Global Embrace for Kenya: Witnessing Grief, Honoring Loss, Sharing Hope

Wanjîkū J. Kîarîe, SEP™ is an Integrated Well-being practitioner. She is trained in and used various healing modalities in her work including, Somatic Experiencing®, Family Constellation, Spiritual Companionship, Art and Nature modalities. Wanjîkū leads Integrated Living (https://integratedliving.co.ke/)  a holistic wellbeing private practice based in Kenya. She is also the Organiser for Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training in Kenya.

Wanjîkū has been a student of Thomas Huebl since 2020 when she joined the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course hosted by The Pocket Project. Since then, she has undertaken continuous training on healing Ancestral, Individual and Collective Trauma under Thomas Huebl. 

Shalini Gidoomal has a particular interest in working with collective and ancestral trauma, and encountered the work of Thomas Huebl in 2019 via the Collective Trauma summit. She subsequently participated in the first Africa lab and several Trauma-informed leadership trainings run by the Pocket Project. 

Her other certifications include Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry,  Dr Janina Fisher’s (Trauma Informed Stabilisation Treatment), Family Constellations, and Cranio-sacral therapy. Shalini uses an array of primarily somatic tools during individual, group and business sessions to explore the origins of beliefs and behaviours in order to guide towards change and healing. She is also a writer, and a great fan of the outdoors. www.shalinigidoomal.com