again, from the people who have walked this journey with us. We’ve had over 120 participants from around the world, spread across 8 cohorts, since 2019.
Understand the roots and history of capitalism
Explore the origins and mechanics of capitalism, colonialism, and exploitation. Uncover how these systems shape our lives and worldviews—and how we might begin to unlearn them.
Clarify where you are in our own ecosystems, niches, and the cosmos
Reflect on your positionality, power, and interdependence. Locate yourself within personal, social, and ecological systems to understand the unique role you play in transformation.
From this space, will explore more deeply the magic we might create together.
Seed anti-capitalist practices throughout your relationships, projects, and communities
Cultivate everyday practices rooted in care, reciprocity, and justice. From growing herbs on your windowsill to co-stewarding a community allotment, you’ll explore how food, land, and mutual care can become tools for transformation. Inspired by real-world examples — like Todmorden, where residents turned their town into a communal food garden — you’ll begin to seed anti-capitalist practices in your own spaces.
Define practices around grief & gratitude and creating supportive rituals and rhythms
Honor the full spectrum of emotions that arise in post-capitalist work. Develop grounding rituals and seasonal rhythms to support healing, joy, and sustainability.
Connect with other rad people in their exploration and praxis in community
Engage in a vibrant learning space with others committed to change. Share insights, struggles, and resources as you build new worlds together—one seed at a time.
Recognize the felt, somatic sense of capitalism and learn to compost those feelings
Discover the tension that capitalism creates within your body as you move from an intellectual to a felt sense. Many participants notice the sensation for the first time and find ways to grieve and release through somatic and cultural practices. This is the heart of this work and creates the impetus for accelerated change.
Build the shared language and practice that values-driven organizations need to move beyond good intentions and into action
Establish the relational skills, the shared understanding, and practice working through difference together. Whether an individual does this work and takes it back to their family or community, or you approach this work as a team, the grounding of a shared language and practicing anti-capitalist skills together, strengthens the work, and the community.
Hello, I'm Anuradha
Watch the short video and you’ll understand why I do this work.
Our 5 Course Roots and Practices
This course blossomed out of rich and nourishing conversations that brought Moriah Helms and Anuradha Kowtha back in 2018. From that fertile space together blossomed the tendrils of Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds. Moriah has since moved on to pursue other opportunities, and Anuradha continues to evolve the curriculum and culture of Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds.
From my perspective, this work sits at the intersection of three things rarely brought together: rigorous systems thinking and scientific analysis, the study of how indoctrination and socialization shape identity and behavior, and how we carry embodied and ancestral knowledge in bodies not just our minds.
Our framework draws on neurobiology, epigenetics, liberatory practices, trauma-informed practice, ancestral knowledge, socialization, internalized oppression, hegemony, felt sense, and somatic patterning.
Explore the 5 pillars that inform our approach both in the course curriculum and the culture of our space. ↓
Theory ↔ practice, why we need both
In the real world, theory informs our practice and practice can inform theory. We need both and have woven them throughout. We don’t just approach this work to uphold Global North, academic, and ideas. We value real world approaches including lived experience experts (including from marginalized backgrounds) and highly value practical, skills, and knowledge. For this reason, some of our resources are cartoons, infographics, a variety of guest speakers, podcasts, and practices from radical resistance. Similarly, we value embodied understanding and somatic approaches and ancestral knowing.
Connecting the Dots
We heavily focus on pattern spotting and connecting the dots between the historical, social, political impact our day to day, from the historical roots to the daily headlines, to how we act day to day. For example, we will learn to spot the patterns with the gendered valuation of labor, productivity and punitive culture, and divide and conquer tactics. We will explore how interlocking systems operate, can help us make different decisions about how we navigate spaces, use systems to help our aims, design different ways of being and relating, and learn to distinguish people from the systems. Understanding indoctrination this includes how we are socialized and how capitalism shapes our perceptions of ourselves, our relationships, our workplaces, and the world.
Relationships and Community
Relationship and community building skills are crucial to successful and sustainable movement work. We have weekly self-reflection questions to empower your inner work, and we will have frequent opportunities to build relational skills (to body, self, community, the natural world). Another component of this work is the necessity of coalition building, consensus and group decision making, as well as cooperative and non-hierarchical structures such as unions. In a pod of 8-12 people, you’ll be in a space with other changemakers, people who want to build a different future. As one of our participants shared, you’ll be surrounded by others who will challenge your thinking and link arms in solidarity.
Indoctrination and Getting Free
Capitalism and systemic oppression has reshaped human identity for centuries, without consent. This type of chronic indoctrination doesn’t just change our thinking. Through epigenetics, through nervous system patterning, through the stories embedded in our bodies across generations, it changes how we see, how we feel, and how we act. We’ll start with an honest look at the polycrisis and how it leads back to one root. Then we will examine how the indoctrination shaped us at an individual level, the mechanisms of control and compliance. Finally, we will look at what getting free looks like through somatic, relational, and trauma-informed practices.
The Kaleidoscope Practice
The Kaleidoscope Practice is a proprietary, eight-stage framework for organizational and personal transformation, developed through nearly 2 decades of facilitation, research, and lived experience. It holds multiple perspectives in motion simultaneously, ensuring that systems and people transform together, rather than one at the expense of the other. In this course, we focus on the first 5 steps over the 14 weeks. (Steps 6-8 are covered more in depth in the follow on course The Laboratory or in 1:1 work with Anuradha) In addition, we’ve written more about the pillars that inform our work in The Kowtha Constellation Manifesto and the Six Post-Capitalist Guidepost you’ll carry with you after the course.
The course includes…
Access to the Extended Cultivating Liberation workshop
Access to a 3 hour pre-recorded workshop designed to support you in designing your tailored anti-capitalist practices towards collective liberation. After the event you’ll be able: to hone your personalised goals and curriculum around social justice and collective liberation to identify your unique approach to starting and sustaining liberatory work to design your customised action plan that aligns with your goals and capacity. It includes the recording, a transcript, and the workbook.
Three 1:1 check-ins with Anuradha
You will have three opportunities to meet with Anuradha during the 14 week course.
Initially, we will meet for a brief check-in to get to know each other, review your goals, and address any tech questions you have. About half way through the course during the second integration week, we’ll meet again. And finally, towards the end of the course, you’ll be invited for a final session to see how things went and give an opportunity to share your wins and feedback.
Ethical Abundance Resource
A Bowl of Soup is a mini workshop and reference guide on anti-capitalist magic and money generously created by Bunny (Alexis) P. Morgan, supporting you to create ethical abundance.
Her Bio: Alexis is a psychic jezebel, spiritual showgirl, multidisciplinary creative, multiverse strategist, and ancestral healer, exploring the infinite contours of identity, power, and desire in the pursuit of collective liberation + personal fulfillment. Find more about Alexis and their Ancestor Civil Care Society service here.
Six Post-Capitalist Guidepost PDF
Six Post Capitalist Guideposts is a quick reference guide is filled with actionable ideas to support you in creating anti-capitalist practices into your life, work, relationships, and community.
This will be shared in the final week of the course.
Digital resource library
You will be able to access the curriculum, the activities, and other resources within the course portal.
In addition, we have special access to interviews and presentations on a variety of post capitalist topics from previous cohorts.
Guest Speakers
We’ve had a variety of guest speakers since 2019. Each season we explore relevant decolonial and anti-capitalist strategies through our guest speakers.
We are currently finalizing our guest speakers for this upcoming cohort.
You can review the previous speakers we have had below:
Melanie Dewberry (she/her) uses the power of spirituality, language, words, and naming and author of Soul Naming, shared about Indigenous Spiritual Practices.
Amy Green (they/them), a Consulting Astrologer share their wisdom on using the rhythms of the moon and cosmos to guide our interpersonal relationships.
Tiana Dodson (she/her), a fat body liberation facilitator taught us about her 4 part framework for Fat Liberation and the history of healthism.
Jana Lynne Umipig-Candelario (she/her) ,is a creator, creative/healing justice organizer, liberation educator, transformative community builder, who shared the decolonial approaches she used as a teacher and community builder.
Elinor Predota (they/them), with a background in activism, community development, spiritual counselling, gave an eye-opening presentation on the relationship between (and the history of) Money and Capitalism.
Clara Mejías (she/her) is a black trans woman, illustrator and student shared her experiences at the intersections of Blackness and transness in an impoverished region of the South American continent.
William Murdoch (he/him) is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in modern day Canada, shared about the intergenerational impact of the Residential Schools.
Anu Priya (she/they) is a values-based anti-oppression and EDI trainer, facilitator and consultant with over a decade’s experience in the not-for-profit sector, spoke about sustainable approaches to finances for small charities and freelancers.
lin migiziikwe gokee (they/them) is a two spirit anishinaabe artist, water protector, witch, performer, facilitator, and consultant; they spoke about their interactions with the medical industrial complex as a First Nations person.
Lakshmia (she/her) is a Fractional CRO and GTM strategist and shared about incorporating equity and inclusion into business strategies.
Stephanie Morningstar (she/them) from the Oneida Nation, a renowned Herbalist, soil and seed steward, scholar, student, and Earth Worker and coordinator of the NEFOE Land Trust shared about farming and decolonial land practices.
Veronica King (she/her) is a South African master facilitator, executive coach, social justice advocate and family constellation facilitator at Emuthini Consulting and shared about power and decolonization.
Pampi Das, (they/them) is a nonbinary second-genx casteD-Bengali culture worker who plays at the intersection of healing and popular education, shared their thoughts on decoloniality and their journey of healing.
Course Modules
We are in the process of updating the curriculum to match the current moment. Here are the modules that we previously used. Expect the new updated curriculum when you sign up to the next cohort in 2026/2027.
Introductions & Planting Seeds
The Roots of Capitalism
Reclaiming Ourselves from the Legacy of Colonialism
Indoctrination & Socialization
Grieving & Releasing
Integration / Q&A
Mutual Aid: From Theory to Praxis
Bodies, Relationships, and Labor
Body Liberation
Integration / Q&A
Money, Ancestors & Spirituality
Land Reparations
Cooperative Approaches to Business and Community
Integration / Q&A
Carrying Our Seeds into the World
*For our Organizational and Professional Participants, we will include additional modules focused on Organizational topics: Core Values, Culture & People, Communications Insights, Operational Insights, and Community & Outreach.
Praise
What participants have shared.
Is now the right time?
Here’s some additional insight that might help you reflect on whether or not this is the right time for you:
I created this space specifically for folks who’re feeling deeply overwhelmed by the state of affairs. For those who’re reluctantly running on autopilot or simply showing up out of obligation and expectation. For folks who see the wheels falling off of the capitalist machine, but feel like their current actions aren’t enough at this time.
In short, you needn’t feel like you “have it together” before you join this space.
You needn’t come with prior knowledge, experience or ideas for change. This space is designed to meet each person where they are. In fact, this mix is part of the magic.
One of the things I most love to witness is the beautiful connections that form between participants and even between pods. I’ve found that an environment designed to find solutions and assume positive intent amongst each other is uniquely wholesome. I hope you discover this too.
These pods are for artists, entrepreneurs, parents, founders, writers, community organisers (and more) who are keen to move beyond an intellectual understanding of anti-capitalism and toward experiential practice.
So here’s a question:
How might you benefit from a space designed not just for learning and visioning but real community building?
Should you like to explore this question further, or have any queries, head to the FAQ at the bottom of the page to see we’ve left an answer. Alternatively feel free to reach out at hello@thekowthaconstellation.com
Meet your guide.
I’m Anuradha Kowtha (Anuradha/they/them) and it’s pronounced Uh – n uu – r aa – dh aa K ow – th ah. More about that.
The question of belongingness and identity are ones that I hold close to my heart. I bring my experience as the child of an immigrant family from Andhra Pradesh, India to the US and my own experience of moving to Britain as an adult. I hold the Sonoran Desert (from my birthplace of Phoenix, Arizona), the banks of the Krishna River (from my father’s village), the Thames estuary (in London), Sandia Mountains (in New Mexico), and the dales of Yorkshire in my heart–they are all my lands. And yet, I belong to myself and my chosen family above all.
The thread that runs through my work is simple: to illuminate and liberate changemakers from the indoctrination and cookie-cutter thinking of capitalism and colonialism, building toward bold and innovative solutions rooted in justice for their clients and communities.
I once heard a beautiful analogy of what’s it like to do our work: we are creating a rich tapestry. However, we’re often looking at a slightly convoluted pattern that’s in reverse, because we’re working on the back. Doing the work sometimes means getting stuck in the details and we only see the completed vision as we step back and take a breather.
. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Biology from New Mexico Tech and a Master of Arts in English, Rhetoric and Professional Writing, from the University of New Mexico. I’ve also trained in Bharata Natyam, a Hindu dance form rooted in storytelling.
While I am the founder and lead practitioner, The Kowtha Constellation has always been bigger than one person, drawing on the wisdom of advisors, collaborators, ancestors, and communities whose knowledge underpins our work.
That collective foundation is becoming more formally reflected in our structure as we grow. As part of our own commitment to justice, we’re shifting our by-laws and structure towards a more socially conscious model with an advisory team.
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FAQ
I’ve compiled a list of the most commonly asked questions about our Foundation course. If you need to ask something else, send us a note here.
Anyone. Since September 2021, we welcome people of all genders and backgrounds into our spaces.
For clarity, this program is not a basic anti-racism or basic anti-oppression class. We expect a foundation of understanding about anti-oppressive work. This is a brave space; it’s ok to make mistakes AND we want to treat people with care and respect.
No worries.
While we have done our best to make the live sessions accessible across many time zones, we understand if you cannot make it live.
Each week you will receive a list of the resources, discussion topics, and practices. In addition, we record the calls and make them available within 48 hours along with the transcript.
We try to keep the program accessible, including by price and we also want to make sure the labor of running the course (including admin, facilitation, guest speakers, and technology) are also adequately covered.
- We offer several tiers in our sliding scale with payment plans. Unlike many of our peers, we do not add any extra charges for using a payment plan.
- We also will offer at least one BIPOC scholarship each cohort. Get in touch if you want to be considered.
- Outside of those options, if you would like to propose an alternate payment plan send it to us here.
That is completely fine. The materials are optional. We do our best to summarize the salient points of the readings in class. We are continuously looking to add more resources that are non-text based (ie, audios, graphics, videos, etc.) We have also added 3 integration weeks where no new materials are assigned, so there is time to catch up.
You will also have access to the recordings and a list of the resources for future perusal after the course is completed.
That’s a great question. I’d love to speak to you about it directly. Send us an email, or schedule time with Anuradha to chat about it.
That’s fantastic. Several SMEs and non-for-profit teams have taken the course. For those taking this training as part of a professional development training or in a business capacity. We ask that you pay at the Ally or VIP rate tiers. We encourage you to bring a team members and join us together.
We are happy to provide a certificate of completion.
In addition, if you want this to be privately taught to your team or organization, please get in touch.
VIP Tier: £2000 (you are taking in a professional capacity/want more in-depth support)
includes 3 x 60 minute private sessions with Anuradha & VIP Hamper)
Ally Tier: £1400 (you have access to generational wealth/taking in a profession capacity)
Standard Tier: £1000 (you are employed/access to a level of disposable income)
Scholarship Tier: £600 (you are from marginalised community/ lack disposable income)
We have a few payment options and a sliding scale for equitable pricing. We trust you to select the payment plan that works for you. We have a higher tier for businesses or organizations; we recommend you use the Ally or VIP Tiers.
The Kowtha Constellation is based in the UK and hence our main currency is the Pound Sterling. You can choose to pay via direct bank transfer or Wise if those solutions work better for you or your organization. Let us know if you need these details.
That’s ok. Sometimes life happens. If you let us know, we can work with you.
If you suddenly stop your payments without letting us know, we will remove you from the course until your account is current again. This includes receiving access to the resources and recordings.
For those who take the course as an individual, we offer a refund within 14-days of signing up, in accordance to distance selling regulations. After 14 days for individuals we do not give refunds or will do so at our own discretion. You’ll have access to your payment plan details via ThriveCart and have complete control of your payments.
For those who take in a professional or business capacity, we do not offer refunds.
Yes, you’re more than welcome to do this! We have had several business partners take our foundation training together. Another time, a herbal company with several employees joined a previous cohort. They have had some pretty amazing shifts in the ways they work since the course.
Contact us for organizational pricing.
Individual and organizational results depend on a variety of factors.
That said, we have had a number of people share their perspectives in our testimonials.
Here’s what most people have shared:
- the course changes their view of capitalism and living/operating within it
- . We’ve had business owners say it: saved their working relationship, changed their money and pricing ethic, shifted the projects the focused on to bring more ease into their work. Here’s a look at what people are saying about our foundation class.
That’s ok. We’re happy to help. You will need internet access and a digital device that connects you to the internet. For Zoom, you can download the app and log in with the details we provide.
In the intake forms, let us know and we can arrange a technology session.
How long you spend on the materials will vary from person to person, but a good estimate is 1-3 hours of time beyond the 90 minute calls.
Of course, you are welcome to do what works best for you (and your team). And as I shared above, we make every effort to highlight the salient points of the resources during the class.
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Pathways
We offer a tiered pricing structure to keep the pod as accessible as possible. A few scholarship spots are also available for those who need deeper support.
"To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give up. Do not be misled into passivity, either by false security (they don't mean me) or by despair (there's nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it."
AUDRE LORDE
