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A healing offering For Hawai'i
The Sovereign Soul Group Series
A mindful wellness group program for breakthroughs in awareness, healing, and sustainable connection through the: somatic-embodied self, the psychospiritual self, and the sustained self.
No cost to eligible Hawai'i residents.
Three Foundational Groups for skill building & connection. Invitational deeper prolonged experiential immersion may follow.
Begins April 29th, May 3rd, or May 11th.
April – July 2026
Online
6 Sessions Per Group
No Cost To Eligible Hawai'i Residents
A Grant-Funded Healing Offering for HAWAI'I Residents
For too long, healing has been reduced to a narrow paradigm.
Fifty minutes, one person, four walls, a diagnosis. A model that mirrors the very fragmentation colonization created, severing people from their bodies, their community, their ceremony, and their relationship with the natural world.
The Sovereign Soul Series is a response to that rupture.
An integrated, community-based therapeutic program organized around three pillars.
The Embodied, Resilient Self
Getting into the body, learning to listen to it, be with it, and draw from the intelligence it carries as a pathway toward resilience.
The Psychospiritual Self
Connecting with what is sacred, ancient, and larger than us: spirit, soul, ancestry, and meaning.
The Sustained Self
Where the personal meets the political, and we explore how the individual is shaped by the systems and histories we live within — and how to reclaim sovereignty from them.
These three pillars are not separate paths. They are three ways of coming home to the same
whole person — connected to their body, their spirit, and their power.
The Three Pillars
Three ways of coming home to yourself.
These group offerings are not a substitute for individual psychotherapy. They are most appropriate for individuals who have previously engaged in therapy or are currently receiving individual mental health treatment and are seeking additional skills and support in a group setting. These groups build skills for accessing deeper therapeutic work and self inquiry.
Pillar 1.
The Embodied, Resilient Self
Somatic Skills for Regulation & Resilience: Discover Your Embodied Self
This 6-session group is designed to help you build practical, neuroscience-informed skills to regulate your nervous system, reduce stress, and feel more grounded in your body.
Healing happens in connection. This group offers a space to experience regulation, safety, and resilience with others, in real time.
Many of us were never taught how to work with our nervous system, especially after stress, trauma, or prolonged overwhelm. This group offers a structured, supportive space to learn and practice somatic (body-based) skills that help you shift out of survival states and into greater balance, presence, and resilience.
Details
Sundays, Weekly
May 3 - July 11, 2026
12:00 - 1:15pm HST online
Facilitated by
Dr. Haunani Iao, PsyD
You will learn how to:
Recognize your nervous system states (fight, flight, freeze, and regulation)
Develop tools to calm anxiety and overwhelm
Gently increase your capacity to stay present with difficult experiences
Build awareness of body sensations as a pathway to self-regulation
Practice grounding, orienting, breath, and other evidence-based somatic techniques
Potential Benefits/Gains:
Improved understanding of your nervous system states (fight, flight, freeze, and
regulation) and have a few maps/tools to understand your nervous system
Develop tools to calm anxiety and overwhelm
Develop tools to upregulate from freeze/collapse/shut-down gently
Build awareness of body sensations as a pathway to self-regulation
Practice grounding, orienting, breath, and other evidence-based somatic techniques
Top 3 Modalities:
Somatic therapy
Polyvagal Theory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Pillar 2.
The Psychospiritual Self
The Psychospiritual Self Group
Whether you're feeling disconnected from yourself, questioning your purpose, healing from past ritualistic, spiritual, or religious harm, shedding the colonial soul wound, or seeking a deeper sense of meaning — this group was designed for you.
This 6-session therapeutic introspective group is designed to support the development of the psychospiritual self — the integration of mind, body, and spirit — through trauma-informed lens and experiential & existential exploration and practice.
This group offers a space to explore the relationship between your personal identity and the deeper, collective nature of the soul and its innate spiritual connection, while building insights and skills for awareness, connection, and healing.
This group is grounded in a trauma-informed lens, recognizing the importance of boundaries and consent, cultural and ancestral connection, emotional and nervous system pacing, and engaging both inner and outer worlds with care.
This space is embracing and inclusive of diversity among adults of all races, genders, identities, cultures, religions, places, and backgrounds. Spirituality is approached through universal principles of love, compassion, and truth — not dogma. Religion, philosophy, and past experiences are welcome as part of your story, while the focus remains on your individualized psychospiritual healing and growth within a group container.
Details
Wednesdays, Weekly
April 29 - June 3, 2026
6:00 - 7:15pm HST online
Facilitated by
Jessica Brazil, LCSW
You will learn how to:
Reconnect with the body as a source of truth
Cultivate compassion, awareness, and inner connection
Create sacred space and personal practice
Engage with something greater
Utilize ritual, intention, and prayer as tools for healing
Build capacity for mystery, meaning, and purpose
This group integrates multiple evidence-based, evidence-informed, and psychospiritual modalities, including:
Jungian / Depth-Oriented Approaches
Meaning-Based / Existential Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Pillar 3.
The Sustained Self
Sovereign + Sustained Skills Group
Whether you're navigating anxiety, stress, burnout, or the cumulative toll of living and working in systems of oppression — this group was built for you.
We live in a time of compounding stress and growing inequity — wealth and power consolidating in fewer hands, political upheaval and conflict, a destabilized climate, culture wars, the rise of AI, and the addiction of social media platforms. These forces compose the world we navigate, and they cannot be separated from the self or the individual experience. This group is a space where the personal and the political are held together, where healing yourself is understood as inseparable from the larger work of collective liberation.
Details
Mondays, Weekly
May 11 - June 15, 2026
6:00 - 7:30pm HST Online
Facilitated by
Natalie Diaz, LSW
You will learn and practice:
Mapping the web of oppression — understanding how macro-level systems, historical and intergenerational trauma, and cultural conditioning shape individual mental health, behavior, and well-being
Recognizing how current events — political upheaval, technology, AI, social media, climate instability, and economic precarity — are affecting your nervous system, your relationships, and your sense of self
Psychoeducation on stress, anxiety, and burnout — what they are, how they differ, and how to address them
Strengthening boundaries, choice, and self-trust — practicing values-aligned decision-making from a place of agency rather than obligation, fear, or conditioning
Rethinking self-care from the ground up — centering the foundational pillars of well-being, and creating a new relationship with self-care not as a nice-to-have, but as a serious, fundamental, life-giving practice
Healing that ripples outward — supporting your growth not only as an individual, but as someone whose healing moves into their relationships, family, community, and beyond
Potential Benefits/Gains:
Improved understanding of how macro-level systems, historical trauma, and cultural conditioning shape your mental health and daily experience
Develop tools to recognize and name symptoms of stress, anxiety, and burnout — and understand how they differ
Develop tools to identify and challenge thought patterns and internalized beliefs shaped by systems, trauma, and conditioning
Increased capacity for emotional regulation and distress tolerance
Build practical skills for setting boundaries and making values-aligned decisions
Develop a sustainable, personalized self-care practice grounded in the foundational pillars of well-being
Increased sense of personal agency, self-trust, and inner authority
Experience the healing power of community and shared humanity through the group process
Top 3 Modalities:
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Critical Consciousness Theory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Who These Groups Are For
These groups are educational, experiential, and skills-focused. They are intentionally designed as a preparation phase, helping you build the internal resources needed for deeper therapeutic work. They are appropriate for adults from diverse backgrounds seeking skill development and group support related to:
Anxiety and stress
Depression and fatigue
Trauma
Life transitions
Grief and loss
Adjustment-related challenges
These groups are for individuals who are curious about their own healing and are interested in doing group work.
These Groups Are Not For
These groups are not appropriate for individuals whose current symptoms require a higher level of care than a skills-based group can provide.
Severe and persistent mental illness
Active substance use or addiction
History of psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or severe personality disorders
Recent suicide attempts
Current or recent homicidal ideation or violent behavior (excluding self-defense contexts)
Individuals who are not yet able to maintain self-regulation in a group setting
Why Groups?
Groups offer something individual work cannot. They create conditions for healing that go beyond what is possible in a one-on-one setting.
They create space to:
Be witnessed in your process
Recognize yourself in others
Practice new ways of relating in real time
Experience shared humanity and connection
The therapeutic factors unique to group — cohesion, mutual support, and the healing power of shared humanity — are core mechanisms of change. There is deep medicine in not being alone with what you carry.
Enrollment & Attendance
Intake assessment required prior to participation.
Attending all six sessions is strongly encouraged. Consistency supports your own growth and honors the collective experience of the group.
Licensed clinicians & Community members.
Meet Your Facilitators
All three groups are facilitated by licensed clinicians with Mindful Living Group — a trauma-informed, integrative mental healthcare cooperative rooted in Maui and Oʻahu.
Dr. Haunani Iao, PsyD
Psychologist
A kānaka maoli psychologist born and raised in Hawai'i, Dr. 'Iao integrates modern neuroscience with ancestral wisdom to support deep, sustainable healing. With over 14 years of clinical experience, she brings a grounded, culturally rooted presence to everything she touches, including the Somatic Skills 4 Regulation + Resilience Group and Sovereign Soul Series Intensive coming this August, alongside Jessica Brazil and Natalie Diaz.
Jessica Brazil, LCSW
Founder, Psychospiritual Therapist
Jessica is the founder of Mindful Living Group and a psychospiritual therapist with over 25 years of experience. Her work bridges clinical safety and spiritual depth, creating space for healing that goes beyond symptom relief and into profound transformation. She is leading The Psychospiritual Self Group beginning April 29th.
Natalie Diaz, LSW
Associate Therapist
Natalie is a psychotherapist, writer, and changemaker whose work sits at the intersection of personal healing and collective liberation. Rooted in trauma-informed, somatic, and social justice-informed practice, she creates spaces where the personal and the political are held together. She is leading the Sovereign + Sustained Skills Group this April.
Ready to find your way in?
The Sovereign Soul Series is grant-funded and available at no cost to eligible Hawai'i residents. Spaces are limited, and an eligibility intake process is required to reserve your place.
Fill out the short form below and a member of our team will be in touch with you as soon as possible.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I join more than one group?
Yes. The three groups are designed to complement one
another, and you are welcome to join all three. Each group stands on its own, so you can start
with whichever pillar speaks to you most right now.
How do I know which group is right for me?
Trust what you're drawn to. If you're feeling disconnected from your body and want to build tools for nervous system regulation, start with
the Embodied Self group. If you're seeking a deeper connection to meaning and spirituality, the Psychospiritual Self group may be your entry point. If you're feeling the weight of the world and want to understand how larger systems are affecting you personally, Sovereign + Sustained is where to begin. If you're not sure, reach out — we're happy to help you find the right fit.
What if I can't make all six sessions?
We strongly encourage attending all six sessions. These groups are designed as a progressive experience, and consistency supports both your own growth and the integrity of the group. That said, life happens — if you need to miss a session, please let your facilitator know.
Do I have to be in individual therapy to participate?
No. While some participants may be in individual therapy alongside the group, it is not a requirement. These groups are designed to be accessible to adults who are ready to engage in skills-based group work and are not currently in acute crisis.
Can I participate if I don't live in Hawai'i?
These groups are supported by community grant funding designated for Hawai'i residents, particularly those who resided on Maui during the 2023 fires. Please call our office at (808) 206-9371 to confirm eligibility.
What is the intake process?
After submitting your interest form, a member of our team will reach out to schedule an intake call and eligibility evaluation. This helps us ensure the group is a good fit for where you are right now, and that you have what you need to get the most out of the experience. If you are in therapy or have a treating mental health provider we may be able to reduce the intake process by obtaining a diagnosis and treatment summary from your provider.
Are these groups confidential?
Yes. All participants are expected to maintain confidentiality within the group — what is shared in the group stays in the group. Facilitators are licensed clinicians who are bound by professional and legal confidentiality standards, with the same exceptions that apply to all mental health services (imminent risk of harm, mandatory reporting obligations).
What if I'm in crisis or need more support than a group can offer?
These groups are not designed for individuals in acute crisis or who need a higher level of care. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, please call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or go to your nearest emergency room. If you're unsure whether a group is the right level of support for you right now, reach out to us and we'll help you figure it out.
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Mahalo nui to our SERG partners & Papa Ola Lōkahi for making this Maui Mental Wellness
program accessible.