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, 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.
Meet Ava
Ava is a ward manager, and the guide many people meet first. In under a minute she shows you what is waiting for you.
"Forward Ever, Backward Never" — the promise behind every programme we build.
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 course in receiving difficult truth. Eight modules, three movements, around three hours of learning.
Begin How Truth TravelsMoving through a subject, inside a house of several. Covered by a subscription.
Meet the coursesWhere the subject becomes your working practice. Bought once. Its CPD accreditation is still pending.
See Phoenix RisingWhere an organisation changes rather than a person. One for the whole estate, reachable from any Craft.
See The Long NightThe seven House courses
Twenty-four lessons each, and each with its own guide. Choose the one closest to the work you do.
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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 courseOne House, wherever you start.
How Truth Travels, the House courses, Phoenix Rising and The Long Night belong to one house of learning. Begin with whichever suits you, and the rest is here when you are ready.
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.
"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
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.
- 36 lessons across Foundation, Practitioner and Organisational levels
- Knowledge checks, scenarios and reflective practice at every stage
- Companion threads and reflective journal throughout
- Executive pathway for board members and senior leaders
- Certificate of completion with 62 CPD-aligned learning hours
- Ten learning areas that support putting PCREF, NHS England's Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework, into practice
CPD accreditation for Phoenix Rising is in progress.
For Organisations
Cohort pricing, implementation support and governance reporting. Begin with an Executive Discovery Meeting.
Book an Executive Discovery Meeting Request Organisational PricingFor Individual Practitioners
Introductory founding price · a £500 saving on the standard £899
Full programme access · Certificate on completion · Learn at your own pace
Enrol Now — £399Secure 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.
Secure payment via Stripe · Access details sent on enrolment
Individual Learner
£399, founding price (usually £899)
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 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.
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
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.
Executive Discovery Meeting
90 minutes · confidential. Understand your context, challenges and readiness conditions.
Workforce & Stakeholder Workshops
2–4 facilitated sessions exploring how racism, power, trust and safety operate in your context.
Interpretive Readiness Feedback Report
OIRI readiness profile with recommendations for your board. Truth made decision-ready.
Phoenix Rising Organisational Licence
Full 36-lesson access for 10+ learners, facilitator dashboard, evidence tracking, governance reporting.
90 minutes · Confidential · No obligation · Interpretation, not pressure
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.
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?
Safe Enough to Tell the Truth
What neuroscience can teach us about organisational learning.
Structural Racism Is a System Signal
What if inequality is telling organisations something they do not yet know how to hear?
Signal Integrity
What happens to truth on its journey through an organisation?
From Anti-Racism Training to Learning Infrastructure
Why awareness is not enough for structural change.
The Missing Capability in NHS Reform
Why data, equity, AI and neighbourhood health all depend on how systems learn.
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, then Interpret, then Learn, then Act, then Move, then Become
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?
Who is the programme for?
How long does it take to complete?
How does organisational pricing work?
Is there a guarantee?
How does it support PCREF and NHS priorities?
What happens after I book an Executive Discovery Meeting?
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Ready to explore what your organisation needs?
The first step is a 90-minute Executive Discovery Meeting — confidential, no obligation, no product pitch. Interpretation, not pressure.
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