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Phoenix Rising

An anti-racism learning journey for health and care. It helps professionals and organisations recognise, understand and respond to racism, inequity and institutional harm with accountability rather than performance. Ava, your guide, shows you in under a minute.

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."

Ava Thompson, ward manager

A learning environment you enter

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.

Every lesson is read, heard and seen. Your guide’s voice carries you from part to part, a pause waits at each threshold, and pictures drawn from the lesson’s own story stay with you all the way down.

A Black nurse in a pale blue uniform raises her hand to speak at a staff meeting, colleagues around the table.
A question in the room
An older Black woman and an older white man sit across a small table under a lamp, two cups of tea between them.
Across the table
A young Black woman and an older white woman sit at a long table by tall windows at dusk, each with a mug, thinking.
After hours
A Black woman walks up the path towards the open, lit doors of a red-brick hall at dusk.
Into the hall

Three levels, 36 lessons

Foundation · Lessons 1 to 8

Learning to notice

The Foundation level builds your eyes: the perceptual capacity to notice what institutional habits make invisible, in language, spaces, bodies, silence, distance, stories, belonging and power.

  1. The ReckoningLesson 1The Weight of the Room
  2. The ReckoningLesson 2The Language We Inherit
  3. The ReckoningLesson 3The Body Remembers
  4. The ReckoningLesson 4The Silence Between Us
  5. The ReckoningLesson 5The Comfort of Colour-Blindness
  6. The ReckoningLesson 6What the Data Carries
  7. The ReckoningLesson 7The Cost of Belonging
  8. The ReckoningLesson 8The Reckoning

Practitioner · Lessons 9 to 20

Learning to intervene

The Practitioner level builds your hands: tools for accountable action, in grief, privilege, solidarity, community, data, policy, power, recruitment, co-production, sustainability and mentorship.

  1. Internal WorkLesson 9When Racism Is Raised
  2. Internal WorkLesson 10The Access You Hold
  3. Internal WorkLesson 11The Work of Solidarity
  4. Collective PracticeLesson 12What Repair Requires
  5. Collective PracticeLesson 13What the Data Can Support
  6. Collective PracticeLesson 14Policy Into Practice
  7. System NavigationLesson 15How Decisions Take Shape
  8. System NavigationLesson 16How Opportunity Is Allocated
  9. System NavigationLesson 17The Decision That Must Return
  10. SustainingLesson 18The Fire We Do Not Carry Alone
  11. SustainingLesson 19The Capability That Travels
  12. SustainingLesson 20The Practitioner's Threshold

Organisational · Lessons 21 to 36

Learning to redesign

The Organisational level builds the house: the governance, commissioning, resource and accountability architecture within which everyone else practises.

  1. Systemic Intervention DesignLesson 21The Governance That Cannot Look Away
  2. Systemic Intervention DesignLesson 22The Pathway Redesign
  3. Systemic Intervention DesignLesson 23The Budget as an Ethical Document
  4. Systemic Intervention DesignLesson 24The Intervention Blueprint
  5. Organisational TransformationLesson 25The Culture Audit
  6. Organisational TransformationLesson 26The Board Table
  7. Organisational TransformationLesson 27The Workforce Covenant
  8. Organisational TransformationLesson 28The Accountability Architecture
  9. Organisational TransformationLesson 29The Evidence That Refuses to Flatten
  10. Organisational TransformationLesson 30The Ethics of Counting
  11. Organisational TransformationLesson 31The Publication That Changes Practice
  12. Organisational TransformationLesson 32The Learning System
  13. Advanced LeadershipLesson 33The Room of Consequence
  14. Advanced LeadershipLesson 34The Crisis Without Collapse
  15. Advanced LeadershipLesson 35The Succession of Power
  16. Liberation SummitLesson 36The Liberation Summit

What a place holds

  • 36 lessons across Foundation, Practitioner and Organisational levels
  • Knowledge checks, scenarios and reflective practice at every stage
  • Companion threads and a reflective journal throughout
  • An executive pathway for board members and senior leaders
  • A certificate of completion with 60 CPD hours
  • Ten learning areas that support putting PCREF, NHS England’s Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework, into practice

Officially accredited: Phoenix Rising is accredited by The CPD Standards Office for 60 CPD hours.

Ava and the people in each lesson’s scenarios are fictional composites, written for learning.

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Full programme access, a certificate on completion, and learning at your own pace.

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For organisations

Cohort pricing, implementation support and governance reporting. Begin with an Executive Discovery Meeting: 90 minutes, confidential, no pitch.

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