Hello and welcome,

My name is Elena Solano and I am a clinical social worker, artist, group facilitator and consultant.

I believe that grief, dreaming & creativity are powerful components of activism.

I believe that groups are metabolic organisms that can be life & community-sustaining during times of compound crisis. 

I believe that relational and emotional literacy in communities can serve as healing agents.

I believe that dreams are pathways toward liberation and re-generation.

I am supported and strengthened by community.

I am guided by principles of liberation psychologies and world-building philosophies in my community/group work. I conduct all meetings virtually.

Click here to learn a little more about me and my art-making practices.

If you are seeking group or individual consultation, use the Contact button below to send me an email.

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Martha Crawford

Martha Crawford describes the focus of her work as having “evolved towards explorations of the psychologies of liberation, of archetype and depth psychology, dream work, active imagination, and frank discussions of existential concerns and mortality.”

I enthusiastically recommend any and all of her offerings, including her workshops, individual consultations, and all of her writing. Recordings of her periodic evening talks are available and are a nice introduction in case you are not familiar with her work.

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Nina Hatfield

Nina is an organizational wizard, a depth learner, a mythological scholar and a kind soul. Her dedication to rest and disability advocacy comes from personal experience with chronic illness & fatigue.

Check out:

Nina’s Co-Resting Groups

A gentle, semi-introverted, semi-social community…

Nina’s Community Interconnections

To view a community calendar and links to other inspiring works.

robin herold’s patreon

robin herold (she/her) is a neuroqueer writer, bard, philologist, fool, & spiritual nurturer. She makes art dispelling white denial, coerced gender performance, & scaling modes of oppression—from the nuclear family, to the school, the corporation, & the state.

Her writing is a tool for unlearning internalized patriarchy, ableism, racism, capitalism, & hierarchy; it's a leap toward dis-investment from institutions upheld by these dominating systems of relation, & a leap toward a radical ethics guided by love.

robin and I have partnered to host Monstrosity in the Making: A Virtual, Creative Studio Space

Janine de Novais

Janine de Novais is “a writer, sociologist and teacher interested in how our liberation is a cultural project, a matter of (un)learning.”

She has just released a powerful new book, Brave Community: Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination, which “shares a method for educators or anyone who wants to create empathetic and resilient conditions for learning about racism in order to intervene on it.”

Her periodic writing is also available via her substack, Kingdom of Culture.

shea ✨ in the catskills

shea ✨ in the catskills (all pronouns) is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, pleasure activist, organizer + contemplative who loves to to collaborate.

Their podcast, their book, and their he(art) bring me joy.

Catherine May

Catherine May offers Executive & Transformational Coaching, Business Consulting, Breathwork, Groups, & more…

Her recent certifications include: Certified Professional Coach CPC (Leadership That Works), Internal Family System Informed (6 modules of Part Works with Guthrie Sayers), and BreathWork Facilitator (Breath Liberation Society).

Likhambi Wellbeing

Likhambi Wellbeing is a healing and well-being consulting sanctuary by Gogo Khayela aka Innocentia Shube, who seeks to practice ethical care and guidance that is at the intersection of African traditional healing, research and our current understanding of the psyche in our shared nature and co-existence.

Likhambi is the siSwati word for a healing blend or mixture, it can also refer to a natural modality to healing our physical and spiritual ailments. As a sangoma my calling and purpose in this life is to channel and provide likhambi that will contribute towards yours and our collective healing and well-being.

Appointments can be scheduled using this website.

Recommended Resources

“Depth Conversations” a written offering by Vanessa Andreotti, Rene Susa and Dougald Hine of the GTDF Collective

A Zine by Jade E. Davis

Empathy is an Ideology: Or, who is pathologized by the ideology we call empathy?

The Impossibility and Irrelevance of Empathy

By Sekai Farai, Independent User Researcher + Anthropologist

“Justice is what love looks like in public; tenderness is what love feels like in private.”
— Dr. Cornel West

“Whatever is the source of our intolerance, what can we do about it? Of course, we can resist acting on our nastier hierarchical tendencies. Most of us do that most of the time already. Will this work? Well, it hasn’t so far.

Too many people will not, perhaps cannot, do it. There is, unfortunately, satisfaction to be enjoyed in feeling superior to other people.

Amid all this, does tolerance have a chance? Only if we want it to. Only when we want it to.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we’re as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.” 

-Octavia E. Butler