My name is Sydney Butler—healer, dreamer, educator, facilitator, and artist. My work focuses on using a combination of mindfulness/meditation, somatic exercises, and restorative practices to co-create liberation from individual and communal racial trauma and other oppressive systems such as patriarchy and abuse of religion. I work with children, youth, adults, organizations, and communities going beyond safe and brave spaces to find freedom in liberated spaces—where the voices of the oppressed are centered and the limitations of time, budgets, fear and inauthenticity are left behind. Within liberated space, people are real—they are authentic to themselves, vulnerable with their experiences, honest about their positioning, open to the process, and committed to transformation. It is in liberated space that we can find ourselves, confront the deepest truths about society, connect more authentically-human to human, and heal. When we learn different, we become different. My work is done through workshops, dialogue circles, and sessions. Writing and visual art is part of my expression and creation of liberated space within my life. I look forward to connecting with you in liberation.

With Love,

Sydney