Get to know us.

Teddy McGlynn-Wright (he/him) is a Belonging-Based Facilitator, politicized healer and award-winning professor, formerly of the UW School of Social Work. He currently directs a trauma-informed schools project in New Orleans, LA. When working with clients, (individuals and organizations), Teddy uses a body-based (or somatic) approach to healing and transforming systems that break people, families and communities.

His three main areas of work— teaching, trauma-stewardship, and facilitation, inform and are informed by one another.

Recognizing that all interpersonal violence happens in the context of structural violence, Teddy takes a body-based approach to healing and clearing secondary trauma in individuals and collectives, whether the trauma is racialized or gendered, interpersonal or institutional. Teddy supports those on the frontlines of anti-violence movements including domestic violence and sexual assault advocates, anti-racist organizers, and prison abolitionists.

He primarily works with values-based organizations/clients supporting them to align their values with their actions - grounded in what’s now to shape what’s next.

Kirsten Harris-Talley (she/her) is a Belonging-Based Facilitator, community educator, artist, and healer based in Seattle, WA; Occupied Duwamish Territory. She feels blessed to have been raised by community in activism circles; doing reproductive justice, anti-racism, and non-profit social change work over the last 25 years. She has also been active in political change and previously served as a legislator as a Washington State Representative for Southeast Seattle, and a Seattle City Council Member.

Kirsten is committed to collective liberation and as an abolitionist - believes in a future without slavery, incarceration, or authoritarian control. She knows to create this reality we must do collective work for healing, deep connection, and shared abundance. As a founding board member of Surge Reproductive Justice, she knows first-hand the transformation found when we center impacted communities in the leadership and drive of our movements. She loves working with those who understand the struggle of our ancestors, and apply that wisdom to action in the present, to build the future we all deserve. With little coaxing, she will gladly join you for a karaoke duet or tarot reading.