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This event has been postponed until 2026. In the meantime, please check out our current offering:
A Drop-in Somatic Support Group for White Women Join us online, Tuesdays, throughout Fall 2025. We’d love to see you there.
In Community,
Sarah, Cari and Kat
EMBODIMENT AS A RESPONSE TO HISTORY
As a group, white women in the U.S. have a long history of upholding the status quo and perpetuating white, male supremacy. Many of our white woman ancestors feared that if they rocked the boat and stood up against systems of domination they would lose their protection, their status, and even their lives. Painfully, this legacy continues today, with a narrow majority of white women voting for Trump in the last two elections. Even those of us who desire to opt out of white supremacy default to strategies under pressure like controlling or playing the victim — reinforcing the very structures of domination we’ve disavowed.
SOMATIC ATTUNEMENT
There is another way…and it takes practice. As white women, the more we learn to somatically regulate our nervous systems, the more we can develop the capacity to show up for the work of anti-racism and liberation. We can empower ourselves without disempowering others. We can move beyond shame, defensiveness, and collapse and relearn to turn towards each other.
Let’s Practice Together
Let’s reach through the pain of the moment, through the twisted maze of history, and find each other — in our joy, in our grief. As white women, and people socialized as white women, now is the time to be accountable: to ourselves, to our communities and to the world.
Now is the time to build power.

This Course Includes:
- 7 live online sessions every other week, 2 hrs each
- 1 small coaching group per month, 2 hrs
- Weekly buddy calls
- Optional 1:1 coaching
Location:
ZOOM
When:
8-10pm EST; 5-7pm PST- Tuesday, September 2
- Tuesday, September 9
- Tuesday, September 23
- Tuesday, October 7
- Tuesday, October 21
- Tuesday, November 4
- Tuesday, November 11
3 small group session dates will be chosen with your group.
Cost of Workshop:
Sliding Scale $0 – $2800 (Actual Cost: $1700)
A pricing guide is available to support you to determine the payment that is right for you.
10% of proceeds will go to support BIPOC-led organizations.
Ready to say YES?
Complete this interest form and we will reach out to you with our payment link and further details
If you have questions, sign up for a free, 30-min Discovery Call.
YOUR GUIDES:
We are three white women who are committed to “figuring it out.” We don’t have all the answers, but we are committed to showing up to this work. Here’s more about us:

Sarah Shourd (she/they) 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.

Cari Caldwell (she/her) 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.

kathleen marie (all pronouns) 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.
This Program is for you if:
- You are a white woman or were socialized as a white woman.
- You long to feel more connected to your purpose and imagine a future that is better than the present.
- You sense something more is possible and want to transform your intentions into action.
- You want more tools to strengthen your agency.
- You crave showing up in your dignity when considering acts of redistributing land, wealth, and power.
- You would like to learn more about the nervous system.
- You believe community is key but struggle to talk to your neighbor.
- You believe that working towards a better world is more important than winning an online argument.
This Program is Not:
- Individual or group therapy.
- Collusion with status quo or victim consciousness.
- Blame-or-shame-based cancel culture.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
1. Real Connection & Collective Grounding
Come home to a community of white women, and people socialized as white women, committed to racial justice and taking action in this moment. Build authentic relationships and a sense of shared purpose that roots you in something bigger than yourself.
2. A Clear Step into Your Power
Leave with a bold, embodied commitment to how you want to show up in this political moment. Claim your voice, your responsibility, and your capacity to lead with integrity while fully embodying your dignity.
3. Tools to Feel & Stay With What’s Hard
Learn body-based practices to move through shame, grief, and discomfort — so you don’t shut down or check out. Discover how to stay present when it counts.
4. The Ability to Come Back to Center
When things get messy or overwhelming, you’ll know how to pause, breathe, and respond with clarity instead of reactivity. Practice the muscle of staying true to yourself under pressure.
5. A Deeper Lens on Who You Are in the World
Get honest about your place in our collective story — racially, culturally, and historically. With humility and curiosity, begin (or continue) the real work of showing up for liberation.
MODALITIES
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 acknowledge Black and Indigenous wisdom that embodiment work comes from.
As facilitators, we draw from 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.
ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER
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.