A Sanctuary for Grounded Liberation
Reflection • Repair • Rejuvenation • Reclamation
Liberation is not a sprint.
Shine Bright School is a membership community for people committed to Black liberation through reflection, repair, creativity, and community. The work here is slow by design. Embodied. Honest. And held in a container that is built to restore you as much as it challenges you.
Liberation has a rhythm. Here is ours.
Shine Bright School moves through four pillars across the year — not as a curriculum to complete, but as a living rhythm to inhabit. Each season shapes the reflections, prompts, peer sessions, and quarterly workshop you receive. Each one builds on the last. Together they form a full cycle of sustainable liberation practice.
Pillar
Pillar
Pillar
1 — Recalibration
Pillar
Recalibration is the season of returning to center — grounding the body, quieting the noise, and noticing what has shifted since the last time you paused long enough to feel it. It is not passive. It is the most necessary first move.
2 — Repair
Some things need tending before they can be built upon.
Repair is the season of mending — the places inside us that absorbed harm and were never given space to heal, the ruptures in our relationships and communities that we stepped around because tending to them felt too hard, the parts of ourselves we quietly set aside just to keep moving.
This is not heavy work. It is honest work. And it is necessary before rejuvenation is possible
3 — Rejuvenation
Liberation is supposed to feel like something.
Rejuvenation is the season of restoring what depletion takes — joy, creativity, imagination, sensuality, pleasure. Not as a reward for working hard enough. As a right. As the very thing that makes a free life worth fighting for.
4 — Reclamation
Take back what was taken.
Reclamation is the season of naming and inhabiting what is ours — our full humanity, our right to be curious and creative and wrong and alive, our capacity to imagine a future that does not yet exist. It is where the year arrives. Where we stand in what we have moved through and decide what we are carrying forward.
Meet the Founder
Educator. Author. Speaker.
Monique Melton
Monique Melton is an educator, published author, international speaker, artist, and the founder of Shine Bright School — a global community dedicated to sustainable liberation through honest, embodied, community-held practice.
She holds a BA in social science with an emphasis in sociology and psychology, and graduate work in clinical counseling from Johns Hopkins. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The Washington Post, NBC, and more.
Inside Shine Bright School, Monique teaches four times a year — one quarterly workshop per pillar season — and leads the annual February 21-Day Liberation Journey. Everything else is held by community and rhythm, intentionally. Because sustainable leadership requires sustainable practice.
What’s New
Shine Bright School was built on a foundation of anti-racism education, divestment practice, and Black liberation. That foundation has not moved.
What has changed is the rhythm. Because we know now — through years of teaching and community-holding — that you cannot do the work from a place of depletion.
You cannot repair what is fractured when you are running on empty. You cannot imagine liberation if you have never been restored enough to dream.
This evolution does not replace our foundation. It deepens it.
We are not leaving behind divestment or Black liberation. We are moving deeper into the embodied practices that sustain it.
Everything you Need to sustain the practice.
What is inside your membership:
Monthly written reflections
Weekly grounding prompts
Monthly peer sessions
Monthly book and resource discussions
Quarterly workshops with Monique
Full access to the Shine Library
Annual February 21-Day Liberation Journey
Years of teaching, still alive.
Anti-racism. Black liberation. Inner work. Affirming practices. Community accountability.
The Shine Library is a full archive of anti-racism education, Black liberation frameworks, inner work, parenting, personal identity, and community accountability — built over years of teaching and accessible to every member from day one.
It does not expire. It does not rotate out. It grows.
New work is added each quarter as we move through the four pillar seasons. The library meets you where you are now — and where you will be in a year.
All of it. Yours from day one.
The door is Open.
If you have been doing this work in isolation — reading, reflecting, unlearning, and still feeling like you are carrying it alone — this is the place you have been looking for.
Come slowly. Come honestly. Come as you are.
Choose a Plan
$50
Monthly
Build relationships
Join Events & Experiences
Learn and share with other members and collaborators
Access to the Shine Class Full Library
Accountability Groups
Gain confidence, resources, and more
Support your community and collaborate
$150
Quarterly
Build relationships
Join Events & Experiences
Learn and share with other members and collaborators
Access to the Shine Class Full Library
Accountability Groups
Gain confidence, resources, and more
Support your community and collaborate
$600
Annually
Build relationships
Join Events & Experiences
Learn and share with other members and collaborators
Access to the Shine Class Full Library
Accountability Groups
Gain confidence, resources, and more
Support your community and collaborate
What Members Say…
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Perfectionism impacts everything.
This class has truly given me more tools to recognize how harmful perfectionism is to my day to day life, relationships, and how it is interfering with Black Liberation. If you are struggling with perfectionism (as all of us do in this capitalistic society) this class is for YOU! You will not regret this investment in self-discovery and anti-racism education.
-Claire Gordon
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Insightful and Valuable.
This course was an amazing learning opportunity and I would recommend this to everyone. Monique has a captivating way of explaining and truly making the audience understand and appreciate Black Liberation. Thank you for putting this amazing course together.
-Chelsea Clark
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Practical, Informative, and Challenging.
This class was full of information and tools to further the work of Black Liberation through anti-racism. The focus on how to process my emotions and white identity, as well as strategies to communicate with other white people on these topics, gave me so many tools to use. This class in conjunction with the 101 crash course provides an invaluable introduction to the work, I recommend them to everyone!
-Beth Campbell
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The Start of My Journey
This really made me take a close look at my own actions and gave me an insight I did not have before. I recognize I have a lot of work to do but I am ready to learn and continue my work on this journey towards Black liberation.
-Olivia MacGillivray
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The Necessary First Step
Monique's Anti-racism 101 course completely challenged me in ways I didn't even know I needed to deepen my commitment to the work, and also understand how defining and shifting my motivation for anti-racism work is necessary in order to truly commit. This course is invaluable and I am so looking forward to taking more of her classes.
-Christina Murdoch
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Short and Potent
Thank you for this brief but powerful guide and introduction to Black Liberation. So much to continue to think about and I really appreciate the concrete suggestions and action steps that I am grateful to explore and share with my child as appropriate. This is a lifelong journey and I appreciate your support and willingness to share resources and education.
-Bekah Finch
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Great Reminder That Anti-racism Is An Active Process
This class has so many great reminders and explanations on what it means to be anti-racist and the traps you can fall into as you work towards Black liberation. One of the best takeaways for me is to constantly check my motives. Thank you, Monique!
-Jen McBee
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Great Insight!
I purchased the replay and it was so informative. I took pages of notes on how to start conversations with my own children and even bringing it to students I may interact within schools.
-Lauren Tavares
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"You Don't Have To Have Black Friends To Care About Black Lives."
Monique's reminder to don't overthink information and be open to other perspectives is so important. Friendships are just another relationship we hold in our lives and those people in the relationships deserve to be communicated with fully. No more ghosting each other. Communication will help us all grow. Grateful for this class & would encourage others to engage.
-Morgen Bermel
You were not meant to carry this alone.
You are reading, unlearning, reflecting. Trying to show up differently — in your relationships, your work, your community. It is real and necessary work.
And somewhere along the way it started to feel heavy. Like you are the only one doing it. Like there is no one to process with who understands both the political clarity and the personal grief that this work holds at the same time. Like you are supposed to be further along by now.
You are not behind. You are not broken. You are just in the middle of it — without the container that this kind of work actually requires.
This is what a liberation practice looks like in community.
Shine Bright School is not a course you complete. It is a community you belong to. A rhythm you return to. A container that holds the work over time — through the seasons that challenge you, the ones that restore you, and the ones that ask you to begin again.
We move through four pillars across the year: Recalibration, Repair, Rejuvenation, and Reclamation. Each season brings its own reflections, prompts, peer connection, and a quarterly workshop with Monique that goes deep into the practice.
Everything is held by the community and the rhythm. Nothing is designed to overwhelm. Everything is designed to sustain.
Recalibration
Repair
Rejuvenation
Reclamation
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