Lucinda Pepper wearing a purple dress and purple/pink spectacles, looking up at the sky, in front of oak trees and a field of grass.
  • My mission, through a variety of services & offerings, is to engage people in active love practices to interrupt the many manifestations of interpersonal violence.

    This purpose-driven work helps me co-create worlds that center care, reciprocity, justice and love.

    My values empower me to create brave & supportive spaces where the catalyzing tools of empathy, love & kindness can be practiced.

    My work shifts dynamics from siloed individualism toward interconnectedness, resources, support & collective care.

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    I am a two-time micro-entrepreneur with significant values-based business and collaborative experience.

    Additionally, I have over 30 years experience in a variety of traditional business roles, and in board & advisory committee roles.

    As a writer I’ve taken uncountable projects from conceptualization to creation. Along the way I’ve gained skills in developmental guidance and copyediting. I’ve created everything from manuscripts to essays, reports to marketing materials and more (digital and analog).

    I’ve long been a community-oriented solopreneur and non-digital influencer. Some of my superpowers are embodiment, intersectional trauma-informed healing, body based healing, and collective wellbeing

    I passionately engage with & study (and have for 35+ years) spirituality, meditation and devotion, yoga and breathwork, somatic healing, embodiment, body-based healing, trauma healing, racial justice, social justice, communication skills, conscious language, human potential, personal growth, physical wellness, writing, ritual, dance and movement, folklore, symbolism, myth, archetypal wisdom, cooperatives and collectives, environmental healing, queer Femmes, queer communities and personal & collective liberation.

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    CMT; CYT; RYT-200, E-RYT1000

    Summary

    As a disrupter, I have chosen to gain ongoing education and training outside of the academy.

    Details

    I was certified by the Minneapolis School of Massage and Bodywork in 1996 and by the Feel Your Best Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2006. I have completed hundreds of hours of continuing education in body-based and somatic healing modalities (see CV for more information). I continue to study somatic and neurophysiologic approaches.

    Additionally, I partially completed a dual degree in Communications and Urban Planning at the University of Minnesota from 2002-2004.

    In 2005, I opened and operated my first business, a social justice and trauma-informed wellness studio, which lived in community joy for 12 years.

    Member: LGBTQ+ Editors Association (since 2022)

    Member: Association of Writers & Writing Programs (since 2024)

  • My skills & superpowers include:

    • healing centered & trauma-informed practices,

    • building community

    • working with conscious & inclusive language

    • embodiment

    • teaching and facilitating

  • I am a gender-prismatic (trans-nonbinary) queer Femme who uses they/themme or Mx pronouns. I am a white person of primarily Scottish, Welsh & English ancestry living in the U.S. as a result of white settler colonialism. Though I live with the ongoing health impacts (mental and physical) of adverse childhood experiences and various adult traumas, I am a mostly (temporarily) non-diabled person.


    I am living on unceded lands in the upper Midwest, U.S., known as Mni Sota Makoce. This place is still the ancestral and current homeland of Dakota people.

  • I am continually grateful for those who have shared their teachings, wisdom, skills, knowledge, and magic with me so far, and those teachers yet to come.

    Thank you to those I am learning from - my formal and informal teachers- and all of their teachers!

    The partial list below includes people who have taught or mentored me directly:

    Evolve Benton
    BX Barclay
    Naomi Cohn
    Debra Hennesey
    Karen Hering
    Kitty Kuluvar
    Thea Lee
    Tommy Lee Woon
    Susan Raffo
    Erin Sharkey
    Suzanne Sterling
    Lovice Weller
    Tracy Williams

    This incomplete list includes those whose life work and publications continue to deeply influence my heart, thinking, practices, and frameworks:

    Jacoby Ballard
    adrienne maree brown
    Pema Chodron
    Eli Clare
    Seane Corne
    Clarissa Pinkola Estes
    Lilias Folan
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Trisha Hersey
    bell hooks
    BKS Iyengar
    Valarie Kaur
    Judith Lasater
    Carmen Maria Machado
    Ricardo Levins Morales
    Chani Nicholas
    Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha
    Sonya Renee Taylor
    Bessel van der Kolk

Selected Facilitation & Speaking Engagements

Dept. of Public Health & Environment

IT Department - HQ

Masters in Educational Leadership Students

Staff in the Department of Agronomy; College of Food, Agriculture & Natural Resources

  • Recent Inspirations

    Big old conifers in the north woods; sledding face-first downhill; deepening relationships with my dearest ones; my writing accountability buddy, my writer pals, the Loft writer’s studios, braided essays; Kao Kalia Yang; Naomi Cohn; Dralandra Larkins; Ebony Steward; Bill Holm; reading-writing-making art every chance I get; deepening ritual practices and presence.