The Lens
Why you learned to become smaller, quieter or easier to belong.
The Homecoming Workshop
Belonging Without Self-Betrayal
For multicultural women who are excellent at their work, exhausted from performing “fine”, and ready to return to their voice, body and story.
A trauma-informed, culturally grounded workshop drawn from Homecoming. Together, we’ll explore why belonging can feel like self-betrayal, what your nervous system may be carrying beneath the composure, and how to begin coming home to yourself.
This is for you if...
You are tired of being praised for coping when what you want is to come home to yourself.
- You are excellent at your work, but exhausted by who you have to become to do it.
- You leave meetings thinking about what you did not say.
- You code-switch between cultures, rooms, families and versions of yourself.
- You have been praised for being strong, capable or composed while privately feeling disconnected from yourself.
- You are tired of confidence advice that ignores culture, trauma, migration and survival.
- You want language for what your body, voice and nervous system have been carrying.
What we will explore
A gentle map for returning without abandoning your complexity.
The Map
What your nervous system may be doing underneath the over-functioning, people-pleasing and composure.
The Homecoming
What it means to begin returning to your own voice, body and truth without abandoning your culture, history or complexity.
Choose your access
Start where you are. Join live, or receive the recording wherever you are in the world.
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Live Workshop + Receive Homecoming Bundle
$150
For women joining live on 9 July. Includes light meals and Homecoming Bundle.
- Signed Homecoming Book
- Homecoming premium tote bag
- The Feeling Wheel Check-In — a tool to track your emotional and somatic shift
- Signed Digital Bookplate
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Recording Only
$49
For women globally who cannot attend live. Recording access will be sent after the workshop.
Get RecordingWhat this is not
This is not a confidence workshop.
It is not a generic wellbeing session. It is not a Western coaching model applied to a different body, accent or cultural history.
It is trauma-informed, culturally grounded and built from lived experience; for women who are carrying more than most rooms know how to hold.
About Ratu
- Author of Homecoming: The Art & Practice of Trauma Recovery
- Founder of Women’s Lantern
- Trauma-informed consultant, coach and speaker
- Former healthcare/product marketing leader across GSK, Haleon, Sanitarium, and J&J
Important note
This workshop is educational and reflective in nature. It is not therapy, counselling or crisis support.
Your choice
You will not be asked to disclose personal trauma or share anything you do not wish to share.
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