Flourish: A Community Mental Health Virtual Summit

You’re Invited to Flourish: A Community Mental Health Summit
July 26–27, 2025 | 100% Online

This isn’t your typical webinar weekend. Flourish is a 2-day virtual experience built to uplift your spirit, expand your tools, and deepen your sense of connection.

We’re bringing together therapists, healers, and everyday changemakers - all rooted in one mission: making mental wellness accessible, inclusive, and real.

Expect heart-opening stories, practical strategies, and a community that feels like a deep breath.

This summit is for you if:
✔️ You want tools that actually work for real-life stress, trauma, and transition
✔️ You’re craving stories that feel like yours - not just textbook stats
✔️ You believe healing gets to be inclusive, honest, and culturally rooted

We’re centering:
✔️ BIPOC communities
✔️ People impacted by systems - from incarceration to immigration

You belong in this space, just as you are.

Mark your calendar
100% online (come comfy, no commute required)
Registration opens soon, stay tuned!

Summit Details

Why
Attend

Whether you’re managing your own mental health, holding space for someone else, or pushing for change in your community - Flourish is for you.

Come as you are. Leave with what you need.

Here’s what you’ll get inside:

Real talk and fresh insight from mental health leaders and lived-experience voices
A community that gets it - no shame, no stigma, just support
Tools for grounding, healing, and advocacy you can actually use
Live workshops, panels, and heart-opening conversations
Resources to keep you going after the summit ends

You don’t have to do it alone.
Bring your friends. Bring your team. Bring your whole self.

What You’ll Experience

This isn’t just another Zoom or speaker lineup, it’s a yes to your healing and growth.

Here’s what’s inside:

Talks that shift your mindset:
Hear from powerful voices in mental health, advocacy, and lived experience. Just real talk and real tools.
Workshops that work in real life:
From burnout to boundaries, anxiety to activism - get practical strategies you can start using now.
Lived-experience panels that hits home: Because stories are medicine. You’ll hear real journeys from folks who’ve been through it and came out wiser.
Space to reflect, connect, and remember: you’re not in this alone.
Self-care breaks to actually restore. Log off and breathe. These guided pauses are designed to ground you, not just fill time.

Speakers & Facilitators

We’re bringing together a powerful mix of speakers - mental health pros, community leaders, creatives, and lived-experience storytellers - all with one thing in common: they speak from the heart and from experience.

This lineup isn’t just diverse on paper - it’s rooted in real stories, cultural wisdom, and bold truths that move us forward.

Want to be part of it?

We’re still welcoming speaker applications + nominations for:

Lightning Talks
Wellness Sessions

Got a story, tool, or truth to share? We want to hear it.

Join the Movement

Healing Happens Here.

Mental health isn’t a luxury. It’s a human right. And at Flourish, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Whether you’re just starting out or deep in your healing journey this summit is your space to be seen, heard, and held.

Come for the tools.
Stay for the stories.
Leave with connection and clarity.

This isn’t just an event. It’s a movement.

Don’t miss your moment to be part of something real, powerful, and rooted in community.

Meet Our Speakers

Voices That Inspire. Stories That Heal. Tools That Empower.

Let’s be real: healing isn’t one-size-fits-all and mental health conversations should reflect that. The Flourish Summit brings together voices you don’t always hear but need to. We're talking lived experience, clinical wisdom, and cultural truth, all in one space.

From therapists to truth-tellers to change-makers, every speaker brings heart, expertise, and a belief mental wellness should be for everyone.

Here’s what to expect:
✔️ Mental Health Pros with strategies and healing frameworks
✔️ Advocates with lived experience sharing stories of relatable resilience
✔️ Social Justice Leaders naming what most people won’t

Because healing should look like all of us.

Now’s the time: Grab your spot. Invite your people. Show up for your healing and your community.

Whitney Coleman, LICSW, LCSW-C

Flourish Founder

Whitney Coleman, LICSW, LCSW-C is a Clinical Social Worker, Therapist, Best Selling Author, and International Speaker dedicated to mental health and professional development. She is the founder of Jade Clinical Services where she supports women of color navigating anxiety and life transition and the Breaking Boundaries Therapist Academy where she empowers mental health clinicians to build thriving private practices. With a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford and a Master's of Social Work from the University of South Carolina, Whitney has a diverse background spanning child welfare, domestic violence, mental health, substance use, case management and professional training. Her global perspective, shaped by studying abroad in 18 countries through the Semester at Sea program, informs her culturally responsive approach to therapy and advocacy. A passionate advocate for reducing stigma, increasing access to mental health services, and empowering women, Whitney has been featured in Elléments Magazine, Black Enterprise, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, and multiple podcasts. She regularly speaks at conferences and other events, educating the public on anxiety, self-care, mental wellness, and intergenerational trauma. Whitney is committed to breaking barriers in mental health and providing personalized, culturally competent care.