Without realizing it, we fall into the roles we’ve been socialized into…
An emergent healing and leadership (un)learning course and community
weaving somatics, spirituality and social change
to nourish us in these times.
Circle of Reclamation has been a healing, inspirational, deep experience.
when I first joined COR besides the emotional/phsyical/spiritual impact of the pandemic and the uprising, and my involvement in activism and volunteering, i was and am in a time of intense change in my personal life, including school, the shift of a long-term romantic relationship into a platonic relationship , processing my sexuality, reconnecting with family, and the continuation of long-term intentional spiritual and healing processes.
Being in a container of trust, held by Thérèse, in community with other women committed to healing has been extremely supportive and transformational for me.
My most profound breakthrough was very difficult and very important for me to share about. my struggle to love and accept my own skin and my feelings of racial isolation and rejection and wishing i had a darker complexion like my siblings. it’s something i still experience shame and confusion and pain around, but it was very profound to feel that i was in a safe space to share such a central ‘shadow’ and to be met with only love and compassion.
Thérèse is so intentional, has so much wisdom and compassion and integrity and insight, and creates a container of love and trust where it feels safe to be myself and where I feel that I am offered support in looking within myself, the nudges I need to do work that will be transformational, and guidance in processing what I find. She really creates processes that allow us to connect with each other and ourselves on multiple levels in deeply meaningful ways.
Thérèse also holds space for us all in a way that allowed me to feel I could share freely without feeling that I would burden anyone, and also that allowed me to listen deeply without feeling burdened or overwhelmed by anyone’s sharing or emotion.
I feel so lucky to have connected with Thérèse this way, in this life, and to be able to be in circle held by her. She is also just fun to be around and brings joy without negating the importance of processing the difficult things! I could go on!
Wahida Omar
Organizer, Yoga Teacher + Herbalist
Shame, Courage, Boundaries and Spirituality were my favorite chapters. These chapters allowed me to revisit the past, heal, create new boundaries, tell others how I expected to be treated and how important rest is. I recall feeling sadness, joy, regret and how I would do things different in the future. It has transformed me to allow myself to put myself before anyone else. I am the most important person in my life and I can not pour from a empty cup.
Circle of Reclamation helped me address my challenges by giving me new tools to work with and enhancing the skills I already had. COR has helped me realize that my desires is what I needed to move forward in an authentic way of being. Even if others didn’t like or agree with me.
COR is life-changing and Thérèse is a gem and medicine woman.
Adrienne Lakes
Circle of Reclamation has helped me heal and trust my own self again.
Circle of Reclamation has been the lifeline I needed when I felt (or feel because this is still ongoing), like I am drifting on an ocean of confusion and feel a bit out of control with my emotional life. This circle has been a safe haven, harbor, an anchor for me and provided much needed community and grounding when I have needed it.
My most profound experience has been actually releasing grief during the 13 months. There’s been a profound change and a lightness that has come as a direct consequence of committing to my healing and actually doing the exercises within each month’s theme. I actually could feel myself getting energetically lighter as I let go of certain emotions and allowed myself to face the things I had been running from within myself.
The chapters on shame and worthiness were super powerful as were courage and boundaries. I needed so much help releasing shame around my own personal failures and needed to forgive myself and shed this to reclaim a sense of worthiness and desire to truly live. When we got to radiance I realized I still had work to do before I could be visible to my own self let alone others.
Thérèse and her space holding, leadership and guidance has been transformative.
If you’re thinking about joining Circle of Reclamation I’d say it is absolutely worth it because YOU are worth it.
Zenzii
Circle of Reclamation has been a place for me to be seen and grounded and prioritize me. The Sister Squads allowed me to practice with more support for exploration. This is a community of women working on themselves to extend their impact. If you’re on the fence it’s an indication that there is work to be done. This is the space you need (for you) especially if you’re a space holder for others!
Nicola Brown
Founder Kokoro, Holding spaces for social health + wellbeing
Enrollment for membership is open to Black women and femmes and women and femmes of color.
There are three pricing tiers available. Please choose the appropriate option
based on your financial circumstances.
This is the reduced fee. Choose this option if you need additional assistance to meet the full cost of the program.
This is the reduced fee. Choose this option if you need additional assistance to meet the full cost of the program.
This is the regular fee. Choose this option if you’re able to reasonably meet this cost.
All prices are in USD.
Healing and deepening our leadership needs time and space and we seek to counter the programming of the quick fix wellness industry. This is an (un)learning, decolonial and sacred approach and we desire to create genuine relationships in this space vs. transactional interactions and all of this takes time.
Circles are sacred. They represent our innate wholeness, equality, sovereignty, community, the infinite and our unbreakable spirit. When we enter a circle it’s an opportunity to deeply connect with our essence, power and truth while being supported.
There are 12 portals of reclamation. You’ll focus on reclaiming the parts of yourself that have been silenced and forgotten, release and heal, honor and find the gifts in your emotions, while taking dedicated time for rest and integration. Although you’re welcome to dive into these themes at your own pace we also honor community rhythm and each month we explore a theme communally.
The themes are:
Body | Shame | Worthiness | Voice | Rage | Courage | Boundaries | Roots | Radiance | Spirituality | Grief | Wholeness
At the start of every month you’ll receive an audio exploration (deep dive) with an accompanying soulsheet for deeper inquiry around that month’s theme. You’ll look conscious and unconscious patterns; we’ll dig deep into your individual intergenerational, familial, ancestral, societal and cultural narratives; individual and collective wounds, trauma, and shadows; all the things that prevent you from truly reclaiming all that you are and showing up in your brilliance. Finally, you’ll anchor it all through action in your life, relationships, work and through sacred service.
Quarterly we’ll gather for CEREMONY where we’ll gather to open a direct route to healing and reclamation. Ceremony bring us together, it challenge us and it heals. Ceremony and ritual has always been an important component in helping us see our own humanity and that of others.
This will serve as a transformational portal to uncovering your deepest desires and weaving your wildest dreams into reality.
Other times we’ll have a special event whether it’s a public facing gathering or bring in a special guest. This is a community favorite!
We’ll gather virtually monthly for Ask Thérèse our Group Somatic Coaching Circle. After leading group coaching circles for over a decade I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that these circles are magic. This is where we come together do the work for deeper embodiment. Whether you have a pressing question on your heart or you simply are listening to your sisters share we allow what’s below the surface to emerge.
This container weaves in the power of coaching and Somatic Experiencing® (SE) a powerful body-oriented therapeutic model that helps heal trauma and other stress disorders. This is about reclaiming your brilliance, releasing what no longer serves you and embodying your power.
If you’re unable to make any of the sessions live you’ll have an opportunity to send your questions in advance. All calls are recorded and posted within a few working days of the live calls. (Typically Wednesday at 1pm ET and 6pm/7pm ET)
Our Somatic Group Practice is a place to soothe your nervous system, attune to your body and expand your resilience.
One of the practices that’s been integral in my personal healing is breathwork.
Monthly, you’ll receive a Breathwork to explore that month’s theme and heal your emotional body. It’s designed to guide you to somatically release. You’ll bypass the noise in your mind and gain access to your creativity and intuition.
Every month you’ll receive a short Decolonial Leadership Praxis that explores a specific leadership challenge and possible soul-utions from a liberatory lens. Topics include perfectionism, joy, cultivating trust and more.
You’ll receive access to our entire Embodied Library Collection which includes somatic praxis and some of the most powerful sessions from our festivals over the years. This collection includes hours of interviews and transmissions from some of the leading culture-shapers of our time.
One of the most beloved aspects of Circle of Reclamation are the Soul Squads. Your Soul Squad is a place where you can meet and share your journey with others. While there are guidelines this is self-directed and you’ll meet weekly.
You’ll also receive exclusive access to our Embodied Black Girl Global Village space which for more sharing and communing. This is an additional space to share aspects of your journey and be witnessed and celebrated. This is also where all of our materials are housed and there’s an app as well!
During this welcome chapter you’ll receive
GUEST MENTOR: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Joseph
GUEST MENTOR: Taraneh Efran King
GUEST MENTOR: Juliana Luna
GUEST MENTOR: LAYLA SAAD
GUEST MENTOR: FLORENCIA FRIDMAN
GUEST MENTOR: COURTNEY ALEXANDER
Circle of Reclamation Course
Audio Exploration, Meditation + Soulsheet
LIVE Seasonal Ceremony/ Special Event
Monthly Full Moon Breathwork Practice
LIVE Twice Monthly Ask Thérèse: Group Somatic Coaching Circle
LIVE Monthly Somatics Practice
Monthly Decolonial Leadership Praxis
Embodied Library Collection
Soul Squads
Village Community Space
Enrollment for membership is open to Black women and femmes and women and femmes of color.
There are three pricing tiers available. Please choose the appropriate option
based on your financial circumstances.
This is the reduced fee. Choose this option if you need additional assistance to meet the full cost of the program.
This is the reduced fee. Choose this option if you need additional assistance to meet the full cost of the program.
This is the full cost of the program. Choose this option if you can reasonably meet this cost.
All prices are in USD.
Healing and deepening our leadership needs time and space and we seek to counter the programming of the quick fix wellness industry. This is an (un)learning, decolonial and sacred approach and we desire to create genuine relationships in this space vs. transactional interactions and all of this takes time.
Circle of Reclamation was created in response to the needs of our community. This is an invitation to center our healing outside conventional spaces that center whiteness. Our approach is grief literate, trauma-informed and grounded in secure attachment. Furthermore, after being in countless wellness, spiritual and leadership spaces for over two decades that lacked representation in both teachers and participants it was time to create something different.
In this space you will be held and challenged. There are conversations that as Black women we need to have for our healing and liberation and this will be the container to those deeper discussions.
In order to weave new worlds we must contend with the harm that this world has created while also being able to expand into a decolonial vision of our individual and collective future.
So much of the trauma we experience is in relationship and that is why we know our healing must be communal. While we acknowledge the limitations of doing this work in a virtual space we also know without a doubt that the transformations and medicine is real.
THÉRÈSE CATOR
LEADERSHIP MENTOR, SOMATICS + EMBODIMENT TEACHER, GUIDE
Hi, I’m Thérèse, I’m the founder of Embodied Black Girl! I’m a Black woman, a Somatic and Embodiment Teacher, a Decolonial Leadership Coach, an Anti-Oppression Facilitator and a lifelong Artist of many disciplines. I’m also a mother of a magical being, a daughter, a sister, an auntie and a friend to many beloveds.
The seed of Circle of Reclamation was planted in 2016.
Circle of Reclamation was birthed from noticing the disparities in access to healing for Black women and femmes.
Circle of Reclamation was birthed from a lifetime of being an artist and all that comes with it.
Circle of Reclamation was birthed from my deepest pain and my greatest joys.
Circle of Reclamation was birthed from over two decades of personal healing work and over 15 years of being a sacred space holder for visionary people.
Circle of Reclamation was birthed from being raised in a family of healers, artists and activists.
I envisioned a space where deeply embodied leadership meant the lived experiences of those who’ve been silenced would be centered.
I envisioned a space where embodied healing incorporated trauma informed and grief informed care.
I envisioned a space where we practiced nervous system regulation.
I envisioned a space that knew we couldn’t get free if we don’t address the ways we are shaped by our culture.
I envisioned a space where we are all leaders and practice what it means to be in community.
I envisioned a space that believed that we all were worthy to be well and we would remember what’s been lost.
I envisioned a space that was dripping with sacredness.
And this blossomed into Circle of Reclamation.
If your heart says yes, it would be an honor to serve as both your guide and sister on this beautiful journey!
NATALEE FACEY
EMBODIED HEALING FACILITATOR
Natalee will be guiding our monthly somatic sessions and hosting some of our special gatherings.
Natalee is a Resilience Coach, Birth Doula, and Embodiment Healing Practitioner works as a guide for women and femmes who are navigating loss related to pregnancy, relationships, and their bodies.
Natalee believes that loss can be an initiation into becoming a more powerful and authentic version of ourselves. She is with her clients through that initiation—supporting them in releasing grief, shame, guilt and other heavy emotions; reconnecting to their sense of wholeness; and moving into their personal rebirth.
Natalee is also the host of The Preparing for Pregnancy After Loss Podcast, which provides education and tools for thriving in life and pregnancy after loss or an infertility diagnosis. She’s been recognized by the Borough of Brooklyn for her work providing support to families who’ve experienced pregnancy and infant loss.
Natalee is originally from the island of Jamaica, where she credits her deep connection to nature, and her love for music, movement, and laughter as medicine.
If you have any questions about the experience please send a note to hello@ebgsite.theresecator.com and we’ll be happy to support you! We’re deeply honored that you’re here and if you feel called we can’t wait to journey together!
