Organizational Partnerships & Group Facilitation

Strengthening Resilience and Purpose in Times of Change

Caitlin is an educator and trauma-informed practitioner offering integrative coherence practices and support for care-centered organizations, their staff, and the communities they serve — to sustain resilience during times of stress, trauma, and rapid change.

She integrates nervous system–based practices with embodied, creative engagement within a structured, heart-centered framework.

Her work addresses grief, loss, complex trauma, chronic stress, and collective fatigue, strengthening heart coherence, somatic awareness, and emotional integration while restoring vitality and renewed direction.

She is bright, articulate, and very skilled in meeting and working with others. Her presence brings steadiness and clarity to complex situations. She is a joy to work with.

Mildred Lachman-Chapin

ATR, CCMHC, NCC

Examples of what may unfold in a workshop setting:

  • Heart-focused breathing and coherence practices.
  • Recognizing triggers and early stress signals in the body
  • Strengthening emotional regulation under stress
  • Understanding how the vagus nerve supports safety and calm
  • Creative practices that bring upliftment while stabilizing coherence

This work does not replace licensed clinical treatment. Rather, it strengthens therapeutic and community-based care, making it more effective and sustainable.

Available for organizational consulting, facilitation, and structured programs – offered in person or online.

Thank you, Caitlin, for a wonderful workshop experience! I knew by your education and background that you would bring expertise in helping caregivers recover from fatigue and grow more resilient.

The science-based handouts were practical and gave us ways to practice the techniques on our own. And the heart coherence experience changed the environment in the room of participants in such an uplifting and palpable manner.

It’s a great value learning ways I can manage my stress and fatigue on my own time.

Blaine Scott

Care Coordinator, Volunteers and Bereavement, Abode Hospice of Colorado, Grand Junction, CO

She performed a terrific service under enormous pressure. The department could not have gotten through the crisis as well as we did without her mix of hard work and diplomacy. Ms. Flynn’s most important skills are her judgment, discretion, and ability to develop and keep straight the order of priorities.

Mike Hout

Chair of Sociology Department, University of California, Berkeley

Youth Mentoring Services

Nature-Based, Creative, and Equine-Assisted Youth Mentoring

 

Equine Youth Mentoring

I provide trauma-sensitive mentoring for youth through nature-based experiences, art mentoring, creative expression, and equine-assisted activities. Each offering is designed to support self-expression, identity, self-trust, communication, healthy boundaries, and meaningful connection with the natural world.

Art Youth Mentoring 1
Art Youth Mentoring 2

PRIOR INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS

  • Community workshop addressing collective trauma
  • Mini-workshops on nervous-system regulation
  • Children’s peace project following 9/11
  • Healing arts series for individuals with chronic illness
  • Ecology-based mural project in rural Mexico
  • Expressive arts series in Hawai‘i
  • Pilgrim support at the end of the Camino de Santiago (Spain)

Relevant Background

  • Certified Harmonyum Trauma Release Practitioner

  • HeartMath® Trauma-Sensitive Practitioner

  • Coherence Consultant

  • Certified Life Coach

  • Curriculum and program development

  • Doctoral Ministry Studies

  • Ordained Minister, Center for Sacred Studies

  • Expressive Arts Facilitator

  • Ongoing study in neuroscience and consciousness

  • B.A. in Education and Culture, Hampshire College

Contact Caitlin at: caitlinelena333@gmail.com