"Surrender to the home you've found; light the fire, feel the ground…" -- Lyrics from Queen of Wands, written by Apprentices of Shakti Rising's Transformational Recovery Program
Shakti Rising informally began in 1997, when the Founder and Visionary Director, Shannon Thompson, began providing mentoring and informal individual and group counseling to young women with histories of addiction, abuse, depression, and self-destructive behaviors. From having worked in traditional recovery settings, Shannon saw that these women were being misrepresented and underserved through conventional programs. She went on to develop Shakti Rising's woman-centered model to fill this gap in treatment by creating a recovery program that addresses the complex layers of problems that result from childhood abuse, trauma, and dysfunctional family structures. Shakti Rising received its non-profit status in 1999 and now operates varying levels of programming in regions across the country transforming communities through its recovery, education, and leadership development services.
In 2013, Shakti Rising began offering services and classes in Sacramento, leading us in April 2018 to open the first Shakti Rising Leadership House, named Casa Luna y Lobos in Midtown. Casa Luna offers the full range of Shakti classes, a women's housing cooperative, and is home to a residential leadership immersion program and the first Northern California Transformational Recovery home, which now houses nine apprentices.
What started as a personal siren song from the ancients has become a worldwide contemporary movement. Since its inception, Shakti Rising has supported, mentored, and fostered thousands of women, girls and women-led organizations with feminine practices, approaches and systems, alchemical transformation, and leadership development.
Shakti Rising is a social change organization transforming the lives of women, girls, and the larger community. We cultivate the health and emerging leadership of women and girls, ultimately empowering them to use their personal transformation as a catalyst for positive change in their families and communities. This creates gradual cultural change that supports sustainable, cooperative, healthy societies. Our work actively promotes community well-being by creating woman and child friendly societies that are safe, healthy, vibrant, diverse, sustainable, and culturally alive. Our mission is to empower women to uncover, rediscover, and reclaim their whole selves.
Shakti Feminine University
Shakti Rising is fostering social change by offering innovative education and leadership programs through Shakti Feminine University (SFU). SFU classes and workshops are built on an educational foundation that cultivates self-aware and socially conscious women leaders who wholeheartedly accept the responsibility and power of being agents of transformation. Ultimately, the goal of SFU is to create 21st Century leaders who can foster healthy, vibrant, interdependent communities that are sustainable and adaptable, creatively and effectively engaging the resources present in our communities and in society at large. Courses, tools and ongoing solutions that create healthy, soulful, sustainable, and purposeful living. Our signature curriculum, offered in person & online is the key to our success.
Donations to this program will go to support upgrades in our essential technology; outreach capacity; teacher stipends and training; and making this work accessible through free community services and scholarships.
Trauma & Recovery
We began offering trauma and recovery services through a high impact, holistic and gender-specific Apprenticeship for young women that addresses co-existing conditions such as addiction, body image issues, personal/systemic trauma and mental health issues. Due to demand, our signature transformational recovery process is now offered online for diverse populations of women, including women leaders, activists, teachers, business owners and health care professionals. Visit our website to learn more about the responsive ways we are offering our trauma informed services today, through virtual offerings such as Holistic Emotional First Aid.
Shakti Rising Transformational Recovery Services invite women to participate in this evidence-based model which helps address depression, low self-esteem, codependency, anxiety, disordered eating, physical, emotional or sexual trauma, grief, or loss. We believe that all women are leaders, including all of those harmed by various forms of trauma throughout their lives. These services are meant to support women in healing on all levels while discovering their resiliency and exploring ways they can contribute to our collective and community level restoration.
Donations to this program will go to support counseling staff and scholarships to make the recovery offerings accessible to more women.
Alchemical Leadership
A crucial ingredient in the kind of society Shakti Rising is working to build, and the social change we are enacting, is the leadership of women. Through our Alchemical Leadership program, we steward individualized and community leadership through multiple avenues, including a robust volunteer/karma yoga pathway, coaching, training and consulting. Our cutting-edge leadership practices are shared with individuals, organizations and corporations. Each year, community members receive individual training and volunteer placement throughout every level of the organization.
Donations to this program will go to support upgrades in our essential technology; outreach capacity; volunteer training; and making this work accessible through free community services and scholarships.
Interested in volunteering with Shakti? The Volunteer Application can be found at www.shaktirising.org/volunteer-application
Organization name
Shakti Rising
Tax id (EIN)
33-0891679
Mission Category
Education
Operating Budget
$250,001-$500,000
Organization Need
Funding: Unrestricted, Funding: Program, In-Kind Donations, Funding: Other
Address
2211 O StreetSacramento, CA, US
San Diego, CA, US