Char is a commitment to ending cycles of harm.
Our multidisciplinary practice includes:
Advanced training in Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution
Certification as a Resilience Toolkit practitioner
Certification as a STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience) practitioner
Training in Emergent Strategy's Holding Change facilitation and mediation models
Training as a Conflict and Grief Circle facilitator
Training in Sage Haye's Embodied Liberation approach to SE
Training in Dave Berger's BASE approach to Concussions & PTSD
Training in Diane Poole-Heller's approach to Neurobiology & Attachment
Training in Resmaa Menakem's Somatic Abolitionism
Training in Meenadchi's DNVC (Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication) approach
Thousands of hours training & practice in Ashtanga Yoga Mysore rooms
Ongoing learning with mentors, colleagues, and community in workshops, trainings, life together.
We live in a fiery, mystic, chronically ill/disabled white body oriented to the hope of healing and repair. We work dedicated to betraying whiteness, ableism, and to the building of community systems that abolish police and prison industrial complexes.
I am definitively and thoroughly shaped by the language, values, culture, landscape, and people of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where I lived my first 17 years.
I am committed to mentored learning and unlearning around how to hold my biography, trauma and illness, various forms of power and privilege, and the stories that led me to this work.
My healing journey has been through roles as harm-er as well as harmed, and I value companioning those of us working to call in and befriend the inner monsters.
Char is also a commitment to nourishment, and feeds the folks in our area in collaboration with sister friend Zien at Beloved Kitchen.
