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Kerri Kelly, CTZWELL
Retreats on Leadership
Kerri is the founder of CTZNWELL, a movement that is democratizing wellbeing for all. A descendant of generations of firemen and first responders, Kerri has dedicated her life to kicking down doors and fighting for justice. She’s been teaching yoga for over 20 years and is known for making waves in the wellness industry by challenging norms, disrupting systems and mobilizing people to act.
All M2 members get a special 25% off all retreats in 2025!
Staci Haines. SomaSJ
Somatics
Staci is an innovator in the field of Somatics, focusing on how it can bring transformative capacity to social and climate justice movements and help heal the impacts of trauma and oppression. She runs online and in-person programs and teacher trainings, and partners with social and climate justice organizations. She co-founded generative somatics, a multiracial organization dedicated to building social justice capacity. She serves as a senior teacher at the Strozzi Institute and plays a central role in shaping its methodology. In 1999, Staci founded generationFIVE, a transformative justice non-profit committed to ending child sexual abuse within five generations.
Staci has free programming & sliding scale fees for all programs.
Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Rōshi
Healing Race Portal
Rev. angel is a two-time author, visionary, social strategist, founder of Transformative Change, and architect of Healing Race Portal. Called “one of our wisest voices on social evolution” by On Being’s Krista Tippett, Rev. angel is the second — and currently only living — Black woman to hold the most senior title in Zen Buddhism. Her 30 years of multidimensional work and practice sit at the vanguard of embodiment toward liberation, personal and collective. The work from her book, Radical Dharma: Talking, Race, Love & Liberation has been the laboratory of the Healing Race Portal. Rev. angel owes to the imprint of connection we have as humans that these connections can happen with and through technology and leverages the most advanced technology available to design systems that connect us across cultures and continents.
rusia mohiuddin, UP
Programs, Trainings, & Retreats
Rusia N. Mohiuddin, based in New York, is a master trainer, facilitator, & somatic coach who pioneered the integration of somatics into an organizing framework. Her current mission, through UP, has been developing a holistic model for social justice change work that places in its center the necessary transformation of social change agents. Rusia brings a unique style to creating pathways for individuals to bring their best selves forward when enacting social change in their organizations & communities.
All public offerings will be discounted to all M2 members, forever.
Dr. Monika Son & Ericka Echavarria
Finding A Middle Path
Inspired by jo kata practice, meditation and other somatic practices, this workshop will explore what it means to show up to everyday heartbreak and rage in our work for justice. Through embodied practice, we will explore how it feels to show up frounded in strength and open- hearted to vulnerability. We will also explore what resources our imagination. Finally we will collectively bear witness to what is possible when we presence in this way.
Coming this April 2025, discounts for all M2 Members.
KG Martinez & Natasha Capers
Embodying Renewal Retreat
In a world that demands so much, rest is a radical act. This half-day workshop offers women of color in leadership a powerful space to cultivate resilience and renewal. Together, we’ll set intentions by creating a sacred altar, an anchor for healing and reflection that honors both our individual and collective journeys. From this foundation, we’ll design and map rituals that bring rest and grounding into daily life, support us in navigating transitions with intention, and cultivate resilience within ourselves and communities during challenging times. Our time concludes with a deeply embodied Reiki healing session, promoting relaxation, body-mind alignment, and a profound reconnection with inner wisdom.
This is an invitation to reset, recharge, and reclaim the nourishment that rest provides. Leave ready, renewed, supported on your path of radical rest.
This is an invitation to reset, recharge, and reclaim the nourishment that rest provides. Leave ready, renewed, supported on your path of radical rest.
Discounts for M2 members.
Emergent Leadership for Liberation & Action (name change)
Each ELLA cohort will launch with an EL (Embodied Liberation) Summit. EL Summit is a biannual (every 2 years) convening to celebrate, support, and cross train women of color social change agents through a multi-day summit which will serve as a springboard for the other programs, retreats, and training activities geared to cultivate embodied leaders intensely and acutely.
Embodied Leadership (EL) Summit 2024 Objectives:
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Connect and synergize the diverse strands and manifestations of women of color-centered leadership, healing, and racial justice work.
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Convene an inclusive make up of 100 US-based organizers and social change agents who are representative of WOC and the many intersections of our identities.
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Center healing and transformation, as foci points of workshops and trainings, that serve individuals’ relationship to self and others.
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Establish regional networks to support WOC during and post the EL summit that can simultaneously create local pockets of support and learning comrades.
Embodied Leadership Tenets
Leadership that is aligned with one’s own mind, mood, & body, with constant awareness of oneself & others. To navigate from this awareness is to harness the inner wisdom of maintaining this alignment.
Leadership that is driven by a deep purpose, to understand that every action & inaction, every spoken word or intended silence is in service to one’s higher purpose.
To exert one’s leadership, in all manner, as an expression of one’s core values & principles.
Leadership that is guided by a multi-layered, interconnected image of success; a vision for our world, a vision for our communities, and a vision for ourselves.
Leadership that realizes & embraces the full breadth of one’s own power in absence of fear, regret, and/or shaping from patriarchal & white supremacist values.
Leadership that deeply understands & works towards using one’s own force to create balance & equality in any space one occupies.
Leadership that embodies a return to center, one’s own base of power, despite internal and/or external conditions.
Leadership that embodies one’s core values in what one thinks, feels, & acts towards oneself & others.
Leadership that embodies one’s core values in what one thinks, feels, & acts towards oneself & others.
Intensive Trainings & Certifications Post-EL Summit:
Leaders of Embodied Organizing (LEO)
Embodied Organizing (EO) is a comprehensive model for community organizers, designed for both new and experienced organizers, that seeks to develop skills, with somatic and embodied leadership lenses, to develop effective organizers while uniquely cultivating leadership that creates necessary balance and self-care so organizers feel and are able to do movement work for the long haul.
The LEO Intensive, following in the tradition established by its creator, Rusia Mohiuddin, takes on a two-pronged approach in developing skilled organizers:
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Theoretical learning of a broad set of organizing skills and healing, embodied leadership, and self-care methodologies; and
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Deepening theoretical learning through application and practice to add a critical layer of experiential learning to deepen and enhance overall organizing knowledge.
Warriors for Embodied Liberation (wel)
A 2-year, certified embodied leadership and coaching training program, that centers the experiences and realities of women of colour as tools to support our own healing and growth. Broadly, wel imparts work towards:
The LEO Intensive, following in the tradition established by its creator, Rusia Mohiuddin, takes on a two-pronged approach in developing skilled organizers:
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Embodied coaching™: embodied coaching integrates both how unique experiences shape individual as well as integrating a model of how we tend to change, intentionally & unintentionally.
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Embodied training & facilitation: This work serves first as a grounding in lived experiences of transformation, then as a springboard for people to take those experiences to create models & methodologies of their own to use in their own communities.
