Ground. Recalibrate.
Heal. Reconnect. Thrive.
A nonprofit arts and mindfulness wellness organization welcoming people of all ages looking to recharge, heal, recalibrate, and reconnect while rebuilding total health through expressive arts and wellness. People come to us for creativity, reflection, stress reduction, family support, personal growth, community, and practical tools that help them sustain healthier lives — with trauma-informed care woven gently through everything we do.
- 6
- studio practices to choose from
- 4
- mindfulness modalities offered
- All
- ages welcome
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- calming gift, every workshop
Our mission
The Healing Initiatives, Incorporated makes total health accessible to all through a creative lens. Through welcoming, low-barrier, trauma-informed expressive arts, mindfulness, wellness education, family-centered support, educational advocacy, and resource navigation, THI helps children, youth, adults, caregivers, and families ground, recalibrate, express themselves, rebuild trust and stability, and move from surviving to thriving. We honor every person’s story without judgment, exclusion, or defining anyone solely by trauma—because healing is not a privilege; it is a community responsibility.
Our vision
We envision a future where total health is accessible to every person and family—regardless of age, income, insurance, diagnosis, life history, or starting point. In that future, creativity gives voice to what cannot always be spoken, community and trust reach people before crisis, stability replaces survival, and no one is judged, turned away, or left to heal, recalibrate, or rebuild alone.
To every person who walks in.
Welcome partnerships with schools, corporate teams, families, faith communities, and community-outreach organizations.
Provide creative wellness through community engagement projects, exhibitions, and public programming.
Grow our programming through thoughtful community partnerships, announced as they're confirmed.
Send every workshop guest home with a self-regulation and calming gift — because the practice continues past our doors.
Six hands-on ways to make.
Expressive-arts programming for creativity, reflection, stress reduction, and practical tools you can carry home.
Printmaking
Block, screen, and monoprint — repetition as a nervous-system reset.
Photography
Learn to see again. Frame your life through a compassionate lens.
Painting
Color, gesture, and quiet — permission to make something only for you.
Beginner Pyrography
Wood-burning as slow, focused craft — line by careful line.
Textiles
Stitch, weave, and mend — rhythm and repair in the hands.
Poetry & Journaling
Shadow-work writing to name what has been unnameable.
Find the medium that meets you where you are.
Restoration you can feel.
Grounding, nonclinical modalities brought together through THI programming.
Yoga
Trauma-informed movement for every body and every level.
Sound bathing
Immersive tones that quiet the mind and settle the body.
Meditation
Breath, presence, and stillness held in a safe container.
Breathwork & grounding
Simple, nonclinical self-regulation practices you can take home.
Future collaborations.
We're thoughtfully expanding our programming through community partnerships. New offerings will be announced once confirmed.
Everything THI offers is nonclinical creative wellness programming — classes, workshops, and sessions. Any therapy, medical, or clinical services are provided by independent practices through partnerships and collaborations, not by THI.
Clinical services, when available, are provided independently by licensed practitioners through their own practices. All clinical intake, consent forms, health forms, records, billing, and privacy notices are handled directly by the practitioner through the practitioner's secure systems. The Healing Initiatives Inc. does not receive, maintain, or control clinical records.
Something small to take the practice home with you.
This is what relief looks like.
Breathwork, sound bowls, meditation, yoga, journaling, and hands-on studio arts — practiced together, at every age.
Trauma-informed movement for every body and every level.
Crystal bowls, nervous-system rest.
A circle, a breath, a reset.
Put it on the page, let it settle.
Printmaking, painting, and making with your hands.
Simple breathing and grounding for all ages.
A welcoming space for anyone rebuilding total health.
People come to The Healing Initiatives for creativity, reflection, stress reduction, family support, personal growth, community, and practical tools that help them sustain healthier lives. Wherever you are on that path, there is a seat at the table for you.
Explore our classesBuilt on five principles of gentle, grounded care.
Founded by Shantelle L. Fuller, a trauma-informed educator with a Master of Education with a specialization in Trauma-Informed Care Educational Practices and 10+ years in special education. Every THI program is guided by five principles that keep our rooms safe, welcoming, and effective — with trauma-informed care as part of, not the whole of, how we hold space.
Meet the founder & our practice- 01Safety
Predictable rooms, clear boundaries, consent at every step.
- 02Trustworthiness
We do what we say — decisions and outcomes shared openly.
- 03Choice
You choose the medium, the depth, the pace.
- 04Collaboration
Healing is co-created — never done to you.
- 05Empowerment
We build on your strengths, not your deficits.
Upcoming events
A glimpse of the next few offerings across classes, workshops, retreats, corporate sessions, and community events.
Indu Wellness Total Health / Spa Collaboration
Hello Fall — Rest • Replenish • Realign, in collaboration with Indu Wellness Total Health/Spa. Chair Massages • Reiki • Tarot Readings • Mini Facials. Facilitators may change offerings slightly based on instructors availability. 12:00pm – 2:00pm at The Lot. 30 participants max. All are welcome. Donations are warmly welcomed and never required.
Herbal Cough Syrup Making & Special Wellness Discussion
Two facilitators lead the afternoon: Jen West, Clinical Herbalist + Founder of Plant Mama Alchemy, guides hands-on herbal cough syrup making, and Shalita O’Neale, Founder and Herbalist of Ancestors’ Dream Wellness Collective, leads a community wellness discussion. 30 participants max. Donations are warmly welcomed and never required.
Inaugural retreat
Our first multi-day retreat is being planned for 2027 — studio arts, movement, and stillness. Join the interest list for first access.
September–November 2026 · Four sessions · September: 15 participants max (completed) · October 31 & November 29: 30 participants max · The Lot on Harford Road.
Original series flyer: the printed 15-slot limit applied to September. October 31 and November 29 now welcome up to 30 participants each. This workshop moved from October 11 to Sunday, November 29.
A four-part series, September–November 2026
Expressive arts, mindfulness, and wellness at The Lot — 4500 Harford Road, Baltimore, 12–2pm. September classes concluded with 15 participants max; October classes welcome up to 30 participants each. The original flyer shows the earlier 15-slot limit. Tap the flyer to view it full size and share it.
See the seriesWhatever you need, there is a way in.
Classes
Small-group classes across studio and mindfulness practices.
Individual sessions
One-on-one nonclinical creative and mindfulness sessions, facilitated by THI.
Workshops
For community partners and corporate teams.
Retreats
Immersive multi-day healing experiences.
Event planning
Wellness activations for your gathering.
Give
Donate, sponsor, or partner with our mission.