An art-based healing program dedicated to transforming chronic heartache to resilience

Explore, challenge, ease and release family ancestral patterns of trauma. PLACE provides art-based tools, and sacred community space to practice intuition and self-agency. 

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Welcome to A PLACE OF HER OWN™ (PLACE) 

Here, art is not decoration; it’s medicine. Each art creation becomes a way to listen inward, to reclaim what was silenced, and to honor the resilience that lives in our ancestral roots.

Founded by artist Cynthia Tom, PLACE invites women and communities of color and all who carry generational stories to explore curiosity, healing, and courage through art-making, storytelling, and collective reflection.


We believe that when we ignite creativity, we also move towards self-agency Together, we transform chronic heartache into wisdom, isolation into belonging, and imagination into justice.

  • To me, PLACE is a women of color leadership program that happens to utilize creativity, somatic awareness building, and community organizing. The seeds were planted by us all.

    Ahran Lee

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  • I had a breakthrough where it became clear to me what the relationship among my 3 boxes/sections is. My "place" is where I always trust myself 100% (intuition) that I know how to take care of myself (self-love, self-care), so I can create freely (creativity, manifestation) without fear of overwhelm or strain from attracting energy to me.

    Emily Yamauchi

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  • These women are indeed pattern shifters ... and because they represent diverse cultures, we have an illumination of the collective suffering and courage and impact of colonialism and patriarchy upon the entirely of humanity as witnessed by women.

    Krystal Rose

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  • The tools I learned from PLACE workshops have continued to inspire my healing and transformative process.

    Reiko Fujii

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