Mindfulness / Meditation/Contemplative Facilitator for Workshops, Special Events, Retreats
Available upon Request
Mindfulness or contemplative facilitation is a way of guiding individuals or groups that centers presence, deep listening, and intentional awareness. It invites people to slow down, connect with their inner experience, and engage from a deeper place of clarity and compassion.
Rather than leading with urgency or directive energy, this approach creates space for reflection, meaningmaking, and authentic connection to emerge—within ourselves and in community.
As a Zen Buddhist practitioner, I bring a grounded, embodied presence to the spaces I hold. My facilitation draws on years of practice, storytelling, authorship, and teaching in settings including graduate social work, social justice education, retreat environments, and movement spaces.
My approach to contemplative facilitation includes:
Centering awareness and stillness as resources for insight and resilience
Holding space for complexity, discomfort, and transformation
Inviting both inner reflection and collective dialogue through circles and Council practice
Weaving in somatic and mindfulness practices that ground and support real-time engagement
Creating inclusive, brave spaces for people to show up fully—as they are
This style of facilitation is especially powerful in leadership development, organizational healing, conflict transformation, and moments of transition or change. It helps individuals and groups hold challenges and each other, reconnect with what matters most—and move forward from that place.
One-on-One Coaching
Embodied Leadership Coaching for Women of Color for women looking beyond the promotion to the self-actualization of their leadership through alignment, confidence, and presence.
Are you transitioning into a leadership role? Do you consider yourself a leader but are not supported in your leadership at your place of work?
Are you struggling with overwhelm because of the challenges you face in your role, whether it be related to the issues connected to the communities you serve, the current socio-political context, or organizational culture?
Are you struggling to find your voice? Do you find you can speak for others, but not for yourself? Is it challenging to articulate your needs around support, your boundaries, your aspirations? Are you concerned about how this is impacting the communities you serve? Are you in need of a break or deep rest and unsure on how to ask for it, take the time, or create it for yourself? Do you want to be as present for your loved ones as much as you are for the people you serve?
Then Embodied Leadership Coaching is for YOU.
This one-on-one coaching is designed for leaders who want to feel more connected to themselves and their work—who are ready to lead from a place of clarity, resilience, and purpose.
Together, we’ll explore your role, values, and resilience using a blend of mindful and embodied practices, one on one accountability and check in meetings, and co-create your vision statement of leadership by identifying concrete and realistic goals to be assessed incrementally, for your embodied change. This approach will aid you in aligning your leadership with what truly matters to you—so you can show up with greater confidence, set meaningful boundaries, lead in a way that feels both effective and sustainable, while also showing up fully for the communities you serve.
Through our work together, you will:
Align your leadership with your core values
Learn practices and skills to build confidence and authentic presence
Set and hold boundaries with clarity and compassion
Strengthen resilience and navigate challenges with more ease
Center what’s most important— without burning out
Specifically, we will use my adapted embodied leadership framework of examining the SELF in your leadership style through contemplative practices such as mindfulness, journaling, connecting breath and body, and inquiry:
S - Stillness, cultivating a stillness practice to build awareness
E- Exploring the stories that shaped your leadership on a familial/ancestral, community, systemic and political levels
L - Letting go of or releasing stories that no longer serve you, and embracing what resonates
F- What would a more free/liberatory style of leadership look like for you? How can you bring yourself more fully into your leadership style?
You’ll walk away with practical tools and embodied practices you can use in real time—so you can lead with intention, stay grounded under pressure, and feel more at home in your role.
This is a space for reflection, growth, collaboration, supported practice, and ongoing transformation.
Services
Belonging and Inclusion Workshops/Groups Facilitator
Available upon Request
Participants are invited into a co-created, brave space to explore what it means to belong— within ourselves, with one another, and within our broader communities and systems. Through contemplative practices, structured dialogues across difference, and intentional peer support frameworks, we cultivate the inner and collective capacity for inclusion and accountability.