Original intellectual work
Original materials and the program framework are personally owned by the founder. Licensing and institutional use require permission.
About the enterprise
A coherent practice.
A wider horizon.
Sacred Coherence Works™ is an independent, founder-led educational and contemplative enterprise. Our work connects rigorous reflection with grounded, intentional living.
Our purpose
To connect wisdom, inquiry, and action.
We create spaces and tools for reflective formation informed by contemplative theology, African ancestral knowledge, interfaith practice, and the social realities that shape human agency.
Our work is intentionally interdisciplinary. It makes room for spiritual experience without exempting interpretive claims from ethical scrutiny, and it respects the distinct responsibilities that belong to different cultures, professions, and institutions.
We are a personally owned enterprise, separate from DC Legendary Musicians (DCLM) and any nonprofit or religious institution. No outside institutional endorsement or ownership is implied.
Founder & direction
Founder-led. Scholarship-informed.
A clear organizational identity, supported by a founder whose work spans law, contemplative formation, and interdisciplinary cultural inquiry.
Founder & intellectual director
Rev. Tonya Butler-Truesdale, Esq.
(Mama Adéjọ́kẹ́)
Christian minister · Interfaith spiritual practitioner · Attorney · Scholar
Rev. Tonya Butler-Truesdale is a Christian minister and interfaith spiritual practitioner whose work engages Yorùbá Ifá, African American Hoodoo, contemplative theology, and African ancestral wisdom.
She holds a bachelor's degree in Foreign Affairs with a concentration in African Affairs, including African literature and religion, and a law degree. More than three decades in law and municipal governance inform her engagement with institutional authority, ethical judgment, and public life.
Her current studies include a master's degree in Spirituality and a certification in Spiritual Direction, anticipated in May 2027. She has also undertaken pastoral-counseling training with Aaron Pawelek, LICSW, through the New England Pastoral Institute. Planned doctoral studies are not represented as completed credentials.
Her original Discern · Divine · Decide · Do™ framework provides the intellectual foundation for Sacred Coherence Works' emerging digital and educational programs.
Operating commitments
Independent by design.
Responsible representation
We distinguish activities underway, concepts being developed, and partnerships that have not yet been confirmed.
Future commitment to giving
A planned allocation of 5% of total annual net profit will support a designated group of educational and community organizations, subject to final policy and verification. No donations are represented as already made.
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