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LLAMA
Where healing meets
workforce development
Sustaining cultural leaders through body-based reflection, coaching, and integrated AI support.
Be part of the story
What is LLAMA?
LLAMA is a space for cultural leaders to reconnect and sustain themselves in the work they carry.
A place to breathe, reset, and be seen — in your language, your story, your way.
We bring healing and workforce development together, because the work you do cannot be separated from what you carry.
When we say cultural leaders, we are speaking to Black, Indigenous, and Brown people with intersecting identities — immigrant, LGBTQ+, gender-expansive, and survivor communities.
The ones who hold care, responsibility, and trust in their families and communities, often without being recognized or resourced.
LLAMA is here to support not just the work — but the people holding the work.
A space where leadership is seen in full context, restored in capacity, and sustainably resourced.
Co-Creation
LLAMA is not a solo project.
It has been shaped in community with an Advisory Circle of Black, Indigenous, and Latine cultural leaders, healers, and visionaries.
This is collective wisdom, gathered over time, in relationship, and with deep care.
Why LLAMA Exists?
Most wellness tools were not built for our realities. They overlook what we carry — culture, family, migration, language, and daily pressure. At the same time, cultural leaders are losing work, stability, and resources. The people who hold others are struggling to sustain themselves.
LLAMA exists where healing and economic sustainability meet.
LLAMA survey results and ecosystem: Cultural leaders carry layered stress across identity, caregiving, and systems — and 100% are open to the LLAMA model of support.
Cultural leaders carry a different kind of weight
Burnout in our communities isn't only from work — it's layered with identity, caregiving, immigration, racism, and gender. The research confirms what we already know in our bodies.
How often stress shows up in the body
Support leaders currently have
Interest in support that combines body-based reflection + culturally grounded coaching + AI between sessions
General app interest
What feels reasonable to pay
In their own words
"I'd love to learn more — for myself but also my clients! Thanks for doing this work."
"I will give this survey to my staff."
"I'd love to see what you come up with! Good luck Jorge!"
We recognize that data often overlooks or misrepresents our communities. Still, we offer this as a starting point, not as the full story, but as one lens to guide and ground our work.
A recent randomized clinical trial involving about 200 participants with diagnosable mental health conditions found that those who engaged with an AI therapy bot called Therabot experienced significant symptom reductions compared to those who received no treatment. Participants with depression saw a 51% reduction in symptoms, anxiety symptoms dropped by 31%, and concerns related to eating disorders decreased by 19%
Studies comparing AI-generated therapeutic responses (e.g., ChatGPT) with those of human therapists found AI responses often rated higher on core psychotherapy principles, suggesting AI’s potential role in therapeutic interventions
“There are 340 people for every one mental health provider. More than 122 million people live in a mental health workforce shortage area, with only 27% of the mental health care needs in shortage areas being met.”
“Barriers to obtaining mental health treatment persist nationwide. Nearly 6 million adults (10.1%) with a mental illness are uninsured, compared with 9.3% of adults without a mental illness. One in four (24.58%) adults who experienced 14 or more mentally unhealthy days each month were unable to see a doctor due to costs”
Build With Us
$25.000
LLAMA is being built with the community it is meant to serve.
Be part of this story.
Bodymind Equity Map
Name what you are carrying. Cultural leaders understand how emotional, cultural, and systemic conditions shape well-being.
Culturally Grounded Coaching
Relational support rooted in lived experience. Network of culturally grounded coaches who offer somatic, spiritual, artistic, and community-rooted healing practices, while being compensated fairly.
AI Reflection Support
Extend the work between sessions. AI companion that reflects our cultural realities and offers care during moments when a coach is not available.
Our Approach to AI
We know technology has not always been built with our communities in mind. That’s why we are approaching AI differently.
LLAMA’s AI is shaped by culturally grounded coaching practices and the lived experiences of the communities we serve.
It does not replace human support. It works alongside it.
Our goal is to explore what becomes possible when cultural leadership helps shape how technology reflects, supports, and responds.
Join the Founding Circles (support us)
Community Roots
Nourishes LLAMA from the ground up
Any amount under
$49
- Receives ongoing updates as LLAMA evolves
- Name included in the Digital Community Map honoring everyone who helped bring LLAMA into existence
Abundant Circle
Nourishing what is growing.
From
$50 – $299
- Receives ongoing updates as LLAMA evolves
- Name included in the Digital Community Map honoring everyone who helped bring LLAMA into existence
- Invitation to an early community healing gathering — a space to arrive, rest, reconnect, and be held
Community Believers
Strengthening what we’re building together.
From
$300 – $1,999
- Receives ongoing updates as LLAMA evolves
- Name included in the Digital Community Map honoring everyone who helped bring LLAMA into existence
- Invitation to an early community healing gathering — a space to arrive, rest, reconnect, and be held
- Name included in the Founding Believers Circle
- Opportunity to share your offering, practice, or resource with the LLAMA community (if aligned)
Seed Partners
Supporting what’s becoming possible.
Any amount over
$2,000
- Receives ongoing updates as LLAMA evolves
- Name included in the Digital Community Map honoring everyone who helped bring LLAMA into existence
- Invitation to an early community healing gathering — a space to arrive, rest, reconnect, and be held
- Name included in the Founding Believers Circle
- Opportunity to share your offering, practice, or resource with the LLAMA community (if aligned)
- Early access to the prototype
- Invitation into co-design conversations as LLAMA takes shape
- Name included in our public launch in deep gratitude
- Logo included on the LLAMA “Founding Partners Wall” inside the app
If this resonates with your heart, your work, your story, we invite you to join us.
Be part of this story.
Con Cariño,
Jorge, Camilo and The LLAMA Advisory Circle
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