Resourcing Teams through Community Care
Spaces where healthcare staff can rest, reconnect, and resource one another.
Are you a manager, unit leader, or mental health leader carrying concern for a team that feels stretched, weary, or worn down?
Are you struggling to figure out how best to advocate for your team with few resources and little to no support?
What if the exhaustion you see in your staff is not a personal failing, but the natural response to working inside systems that harm as much as they heal
What if “resilience training” and surface-level wellness perks only deepen the wound by asking people to cope alone?
What if there was a way for your team to reconnect to each other, to remember their shared humanity, and to be resourced together
We believe there is. And it begins with community care.
As healthcare workers, we all have the ability to care for each other
Traditional wellness programs in healthcare often fall short. They ask individuals to meditate through moral injury, to stretch through grief, to compartmentalize systemic violence. These approaches place the burden of healing on the very people most impacted, while leaving root causes unacknowledged
We offer a radically different approach.
At Introspective Spaces, our work is grounded in community care—the recognition that healing does not happen in isolation, but in the presence of others who witness, listen, and hold space. We create environments where healthcare workers can exhale, reconnect, and learn tools for taking care of each other. This is not about “fixing” individuals.
It is about restoring dignity, imagination, and connection inside teams and units so they can withstand and transform the conditions of their work.
In these spaces, people discover:
That their exhaustion is not weakness, but a signal of care stretched too thin.
That they are not alone in their grief, anger, or moral distress.
That joy, creativity, and solidarity are essential medicines.
Our Services
Consultations
For managers and leaders seeking to support their staff in ways that move beyond surface-level solutions. We meet with you to understand the unique pressures of your unit or organization and co-design care practices that honor both your people and your mission.
Workshops
Gatherings where teams face moral distress with honesty and creativity. Through art, reflection, and dialogue, staff reclaim moral agency and practice belonging in a moral community. Each workshop fosters community care and leaves teams with shared tools to sustain one another.CE credits available through the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #18000
Retreats
Extended spaces of pause and renewal—half-day, full-day, or multi-day experiences that weave together ritual, art, and collective practice. Retreats allow teams to rest, reconnect, and imagine a more humane way of working together.
Our Story
Anu Gorukanti, MD (Co-Founder) & Laura Holford, RN (Co-Founder)
The idea for Introspective Spaces was born out of the longstanding interfaith and interdisciplinary friendship between Anu, a pediatric hospitalist, and Laura, a community health nurse.
As each of us navigated our own journey through a flawed medical system, we realized that there were no established community spaces for the authentic conversations that we were craving. We left so much of ourselves behind when we entered our healthcare roles, including our cultural, spiritual, and contemplative identities. So we decided to build the community we were seeking.
. The Introspective Spaces community welcomes the authentic lived experiences of healthcare workers and provides a safe space for open discussion without the threat of retaliation. We believe that community care in the form of witnessing each other’s stories is the first gift we can offer one another as healthcare workers as we work toward a future of collectivized care and action.
Connect with us!
Reach out at hello@introspectivespaces.com