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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

If your system has been louder lately, you’re not imagining it. Your body is responding to real conditions.Real threats....
12/04/2025

If your system has been louder lately, you’re not imagining it. Your body is responding to real conditions.

Real threats.
Real uncertainty.
Real grief.

And the nonstop machinery of white supremacy and capitalism that keeps tightening around all of us.

We deserve practices that help us stay in the work without collapsing under it.
Not “self-care.” Not escape.

We are talking about political, embodied resilience: the kind that lets you stay present, make choices in real time, and stay connected to your people without draining yourself dry.

That’s what From Survival to Stability is built for.

It’s a space where we slow down, work with the body, and practice skills that help us move through this moment with more steadiness and less depletion.

If you need a place to practice grounding and capacity in community, join us for the last session of 2025 starting Sunday, 12/7 with Mikaela: https://lumostransforms.com/calendar/from-survival-to-stability-1000am-pt-with-mikaela/

12/02/2025

The first Discovery Session for Creative Body Mapping is this Saturday!

Come join Emma in this practice of reconnection to being human, feeling deeply, and visualizing your inner world for healing, change and transformation. ❤️‍🔥

SAT 12/6/25
10AM – 12PM PT
1 PM – 3PM ET
18:00 – 20:00 UTC

Let's give meaning to what lies within, beyond language.

🎨 Comment "Map" to learn more and grab your spot now!

11/26/2025

Creative Body Mapping offered by Emma Coddington Brown in partnership with Lumos Transforms. ✨️

Emma teaches as a white-presenting woman of Aotearoa, with disabilities and q***r, in relationship with her Celtic-European and Māori lineages. Her Creative Body Mapping process emerged through weaving multiple practices: as a child nature-mapping experiences with her grandmothers, a lifetime of integrating myths as direct instructions for life, decolonization as a practice for life and science (gratitude to Linda Tuhiwai Smith), 35 years of practicing, collaborating and teaching sciences of Physiology (ecophysiology, endocrinology, neuroscience, behavior, psychology, and biophysics).

And more recently, in the last decade, weaving inquiry-based creative methods with somatosensory art therapy, liberatory somatic practices of The Resilience Toolkit, and scientific frameworks from physiology, neuroscience, and biology of creativity.

She draws from both biomedical and indigenous sciences, practiced with transparenct, humility, reverence, and ongoing accountability.

Comment "Map" to sign up and learn with Emma!

What does your body want to say to you? What does your body want to say through art?From Emma Coddington Brown, PhD: Min...
11/21/2025

What does your body want to say to you? What does your body want to say through art?

From Emma Coddington Brown, PhD:
Mine often speaks before words arrive. In emotion & sensation, noticings & nature, music and songs, dreams & stories. Art invites and allows me to explore the colors, textures, movements, rhythms, and emergent shapes. If you are visual - have you ever sent or received notes using lemon juice (invisible ink)? - messages appearing before your eyes. Like a photograph revealing details I haven't yet realized my body is noticing. If you lean on other sensory detectors, many creative modalities - music-making, dance, poetry, cyphering, gardening, cooking, weaving - can offer the same enriching conversation. The emergent form revealing so much more - sometimes indicating temperature, intensity/subtlety, location of source, hidden stories, connections, and contors of the shape of it. Sometimes it’s a whisper, other times a surge that fills the whole page before I understand what it’s trying to tell me.

Creative Body Mapping invites a slow and visual conversation between sensation, emotion, story and image. A remembering of how our bodies communicate, not just with us but with the world around us.

If you’re curious about how this practice feels in your own body, join me for the first Discovery Session on Saturday, December 6. We’ll make our first maps together and see what begins to speak.

🎨 Learn more or register: lumostransforms.com/creative-body-mapping

11/15/2025

What is Creative Body Mapping? Emma joined Jaspa (Admin Assistant at Lumos, Artist & DJ) via IG Live this past week to share more about her upcoming course in collaboration with Lumos Transforms.

Emma J Coddington Brown is a former neuroscience researcher who studied how stress, oppression, love, and relationships organize bodies through physiology, endocrinology, and cycles. She transitioned from science to creative practices after becoming increasingly uncomfortable with science's unwillingness to reckon with colonial harm, and she now weaves The Resilience Toolkit framework with creative methods & spirituality.

Stay tuned for more clips from this live throughout the coming weeks! 🎨

Creative Body Mapping Timeline:

• Discovery Session #1 - Starting Dec 6, 10am PT
• Discovery Session #2 - Starting Jan 21, 10am PT
• Deep Dive Sessions - Beginning Feb 11, 2026

Comment "body" to receive the link to register!


We're grateful to welcome you exactly as you are. All links to register can be found in our biome!
11/10/2025

We're grateful to welcome you exactly as you are. All links to register can be found in our biome!

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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.