Reclaim your Power

In my experience and observation, they may include:

• Ongoing stress, burnout, exhaustion,
• lack of feeling a sense of belonging,
• more frequent chronic illness / pain flares,
• masking your true self,
• feeling disconnected from your body,
• feelings of scarcity and worry about the future,
• reduced self-worth,
• sustained trauma in your psyche from workplaces that are biased, meritocratic, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist---
  in the form of taking up less space, struggling to putting yourself out there, having less access to your creative self...
  
  This is not an exhaustive list.  Project Corporate Trauma presents a detailed list of studies and impacts of workplace trauma.

Reclaim your Power is a workshop where we will go on a journey of Transgressive Adaptation*, through guided somatic practice and self coaching prompts, to nurture your inner ecosystem.

This space welcomes your unique learning needs, you'll have time to explore prompts privately in words, doodles, gestures and any other mediums of expression and journaling you are drawn to. When I invite shares with the group, you choose what you share, if you feel drawn to do so.

I don't give advice on what you do, instead I facilitate transformative spaces where the prompts and practices are invitations to connect with your inner guidance and the land, to lead and explore from within.

• Four part pre-workshop orientation dripped via the course portal
• Attend the 90 minute live online workshop on Oct 10, 2026 at 1pm Pacific time. On camera participation during is welcome and optional, there will always be ways to participate async via chat.
  • When you attend live, you'll have an opportunity to share your experiences and feel seen and heard in a supportive cohort of people practicing alongside you, whether on chat or on mic. 
• Lifetime access to the recording and transcript uploaded 48 hours after the event through the course portal, whether or not you attend live
  • Even if you can't attend live, stay in touch with me and the cohort and ask questions and share your journey with us through the course portal
• Transgressive Adaptation worksheet with inspiration and self-coaching prompts to tap into your inner wisdom in times of uncertainty and change
• You will receive prompts for how you can integrate the learnings from the workshop into your own  life in ways that are accessible to you
• You will also get optional resources and book recommendations to dive deeper

At the end of the workshop, I'll share an optional invitation to my upcoming transformative coaching offering.

...is rooted in Radical acceptance that when systems of domination cannot offer us ways to heal, we choose to heal from within anyway. 

The transformative work of tending to our inner multiciplities of minds, or parts, in ways that enable us to retrieve our creative power that we might be cut off from, through traumatic or constricting experiences, under systems of oppression---is made possible through a form of somatic Parts work** adapted through my own practice, and woven into Transgressive Adaptation*, my coaching and facilitation framework.

Transgressive Adaptation offers us a simple repetitive framework for doing inner healing work by beginning at the place that feels untenable to reclaim and lead with your innate creative power.

I weave coaching with somatic healing to create offerings that support the collective in healing from long-term psycho-somatic trauma we sustain from surviving experiences that we did not have the capacity to handle when they occurred. My vision is for us to have more of our power to nurture what makes us feel alive.

Coaching offers the framing that we are already whole and resourced, and that the answers we seek are within us. You have sovereignty over yourself, and you choose where the work goes.

From a somatic healing approach, I bring practices to connect with our body and the land's capacity to heal us and support you in creating a richer creative relationship to your inner ecology and the land.

The people who work with me are truly brave. This work can touch tender places, and when you reclaim your power and remember your relationship with the land, you are also opening up to new possibilities.

Every practice moves something, naming a sensation in your body alone can be so powerful in slowing us down in the moment.

And, it is a long-term practice, not a quick-fix.

This is not about healing perfectly or completely. It is meant to give you a simple framework that offers you a map to heal yourself as and when you are ready to. It is integrative with your existing care practices and team of therapists, astrologers, herbalists, doctors, bodyworkers .. 

If you get cognitive information about yourself from other modalities, you can use this framework to go deeper within your bodymind and transform and update your inner landscape to come into congruence with who you are and what your deepest self is calling you to. 

Healing from the impacts of systemic violence is not simple or likely to be complete. But I believe we subvert the system by healing anyway. When we heal from within we create more possibilities for healing the world around us. 

As a trauma healing practitioner, I prioritize safety and consent. While some may want to and have capacity to go deeper in private and understand the stories these parts hold, and in this workshop, we will not go deep into the stories of our past or reexperience triggering  traumatic memories. 

When we are sharing in the group, within the scope of this workshop and with content warnings so that people can opt in--you may choose to share a challenging experience that when witnessed and heard would feel healing for you. I facilitate a space of compassion and non-judgement for you to be received in these tender places.  

My practice is about supporting you in  learning how to create safety in your body and resource yourself first, and from this place slowly build the capacity to converse with what feels distressful, so that you can tap into more of your creative power and lead from within.

We work with naming the sensations you feel, and understand the context and functions that parts are serving, what they need and how to update them. You have agency to decide what you will work with at all times. 

I began coaching and facilitation learning on the job as an Engineering Manager in 2019. A snapshot of relevant study, as I've grown to offer these skills professionally since:

* Certified professional Leadership and Creative coach through a 6 month intensive program at Academy of Creative Coaching, an ICF accredited coaching school, 2020-21

* Politicized Somatics learning online and through self practice since 2020: Embodiment Basics Course at The Embodiment Institute by Prentis Hemphill, Accountability Mapping course by Daria, and the legacy of Generative Somatics

* Facilitation training at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute co-run by Mia Herndon, Sage Crump and adrienne maree brown, 2022

* Unshamed, 6 week live online training with David Bedrick on transforming shame in the body

* Introduction to Liberatory Coaching, at Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation with Sarah Jawaid and Damon Azali-Rojas, 2024

I continue to learn everyday in relationship by practicing the work I offer my collaborators, and by being in a reciprocal conversation with the land. 

I strive to create spaces that center experiences of folks whose bodyminds are at odds with the systems of oppression we all live within--- especially women, neurodivergent, caste-marginalized, Disabled, BIPOC, queer, trans and nonbinary people. 

This space invites curiosity and mutual respect for everyone in the room. 

Group agreements will be posted on the course portal.

If you have a hurtful interaction in my space and need support, you are invited to reach out via DM or email and I'll show up to support repair and resolution in a respectful and confidential manner.

I welcome feedback from you about your experience in my space, and I take it into account seriously in shaping my spaces and offerings.
 
Closed captioning will be available during the workshop via Zoom. On-camera participation is welcome and entirely optional. I'll offer adaptations for somatic practices and invite you to choose the pathways accessible to you.

If you have any questions regarding your access needs, please email support@kolamcreativecollective.com.

* Transgressive Adaptation stems from the lineage of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, and adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy. I created it in a supportive 1:1 partnership learning Black feminist worldbuilding with Ayana Zaire Cotton at Seeda School. 

** Parts work is a non-pathologizing framework popularized by Richard. C. Schwartz' Internal Family Systems model. I practice a decolonial adaptation taught by Damon Azali-Rojas and Sarah Jawaid in their book and introduction workshop on Liberatory Coaching