trauma informed
consulting . coaching . facilitation
What if there was a space to digest, process and move through
cultural, personal and intergenerational trauma, with care,
nuance, no right or wrong but with curiosity and play?
Welcome home
Hi! I’m Malia Wright-Merer, mixed, born on the unceded territory of the Tongva people, now called Los Angeles, with my family lineages from China, Africa, Sweden, and England.
I am a Trauma Informed People & Culture Embodiment Expert, specializing in Embodied Movement, Collective Trauma Healing, Somatic Human Design, and Ayurveda. Through consulting, coaching, and workshops, I combine curiosity and mindfulness to support personal and collective healing. Named by colleagues, “The Queen of Nuance,”
I help organizations and individuals create inclusive, adaptive environments that foster authentic connection, resilience, and well-being, so you can align with your values and
make the impact you dream of!
With a background in accessibility facilitation, healing collective trauma, awareness of communal psychology, money trauma and somatic embodiment, my approach is playfully rooted in curiosity, creating an open space for engagement and processing to support the individual process for the progress of collective growth.
This is about creating a container to remember what it feels like to be at home.
To be in relationship with yourself, your community, and the land.
Here, we move through rigidity, fear, scarcity, and their root in personal, familial, ancestral, and systemic stories.
We sit in the in-between to digest, rest, process, and re-imaging new ways of being.
For too long, we have been disconnected from what makes us feel alive, connected, joyful, and pleasurable and this is where we get to hang out to remember.
Remember what our ancient ancestors once knew.
Remember the feeling of connecting beings.
Remember what it was like to be in collective care.
How we can create together
Curious what this is all about? Take a Listen!
The Cozy Impact Pod
Join Julia Firestone and me to dive into deep conversations.
Picture this: soft blankets, abundant plants and nature, a fire in the fireplace, and dear friends. You’re in your element, energized and nourished by the setting and sense of community.
Welcome to The Cozy Impact Pod, a virtual embodiment of this experience where we open the door to topics that impactful people and conscious leaders constantly think about but rarely get to talk about. We’re playing and laughing our way to a greater sense of belonging for our friends in helping professions - from social entrepreneurs like ourselves to activists, nonprofit and social impact folks, educators, and anyone who wants to contribute to making the world a better place. Welcome home.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 31-April 11, 2026
Saturdays, every other week, 10am PT, 1pm ET
Pāhoa, Hawai’i
Upcoming 2026
dates and times TBD
EMBODIMENT, SOMATIC EXPLORATION
MONEY PLAY : a somatic exploration of money's shadow, memory, and the nervous system
MONEY PLAY is an ONLINE program, an embodied space to explore the cultural and ancestral patterns of scarcity and survival held in our bodies. Through creative and somatic practice, we reimagine money as a relationship that can sustain care and collective thriving.
Why money play? Because when we were children, many of us stepped onto a playground with a kind of unquestioning trust in the space, moving into play without measuring what was next, following our curiosity wherever it led, shaping new worlds through our imagination, and knowing in our bones that this place belonged to us while we were in it. We did not watch the clock or count the minutes; even a single minute of play could feel like a whole horizon opening.
ECO-SOMATIC RETREAT
PHENOMENA: an embodied retreat for changemakers & community leaders at the edge of transition
7 days, 6 nights, in jungle bungalows near the volcanic rock thermal soaking ponds.
Held for those who are constantly holding others. This is for the visionaries, social workers, facilitators, creatives, bridge-builders, and cycle-breakers who are doing the slow, necessary work of cultural change. Not to escape it, but to be resourced for it.
This retreat offers land connection, somatic tools, spacious integration, and communal nourishment. It’s not just about rest. It’s about remembering your aliveness. So you can keep going — not from depletion, but from wholeness.
EMBODIMENT, FOR MULTIRACIAL BODIES
Where do I belong? An Embodied Exploration of Identity & Belonging for Bi/Multicultural Bodies*
This is a playful experiential space bringing in authentic movement, psychodrama, and sociometry, phototherapy, music, movement and song. As well as through story sharing and unfacilitated conversation space. Our interest is not to “figure out” where it is that we belong between the identities we hold, but critique binaries and dream together into what could emerge from our experiences of non-belonging and the new meaning we might make for ourselves in the process.