Colleen Thomas
I'm a ritual artist and meditation teacher, and I help people make sense of life through ceremony.
I work with people who are ready for a change but don't know how to make it happen.
UKRAINE SOLIDARITY
I have been showing up for Ukraine every day since the full-scale invasion - creating trauma-sensitive audio resources, studying the language, and curating ways for others to help. That work now lives in three places: the 10 Minutes for Your Heart Series, created for Ukrainians processing personal trauma; the Everyday Magic for Ukraine Podcast, short rituals for allies carrying this from a distance; and the Creative Ways to Support Ukraine List, a curated resource hub.
Beyond my work as an independent audio producer, I show up by:
Offering Grounding & Stabilization practices through The Complex Trauma Institute (based in the UK, working with therapists in Ukraine)
As a non-Ukrainian, I echo American historian Timothy Snyder in asserting that my offerings are made from the humble and limited perspective of an outsider.
Rites of Passage
I support people navigating life changes, co-creating custom rites of passage with them. This includes weddings, grief, coming out, career change, and the moments that don't always come with a built-in ceremony. If you're marking a transition of your own, I'd love to help you design one.
Shame Piñata
Before all of this, I hosted Shame Piñata, a podcast exploring people's real rite-of-passage stories in their own words. It's on hiatus now, but the full archive is still there to explore.
Background
I am a Certified Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher and I hold a masters in Creation Spirituality from Naropa University.
With gratitude & honor to my teachers
David Treleaven, Starhawk, SarahAmira de la Garza, Matthew Fox, Laura Amazzone, Yeye Luisah Teish, and Russill Paul.
