is a facilitator, executive and somatic coach, systems strategist, ritualist, and sacred sexuality and intimacy guide. Her leadership journey has taken her from corporate boardrooms to birth centers, from sacred mountains to social innovation labs. She weaves somatic coaching, family and organizational constellations, embodied racial justice, and ritual into her work, supporting clients in reclaiming wholeness—both individually and collectively. Rooted in her path as a mother, poet, and activist, Cari’s work centers on excavating shadows and midwifing futures that shake old shapes to reveal the fertile soil of possibility. She is currently writing a book exploring the connections between eros and leadership.

is a politicized somatic practitioner who is a commitment to collective liberation, ethical power, and the unfolding of care-centered communities. they have been practicing different forms of somatics for over 20 years and believe that somatic tools are one possibility for helping people find agency that is rooted in collective liberation and interdependence. kathleen’s life and work use a pleasure-centered approach to transformation. More than anything, they want their life to be an invitation for change and take pleasure in guiding people, groups, and intentional communities toward the changes they most desire.

is a Narrative Change Leader, Somatic Healer, and Social Justice Movement Strategy Coach. For 15 years Sarah’s work has largely focused on reimagining justice outside prisons and jails. Her work lies at the intersection of social justice, leadership, creativity, and personal trauma transformation. She offers Body-Centered, Therapeutic Coaching that draws from 20 years of experience leading social justice movements, producing large-scale political art, and healing from the trauma of her political incarceration. She is an acclaimed writer and producer, award-winning investigative journalist, Pulitzer-presented playwright, and 2019 Stanford John S. Knight Fellow based in Oakland, CA. For more visit sarahshourd.com and endofisolation.org.

Somatics and embodiment work is a remembering of ways our precolonial ancestors stayed attuned and connected to the world around them. Nearly all modern-day methodologies come from ancestral wisdom or were stolen from indigenous tribes that still practice these techniques. To go deeper, The Embodiment Institute (TEI), created a series called the Lineage of Embodiment that orients us to embodiment practices in these times and uplifts Black and Indigenous wisdom that embodiment work comes from.

As facilitators, we draw from modern modalities such as Somatic Experiencing, Generative and Strozzi Institute Somatics, Mind-Body Coaching with Embody Lab, Family and Organizational Systemic Constellations, Conscious Leadership, Tui Na Body Work, Theater of the Oppressed, and more.

Jihan McDonald is a facilitator, spiritual director, and writer from the Chochenyo land colonized as Oakland, CA. Their mission is planting seeds of peace through empowering people and organizations to create value-driven cultural solutions rooted in diversity, equity, inclusion, and healing.