Global Embrace For Kenya – A Global Social Witnessing Call
August 19, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Wanjîkū J. Kîarîe
Nyambura Ngatho
Mary Gitau
Kirindi Odindo
Wycliffe Oloo
Nyambura Njau
Kosha Joubert
August 19, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (Europe/Berlin)
English
6-7:30pm Berlin / 7-8:30pm Nairobi
Join us for a Global Social Witnessing Call for Kenya—a sacred, virtual gathering dedicated to grounding, holding compassionate space, and collectively witnessing the grief within our nation. In this time, we invite people from around the world to bear witness with open hearts, offering presence as medicine and to join in a global field of care that sees, feels, and does not look away. Together, we honour the depth of our emotions and cultivate hope for healing and transformation.
This is not a space for analysis or solutions, but for witnessing and compassion—for allowing the truth of suffering to be held in dignity and humanity. By coming together across continents, we make space for sorrow to be shared and global interconnectedness to be remembered.
In this Global Social Witnessing call, we will explore:
Grief – both personal and collective, acknowledged and unspoken
Grounding – as a way to stay present amidst intensity and pain
Navigating turbulence with compassionate presence – learning to stay with what hurts, together
There will be moments of silence, reflection, poetry, and deep listening, as we hold Kenya and its people in our hearts. We honour the interconnectedness of all suffering, and we trust in the quiet power of bearing witness to life as it is.
Whether you are Kenyan, connected to Kenya, or called to stand in solidarity, your presence is welcome and needed. Together, we weave a fabric of global belonging—one that does not forget, that does not turn away, and that holds space for healing across borders.
Wanjîkū J. Kîarîe is a Trauma-Informed Integrated Wellbeing Practitioner. She combines Family Constellation Systems Therapy, Embodied Healing, Somatic Experiencing®, Spiritual Companionship, Ancestral Healing, Art and Nature Healing modalities in her work. Wanjîkū is the Founder and Lead Consultant at Integrated Living. Integrated Living seeks to be a holistic teaching and healing space. Our goal is for every individual who engages our offerings embarks on an Integrated Life of wholeness – Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, Socially and Spiritually.
Nyambura Ngatho is trained as an architect. She’s a wayfinder and “into the cracks” settler whose life’s work is to curate spaces that foster healing and participate in co-creating sustainable futures grounded in humanity and innovation.
A student of The Pocket Project, Thomas Hübl and Somatic Experiencing, she draws deep inspiration from Ubuntu to restore, safeguard, and expand paradigms around healing work & the spaces we occupy.
Mary Gitau is the Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Suicide Research and Intervention and Programs Coordinator Green String Network.
She walks alongside people carrying visible and invisible wounds especially those living with chronic suicidal thoughts, emotional pain, & the weight of injustice. Her work is rooted in trauma integration that honours the body, culture, and story. She holds space for healing that is slow, relational, and deeply respectful of African ways of knowing. She shows up as a witness to healing.
She holds an MA in Psychology, MSc Suicidology, BA. Human resources management and trained in Embodiment practices working with Trauma.
Kirindi Odindo is an African healer, caregiver, mediator and wellbeing practitioner who believes in positive possibilities for peaceful co-existence. Her broad personal and professional expertise enhances her presence as a multigenerational catalyst to social disruption of systemic exclusion. She facilitates human security and stabilization through intersectional reintegration of conflict-affected individuals and groups through trauma, loss and painful transformation across the lifespan. Specializing in culturally sensitive, trauma-informed care that integrates neuro-behavioural somatic modalities with psychosocial practices, she grounds on deep human empathy, compassion and an intentional decoloniality mindset, recently contributing a chapter in Decolonize, Humaxize. With her unique blend of skills and vast trauma healing experience, Kirindi hopes to bring a deep commitment to restorative justice and belonging through embodied witnessing honoring the ancient wisdom, knowledge, practice and agency of our ancestors.
Wycliffe Ngoko Oloo is a trauma-informed community healer, football coach, and Founder of Kitbag Africa International (KAI). He creates safe spaces for healing through sport, play, and dialogue, and advocates for trauma and mental health among children, young mothers, widows, and grassroots communities. Trained in Somatic Experiencing, Wycliffe utilises culturally grounded resources, such as the Kitbag, to promote emotional resilience and well-being across Kenya and beyond.
Nyambura Njau is an artist, an author and a trauma-informed medicine woman initiated into the indigenous ways of my people as a Gobela. I will guide and teach you how to regulate your nervous system and rewrite your life story through Chakra Balancing. My medicine is Touch, Ceremonial Magick and Remote Healing as trained since 2012 in Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki & the Merlin Trinity Healing System. I am your future Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, currently in the first cohort to ever train in Kenya.
Kosha Joubert is the CEO of the Pocket Project. She is an international facilitator, author, coach and consultant specializing in sustainable development and collective trauma healing. Growing up in Apartheid South Africa shaped her lifelong dedication to bridging divides and fostering intercultural collaboration.
Registrations are closed for this event
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