
Community
Empowered Spaces is committed to showing up for community.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
The Empowered Spaces Community Garden is an organic gardening cooperative dedicated to quality food access for all, embodied healing and wellness education, equitable and empowering community, and anti-racist solidarities. Through cooperative farming and community partnerships, we seek to create locally-based, environmentally sustainable, trauma-informed and justice-driven modes of connection, resiliency, and interdependence.
Community Rise
This is a free online gathering dedicated to the increasingly essential practice of embracing our resiliency and inherent wisdom while working with fear, anxiety, and trauma in our nervous systems, bodies, and minds. In times of global crisis and uncertainty, we affirm our commitment to stand in solidarity, care for each other in all ways that we can, and to show up in supportive, giving, and loving community.
The intention for Community Rise is to both hold space for the co-creation of community and a felt sense of belonging, while also building embodied practices that center personal and collective healing and well-being.
This gathering will be led by Kelly Caul(she/her/hers, LCSW, Founding Director of Empowered Spaces, psychotherapist) and Sarika Talve-Goodman(she/her/hers, PhD in Literature/Trauma theory, Empowered Spaces Advisory Circle member).
We will begin with an embodied practice to support us in reconnecting to our intuition, inner strength, and wisdom such as mindfulness, grounding, compassion, and building nervous system awareness and regulation.
There will then be space for connecting with one another, sharing experiences, and drawing upon our collective wisdom. There will be the option to join in the conversation and share verbally, through the chat box, or to simply bear witness to the experiences of others.
Community Strong
Trauma-Informed Yoga, Embodied Practices, Healing in Connection
Community Strong is a trauma-informed yoga series for wellness professionals. We explore trauma-informed yoga as a tool for practicing nervous system awareness and regulation, mindfulness, self-compassion, and connection. We believe it is through acknowledging our shared humanity that we can truly cultivate authentically attuned connections with one another.
This is a call to all social workers, therapists, activists, mental health clinicians, yoga teachers, educators, and other helping professionals who are looking to build compassionate and connected community with other like-hearted wellness professionals.