The Paradox: #Collective Awareness; Community What Now Podcast @whatnowpodcast 🫶🏾 What do you prioritize day-to-day? ♥️ Connection? Boundaries? Rest? #CollectiveAwareness #CommunityCare #HealingTogether #WhatNowPodcast #RadicalLove #CollectiveHealing #PrioritiesMatter #ConnectionMatters #VulnerabilityIsStrength #RestAsResistance #CommunityConversation #Belonging

Unlearning is as Liberating as Learning: Educational Corner Awareness #colonization Repost from @valerie_keter Why was it easy to colonize Africa? #africanhistory #colonialism #scrambleforafrica Neckpiece @nzilafrique Makeup @delishfs ______ #TEAOCanada #TraumaInformedCare #SystemicTrauma #JanayaKhan #PrivilegeAndPower #HealingJustice #EmbodiedEducation #TraumaTraining #SomaticHealing #CollectiveLiberation

✨ Juneteenth: Collaging Connections (Toronto) – A Wrap-Up Thursday night’s gathering was nothing short of liberating. 🖤✂️🌈 We came together — cutting, creating, and connecting — as ONE. Through mindful collage-making, deep conversations, and collective reflection, we honoured the spirit of Black liberation and the power of community care. Gratitude to everyone who joined us — and to our incredible hosts: Toronto Outreach Coordinator @kellyowarrior Kelly O’Sullivan, Nicole Brown Faulknor, and @otisxgreen — for holding this creative and compassionate space. A special shoutout to TNG Community Services @tngcommunityto for making space for both Juneteenth and Pride celebrations & Sumaya as our youth childcare service for the evening — a true embodiment of intersectional joy and resistance. Let’s continue to gather, reflect, and heal — together. 🫶🏾 #Juneteenth #BlackLiberation #CollagingConnections #TEAOCanada #MindfulArt #CreativeHealing #PrideMonth #CommunityCare #TorontoEvents #EmbodiedResistance #BlackJoy #CollectiveHealing

Educational Roots: Unlearning is as liberating as learning. ♥️ Are you able to cry in public? #history #weakness Reposted from @unapologeticallyblacksomatic #welove their work 🇬🇧🫶🏾🫶🏾 Are you able to cry in public? Public tears were and are often denied to us. Unlike the emotional softness of white fragility, it is often safer to move our pain into our body and chronic stress. I’m currently leaking my tears in public, as I grieve for my mother passing away. It’s taken a lot of undoing of my programming to grant myself this small permission to be human - without apologising. We have a right to our tears, our vulnerability and protection. I find that there is often an outpouring of deeply buried grief at our somatic movement events 💯 dedicated to Black Joy and pain. Join us in London. Link in bio Please like/ comment/ share/ save/ tag, if you get this. #grief #protectblackwomen #whitefragility #crying

Where Can You Find Us in Community This Week? TEAO Canada is on the move — holding space for collective joy, creative resistance, and embodied care. 🎨 KW Multicultural Festival Workshop Tent (This Weekend) @kwmulticultural Join Krysanne @rhythmandbluescambridge , Nicole, and Alana @a.deckerart for Art from the Heart and an energetic TikTok dance session — combining culture, creativity, and movement in a trauma-informed, soul-nourishing space. This “Boots on the Ground” session is a celebration of healing, resistance, and reclamation for all, especially those from marginalized communities. 💻 Biweekly on Wednesdays – Virtual Soma-Peer Support Group A brave space for those navigating anxiety, depression, PTSD/CPTSD. Grounded in somatic tools and peer connection, this group offers accessible, body-based support and shared understanding. 🖼️ Juneteenth – Collaging Connections (Toronto) Join Nicole Brown Faulknor and @otisxgreen for an in-person evening of mindful collage-making and community care. Together, we’ll honour Black liberation through creativity, reflection, and togetherness. @tngcommunityto Let’s move, make, and heal — in community. #TraumaInformedCare #CommunityHealing #EmbodiedResistance #SomaticSupport #MentalHealthMatters #Juneteenth2025 #TEAOCanada #Wounds2Wings #artffomtheheartprocessing #ArtAsHealing #CollectiveCare #HealingInCommunity

Educational Corner & Resource Sharing: You don’t need to know everything —— “are you sure they are your feelings” Repost from @femalepoetssociety : Are you sure they are your feelings? ♥️ Speaker: Arundhati Roy Full interview can be watched on YouTube: ”2022 St. Louis Literary Award Winner Arundhati Roy” at SLULibraries ——— #TEAOCanada #TraumaInformedCare #SystemicTrauma #PrivilegeAndPower #HealingJustice #EmbodiedEducation #TraumaTraining #SomaticHealing #CollectiveLiberation

🌿 Collective Pause Retreat Recap: A Sacred Return 🌿Food as Medicine — (Some More lil’Snippets of our Community Retreat.) 🥗“Silent Lunch Ceremony & Grazing– A nourishing practice of presence and stillness—rest as ritual, and ‘food as medicine’.” Hosted by TEAO Canada | Facilitated by Nicole Brown Faulknor and held @somersetrecovery This past weekend, 19 racialized leaders, healers, and community members gathered in Port Dover for a transformational experience rooted in somatic healing, self-reclamation, and embodied leadership. The body doesn’t fear healing—it fears unfamiliarity. But this weekend, we softened that fear. Stay tuned for our next retreat dates #collectivepauseretreat2025 💫♥️ #CollectivePause #HealingIsFamiliar #RestIsResistance #SoftLeadership #RacializedHealing #EmbodiedCommunity #WeCameHome #SacredRest #HealingTogether #TEAOCanada #PauseBreatheCelebrate #HealingForRacializedBodies #SomaticWisdom #ReturnToYourself #ComeRestWithUs #HealingIsNotLinear #CommunityIsMedicine #RootedInRest #LiberationInPractice

🌿 Collective Pause Retreat Recap: A Sacred Return (in a glimpse) Hosted by TEAO Canada | Facilitated by Nicole Brown Faulknor (@wounds2wings) and held at @somersetrecovery This past weekend, 19 racialized leaders, healers, and community members gathered in Port Dover for a transformational experience rooted in somatic healing, self-reclamation, and embodied leadership, for either the day on Saturday or for the full 3 days, Friday to Sunday option to this healing experience. The body doesn’t fear healing—it fears unfamiliarity. Together, we made healing familiar. We made leadership soft. We made community sacred. This retreat wasn’t just rest. It was resistance. It was home. ✨ With deep gratitude, TEAO Canada Moments we held, shared, and carried forward: 🌀 Grounding in Grace – Breathwork, movement, and a blazing bonfire ceremony welcomed us. We honored the selves that survived and cleared space for those still emerging. 🧘🏾 Embodied Healing – Trauma-informed yoga and somatic practices reminded us: healing is not a line, but a sacred spiral, guiding us back to our bodies, our truth, our power. 🎶 Drumming with Babarinde Williams – Rhythm became story, soul, and ancestral fire. Babarinde’s presence ignited celebration, resistance, and connection. 💛 Silent Lunch Ritual – Stillness as ceremony, nourishment as medicine. We savored presence in every bite. 🗣️ Leadership Rooted in Truth – A dance workshop to claim our voice and shine—grounded in lived experience and collective care. 🌅 Sunrise & Closing Circle – We named our intentions, honored our breakthroughs, and stepped forward with clarity, rest, and purpose. This was our sacred return. This is our revolution. #CollectivePause #SomaticHealing #EmbodiedLeadership #TEAOCanada #RacializedLeaders #RestIsResistance song credit for reel 🎶: Kendrick Lamar, Not Like Us.