Devika Shankar (she/her) is a Resilience Toolkit Certification Program Trainer, transnational feminist, and organizer. Her work is rooted in embodied, whole systems, and justice-oriented approaches that recognize and embrace the interconnectedness of personal trauma healing and collective liberation.
Devika began her journey in trauma healing and collective liberation work in the field of domestic violence/intimate partner violence (DV/IPV) advocacy, working with underserved and marginalized survivors, including BIPOC women, immigrants, youth, and LGBTQ survivors. In her DV/IPV advocacy, Devika worked at both the individual and organizational levels, providing support services for individuals and families, managing anti-violence programs, and providing training and consultation for a variety of service providers and organizations, both within and beyond the DV/IPV field.
At Lumos Transforms, Devika works across the breadth of Lumos’ offerings. Devika works with individuals and facilitates community workshops as part of Lumos’ Community Programs to support individuals and groups in fostering personal growth, navigating stress, and building resilience. She also serves as liaison for Lumos’ Community Programs facilitators, providing mentorship and supporting their learning and growth to enhance and strengthen Lumos’ facilitator team.
Within Lumos’ organizational programs, Devika uses an embodied trauma-informed resilience-oriented (eTIRO) approach to provide consultation, leadership development and coaching, training, and capacity building to organizations seeking or engaged in complex and transformational change efforts. She recently completed an immersion program and is pursuing ongoing learning through the Center for Collective Wisdom in the Living Collective Wisdom® framework, a developmental framework for complex change to support organizations, systems, and communities to evolve and achieve the profound results they are seeking. Her recent organizational projects have included co-leading an eTIRO equity, diversity, inclusion, and antiracism initiative for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and she is currently providing eTIRO consultation and coaching to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Education and Information Studies. She is also currently supporting an organizational program to teach The Resilience Toolkit to several UK-based rights organizations, who will each send one of their staff to complete the Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program.
As a member of Lumos’ Certification Trainer Team, Devika provides training and mentorship to individuals currently enrolled in the Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Program, and provides post-certification mentorship and facilitates ongoing learning and growth opportunities for Facilitators seeking Level II and III Certification. She also provides mentorship and support to Level III facilitators working toward joining the Certification Trainer Team as Mentors and Trainers.
In her personal life, Devika is also an organizer with AF3IRM, a national all-volunteer, woman of color-led, transnational feminist, anti-imperialist activist organization. Over the past 6 years, she has served as the Los Angeles chapter Co-Coordinator, helping to grow, develop, and resource the chapter through times of ecological and political turmoil. Devika is an avid reader, gardener, and Lego builder. She is a creative at heart, and often finds herself in the middle of at least 3 different creative projects at any given time.
Work with Devika:
Modalities:
- The Resilience Toolkit
Pricing:
- Individual Initial Session | 75 minutes | $175
- Individual Return Session | 60 minutes | $150
- Individual Brief Session | 30 minutes | $75