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...and mental health. She is the Executive Director of Movement in Faith, a project of Transform Network. She is a powerful public speaker, transformative facilitator, social justice trainer, minister, and writer with a deeply prophetic voice and imagination for how faith communities can be an active part of healing and collective liberation.

She is the Director of the SEAL Initiatives at American Baptist College in Nashville TN (Social Justice, Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership). Vahisha is also a core team member of TRACC4Movements (Trauma Response and Crisis Care), providing supportive tools for wellness for those who labor in freedom and liberation. She also serves as an associate minister at Christ Missionary Baptist Church, under Rev. Dr. Gina Stewart, Senior Pastor, where she was licensed and ordained June 23, 2019.

Vahisha holds a dual Master’s of Divinity and Master’s of Mental Health Counseling with an Education Specialist Certification from Gardner-Webb University and a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a concentration in Interpersonal Organization from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In addition to penning book reviews, journal articles, online publications, and writing a bachelor’s curriculum in Applied Psychology, she has curated and co-edited three editions of Resipiscence: A Lenten Devotional for Dismantling White Supremacy, 2018-2020.

Born and raised in the Oakland Dance Culture, Kele Has studied with masters of many styles, becoming proficient in West-African, Congolese, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Peruvian, and Afro-Haitian traditional musics. Over the last 25 years, Kele has performed throughout the world in dance companies, bands, and teaching workshops and classes, summer camps, spiritual and workplace retreats, and for countless ceremonies and celebrations.

Playing with such artists as Lydia Violet and the Thrive Choir, Kele has performed and recorded with the likes of MaMuse, Climbing Poetry, Rising Appalachia, Melanie DeMore, and Esperanza Spaulding. He is currently spearheading Oakland Hand Drums, an organization focused on rhythmic education and performance through a cultural and creative lens.

She also holds studies and degrees in photography, graphic design and journalism. She has continued to immerse her work in consciousness medicine, breath work, qigong, somatic healing and plant medicines, amongst other depths of study. She has spent over 20 years immersed in the world of community-making and listening to the ways through which our own individual journey informs us of where we come from and where we intend to grow.

She believes that in order to relate to the broader subtleties of reality in a clear and grounded way, one must have cultivated a strong foundation of integrative inner work and deep intimacy with the Self; and that more often than not, this cultivation is found in coming together through relationship and community.

Eva is devoted to supporting willing hearts in becoming who they already are. Through deep listening and one’s personal ways in connecting, she supports individuals to create a space for self-mastery and union with the authentic self. She weaves vision, extrasensory skills, an open heart, and invokes a setting that allows for the deep-seated remembrance to come through, to awaken and for one’s own discovery in healing to be the way home.

She helps with the design and administration of our programs, and you'll often find her replying to your emails. Leilani is also a mom of two, a Work that Reconnects facilitator, and a Licensed Acupuncturist and dreamworker. In her clinical practice, she supports people dealing with pain, disease, infertility, and stress, using acupuncture, traditional Chinese herbal medicine, modern functional medicine, and dreamwork. With groups, she facilitates the Work that Reconnects and teaches courses on practical wisdom from Chinese Medicine.

Leilani attended Evergreen State College, where she earned a B.A. with a focus on Political Economy and Holistic Health, and the National University of Natural Medicine, where she graduated with a Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine.

You can hear more from Leilani on Turning Season Podcast, a series of conversations she hosts with people around the world about how and why they're rising to their own unique roles in the Great Turning.