COMMITMENT TO ETHICAL PRACTICES
“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is not a trend, it’s a commitment.”
As a Woman-Owned solopreneurship, Radiant Floressence celebrates the opportunity to learn from multiple perspectives. I believe differences are valuable, and no human being has the same experience. Radiant Floressence is inclusive and welcomes people from all backgrounds. Radiant Foressence ensures the inclusion of all, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, religion, income status, mental or physical ability or disability, or other identities.
Public Commitments
Prioritize partnerships and collaborations with businesses that are founded by people from marginalized identities.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion education to all (potential) members and employees.
Ensuring that (future) hiring opportunities are equally showcased to marginalized communities through community outreach and niche/identity-based job boards
Nurturing a diverse community where people from all identities feel welcomed.
While I cannot guarantee a "Safe Space" I strive to create safer spaces and brave spaces. Safety is subjective and what each of us requires to experience safety or feel safe changes from person to person and from moment to moment
Radiant Floressence acknowledges that diversity and inclusion is not a trend, but a lifelong commitment to work. Centering the needs of an inclusive environment gives us the opportunity to dismantle oppressive systems that have kept us from learning new perspectives, and give those from marginalized groups the support and resources that are greatly deserved in order to equal the playing field economically.
In order to sustain our inclusive environment and uphold our values as a solopreneur I ask that the people work with and clients:
Commit to being open-minded to new perspectives and experiences.
Never attempt to fake engagement by purchasing followers, likes, or comments as it could lead to social media account suspension and a misrepresentation of the hard work our team does behind the scenes
Maintain a Work/Life Balance that honors their mental health as a business owner, and advocate for a balance for your employees as well.
I am committed to ongoing anti-racism education and participated + invested in trainings + activities such as:
-Inclusive Strategies for your Coaching Business | VP Wright
-Facing Human Wrongs: Unsettling Wellness | Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures / Uvic
I have also made monetary contributions to:
-National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
-Native Women’s Association of Canada
Land Acknowledgment + Settler Responsibility:
Radiant Floressence is a virtual & in-person art & design & coaching studio whose headquarters occupy land colonially known as Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia. I acknowledge that, here in Nova Scotia, we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. We also honor the African Nova Scotians. We are all treaty people. The mere acknowledgement of land rights is not enough: Awareness is the first step towards change; Head to native-land.ca to learn what land you occupy.
I recognize that systemic racism exists in Canada historically and currently.
Radiant Floressence expresses support of, and solidarity with, the movement to end Canada’s system of racism and hate in all forms.
I seek to dismantle systems of supremacy in behaviors, values, and relationships through embodied transformation. We are decentering, not dehumanizing. This work takes time and practice, and I meet it with both curiosity and tenacity.
I recognize that “anti-racist” or “ally” are not labels I can wear, rather, they are verbs: practices + actions I commit to on a daily basis knowing there is no end destination of "enlightenment."
Part of my mission is to support intergenerational and collective healing by supporting "white" folks to: wake up to how we unconsciously participate in, benefit from, and perpetuate systems of oppression; untether from internalized messages and worldviews passed down from the dominant culture; and reclaim life-giving, communal modes of relating through lifestyle changes and embodiment practices. I believe that personal wellness cannot be achieved without a real and material commitment to liberatory praxis and embodied activism.
Honouring Lineages
Energy healing has been used for centuries in various forms within many cultures. It is important to honour lineages of the modalities I practice and have also influenced//inspired my lifestyle and nurtured my approach to coaching and art.
The term "Somatic" was coined and made popular by a white man and there is much to unpack regarding western + European somatic practices and methodologies. I am actively delving into academic + spiritual research and know that the stream of Somatics is steeped with ancient knowledge, ritual, and teachings from the global majority.
In this way, I believe the work I do as a somatic practitioner is social justice work, it’s liberatory activism. Giving people greater access to their bodies and to the space their bodies take up is empowering, disruptive and healing. It is a gift from the Black and other marginalized beings who came before us. Let us honour those women and their struggles by continuing to strive for inclusivity in the work that we bring forth into this world.
All bodies deserve to feel awake and alive regardless of race, class, sexual orientation, religion and abilities. All bodies. Everywhere."
-Paraphrased from Dana Regan of Somatic Soul Coach School
I’m not a therapist. I specifically chose to become a somatic practitioner, coach, and embodiment facilitator to disrupt hierarchal norms of teacher vs. student or expert vs. learner. I continuously learn from my clients and community just as I educate and empower others. This is a reciprocal relationship where I strive to remind you that you are the only expert in yourself.
Embodied Transformation approach and method is an integrative approach that is deeply rooted in the belief that the spiritual, social and ecological crisis we are experiencing are an aspect of a deeper individual and collective human crisis which is rooted in disembodied/disconnected way of living— disembodiment from our own bodies and its wisdom and a deep separation from the greater body of our living Earth. It seeks to restore the relationships between mind /.body / soul / Earth /. culture. This approach and framework integrates trauma-informed integrative somatic modalities, somatic integrative parts work, Internal Family Systems, whole systems thinking, deep ecology, ecosomatic, eco-spirituality, neuroscience, earth-based wisdom, decolonial theory.
This approach flips traditional western therapies and coaching on their head by challenging notions such as "pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps" and the idea that "mental health" is a personal issue. Instead it emphasizes the historical nature of trauma and the role that systems and institutions play in shaping the material reality of our lives (through social hierarchies based on gender, race, class, etc.) which impacts how safe, free and at home we feel in our bodies and the world.
Grounded in a social justice framework, this approach serves to disrupt the modern mental health industrial complex. Most Western therapies and life coaching taught within institutions of higher education are steeped in larger cultural ideologies like individualism, which emphasize ableist notions of self-reliance, independence, and productivity, thus negatively characterizing and pathologizing any form of struggle, resistance, weakness, disability or dependence within this context.
Industrial growth society and the systems that uphold it (individualism, settler colonialism, racial capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy) inflict a style of complex trauma on the relationship between our ecological, relational and individual nervous systems. Western culture relies upon domination, disconnection, fear, and scarcity to drive the growth of our economy while compromising the health of life systems in the process. We are born into and shaped by these interlocking systems that are designed to keep us in survival, further dislocating us from the source of our true health and power: the land, our bodies, and one another.
My approach to nurturing wholeness addresses these systemic issues that most traditional therapies and coaching ignore. I believe that the healing necessary to fully re-inhabit our own bodies and ecosystems is the healing that will ultimately transform oppressive systems.
I pledge the following:
I am committed to addressing all avenues of systemic oppression and will continue to have the necessary conversations on race and oppression as well as participating in anti-racism education and training. I have zero tolerance for racism in my community and aim to create a culture of anti-racism in my environment + beyond.
I commit to disrupting and dismantling systems that perpetuate racism, even if that entails rethinking long-standing institutional practices. I am cognizant of the intersectional nature of oppression and examine fields and spaces like higher education, health-care including mental health, design/advertising/marketing, fashion, + more– of which have all historically been unapologetically exclusionary and discriminatory.
I pledge to continually unearth + dismantle the harmful systems within myself through unconscious + generational biases that perpetuate white supremacy and Eurocentrism.
Much love & heaps of gratitude,
Kerri, who is a work in progress just like this page! (2025)