3-Step workshops transforming academic anxieties into healing, writing prosperity, and publishing.
Liberate Your Research Workshops have been featured at these and other institutions of higher learning:
Academia Can Break Us
Dr. Naber’s workshops support scholars in healing from academic anxieties while unearthing writing prosperity and joy.
It’s within your reach!
We Can Liberate Your Research
Liberate your research using these three proven principles in our workshops.
Healing
Acquire tools for healing from academic anxieties, getting unstuck, and writing with a new sense of empowerment and purpose.
Claiming
Learn how to affirm the purpose of your own research and the fullness of your ideas rather than hiding behind the voices of other scholars and reacting to how you think academic gatekeepers might judge your work.
Framing
Learn how to develop imaginative theoretical and methodological frameworks to explain your interventions while thriving beyond academic gatekeeping and scrutiny.
Nadine helped me acknowledge my power and stop giving it away to the harmful and toxic academic-industrial complex. Nadine helped me learn to empower myself with what uplifts and nourishes me, to make the worries smaller, and remember why I do what I do. What she taught me will forever shape my pedagogy and personal life. It was indeed a life-altering experience.
Liberate Your Research Workshops
Workshops catering to graduate students and faculty that foster radical collective care and writing prosperity.
Standard Workshop
This 3-4 hour workshop can accommodate any number of participants. It relies on collective care and support to revel in the beauty of writing prosperity and perseverance. The activities foster strategies for healing from academic anxieties; naming and claiming one’s analysis; and affirming one’s imaginative theories, methods, and interventions in writing and publishing.
Customized Workshops
Customized Workshops are organized for specific kinds of challenges. For example, customized workshops for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Association of Feminist Anthropologists focused on the particular kinds of academic challenges scholars in these distinct fields face. Another customized workshop supported scholars persevere through struggles around isolation on campus and non-belonging while achieving writing prosperity.
Customized Workshops
Customized Workshops are organized for specific kinds of challenges. For example, customized workshops for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the Association of Feminist Anthropologists focused on the particular kinds of academic challenges scholars in these distinct fields face. Another customized workshop supported scholars persevere through struggles around isolation and non-belonging on campus while achieving writing prosperity.
Workshop Series
Entails working with a group of writers over a period of time to pursue each scholars’ particular writing goal while fostering collective support and comradery.
About Dr. Nadine Naber
Dr. Nadine Naber is a public scholar, author, and teacher from Al-Salt, Jordan and the Bay Area of California. Dr. Naber has co-created connections, research, and activism among scholars of color and social movements for the past 25 years. She is author/co-author of five books, an expert author for the United Nations; co-founder of the organization Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS); co-author of the forthcoming book, *Pedagogies of the Radical Mother* (Haymarket Press); and founder of programs such as the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois. Her work has been recognized through awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Studies Association (2022), the Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Award (2024), the Y-Women’s Leadership Award, the University of Illinois University Scholar Award (2024), and awards from foundations such as Macarthur, Ford, Russell Sage, Open Societies, and Andrew W. Mellon.
Insights & Strategies
Dr. Naber shares her insights and strategies for healing from academic anxieties and fostering writing prosperity.
Refusing Engineered Chaos & Higher Education’s Collapse
Universities are under siege—and they are complicit in their own destruction. Higher education is unraveling by an even more deliberate, calculated force than before. Websites deleted. Students and faculty disappeared. Faculty positions erased. What stood yesterday is gone today.
Resisting the Urge to Disappear
A Reflection It is easy to feel hopeless right now. The U.S. administration has designated professors as enemies of the nation, using broad, vague language reminiscent of post-9/11 rhetoric—"the enemy is everywhere and anywhere." This strategy fosters a state of...
The Uncharted Path: Navigating the Clandestine Gatekeeping of BIPOC Scholarship
Established research shows that colleges and universities maintain historical legacies that undervalue BIPOC scholarship and their contributions through the explicit clandestine gatekeeping of BIPOC scholarship practices such as...