What if work was the place we exhaled?

In today’s workplaces, stress is often normalized—but what if we normalized regulation, restoration, and repair instead?

Join us for a powerful and grounding session with Karen Hewitt, M.Ed., Founder of K Hewitt Consulting and Co-Founder of The Ohio REST Collective. This immersive experience will explore what’s possible when healing becomes central—not peripheral—to organizational culture.

Through the lens of nervous system regulation, energetic awareness, and restorative practice, we’ll examine how cultivating a culture of healing fuels creativity, strengthens team trust, and fosters innovation rooted in wholeness—not urgency.

Healing in the workplace isn’t a luxury. It’s a strategy.

When we are allowed to heal at work—individually and collectively—our performance doesn’t just improve; it transforms. We begin responding instead of reacting. Creating instead of compensating. Connecting from a place of grounded presence rather than adaptive survival.

This session will offer space and tools for:

• Moving from Adaptive Strategies to Grounded Leadership

• Resting to inspire innovation, dreaming as a form of strategy

• Creating grounded cultures where people feel seen, supported, and safe

• Embodying resolve and repair through conflict-aware, heart-forward practice

• Regulating the individual and collective nervous system as a form of both personal sustainability and collective prevention

Event Details:

📆 When: Thursday, December 4th, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

🌎 Where: Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch)

📍 Address: 96 S Grant Ave, Columbus, OH 43215

🚪 Room: Meeting Room 1A

🚗 Parking: Library Parking Garage — Main Library’s attached garage, accessible from Library Park North

Plenty of tasty food + drinks will be provided for you to enjoy!

🎫 RSVP Information:

To make sure we have enough food and refreshments for you (and others), please RSVP now so we can plan effectively.

Whether you're in HR, leadership, or simply someone committed to building more human workplaces, this is an invitation to reimagine what’s possible when we center healing in how we work.

— Austin, Meri, & Molly | Columbus Culture First Co-Leads

About the facilitator:

Karen Hewitt, M.Ed. (they/she/ze), is a cultural strategist, facilitator, community leader, creative, and multidisciplinary healing practitioner. They are the Founder of K Hewitt Consulting and Co-Founder of The Ohio REST Collective, where they design experiences that nurture belonging, connection, and healing. As a certified Reiki, Zen Leadership, and Polarity Practitioner, and trained mediator, Karen blends energy work, systems thinking, and trauma-informed facilitation to guide individuals and teams toward healing and wholeness. With a background in Women's College Basketball Coaching, HR, Leadership Development, Educational Policy, and Diversity & Inclusion, her work sits at the intersections of support, strategy, and soul.