Reclaiming our embodied and relational selves
Finding Our Way
In the program, participants will:
- Explore wisdom and practices* that inspire presence and embodied awareness
- Practice self-reflection for healing and personal growth
- Pause and reorient to our context, relationships, and communities with intention
- Cultivate community (up to 12 participants) through sharing and witnessing in a confidential and reverent space
*Insights and practices will include a variety of sources, including Black feminist thinkers, animist paradigms, and Qigong among others.
- How can we (re-)align to our deepest power and live adaptively with creativity and joy - even amidst current volatile conditions?
- How can we tend to ourselves and each other with care while taking action for the world we believe is possible?
About this Program
We intend to explore these questions in a container that intentionally centers cultures and frameworks of the global majority. We will share (and invite) cultural perspectives and practices that support us to feel into our bodies and spirits, listen to that felt knowledge, awaken possibilities, and move through life feeling more connected and abundantly resourced. We hope that one of the fruits of our time together will be a reigniting of relevant ancestral or cultural practices by all participants.
We intend to explore these questions in a container that . We will share (and invite) cultural perspectives and practices that support us to feel into our bodies and spirits, listen to that felt knowledge, awaken possibilities, and move through life feeling more connected and abundantly resourced. We hope that one of the fruits of our time together will be a reigniting of relevant ancestral or cultural practices by all participants.
Who It's For
◦ Aesthetics
◦ Birth work
◦ Herbalism and other functional medicine
◦ Farmers, gardeners and growers
◦ Bodyworkers
◦ Caregivers (formal and informal, including parents)
◦ Therapists
◦ Coaches
◦ Aesthetics
◦ Birth work
◦ Herbalism and other functional medicine
◦ Farmers, gardeners and growers
◦ Bodyworkers
◦ Caregivers (formal and informal, including parents)
◦ Therapists
◦ Coaches
APPLY HERE
- personal transformation AND explicitly want to heal in community
- deepening embodied knowledge of how self-change and social change are connected and interdependent
- connecting with approaches or tools to balance caring for self and caring for the world in ways that honors both self & connections
- exploring embodied knowledge practices that tap into wisdom and power stored in the body, emotions, and spirit
- frameworks from cultures of the global majority, feminism, and wisdom of our more-than-human kin (plants, elements, planets, etc.)
*We understand the work of social change and collective liberation to be dynamic and wide-ranging. For us, this includes:
- Organizers, activists, consultants, educators
- Artists, writers and culture workers
- People doing carework in various modalities and roles including:
....and more!
Join Us!
Apply by Sunday, August 11
10 spots available!
- Participants supported by organizational funds: $750
- Participants paying out-of-pocket: $500
- Community rate for those with financial need: $375
Program Fee:
Reflect on our journey, acknowledge our growth, and clarify our priorities & commitments as we move forward.
Session 6: Integration and Celebration on October 22.
Deepen in Black feminist thought to explore joy as a practice of cultivating connection and building power.
Session 5: Joy as Our Compass on October 8.
Guided by Audre Lorde’s teachings, connect to our embodied wisdom & power and discover how it can resource us with energy & healing.
Session 4: Eros as a Map on September 24.
Explore approaches to navigating the chaos in life while tending to our fear and nervous system activation with compassion.
Session 3: Wayfinding through Chaos on September 10.
Ground in the ancestral practice of wayfinding to navigate collective and personal landscapes we are moving through.
Session 2: Navigating from Our Center on August 27.
Arrive in our circle, collectively build a supportive space, and explore our intentions, hopes, needs, and concerns for the program.
Session 1: Coming Together on August 13.
The program will take place from August 13 and October 22, 2025 with six (6) gatherings that are 2 hours each every two weeks on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 6:00 PT/ 7:00 - 9:00 ET on Zoom.
Sessions Overview
Heddy Nam (she/they) is a queer neurodivergent 1.5 generation immigrant cis-woman. A native of Seoul, she grew up as a New Yorker on Munsee Lenape lands then moved to Tongva lands 12 years ago and became an Angeleno.
A lifelong activist with 20+ years professional experience in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors, Heddy works as a coach, facilitator, and strategic advisor to people, organizations, and networks working towards social justice. She focuses her work on offering what she feels is missing in most social justice spaces: ways for people in movements and organizations to prioritize well-being and relationships while courageously tackling social, political, environmental, and economic issues affecting marginalized communities in creative and impactful ways. This has led her deeper into the practice and study of healing justice, politicized somatics, and decolonial facilitation over the last five years.
Heddy biggest inspiration is her mother Rosa Lee, the namesake of her consulting business who became an ancestor in 2008. Day-to-day, she finds joy in greeting the Sun and her plant neighbors each morning, being weird with her husband and rescue dog, relishing poetry, and preparing meals as a way to connect with earth, nourish herself and others, and get creative. She is a practicing Buddhist with a grounding in animism and Daoism.
Steph Yawa de Wolfe (she/her) is a Pan-Africanist, Togolese-American third-culture kid raised across the African continent and transplanted in the U.S. South. Observing the violence of colonialism at a young age shaped her belief in the power of culture as a tool for liberation. Steph has worked in the nonprofit and philanthropy sector for 15 years. As a strategist, program specialist, facilitator, and liberatory coach, Steph supports individuals and organizations in making values-aligned changes, grounded in holistic wellbeing, healing justice, and decolonial practice. She also creates communities of practice and experimental study, and has worked in documentary and film festival production.
Steph’s experiences of cultural trauma and burnout invited her to reconnect to the animist insights of her Akposso culture and ancestry, which support her in ongoing spiritual practice. An avid question-asker and lifelong learner, she is committed to practicing care and interdependence.
Steph is a student of food sovereignty movements, vitalist herbalism, midwifery-informed postpartum care, somatics, and folk and animist traditions. Mountains, rivers, collage, the sound of the kora, poems, home-cooked food, and good conversation are among the things that make her feel alive.
- a passion for the intersection of collective liberation and personal well-being, which for us includes healing and social justice
- an abiding belief in all of our interconnectedness and interdependence, whether seen or unseen, and
- a deep capacity to simultaneously honor and find meaning in multiple realities.
This program is one of the fruits of our friendship where we exchange stories from our daily practice of connection, gratitude, joy, grief, self-compassion, and generosity. We're excited to expand our circle to invite other BIPOC politicized changemakers seeking healing and community.
Co-Creators & Facilitators
Kind Words About Our Facilitation & Coaching
“Heddy is a somatic synthesizer and community builder. You inspire me to breathe.”
- Air Gallegos, Director of Economic Mobility, Canal Alliance
“Heddy has the ability to bring an active spirituality to the work of justice and systemic change.”
- Benjamin Torres, President & CEO of CDTech
“What makes Steph truly magical is her ability to see each individual, connect with them on a deeply personal level, and usher in a desire to lean into their growing edges.”
- Fanta Toure, Director, Girl’s First Fund
“Steph cultivated and created a very safe, warm, and welcoming space for cohort members to bring our whole selves, to understand that the journey is not linear, and to share compassionately and vulnerable with each other.”
- Anonymous cohort member
“Heddy is a skillful facilitator that gathers to scatter (unites and launches) people to carry out what they are called to do.”
- Esther Suh Kwon, Executive Director, Qualified Women
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