Kali Bird Isis
is an expressive arts therapist with over 20 years of experience
working with women and children of all ages. Her work has primarily
been with individuals who are building a life for themselves
after sexual or physical abuse, grief due to major life losses,
homelessness, displacement, fear, self-esteem issues including
chronic shame, and loss of a sense of self to one’s own
artistic, spiritual, or nature-based relationship with the
world. She has worked closely with girls and boys in
both school and private settings. She has created and facilitated
coming-of-age groups and loss work for grieving children using
the arts and nature as a means to gently opening children to
their own healing process.
Kali’s group work
with women who have been derailed or disenfranchised in any
way has paved the way to the creation of Life Stories, a
performance based group for women wanting to share their
stories through the arts with the public. Much of this work
has been developed through her innate sense of the arts and
nature as tools in providing those in the therapeutic process
creating healing visions for and of themselves in their individual
journeys. Stories often have the means to heal not only the
artist who creates them, but also those around us who witness
the profundity of the telling. Stories connect us and provide
us the mirror with which to see our own reflections in the
world around us. Using poetry, theatre, art, dance, nature,
and all that we feel to create these stories calls on us
to be brave, to be strong, and to be willing to help create
that healing pathway for others.
Kali’s commitment to the challenging work of re-building
lives after trauma continues to inform her own spiritual path.
She believes deeply that it is when we attend to our own broken
places within us and allow our voices and stories to be raised
up, that we recover our true integrity and commitment to the
healing of our planet.