The Sacred Gathering • Workshops • Actual BIPOC • Upcoming Events • Community Partners
Storytelling is everything. It’s how we hold onto lessons, messages, history, and healing… through the words we share, the feelings we express, the actions we take, the songs we sing. These stories are interwoven with previous generations, tethering us to one another and keeping us grounded in our shared reality.
Here at Wombat, we honor identity, tradition, and health equity by tuning into the stories passed down through ancestors, generations, and our whole community.
Whether through one of our capacity-building workshops, events, or therapy, we create safe, culturally grounded spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities to reclaim their narratives and reconnect with practices that center care, resilience, and belonging.
More than just an event, join us to co-create a healing experience rooted in care, culture, and community.
The Sacred Gathering is our heartspace: a moment to pause, listen, and reconnect. Co-led by mental health practitioners, Indigenous knowledge keepers, artists, and cultural stewards, this gathering honors ancestral knowledge and lived experience as central to collective healing.
Our gatherings hold space for grief, joy, memory, and transformation. Each session centers principles of consent, reciprocity, and non-extractive learning — ensuring stories are held, not taken.
Whether held in-person or online, the Sacred Gathering invites participants into a safe, inclusive environment for:
Let’s build a future where seeking support is celebrated, where our wellness practices are reflections of who we are, and where every story matters. Come be a part of something sacred.
2025 Featured Workshop at the Sacred Gathering
The workshops held at the Sacred Gathering focus on reducing stigma, honoring cultural strength, and increasing access to mental health support.
Together, we explore the unique challenges AI/AN communities face, while uplifting stories of survival, healing, and joy. Through movement, conversation, and creative practice, participant connect with wellness tools that feel familiar, not foreign—grounded in tradition, identity, and collective resilience.
The garden parties focused on cultural revitalization through seasonal planting and harvesting ceremonies, storytelling, and workshops relevant to mental health and healing. Co-facilitators from a local Los Angeles indigenous plant collective provided education on native plants and traditional medicines, guiding us as we planted and cared for native plants.
Gardening has transformative potential and is a powerful tool for healing, recentering, and grounding individually and in community.
Recognizing the potential of graphic novels as a channel for dialogue through visual storytelling and narrative depth, the Youth Graphic Novel Project gave AI/AN transitional age youth a platform to share their personal journeys with mental health, challenges they faced, and strategies for resilience.
Our goal is to create and support resources providing guidance, facilitating healing, and promoting a deeper understanding of mental health issues in the community.
A three-day interactive initiative by WOMBAT Mental Health Services. This camp fosters facilitated discussions and equips participants with essential strategies for maintaining safety, wellness, and resilience in both digital and real-life spaces. The camp aimed to engage participants in five interactive workshops covering key topics such as digital safety, mental health, and online activism. Following the workshops, participants created six educational videos centered on these themes. These videos will be used to launch an impactful social media campaign, empowering the broader LGBTQIA2-S+ community with knowledge and resources.
“Storytelling in the Digital Age is wild. But it is important that we get to present our stories, who we are, as LGBTQIA2 Spirit, and in some cases, Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA . Especially in a digital age, where we’re so connected, but by being connected on a device, we can feel as if we are alone. We don’t have that, I’m gonna tell a story with this person in-person. And so, hearing other people explain their experiences, you start to resonate with little moments that they’re having, the good, bad, and the ugly.”
– John, Digital Hygiene Glampaign Participant
Bridging Black and Indigenous communities through storytelling and shared values.
Creating more spaces for Black & Indigenous folks to find joy together, Actual BIPOC is a collection of workshops with a vision of expanding community connection across California.
Explore storytelling through touch, song, pose, engaging all the senses. Reconnect and rebalance your spirit among friends.
Every workshop, meeting, and connection serves to create stronger paths between the past, present, and future.
Regardless of the city it is held in, Actual BIPOC will always centralize storytelling in infinite forms.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please use our usual volunteer sign up form! When workshop sign-ups are live, the link below will take you where you need to be!
Walk with Wombat and uncover our upcoming events and projects. Take part in community. Learn from our wonderful community partners.
The majority of our events are open and accessible to the public, so we would love to share space and resources with you and your chosen family.
Have questions about participating or supporting our Gatherings & Workshops? Please visit our contact page and we’ll be delighted to connect with you.
