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Creative Body Mapping is a practice of listening to your body through art. Of translating sensation, emotion, and energy...
01/27/2026

Creative Body Mapping is a practice of listening to your body through art. Of translating sensation, emotion, and energy into color and form so you can see what you carry and understand it differently.

This February, Emma Coddington Brown is leading a four-week deep dive into this practice.

Join us.

Deep Dive Course
Wednesdays: Feb 11, 18, 25 + Mar 4
10 AM–12 PM PT | 1–3 PM ET | 18:00–20:00 UTC

Solidarity pricing available.
https://lumostransforms.com/creative-body-mapping/

We are navigating a period of intensifying control and systematic uncertainty.Across borders, state mechanisms are being...
01/21/2026

We are navigating a period of intensifying control and systematic uncertainty.

Across borders, state mechanisms are being deployed to generate compliance through fear—detention without due process, the silencing of dissent, the deliberate exhaustion of communities organizing for change. What we are witnessing is not random but coordinated: an effort to undermine our capacity to think clearly, act collectively, and sustain connection under duress.

Stabilization, in this context, is not retreat. It is the practice of maintaining internal coherence when external conditions are designed to fragment us—the ability to stay present, relational, and intentional in how we meet what is unfolding.

Survival to Stability: Intro to the Resilience Toolkit provides grounded, embodied tools for those carrying weight in this moment: organizers navigating escalation, practitioners supporting traumatized communities, clinicians holding impossible caseloads, educators working within failing systems.

The course is built around:

- Understanding bodymind responses as adaptive, not pathological
- Developing practices that strengthen discernment and expand our range of response
- Cultivating the capacity to stay in relationship when pressure pushes toward isolation
- Recognizing stabilization as foundational to sustained, ethical engagement

This work exists because the moment demands it, and because we need each other to remain capable.

Join Rebecca Sumner Burgos and Kiara Lee-Benton, MSW next month!
🔗 Sign Up Here: https://lnkd.in/dM24tXiq

The next Creative Body Mapping Discovery Session begins this Wednesday, January 21st.This two-hour live session is the e...
01/19/2026

The next Creative Body Mapping Discovery Session begins this Wednesday, January 21st.

This two-hour live session is the entry point into the practice. You’ll create your first body map, learn some of the foundations, and experience what it means to listen to your body through color, rhythm, and mark-making.

It’s low cost.
You don’t need art experience.
Just simple materials and curiosity.

If you’ve been feeling the pull, now is the moment to join Emma.
Last call to sample the work before the Deep Dive starting February 11!

Register Here: https://lumostransforms.com/creative-body-mapping/

Starting January 20.If your nervous system has been asking for something different—not more information, not more effort...
01/16/2026

Starting January 20.

If your nervous system has been asking for something different—not more information, not more effort—this is your reminder.

The Nervous System Reboot Experience is a free 6-day online space to work with long-held stress patterns, overwhelm, and reactivity through nervous system practice and integration.

Join Nkem Ndefo as one of the featured speakers, alongside others working in trauma healing, somatics, and neuroscience. This is a chance to slow down, practice regulation, and experience what nervous system change can feel like in connection with others.

Last call to join.

🎟️ Register Here: https://www.nervoussystemrebootsummit.com/home-a?a_aid=nndefo =nndefo

This is a moment of real danger and real courage.People in the United States are living under the threat of detention an...
01/14/2026

This is a moment of real danger and real courage.

People in the United States are living under the threat of detention and disappearance.
In the UK, political prisoners are risking their lives through hunger strikes.
Across the world, bodies are being pushed beyond capacity by fear, deprivation, and state violence.

Survival to Stability exists to support coherence in conditions like these.

This introduction to the Resilience Toolkit course offers embodied practices that help restore orientation when overwhelm, vigilance, or shutdown take hold. This is about strengthening our ability to stay present to what is happening, to one another, and to the choices in front of us:

- Listening to bodymind signals as meaningful information
- Re-establishing internal coherence so action is intentional rather than reactive
- Staying connected and responsive under sustained pressure
- Supporting collective endurance without losing our humanity

This is the final offering that meets the prerequisite for the Spring 2026 Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program.

It also stands fully on its own.

Stabilization here is not about making people compliant or calm.
It is about staying oriented, relational, and alive in the midst of harm.

🔗 Sign Up Here: https://lumostransforms.com/calendar/from-survival-to-stability-1100am-pt-with-devika/

After our first Discovery Session, a few things stayed with us.Quiet focus. Hands moving before words arrived. Bodies fi...
01/13/2026

After our first Discovery Session, a few things stayed with us.

Quiet focus. Hands moving before words arrived. Bodies finding shape and color at their own pace.

“This course provides the space to connect with our lived stories, our pasts, our present and our spirituality all in a practice that gives our body the space to express all of these complexities! A beautiful opportunity to connect with our holistic selves and one another.” - Anonymous quote from a Body Mapping participant Dec, 2025.

If you’re curious about this practice, the next Creative Body Mapping Discovery Session is January 21. It’s a two-hour live experience and a low-cost way to see if this approach to communicating with your body works for you!

You don’t need art experience. Just curiosity and a willingness to listen to your body.

Learn more and sign up here: https://lumostransforms.com/creative-body-mapping/

Ever feel like you know what you want to do… but something inside your system pulls you off course?It isn’t weakness.It’...
01/09/2026

Ever feel like you know what you want to do… but something inside your system pulls you off course?

It isn’t weakness.

It’s your nervous system, shaped by stress, past experiences, and long-held survival patterns.

Patterns can shift. Safety can return.

Join the free 6-day online Nervous System Reboot Experience (January 20–25, 2026) — with Nkem Ndefo as one of the featured speakers. Alongside a global community committed to growth, healing, and meaningful change.

https://www.heartmindpartners.co/nervoussystemrebootsummit_com/nndefo/verified

The next free info session for our certification program is coming soon! Nkem will walk you through everything you need ...
12/23/2025

The next free info session for our certification program is coming soon! Nkem will walk you through everything you need to know about The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program. What the work actually is. How it meets this moment. What the training asks of you. How people are using it in real life, in real systems, with real stakes.

And if you decide it is for you, January is key.

We're offering two chances to take From Survival to Stability, the required prerequisite for the next Certification cohort. This introductory course to The Resilience Toolkit transforms conceptual practices into embodied experience through community practice.

So the path looks like this:
→ Come to the info session.
→ Ask your questions. Get oriented.
→ Join one of the January Survival to Stability sessions
→ Be ready for the next cohort.

Stabilization comes first. Always.
And if you’re feeling called to help resource others during this season... start here.

Free Certification Info Session: https://theresiliencetoolkit.co/event/free-certification-info-session-2/
From Survival to Stability: https://lumostransforms.com/individuals-groups/survival-to-stability/

We’d love to have you with us.

12/19/2025

Missed the first Creative Body Mapping session? There's one more chance to try this practice before the Deep Dive begins in February.

Discovery Session 2 is a two-hour live introduction where you'll create your first body map using simple materials you already have at home. No art experience needed.

📅 Wednesday, January 21, 2026 🕐 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM UTC 📍 Live on Zoom

Solidarity pricing available.

Link in bio to learn more and register.

Discovery Session 2
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 18:00 UTC

Deep Dive: Four-Week Course
Wednesdays, February 11–March 4, 2026
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 18:00 UTC

Learn more everything you need to know about this juicy new offering!
👉 lumostransforms.com/creative-body-mapping

Comment “creative” and we will DM you the link!

12/19/2025

Missed the first Creative Body Mapping session? There's one more chance to try this practice before the Deep Dive begins in February.

Discovery Session 2 is a two-hour live introduction where you'll create your first body map using simple materials you already have at home. No art experience needed.

📅 Wednesday, January 21, 2026 🕐 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM UTC 📍 Live on Zoom

Solidarity pricing available.

Link in bio to learn more and register.

Discovery Session 2
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 18:00 UTC

Deep Dive: Four-Week Course
Wednesdays, February 11–March 4, 2026
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 18:00 UTC

Solidarity pricing available.

Learn more everything you need to know about this juicy new offering!
👉 lumostransforms.com/creative-body-mapping

Comment “creative” and we will DM you the link!

Our 2024 Impact Report is here.34 facilitators certified across 6 countries. 320 community members in 19 countries. 46 C...
12/16/2025

Our 2024 Impact Report is here.

34 facilitators certified across 6 countries. 320 community members in 19 countries. 46 Community Chats. 656 participants trained through our partnership with LA County Public Health.

But the numbers only tell part of the story.

This year we watched racial equity leaders end a convening by dancing together to Miriam Makeba. We saw facilitators deliver the Toolkit via WhatsApp in Pashto and Dari. We learned that Palestinian communities resonated with sumud—steadfastness in the face of oppression—more than the hollow English word "resilience."

We redesigned courses, launched Anchoring Resilience when the election made grounding urgent, and did our first organization-wide strategic process—building something that could hold us all.

View the Impact Report here: https://lumostransforms.com/impact/

We get free together. 🪶

P.S. This has been a hard year for organizations doing this work. If you're able, a tax-deductible year-end gift helps sustain Lumos and what's ahead. Link in bio to donate. https://www.givsum.com/opportunities/lumos-transforms-community-programs-93859f827

12/05/2025

Two opportunities to transform w/ Mikaela. Plant some seeds in From Survival to Stability starting this Sunday, 12/7.

Need a little more prep before diving in? Roadmap to Trauma Healing on 12/23 will give you a clear path toward getting more free in 2026.

Links in our bio!

www.lumostransforms.com/survival

www.lumostransforms.com/roadmap

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About Lumos Transforms

Lumos Transforms is a social enterprise founded in 2015 to shepherd individuals, communities, and organizations through positive change. Whether people are dealing with unpleasant symptoms, overwhelming stress, difficult past experiences, or unjust circumstances, we meet clients exactly where they are– providing responsive solutions that help people feel better, prepare for change, and unlock their inner potential. By empowering individuals to access wellness, grow resilience, and cultivate beneficial behaviors, we initiate a transformation process that ripples outward. The ultimate goal? Creating socio-cultural systems that are healthy, balanced, interdependent, sustainable, and equitable.