Quanita Roberson is ableist.
She is like a manager who tells everyone to ask for what they need, then ignores basic accommodations because they don’t benefit her and she does not care about anyone but herself.
Tenneson will remain silent and passive in the face of abuse and allow it to continue as long as he doesn’t have to do anything; like a typical white man dripping in privilege.
Q uses cult tactics in her work, triangulates participants in groups, calls people belittling terms such as pathetic and childish, and it is horrifying she has began to call herself a spiritual coach.
I experienced first-hand abuse by Quanita when she projected her feelings of romance for her co-facilitator, Tenneson, onto me, told me I was flirting with him, and then created an entire false narrative to leverage my childhood sexual abuse trauma and tell me I was broken, inappropriate, and had feelings I never had.
When I told her she was wrong, she doubled down and I quote the most terrifying thing a coach can say, “Maybe I know you better than you are able to know yourself.”
If ANYONE ever says that to you, leave. Walk away. Do not be around them ever again alone - that is incredibly narcissistic and shows that Quanita is uninterested in listening to anyone, certainly not interested in believing anyone about themselves. That is called victim blaming. That is called gaslighting. That is called an inappropriate leverage of power and control.
If Quanita had a license or was qualified and had oversight, she would not be able to act in these ways because she would have consequences.
Instead, she has remained unqualified without a license, has no oversight to answer to and when she does work with boards she is on them and has triangulated for them not to even take complaints at ALL if they are about her, And she has made sure there is no way to make a report about her abusive tactics and behavior anywhere online, unless you find a place like this - a podcast - to write it down. Even then, she will attempt to have it removed and silence you. She will also email you threatening to sue you for sharing the truth of your experience.
Quanita is unqualified and abusive.
When told her impacts and shown how her behaviors are objectively the definition of these well-established abusive tactics, she has shown she will deny accusations, reverse victim and offender, and blame you; that is called DARVO and is used in almost every situation of domestic violence. She has shown no interest in ending the harm she has inflicted on others and has expressed absolutely no remorse or regret for the abuse she has caused me.
Tenneson is an accomplice to pain and abuse, and also has expressed no remorse nor responsibility for his role in facilitating an 18-month trauma experience.
Every single person in my small group expressed the clear message that Q and T sent when they finished the first Fire and Water program, and did not ask for because they were not interested in any feedback from the participants; they simply did not think they should consider the experience of anyone in their program but themselves. That is all you should need to know to understand these are not facilitators who are here to help anyone but themselves. Watch out for these snakes.
