Creative Healing and Contemplative Practice
In today’s world, reflection and healing are a necessary part of what it means to be human and to live well and fully. Healing enables us to be our authentic selves, speak with courage, honesty and compassion, and meet each other with grace. Reflection allows us to learn and grow.

Creative healing and contemplative practice spaces are intentional gatherings that open pathways for resilience, renewal, and rebirth.
Through community, we can let go of old habits and mindsets and open our hearts and minds to opportunities for change and transformation.
We co-create and co-design creative, healing, and contemplative spaces that become moments for community building which help navigate change and transitions with grace and ease.
Offerings
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A Place to be Human
Everyone needs a place where they can share without judgement. A Place to be Human is coaching for individual growth, change, and transformation. Individual coaching provides an opportunity for reflection, trying new skills, and overcoming the fears that prevent you from showing up as your best self. Through coaching, one finds support, encouragement, and freedom from insecurities. Coaching is provided in supportive environment, designed to bring out the best in you. Action-oriented sessions integrate mindfulness and movement to encourage self-discovery, self-exploration, and self-expression.
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Detox and Decompress
Human connection is fundamental to our happiness and growth. With the pandemic, racial violence, and political environment, our social norms have frayed as tension and conflict has been on the rise. Detox and Decompress is a regular team building offering that allows for understanding, sharing, and empathy. In the work environment, we need spaces where we can let go of our stress, listen to and hear each other, and think about how to improve the work. Empathetic listening can help to build stronger teams. Detox and Decompress integrates, empathetic listening, mindfulness, movement, and creative activities, such as writing and art, to allow for deeper connection.
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Contemplative Practice Retreats
Retreats are wonderful opportunities to pause and reflect on our lives, where we are, and where we want to go. Contemplative practice retreats are customized for teams and organizations to help with connection, growth, and development. Customized retreats can focus on a variety of goals for your team or organization. For example, we provide retreats for strategic planning or retreats for reflection and healing. Retreats integrate mindfulness, movement, and creative practice so that we can access different ways of thinking, expression, and connection.
Organizational Growth, Development, and Transformation
Organizations face different struggles and challenges to fulfill their mission and purpose. Many organizations want to change practices, working norms, or their culture but they do not know how. This year-long workshop series is aimed at organizational growth, development, and transformation focused around a specific outcome. This offering draws both from the wisdom of Ayurveda which draws on the energy of the seasons and qigong practices to fuel organizational change. Workshops will involve writing, discussion, movement, and creative practices and follow the themes highlighted below. This is a new offering that CHIC is piloting in 2025. We are actively seeking organizational partners to pilot the design and delivery of this offering to start in Spring 2025. Because this is a new program, a reduced rate can be negotiated for organizational partners.
Release
Reflect
Renew
Rejoice
Gatherings and Rituals
Central to CHIC’s work is building community through intention and care. We enjoy organizing gatherings as ways for people to come together in new and different ways. Gatherings are curated to help people connect and deep, fun, and meaningful ways.
Rituals are important to help mark special and significant moments. Rituals can be markers to help to move teams, groups, and organizations to a different stage or phase of growth.