Who We Are

The EmpowR Transformation Web of Change Makers offer guidance, engage in reciprocal support, contribute consulting capacity, and provide program expertise for EmpowR’s intentional work in service to transformative justice movement building. As advisors, collaborators, facilitators, and practitioners, our web weaves relationship between mental and spiritual health with organizational and social change to cocreate cultural conditions of belonging for collective liberation.

We acknowledge the activists, change makers, culture builders, and thought leaders whose work EmpowR moves forward. The visions for crafting EmpowR came from many directions and many people have been involved in shaping, reflecting, and offering insight to support building EmpowR’s foundation. We are committed to practicing the principles of emergent strategy as we evolve into right relationship with our bodies, each other, and the Earth.

EmpowR Transformation holds space for a community of evolving humans committed to building the cultural conditions of belonging for collective liberation.

We bring group awareness to the unlearning and relearning that supports personal and collective healing. EmpowR community members engage in embodied practices for emotional regulation, communal care, self awareness, and conflict management as ways to build community and movement for transformative justice.

• Together we hold a heart-centered space that draws on our relationships with the natural world and each other.
• Together we ripple weaving the threads for a more just and liberated world.
• Together we are community in an emerging container to practice “the work.”

All identities are welcome and we recognize the personal work of self awareness and healing for collective liberation looks different based on our different identities AND we are all connected in our shared humanity.

To get involved, you are invited to participate in an EmpowR Transformation Community Building circle, join the EmpowR Community (community building circles are included), and/or participate in EmpowR programs to build relationships with each other and cultivate inclusive community. 

EmpowR Transformation was birthed into being in 2019 as a way to support the Great Turning—shifting from an industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. As one small container that works towards a collective vision of creating a just and liberated society that is in a relationship of reciprocity to the air, soil, and water that gift us life, EmpowR is also a story of grit, resilience, trauma, and transformation.

With deep intentionality and manifesting vision, founder Rae Carter began to build a foundation for possibilities and conditions of belonging for New Earth. Inspired by imagination and purpose, catalyzed by a traumatic health crisis, powered by a career background tapestry, and driven by commitments to antiracism and decolinization, Rae began a quest to weave a web of heart-centered relationship with people working towards collective liberation, healing ourselves to heal humanity, and actively cocreating the world we want to live in.