learn ABOUT OUR FACILITATORS
Freida Neiman
(she/her)
Freida is a Workshop Facilitator, Wedding Venue Coordinator and Wedding Planner. She lives in the Bay Area and loves dancing, all things Brazil, cats (especially orange tabbies) and really good food.
She has been involved in healing and personal development work for nearly three decades and believes wholeheartedly in people's ability to overcome adversity and experience bliss in their lives.
She has transformed her own childhood trauma and knows firsthand the possibility to thrive and feel pleasure. And as a woman of Color she is eager to create a space of safety, inclusion, and freedom to be and say whatever is necessary for other women of diverse cultures.
Kels Suedmeyer (they/she)
Kels is a dancer, artist, and coach who explores how being limitless can show up in daily life through intentional practices of surrendering to the unknown. Passionate about bringing creative expression to the everyday, Kels believes that the spark of one's internal fire is always within reach.
For nearly 20 years, Kels has been devoted to personal growth and spirituality by seeking mentorship in various transformational organizations, resulting in a coaching style that is fueled by curiosity, compassion, and trauma-informed care. Kels brings emotional intelligence, sensitivity, and grounded communication to conversations, supporting people in exploring points of intersection within their identities.
Inspired by somatic inquiry and healing through body awareness and movement, Kels feels most alive when tending to her heart's desires, which currently includes learning to Zouk! Spiritual and self-reflection practices include tarot, astrology, plant wisdom, dreamwork, and writing poetry. Kels is a stand for decolonization, anti-racism, liberation, belonging.
Of Philippine heritage (and from the SF Bay Area), Kels also balances being mama to two young children, an advocate of home birth / midwifery, and the ever-evolving nature of relationship with their life partner of 15+ years.
Tabitha Nieto (she/her/ella)
Tabitha Nieto is the Executive Director of the COR Community Foundation. She is a Certified Hypnotherapist of over ten years, a Life Coach, and an experienced Facilitator to women. She is trauma-trained, having spent hundreds of hours of study for Complex and Developmental Trauma, advanced leadership development, and group facilitation courses.
Tabitha is an experienced workshop facilitator trained to support others through deep emotional explorations. Tabitha has worked alongside hundreds of women and has participated in, facilitated, or produced dozens of in-person and online events through COR Experience, COR Community Foundation, and her own business, Root + Rhythm Experience. At Root + Rhythm Experience, she combines all of her healing modalities to support her clients in expanding on their self-connection to live life more fully. She is also the founder of Circle a VIDA, a community focused on honoring child-free and childless women.
In previous times, Tabitha held a successful, six-figure “Corporate America” career inside a sprawling, male-dominated Fortune 500 organization. She left this during the pandemic to explore a deeper connection to her life, heart, and body, heal her past, and share her journey with women who want the same.
Tabitha is mixed-race and proudly identifies with her Colombian, Latina roots. She also acknowledges the racism and white supremacy that have shaped our country and is committed to continuing her work and raising her voice.
Some words from Tabitha:
“I've learned there is strength in softness. And that opening to softness requires vulnerability and courage. I help create spaces where women can feel safe enough to lower the armor -and the weapons- that we use for protection in order to explore living a life with an open heart, feeling like we belong, and celebrating our lives. Through workshops like COR Woman of Color and Diverse Cultures, I hope to share this work with hundreds of women. I can’t wait to meet you all!”