We Envision Spaces

~Spaces for somatic exploration and beloved community~

~a Beloved community of Embodied and empowered women~

~Women creating and sharing stories through varied art forms~

~art forms that inspire new possibilities for collective action~

~collective action that moves us toward systemic transformation~

OUR SPACES ARE ROOTED IN VALUES:

CREATIVITY as in cultivating novel ways to explore our inner/outer worlds and expressing our findings through writing, visual arts, sound, movement, and role play

SOMATICS as in honoring our bodies as story keepers and healing guides while sharing our extensive training in embodiment methods from both the Global South and North

CONNECTION as in meeting ourselves, each other, and our natural world with compassion, empathy and willingness to be both vulnerable and to support collaboration through intentional communication, feedback, shared decision-making and resource-sharing

TRANSFORMATION AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH as in the ongoing learning, healing and action that supports interdependence for the thriving of historically marginalized women, while bridging the gap between those with less privilege/resources and those who have more

STEPS TOWARD VISION:

Creative Breath: We offer free somatic healing circles for BIPOC women to find belonging, share stories and practice embodied creativity within a container of diversity, equity and inclusion, feedback and collaboration.

Publishing Funds: We are raising funds to publish our literary works.

Outreach and Engagement: By late 2025/early 2026, we will cultivate partnerships with individuals and organizations aligned with our purpose of supporting women. And we will establish our presence (via talks, community gatherings, online forums, publications, etc.) to increase access to our programs.

Expand Systems of Collaboration: In 2025, we'll add to our feedback, decision-making, and resource-sharing systems to increase member input and make Creative Breath more replicable.

Expand Community Membership: By 2026, we will launch additional programs to serve a wider community, including women who are:

  • Artists (and anyone needing more creativity and/or physical movement and healing in their lives)

  • Interested in social justice allyship

  • Experiencing chronic pain

  • Living with disabilities

  • Experiencing (or have experienced) unbelonging

  • Interested in bridging the economic gaps that exist in our current economic systems

Sample Programs: Social Theater, Whole-Body Creativity, Narrative Healing and Memoir Writing, Ancestral Healing, Dreamwork for Artists, Visioning and Preparing for Change, Embodied Communication, Body in Nature, Somatic Mindfulness, Pain Management, Somatic Movement and Sound for Stress Reduction, and Creativity for Collaborative Leadership.

Financial Sustainability: We aim to create and sustain multiple long-term funding channels - including additional publications, gift economics (with donors), grants and additional programs - in partnership with our fiscal sponsor. We will have a completed media project/literary work finished by the end of 2025 and ready for publication.

Grow Creative Breath: By 2026, we will train additional paid facilitators from Creative Breath alumni, document replicable program structure, and expand online and on-land circles for BIPOC women, with an emphasis on immigrants.

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