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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

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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!

Your body has been speaking all along.We’re thrilled to introduce Creative Body Mapping, a new collaboration between Lum...
11/05/2025

Your body has been speaking all along.

We’re thrilled to introduce Creative Body Mapping, a new collaboration between Lumos Transforms and Emma Coddington Brown, PhD.

How do we reach the places words cannot?

This live, guided somatic art practice invites you to translate what your body feels into color, shape, and story—revealing the patterns that shape your life. No art experience needed. Just curiosity and a willingness to listen.

Discovery Session 1
Saturday, December 6, 2025
10 AM–12 PM PT | 1–3 PM ET | 18:00–20:00 UTC

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

AND Join us for an Instagram Live with Emma
Wednesday, November 12 | 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 18:00 UTC
Join us for a gentle conversation about why somatics and art belong together—and how Creative Body Mapping helps you listen to the wisdom your body already carries.

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

The Toolkit was developed by Nkem Ndefo, a nurse midwife, trauma specialist, and social-change practitioner, through dec...
10/31/2025

The Toolkit was developed by Nkem Ndefo, a nurse midwife, trauma specialist, and social-change practitioner, through decades of work in settings where distress and resilience coexisted side by side: gang intervention programs, shelters and clinics, schools under lockdown, emergency departments, organizing spaces, and homes where survival itself was the work of the day.

From the start, it had to function in real time. The practice had to work for people who could not step away from their lives to heal, but who still needed relief—sometimes in the middle of a crisis, sometimes in the quiet fatigue of ordinary overwhelm.

The Toolkit is not precious. It is practical. It meets people in their need, helping them find enough steadiness to come home to themselves, able to act with choicefulness and integrity in the midst of complex conditions.

Join Nkem THIS Sunday, November 2nd at 10AM PT: https://theresiliencetoolkit.co/

10/28/2025

As practitioners, we have a responsibility to move beyond individualistic "healing" narratives that ignore how economic systems, policies, and historical violence shape every aspect of our clients' lives.

Real transformation requires frameworks that refuse to separate personal healing from collective liberation. And we need practitioners to be competent in this regard, asap. 

If we really want to heal, we've got to get free too.

That's what The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program is built for—equipping us to hold the individual, relational, systemic, AND historical realities our communities are navigating in this current hellscape.

Join Nkem Ndefo for a FREE Info Session on Sunday, November 2nd at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM UTC to learn how this program trains facilitators to support stabilization and transformation that doesn't erase oppression or center comfort over justice.

This is for therapists, coaches, educators, organizers, and anyone committed to healing work that actually confronts and reallocates power.

📅 Sunday, November 2nd
⏰ 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM UTC
🔗 Comment "Info" to Register or click the link in our biome ❤️‍🔥

Part of this healing thing is giving ourselves permission to be human and vulnerable to change, growth and freedom. What...
10/23/2025

Part of this healing thing is giving ourselves permission to be human and vulnerable to change, growth and freedom.

What are you giving yourself permission for this season? Let us know in the comments, we'd love to know!

💞

If you’ve been around for a while, you hopefully know the Toolkit. Maybe you’ve taken a workshop, heard Nkem speak, or t...
10/21/2025

If you’ve been around for a while, you hopefully know the Toolkit. Maybe you’ve taken a workshop, heard Nkem speak, or thought about Certification. Maybe you’ve been using the practices yourself or watched them ripple through your communities and organizations.

The Resilience Toolkit website has been rebuilt, and it finally reflects the full scope of the Toolkit and how it can help people meet this moment.

What’s new:

○ Home: Clear descriptions of what the Toolkit is, who it’s for, and how to engage—whether you’re learning the practices for yourself, exploring the framework, or training to facilitate.

○ About: A fuller explanation of the Toolkit—how it actually works, what makes it different, and how it builds alchemical resilience.

○ The Certification Program – A more comprehensive look at the Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program. The new page clearly outlines how the Toolkit helps people meet this moment, how to become certified, and what’s included in the updated curriculum. It also highlights the many ways facilitators are using the Toolkit professionally.

Cohort 19 begins April 7, 2026.

We're hosting our final Info Session before registration closes on March 17.

If you've been considering certification (or if you're just curious about what it actually involves), this is your chance to learn everything, ask questions, and meet with Nkem.

November 2 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UTC

Comment "Info" to RSVP.

Building real community means stretching ourselves: learning to hold the messy tensions, the gray areas, the not-knowing...
10/17/2025

Building real community means stretching ourselves: learning to hold the messy tensions, the gray areas, the not-knowing. It means getting more comfortable with change, with pivoting when we need to, with staying fluid instead of locked in place.

That's how we move toward collective healing: together, responsive, alive.

What if you could transform this familiar survival cycle into sharp awareness, discernment, coherence, and real transformation that allows you to be a part of the resistance with more agency and a deep sense of internal safety?

Join us for From Survival to Stability, a 3-week series exploring how to move from reactive oscillation to intentional, grounded living, being and doing.

Two time options:
🌸 Thursdays with Mikaela Lynn: Oct 23, 30 & Nov 6 | 3:00-5:00 PM PT
🌸 Tuesdays with Devika Shankar: Nov 4, 11 & 18 | 12:00-2:00 PM PT

Sliding scale: $120/$60/$0 per person

Ready to reclaim your rhythm? Join us: https://lumostransforms.com/individuals-groups/survival-to-stability/

10/17/2025

!!! 50501 is liberal zionist controlled opposition.

Join us for our next Community Chat with Laura Meng and Nkem Ndefo on Tuesday, October 14th at 12pm PT! Each chat is an ...
10/10/2025

Join us for our next Community Chat with Laura Meng and Nkem Ndefo on Tuesday, October 14th at 12pm PT! Each chat is an intimate virtual gathering where you can hear from our guests and ask any questions you might have.

Join us with a low-cost monthly subscription that grants you access to all of our community chats, mini-AMAs with Nkem, affinity spaces, and so much more!

https://lumos-transforms.mn.co/

Laura Meng is a systemic designer and LEGO® Serious Play facilitator-in-training. Growing up between rural and metropolitan worlds, she developed a strong orientation toward social justice, though early conditioning led her to begin her career in finance. As her self-knowledge grew, so did her desire for authenticity—prompting a pivot to human-centered design as a tool for change.

She began by helping mission-driven organizations design digital interfaces, then extended her practice from product to service and ultimately systemic design—pushing the boundaries of design’s potential for impact. Over the past three years, she has focused on “engineering systemic interventions” in a social entrepreneurial capacity, including co-creating and launching a real-time intervention service that mobilizes outreach workers to respond to situations involving marginalized individuals.

Recently, her practice has shifted from engineering interventions to facilitating deep relational engagement, influenced by her reflection on mechanisms of change through the lens of spirituality, healing, and relationships. She is now training in LEGO® Serious Play and exploring how to use it as a medium for mindset change through relational engagement in safe, transformative spaces.

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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.