Healing Leaders Circle

The Healing Leaders Circle is an online group leadership coaching circle for people doing healing work in the world: DEI, trauma-informed practice, social change, gender-affirming or reproductive health advocacy, climate and land justice, bodywork, energy work, or helping others find their voice. Held on Zoom and limited to twelve people, it runs for four months and is offered once a year, from late January through late May. It is led by Kelly L. Campbell (they/them), author of Heal to Lead: Revolutionizing Leadership through Trauma Healing.

The invitation is to "de-program and prepare": to look at your defaults, heal in community, and get ready for the resistance that can come with greater visibility.

What to Expect

The circle meets in 90-minute co-facilitated group sessions on Zoom, two a month. Kelly leads alongside special guests who join for niche topics, and the sessions may shift with whatever is emerging in the group. Two further 90-minute integration sessions each month are given to reflection and to considering how the work lands in your daily life and practice.

Themes across the four months include:

- trauma's impact on your leadership style
- meeting your inner child and shadow
- burnout in meaningful work
- your relationship to money
- delegating and setting boundaries
- processing overwhelm, frustration, anger and grief
- balancing self and communal care
- practicing alternate conflict resolution
- preparing for resistance and threat from others
- developing strategic partnerships
- co-creating a conscious, joyful life

The tone pairs emotional depth with strategy. Some participants have been, or are likely to be, targeted by people who oppose what they represent, and the group is a place to be witnessed and to build steadiness.

About Kelly L. Campbell

Kelly L. Campbell is a genderfluid social entrepreneur of more than twenty years, a coach and facilitator, and a Certified Usui Reiki Master and Certified Cuddle Therapist based in New York. Their book Heal to Lead (Wiley, 2024) is part of a vision for more than half of humanity to heal from childhood trauma. Kelly describes their role as empowering you to trust yourself, challenging you to be strategic, and reminding you to rest. They are also a somatic intimacy coach, and their stated mission is to bring more pleasure to healing. Their work draws on Somatic Experiencing® International, the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, Shalom Mountain, Body Electric and Rahi Chun's work on genital dearmoring, and they are supervised and mentored by Christiane Pelmas.

Before You Go

The circle is written for people already leading healing work in some capacity. No prior coaching or leadership training is listed as a requirement. Sessions are in English.

Included:

- two group sessions and two integration sessions each month, 90 minutes each, on Zoom
- direct access to Kelly by email and WhatsApp, as an individual line rather than a group thread
- a private LinkedIn group for members
- a signed copy of Heal to Lead
- a reduced rate on optional one-to-one coaching, which is billed separately

Each cohort holds two partial pay-what-you-can scholarships and one full scholarship for those in a season where financial support is needed.