Healing Through Self-Mastery

This breakout session is designed to introduce participants to the foundational ancient African wisdom that fuels the trauma resolution methodology of The Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery program. Facilitated in-person by Floyd Rowell, who leads the Alma Center version of this approach, and virtually by Jojopahmaria Nsoroma, the innovator of the approach, participants will receive generative information and the opportunity to interact with each as Self-Masters.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Integrate spiritual and emotional intelligence into human services methodology
  • Apply cultural anthropology and mythology to resolve deeply impeded ancestral wounds
  • Embrace the use of higher consciousness learning to support self-mastery as a viable discipline and practice for transforming embedded pain

Speaker

Jojopahmaria Nsoroma

Jojopahmaria Nsoroma is the owner and steward of Higher Expectations Consulting Collaborative and The Wisdom Walk Institute for Self-Mastery. She is also the creator of the Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery program at the Alma Center in Milwaukee and the author of the book by the same name. At any one time, Jojopahmaria is a teacher of emotional and spiritual intelligence who influences personal, professional and institutional change, an organizational development specialist who promotes justice, equity, inclusion and diversity as the foundations for organizational and community wellness, a podcaster, a YouTube creator, and a modern-day shaman and self-mastery sage, dedicated to using ancient indigenous wisdom to support the evolution of the human services field. She’s also a classical pianist and a classic movie buff.

Floyd Rowell, II

Floyd Rowell, II has been the leader, steward and senior facilitator of the Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery program at the Alma Center, Inc. for 10 years, since 2014. Prior to his formal leadership role, Floyd successfully participated in all of the Alma Center’s programs, and his natural leadership was acknowledged first as a volunteer Peer Mentor and Facilitator-in-Training. During the five years of his professional development, he also worked as the night manager of the innovative Alma House prison re-entry project. Utilizing his own experiential knowledge of having walked in the same shoes, as well as his deep study of self-mastery and spiritual practices, Floyd has successfully supported a multitude of men to end the cycle of family and community violence, and to reinvent their lives, as he has. Floyd’s work is not his job, it is his lifestyle and way of being. He is an Urban Shamanic Healer working to ignite and fuel the fire of peaceful change for his family and community. He has received several community service awards, including the ManKind Project’s Ron Hering Award (2019) and Connecting The Narrative Award (2022).