Community Events & Collective Healing

Healing Beyond the Therapy Room

At NeuroBloom, we believe therapy doesn’t stop at the session—it extends into the community. Our events bring psychology to life through conversation, embodiment, and art. These gatherings are spaces for rest, reclamation, and radical curiosity. Each one blends mental health education with cultural dialogue, creating experiences that feel equal parts lecture, ritual, and revolution.

R.E.S.T. as Resistance: Fundraiser for Sudan (Black History Month)

February 2026 | In Collaboration with For Real Therapy

R.E.S.T. stands for Reclaim, Embody, Soothe, Transform—a multi-day event series that explores rest as a form of liberation and community care. This year, we’re dedicating the series to Sudan, raising funds for humanitarian aid while honoring rest as resistance within the Black and African diasporic experience.

Event Lineup:

• Somatic Workshop: Learn body-based rest rituals and nervous system resets.

• Liberation Psychology Panel: Clinicians and community leaders discuss rest, resilience, and collective care.

• Rest as Resistance Workshop: Guided reflection on how slowing down becomes activism.

• Joy as Embodiment Dance Party: Closing celebration centering Black joy, music, and movement as medicine.

Purpose: This is both a fundraiser and a form of cultural witnessing—reminding us that rest, joy, and healing are not luxuries, but birthrights.

Proceeds: Donations support Sudan relief efforts and community wellness initiatives.

Psyche n Sip: Mental Health Meets Conversation

Monthly Live Lecture Series (Chicago & Virtual)

Our Psyche n Sip events bring therapy, neuroscience, and cultural conversation to the café table. Hosted by researchers, professors, clinicians, and folks with lived experience, these one-hour experiences are equal parts education and vibe: think meaningful conversation meets cozy evening out.

Format: 40-minute lecture + 20-minute audience Q&A
Style: Accessible, humorous, thought-provoking
Where: Partner cafés and community spaces around Chicago

Sample Topics:

• Liberation Psychology in Real Life

• Polyvagal Theory & Nervous System Regulation

• ADHD, Burnout, and the Myth of Productivity

• Trauma, Shame, and Identity Repair

• The Psychology of Belonging and Boundaries

Goal: To make therapy wisdom public knowledge—an open, welcoming space where people can learn, reflect, and connect without the clinical formality.

Liberation Psychology Book Club (Coming Soon)

Where Reading Meets Revolution

Launching later in 2026, the Liberation Psychology Book Club will bring together clinicians, students, and community members to explore how psychology can be used for social change rather than control. Each cycle will focus on one core text that challenges the Western psychological canon and invites deeper reflection on collective liberation.

Planned Titles:

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (through a decolonized lens)

Each meeting will include guided discussion, reflective prompts, and an optional somatic practice or journaling activity to help integrate learning.

Goal: To bridge the gap between intellectual insight and embodied transformation—to make liberation not just a theory, but a lived practice.

Future Events: Art, Movement, and Collective Healing

We’re dreaming of more arts-based and sensory-centered experiences: poetry nights, immersive sound baths, storytelling circles, and collaborative exhibitions that blend psychology with creative expression. NeuroBloom is where therapy meets artistry, and where healing always finds its way into the body.