Emotional Support Facilitation
A steady hand at the edge of transformation
with Erika Totten
💠 What It Is
Emotional Support Facilitation is a critical (but often overlooked) part of your gathering’s infrastructure — providing skilled emotional and energetic stewardship for justice-centered spaces.
This isn’t an add-on. It’s a quiet, powerful presence that helps your space stay grounded, connected, and open—especially when intensity, transformation, or rupture arise.
Led by Erika Totten, this offering supports the room with trauma-informed care. So participants can stay engaged, facilitators can stay focused, and organizers aren’t left holding everything.
🌿 Why It Matters
Too often, gatherings invite us to bring our whole selves—but forget to make space for our tender parts.
When emotional care is missing:
• Feelings go unspoken, and participants quietly disengage.
• Tensions rise, and trust frays.
• The emotional labor lands on already-overextended leaders.
With Emotional Support Facilitation, your gathering can move through hard moments with more grace and wholeness.
Erika’s steady presence helps the room breathe—so what needs to move can move, without breaking the container.
✨ What It Looks Like
This support meets the room where it is—with attuned, intuitive care woven into the flow of your gathering:
• 1:1 and small group care sessions when emotions rise
• Grounding interventions (somatic, musical, or movement-based)
• “Vibe checks” before and after intense sessions
• Support during moments of rupture or overwhelm
• Strategic coordination with the facilitation team
It’s sacred, subtle, and strategic,
offering rest and regulation without disruption.
🫂 Who This Is Ideal For
This offering is especially powerful in spaces that invite depth and vulnerability:
• Funders convenings and grantee retreats
• Movement-building gatherings
• Organizational staff retreats
• Conferences rooted in justice, identity, and healing
If your space asks people to be real, take risks, or show up fully—this work helps ensure they are supported every step of the way.
Let’s co-create sacred, strategic spaces where
healing is not an afterthought —
but an essential part of how we gather.
🌕 The Impact
Participants can feel seen, supported, and gently accompanied as they navigate and process deep emotions.
They don’t just leave the space feeling moved - but truly held, witnessed, and more whole.
Participants
Facilitators can stay grounded and focused on just their roles.
By not being split between roles, they can facilitate events to flow with more grace, depth, and resilience
Facilitators
Organizers
Organizers can stay focused on leading and logistics.
They can have the peace of mind that the emotional dynamics in the room are being held with care and skill.
🌟 Meet Your Facilitator
Erika Totten (she/they) is a Co-Founder of the WildSeed Wellness Cooperative and the Minister of Pleasure, Joy and Embodied Liberation at the WildSeed Society.
Erika is a dynamic facilitator, pleasure activist, healer, spiritual life coach, and community builder from Washington, D.C. committed to the movement for Black liberation and the evolution of our collective consciousness. She is the founder and director of Unchained Visioning, a core member of Harriet's Apothecary Healer's Collective, and co-creator of Black Lives Matter: DC where she focuses on centering healing and visioning within activism.
From South Africa to Charlottesville, Erika creates and facilitates transformative healing spaces for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color of all identities to process racial stress and trauma, and to experience embodied liberation & collective Joy, in the midst of dismantling systems of oppression.
She is also a devoted wife and mother of two who organizes to build chosen families of health, restoration and radical love.
🕯️ A Sacred Offering
Some spaces ask us to be brave, but forget to make room for our hearts.
Emotional Support Facilitation is a sacred tending of the unseen.
It helps hold the grief, tenderness, rupture, and joy that often emerge in justice-rooted spaces — so your visible work can deepen and take root.
Whether your group is navigating loss, engaging cross-identity dialogue, or celebrating powerful breakthroughs, Erika offers a presence that restores balance and strengthens the collective container.
🗓️ Schedule an Initial Consultation
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Emotional Support Facilitation to your next gathering?
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