Oxytocin-Learning Ltd
Interpretive Learning Infrastructure
Anti-Racism · Organisational Development · Health and Care

Most training changes minds. Yours should change the institution.

Oxytocin-Learning helps organisations move beyond one-off training into interpretive capability — the capacity to see, understand and act on racism, inequity and institutional harm with accountability.

For Organisations For Myself

For organisations, the first step is a 90-minute Executive Discovery Meeting — confidential, no obligation, no product pitch. For yourself, the House of Learning is open. One House, wherever you start.

Founding cohort now enrolling
NHS Trust Engagement FoNS Research Partnership Supports PCREF Work 22 Published Thought Pieces CPD Standards Office Accredited Provider · No. 51109
A Personal Welcome

An introduction to Phoenix Rising

A short introduction to why this work exists, who it serves, and what makes it different.

A welcome from Oxytocin-Learning
Co-founded by Dr Jacqui Dyer MBE & Edward K. Neequaye MSc

"Forward Ever, Backward Never" — the promise behind every programme we build.

For Myself

The Oxytocin House of Learning

Learning for yourself, at your own pace, with a guide beside you. Seven courses, each in its own room, all grounded in Ubuntu: I am because we are.

How the learning is arranged

A Passage shows you a subject, a Craft makes it your working practice, and The Long Night is where an organisation changes. Start wherever suits you.

A first step
How Truth Travels

A course in receiving difficult truth. Eight modules, three movements, around three hours of learning.

Begin How Truth Travels
Passage · 24 lessons
The seven House courses

Moving through a subject, inside a house of several. Covered by a subscription.

Meet the courses
Craft · 36 lessons
Phoenix Rising

Where the subject becomes your working practice. Bought once. Its CPD accreditation is still pending.

See Phoenix Rising
The Long Night · 24 rooms
One capstone

Where an organisation changes rather than a person. One for the whole estate, reachable from any Craft.

See The Long Night

The seven House courses

Twenty-four lessons each, and each with its own guide. Choose the one closest to the work you do.

Ava, your guide

Anti-Racism Leadership

Voices That Move Systems

For people working with responsibility, power, bias, and accountability in real contexts.

With Ava, Ward Manager & Anti-Racism Guide

Visit the course
Gonga, your guide

Big Gonga

Rhythm, Celebration, Cultural Memory

For people working with voice, memory, repair, community, and collective care in real contexts.

With Gonga, Community Elder

Visit the course
Gonga, your guide

Community Healing Intensive

The work that cannot be done alone

For people working with collective harm, community repair, and the long work of healing in shared spaces.

With Gonga, Community Elder · The People’s Repair Project

Visit the course
Barry, your guide

CREP-D²

Evidence, Community, Transformation

For people working with care, community, and cultural context in real environments.

With Barry, Recovery & Wellness Elder

Visit the course
Barry, your guide

Men’s Personal Development

Strength Through Vulnerability

For people working with identity, relationship, responsibility, and care in real contexts.

With Barry, Men’s Personal Development & Recovery Guide

Visit the course
Adwoa, your guide

Women’s Personal Development

Voice, agency, and connection

For people working with voice, agency, and connection in real contexts.

With Adwoa, Women’s Personal Development Guide

Visit the course
Efua, your guide

PCREF Improvement Challenge

Data, Truth, Systemic Change

For people working with race equity, care, evidence, and accountability in real contexts.

With Efua, NHS Implementation Lead

Visit the course
Healthcare professional in an NHS corridor — where truth must travel
Why This Work Exists

Why most anti-racism training does not change conditions

Training changes individuals

But the institution absorbs the learning without changing. Staff return to the same conditions. The insight has nowhere to land.

Data exists

But the system cannot interpret what it means. Reports are filed. Disparities are acknowledged. Patterns remain in place.

Staff speak

But what happens after they speak determines whether anything changes. Voice without institutional response becomes another form of harm.

Oxytocin-Learning works at the layer where meaning is made — helping systems interpret reality before they act on it.

Ava Thompson — ward manager, and once a patient on the same ward

"Some revolutions begin with riots, others with policies. Mine began with a pause."

Phoenix Rising is not a course you watch. It is a learning environment you enter — with scenarios that challenge, reflections that deepen, and a narrator who is implicated in what she is telling you.

— Ava Thompson, ward manager

Flagship Programme

Phoenix Rising — Anti-Racism Leadership Training

36 lessons · 3 levels · 62 CPD-aligned hours · Certificate of completion

A structured learning programme that helps professionals and organisations develop interpretive capability — the ability to recognise, understand and respond to racism, inequity and institutional harm with accountability rather than performance.

Delivered by Oxytocin-Learning Ltd — a CPD-accredited training provider with The CPD Standards Office (Provider No. 51109). Course accreditation for Phoenix Rising is currently in progress.

For Organisations

Cohort pricing, implementation support and governance reporting. Begin with an Executive Discovery Meeting.

Book an Executive Discovery Meeting Request Organisational Pricing

For Individual Practitioners

£899 £399 Save 56% per practitioner

Introductory founding price · a £500 saving on the standard £899

Full programme access · Certificate on completion · Learn at your own pace

Enrol Now — £399

Secure payment via Stripe · Access details sent on enrolment

◈ 14-day satisfaction guarantee — engage genuinely with the first two lessons; not right for you? Full refund, no questions asked.

Capstone · New

The Long Night

24 rooms · 7 measured hours · no score, no certificate

Eleven hours on an inpatient mental health ward, and the ninety days that were minuted at the end of them. Six people talk to you, and every one of them tells you the truth. That is the difficulty, and it does not get easier.

  • ◆Twenty-four rooms, across one night and the ninety days that followed
  • ◆One question per room — spent when you ask it, and you cannot ask again
  • ◆In every room, everything stops for twenty-six seconds and cannot be skipped
  • ◆About seven hours, measured from the material rather than estimated
  • ◆Your own record to take away: every answer, every commitment with a name and a date against it, and every question you reached and did not answer

There is no score and no certificate, and that is the point. Level One marks your work and issues a document saying you understood. A programme about what institutions record — and what they leave out — does not end by handing you another record. Nothing you do here is checked, scored or reported, and nothing you write leaves your own device.

Before you enrol. This programme contains a restraint, a detention under the Mental Health Act, a funeral, and racism that is never once announced as racism. None of it is gratuitous. It is written for people who work on wards, and some of the people who read it will have been the patient or the family instead — if any of it sits closer to your own life than to your work, that is worth knowing before you begin rather than after.

£399 per practitioner · introductory, alongside Level One
Enter The Long Night — £399

Secure payment via Stripe · Access details sent on enrolment

— Ways to work with us —

Individual Learner

£899 £399

Introductory founding price · one-time · full journey

36 lessons · 62 CPD-aligned hours · certificate · evidence portfolio · 14-day guarantee

Organisational Cohort

Contact for pricing

10+ learners

Facilitator dashboard · cohort analytics · governance reporting · PCREF evidence pack

Facilitated OIRI Board Session

Per session

Leadership teams

OIRI readiness profile · commissioning recommendation · 90-minute facilitated session · governance-ready output

Enterprise Licence

Annual, tiered

Large Trusts / ICS

Bespoke integration · multiple cohorts · research partnership option · board-level reporting

— The wider ecosystem —
Multi-Programme Ecosystem

The Oxytocin House of Learning

7 courses · 24 lessons each · Ubuntu philosophy

The wider digital learning ecosystem created by Oxytocin-Learning Ltd. Seven courses for racial justice, leadership, relational practice, community and healing, each with its own guide, and all grounded in Ubuntu: I am because we are.

Anti-Racism Leadership, with Ava
Big Gonga, with Gonga
Community Healing Intensive, with Gonga
CREP-D², with Barry
Men's Personal Development, with Barry
Women's Personal Development, with Adwoa
PCREF Improvement Challenge, with Efua
Meet the seven courses Enquire for Pricing

Learning that holds you

The programme creates space for reflection, honesty and collective sense-making. Knowledge checks, scenarios, companion threads and reflective journals — not passive content, but active interpretation.

"I am because we are" — Ubuntu

Reflective practice circle — collective sense-making
The Phoenix Rising Readiness Pathway

From executive interest to accountable learning

We do not begin with a product offer. We begin with understanding. Each step creates a feedback loop between leadership, workforce experience and local priorities.

1

Executive Discovery Meeting

90 minutes · confidential. Understand your context, challenges and readiness conditions.

Distinguishes visible pressures from deeper patterns.
2

Workforce & Stakeholder Workshops

2–4 facilitated sessions exploring how racism, power, trust and safety operate in your context.

Notices signals not visible through formal reporting.
3

Interpretive Readiness Feedback Report

OIRI readiness profile with recommendations for your board. Truth made decision-ready.

Helps knowledge move responsibly through the organisation.
4

Phoenix Rising Organisational Licence

Full 36-lesson access for 10+ learners, facilitator dashboard, evidence tracking, governance reporting.

Connected to real conditions, not a disconnected product.
Book an Executive Discovery Meeting

90 minutes · Confidential · No obligation · Interpretation, not pressure

Evidence of Impact

Listening Beyond Disclosure

Oxytocin-Learning was commissioned to undertake a reflective organisational analysis within an NHS Foundation Trust — exploring racialised staff experience, trust, psychological safety and institutional maturity.

What the engagement explored

  • Legitimacy, trust and belonging
  • Fear, silence and psychological safety
  • Leadership, accountability and organisational response
  • Culture, humanity and relational conditions
  • Truth, interpretation and institutional self-knowledge

What was delivered

  • Comprehensive organisational analysis (11 parts)
  • Central organising diagnosis with systems interpretation
  • PCREF strategic interpretation across Parts 1, 2 and 3
  • Ten emerging local organisational competencies
  • Five-stage organisational development pathway

The engagement moved beyond conventional equality reporting to examine how difficult truth travels through institutional systems — and what happens after people speak.

36
Lessons
22
Thought Pieces
62
CPD Hours
10
Learning Areas for PCREF Work
Published Thinking

What we are thinking

22 published thought pieces exploring learning systems, structural racism, organisational trustworthiness and interpretive capability.

Trust Means Trustworthy

What happens when trust becomes a label instead of a lived obligation?

For boards & executive leaders

Safe Enough to Tell the Truth

What neuroscience can teach us about organisational learning.

For workforce & HR leaders

Structural Racism Is a System Signal

What if inequality is telling organisations something they do not yet know how to hear?

For EDI & PCREF leads

Signal Integrity

What happens to truth on its journey through an organisation?

For governance & quality leads

From Anti-Racism Training to Learning Infrastructure

Why awareness is not enough for structural change.

For L&D & commissioning leads

The Missing Capability in NHS Reform

Why data, equity, AI and neighbourhood health all depend on how systems learn.

For NHS reform architects
View all 22 thought pieces →
Interpretive growth — seeing what was hidden

From awareness to accountable practice

Phoenix Rising does not simply deliver content. It builds the interpretive capability to see patterns, understand what they mean, and translate that understanding into governance, practice change and cultural movement.

See → Interpret → Learn → Act → Move → Become

Questions, Answered Honestly

Before you decide

The questions we are asked most often — answered plainly, so you can decide with confidence.

How is Phoenix Rising different from standard EDI training?
Most training aims to raise individual awareness. Phoenix Rising builds interpretive capability — the organisational capacity to see patterns, understand what they mean, and respond with accountability. It works at three levels (Foundation, Practitioner and Organisational), connects learning to governance, and is organised in ten learning areas that support PCREF work, so the learning reaches where decisions are made, not just where awareness is raised.
Who is the programme for?
Ward managers, senior leaders, board members and practitioners in health and care settings — and any organisation serious about moving from performative equality work to accountable change. Individual practitioners can enrol directly; organisations begin with the Readiness Pathway so the programme is grounded in local conditions.
How long does it take to complete?
The programme carries 62 CPD-aligned learning hours across 36 lessons, and you learn at your own pace. There are no artificial deadlines — the reflective elements work best when they are given room to breathe. A certificate of completion is issued when you finish.
How does organisational pricing work?
Organisational pricing is cohort-based and tailored through the Readiness Pathway, because a licence offer should reflect your real conditions — cohort size, implementation support and governance reporting needs. Request organisational pricing and we will respond with next steps.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes. Individual enrolment comes with a 14-day satisfaction guarantee: engage genuinely with the first two lessons, and if the programme isn't right for you, we'll refund you in full within 14 days — no questions asked. We're not interested in keeping money from someone the programme didn't serve. We want you to succeed; that's the whole point.
How does it support PCREF and NHS priorities?
PCREF, NHS England's Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework, has three parts: leadership, governance and data; six national organisational competencies; and a patient and carer feedback mechanism. Phoenix Rising supports that work. It organises its learning into ten areas of its own (Leadership, Workforce, Patient voice, Service delivery, Accountability, Education, Data, Community, Resources and Public reporting) that help you see how the learning supports putting PCREF into practice. They are Phoenix's own areas: PCREF itself is not divided into numbered areas or domains. Completing learning does not, by itself, show that an organisation has changed its practice, which is why our organisational engagements produce PCREF strategic interpretation that boards can act on. The House of Learning also holds the PCREF Improvement Challenge, guided by Efua.
What happens after I book an Executive Discovery Meeting?
A 90-minute confidential conversation — no obligation, no product pitch. We explore your current priorities, pressures and readiness conditions. If Phoenix Rising is not the right fit, we will say so. If it is, we outline the next step of the Readiness Pathway together.

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