Community Healing

We heal in relationship - to each other, to the land, to the cycles that hold us

Regulating with the Collective

Some wounds can only be tended in community. Some wisdom only emerges when we gather. These offerings create containers for collective healing, ritual, and remembering - spaces where we can practice showing up authentically, witnessing each other's stories, and strengthening the webs of connection that nourish us all.

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Offerrings

These community offerings happen seasonally — be the first to know when new events are open and enlisting by joining the waitlist.

  • Reclaiming the Sacred Masculine Through Grief Work

    Ongoing monthly gatherings to break cycles of emotional isolation and create new models of masculine community

    WHAT WE DO

    Men have been taught that grief is weakness, that tears are shameful, that emotional expression is "bad for business." But unexpressed grief becomes violence, anger, and disconnection. This ongoing circle creates sacred space for men to reclaim their full emotional range and heal the wounds that patriarchy inflicts on all of us.

    We gather monthly to explore grief in all its forms - personal losses, ancestral patterns, collective trauma, and the unnamed sorrows we carry in our bones. Through ritual, somatic practices, and witnessing each other's stories, we're reimagining what masculine community can look like when we stop performing strength and start embodying wholeness.

    This Circle Is For You If:

    • You're ready to feel your feelings without apology

    • You want to break generational patterns of emotional numbness

    • You're seeking authentic connection with other men

    • You're tired of carrying grief alone

    • You want to model emotional health for the young men in your life

    • You're called to heal the intersection of masculinity and trauma

    HOW WE GATHER

    Monthly Evening Circles - Deep dive sessions combining education, somatic practices, and ritual container.

    Each gathering weaves together grief work, ancestral healing, somatic awareness, and the creation of new masculine culture rooted in emotional intelligence and authentic connection.

    Investment & Commitment

    This work requires showing up consistently to build trust and create lasting change. We ask for a 6-month commitment to allow the container to deepen and the healing to integrate.

    Monthly circles: $60-80 sliding scale

    Ready to Join the Next Circle?

    Get on the Waitlist | Book a Call

    This work is held by Coby and rotating guest facilitators, all trained in grief work and masculine healing. Limited to 12 participants to maintain intimacy and safety.

  • Turning Loss Into Love Through Sacred Witnessing

    Regular ceremonial gatherings to honor what we've lost and compost our grief into connection

    WHAT WE DO

    Grief was never meant to be carried alone behind closed doors. It's meant to be witnessed, ritualized, and transformed in community. When we gather to honor our losses together - whether recent deaths, ancestral wounds, or the collective griefs of our times - we create sacred space for healing that benefits not just ourselves, but our communities and the living world.

    These ceremonies are held in the traditional lineages taught by Sobonfu Somé, Malidoma Somé, and Martín Prechtel. We create containers of trust and safety where personal and collective grief can be witnessed, validated, and composted into the fertile soil of deeper connection and liberation.

    This Ritual Is For You If:

    • You're carrying a loss that feels too big to hold alone

    • You want to honor grief as sacred rather than pathology

    • You're seeking community that can hold the depth of human sorrow

    • You feel called to ancestral or collective healing work

    • You want to learn traditional approaches to grief and ritual

    • You're ready to transform pain into connection

    HOW WE GATHER

    Seasonal Public Rituals - Quarterly ceremonies open to the broader community
    Intimate Monthly Circles - Smaller ongoing groups for deeper work
    Threshold Rituals - Special ceremonies for major life transitions and losses

    Each gathering includes altar creation, traditional songs and rhythms, witnessing circles, and ceremonial practices that help move grief through our bodies and into healing for ourselves and our communities.

    Investment & Participation

    Public seasonal rituals: $40-60 sliding scale
    Monthly grief circles: $50-70 sliding scale
    Private threshold ceremonies: By arrangement

    No one turned away for lack of funds. These rituals serve the community's healing and all sincere hearts are welcome.

    Join Our Next Gathering

    See Upcoming Rituals | Learn More About Grief Work

    Rituals are held outdoors in sacred natural settings.

  • Stay tuned for upcoming courses.

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How I Hold This Work

I've spent over 25 years creating healing spaces for individuals and communities, drawn to this work through my own journey of transformation. As a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I've been blessed to study with the pioneers of this field—Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, and master teachers like Ariel Giarretto, Joshua Sylvae, and Efu Nyaki who opened my eyes to transgenerational trauma.

My spiritual path runs equally deep. Since 2009, I've studied at Bolad's Kitchen with Martin Prechtel, a Keres/Mayan spiritual leader who taught me about the sacred nature of grief and beauty. I've had the profound honor of learning from Malidoma Somé for 15 years and Sobonfu Somé for 12 years, elders from the Dagara tradition who welcomed me into their understanding of ritual and ancestral healing.

Keith and Shane Pease from Dakota Tipi tradition have been my teachers for 12 years as well. These relationships aren't casual—they've given me explicit permission to share certain practices, a responsibility I hold with deep reverence and continued reciprocity.

Having lived across multiple countries and speaking four languages, I bring both clinical training and authentic spiritual lineage to this work, always in service of the healing that wants to emerge.

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    Old and deep holdings have found their way to the surface, been witnessed, held, shifted, and often released.

    Somatic work with Coby has been incredibly effective, much more than the many years of talk therapy that I did prior to Coby. I feel more grounded, clear on my boundaries, and am more aware of what activates my parasympathetic nervous system more than at any other point in my 56 years. Coby has this way about him; gently and respectfully creating a space where my mind, heart, and body imperceptibly know it’s safe to be vulnerable.

    — ANGELA C

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    I feel like I come back home to myself.

    He has a way of reflecting my true self back to me so that I can find my own ground and remember my roots — my inherent connectedness to the greater web of life. He is able to hold all the details and sort through them in a way that sheds light on the heart of the matter while also illuminating a clear path forward, free of the clutter that my mind so often adds to things. I also feel like our work together is informed by Coby's deep connections to Ancestral and Natural worlds such that it becomes apparent each session that my healing is also the healing of my lineage which is amazing. I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with Coby and have him as an ally on my journey.

    — EMILY K.

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    It has been one of the most significant years of my life.

    The healing that I am undergoing is far beyond anything I have experienced in the past, and it has also greatly supported my spiritual practice. My depression has greatly lifted (which is more amazing than I can put into words), and my anxiety is starting to make some headway. Coby has a way of making me feel safe and allowing me to feel more deeply and to be open with what I am feeling. He is the most caring and open health care provider I have ever been to. My wife praises the day I found him.

    — RICK B.

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    Coby is a delight.

    Our sessions are founded on his unique ability to co-regulate. I find myself making huge, honest, and expansive shifts when we are together simply because he can hold our nervous systems in harmony. We talk a little, feel into the body a lot, and sync our systems with the birds, trees and other creatures near us. It has been healing to feel in my body that there is another way beyond the constant bracing, clenching and constriction. He has shown me on a visceral level new ways of being that feel liberating and easeful.

    KATE E.

Ready to Begin?

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Free 20- Minute Consultation

Let's explore if this work is right for you — and which modalities and offerings might serve you best as a starting point.

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