Fostering an Ecosystem of Connection from the Inside Out

Chaplain Facilitated Community Practice Coalition

Interconnected Care at levels of Self, Community & Social Systems

Compassionate Spiritual Care for Humans & Animals

Medical Professionals, Nurses, First Responders & Educators

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Medical Professionals, Nurses, First Responders & Educators

One‑to‑one sessions and Monthly Group Sessions to debrief and address sustained trauma, moral injury, and compassion fatigue from caregiving; navigating power dynamics; and the challenges of working in overburdened systems, while strengthening emotional resilience and access to compassionate support.

Neurodivergent and Autism

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Medical Professionals, Nurses, First Responders & Educators

Empathy, care, support, and community are essential components for neurodivergent and autistic individuals in managing and maintaining mental wellness. Many must navigate life, environments, and systems that are not designed to meet their individual needs. Communication with neurotypical individuals can often lead to feelings of loneliness and frustration due to being misunderstood.

This monthly group offers a clinically informed environment that supports emotional wellness and interpersonal connection. Sessions incorporate evidence-informed practices such as grounding techniques, emotional regulation strategies, and guided peer discussions to promote resilience and overall well-being.

Participants are given opportunities to build meaningful social connections, share lived experiences in a respectful setting, and develop self-advocacy skills relevant to both healthcare and daily life. This group is designed to complement ongoing clinical care by fostering a sense of community, enhancing coping capacity, and supporting participants as they navigate complex emotional and health-related challenges.

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

One-to-one sessions and Monthly Group Sessions providing
Emotional wellness support for navigating illness, disability, and ableist systems.

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Care for those supporting people with disabilities, chronic health conditions, or terminal diagnoses, including space for processing grief, stress, and role changes.

Animal Chaplaincy

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Animal Chaplaincy

Animal chaplaincy services for Animal Family Members, and Spiritual & Emotional support for people

navigating the joys and challenges of life with their animal companions, including illness, aging, and loss. Through individualized care, Reiki, rituals and blessings we honor the deep bonds between humans and animals and create space for healing and meaning-making.

Death Doula

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Animal Chaplaincy

Spiritual and Emotional Support, Life review and legacy projects (letters, stories, rituals)

Family and caregiver support, facilitating hard conversations, helping with conflict or differing beliefs, and offering grief‑informed accompaniment and resource referrals

Bereavement and grief‑support involvement, including memorial services, remembrance rituals, or follow‑up visits for family after death

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Please book a free 30 minute discovery call where we can answer your specific consulting questions. We look forward to meeting.

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Individual Sessions

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Individual Emotional Wellness Support

Accompanying individuals, families, and caregivers through stress, illness, loss, and major life transitions, creating safe spaces for reflection, meaning‑making, and renewed hope. We also provide Death Doula and bereavement care after a loved one has died.

Grief and Trauma Pastoral Care provide compassionate, spiritually grounded support for individuals and families navigating loss, crisis, and life‑altering events. Through one‑to‑one chaplaincy care, support circles, and trauma‑informed spiritual practices, we create safe, inclusive spaces for healing, meaning‑making, and renewed hope.

Group Circles

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Group Circles

Group Emotional Wellness Sessions

Our community care clinic offers free and low cost access to grief informed trauma care, Reiki, expressive arts, mindfulness and sound healing practices for the community.

Mindfulness Training

Our mindfulness training was developed for people with disabilities teaches simple, practical tools to help you slow down, notice your feelings, and respond to stress with more kindness toward yourself. Participants learn ways to calm their bodies, sharpen focus, and build emotional resilience in everyday life. We offer group and one-on-one classes for people at any experience level.

Our Mission

Our Approach

At Flora Fauna Friend, our work is grounded in a simple conviction: connected communities, practicing compassionate action, are essential for transforming our neighborhoods, institutions, and the wider world.

We are a transformative community practice coalition providing interconnected care at the levels of self, community, and social systems to address moral injury, compassion burnout to be able to engage in the work of justice.

Our community care clinic offers free and low‑cost, grief‑informed, trauma‑responsive care that integrates expressive arts and sound healing practices for the community.

Join as a Member to be a part of our Monthly Self-Advocate Disability Justice Coalition & Allies

Our Approach

We live in a disconnected world marked by suffering, stress, and systems that can be hard to navigate. We often, without meaning to, participate in and sustain patterns of disconnection in our homes, workplaces, institutions, and communities.

You may have found yourself in spaces where something feels “off”—where exclusion, hostility, microaggressions, or a lack of genuine teamwork seem to linger in the air. These dynamics can show up in many systems: in our families, workplaces, classrooms, medical appointments, places of worship, social circles, and organizing spaces. You are not imagining these tensions; they live both inside us and around us. Sometimes we stand on the receiving end of these patterns, and sometimes—often unintentionally—we are the ones contributing to them.

Human beings are deeply relational. We long for real connection: with the natural world, with other people, and with our own inner life. When those connections are thin or broken, life becomes heavy. Love can feel distant or out of reach. Fear begins to replace trust, and loneliness can deepen into isolation.

In disruptive seasons—especially during illness, disability, chronic health challenges, and the approach or reality of death—we need more than technical expertise. We need living, human connection. We need nurturing care that holds us, our loved ones, and our caregivers with gentleness and respect. We need care that extends beyond the purely medical, into the spiritual and emotional dimensions of our lives.

Such living connection, person to person, creates a sturdy, compassionate container in which fear, grief, and uncertainty can be named and gently tended. As a chaplain and spiritual counselor, my role is to be present with you in those turbulent times, to listen deeply, and to help cultivate spaces of safety, meaning, and hope.

Think of your life—and the lives of those you care for—as a garden. Experiences of stress, illness, and loss can feel like storms that beat down the soil, leaving the ground compacted and the roots exposed. My work as chaplain is to come alongside you as a careful gardener: turning the soil of your stories, pulling up the weeds of shame and isolation, gently watering seeds of courage and compassion, and helping you notice the resilient shoots that are already growing. Together, we tend this garden so that, even in hard seasons, something healing, rooted, and beautifully alive can continue to grow..

Our Team

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Esho B. Buil is a Grief & Trauma Chaplain and Integrative Energy Care Practitioner with more than two decades of experience accompanying low‑income communities, grassroots disability rights organizers, and agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. Helping to expand access, dignity, and equity in healthcare and community life for people with disabilities. She has supported individuals and organizations through conflict, transformation, and change.

Drawing from a deep background in leadership development, disability inclusion, and spiritual care, she helps companies, congregations, and community groups navigate difficult conversations across lines of identity, power, and significant difference with skill, clarity, and compassion, cultivating emotionally safe, accessible, and inclusive environments where disabled and non-disabled people can learn, heal, and lead with integrity.

Her own journey as a person with Autism, living with a chronic health condition, and then as a parent to a son with Autism, allowed her to experience and observe first hand the challenges and disconnection that exist all around.

This prompted spiritual and emotional journey 35 years ago. Followed by academic training, certifications, clinical placements, and volunteer work at the local, state and federal level to support the garden to grow.

Community Care Cross Coalition

Our organization centers on the emotional well-being of those engaged in advocacy. As well as the emotional wellbeing of working in a collective. Through education and praxis we address how ableism shows up within groups and shared spaces, fostering more reflective, supportive and accountable environments.

We also warmly welcome and support organizations and individuals committed to disability justice who are striving to create more inclusive movement spaces. We do this by providing access to resources, training, and technical assistance that help develop and sustain accessible, equitable environments where disabled people are valued and fully included.

Membership Information

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Monthly Disability Self-Advocate Navigating Systems Meeting

Get plugged in to advocacy campaigns that support daily living and strengthens your neighborhood, region, and the planet.

As a national, disability-led, cross-disability rights coalition, we champion the full civil rights of more than 60 million Americans with disabilities, working to ensure that everyone can live, work, and thrive in their communities.

We promote equal opportunity, independent living, and meaningful political participation through community-centered programming, policy advocacy, and by connecting self-advocates to organizations engaged in justice work.

Our organization centers the emotional well-being of those engaged in advocacy, recognizing that caring for ourselves and one another is essential to creating lasting change

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Feeling Exhausted, Stressed, Isolated But Ready To Support Change?

Our newest Program launching in October is calling on those ready to engage in a deep exploration of interconnectedness. Supporting our emotional well-being to cultivate coping mechanisms in navigating power dynamics and systems. To collectively sustain and strengthen efforts that advance disability rights and promote social, racial, and environmental justice within our communities.

Link for Application below or use the QR Code in the flyer.

https://www.jotform.com/form/261666649729071

Fostering an Ecosystem of Connection from the Inside Out

Compassionate Spiritual Care for Humans & Animals

Medical Professionals, Nurses, First Responders & Educators

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Medical Professionals, Nurses, First Responders & Educators

Neurodivergent and Autism

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Medical Professionals, Nurses, First Responders & Educators

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Support for People living with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability

Animal Chaplaincy

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Animal Chaplaincy

Death Doula

Support and Bereavement Care for Caregivers

Animal Chaplaincy

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Individual Sessions

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Group Circles

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Group Circles

"Separation is an Illusion caused by our trauma response and conditioning." B. Buil

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Community Care Cross Coalition

Monthly Disability Self-Advocate Navigating Systems Meeting

Feeling Exhausted, Stressed, Isolated But Ready To Support Change?

Programming, Advocacy Meetings, Community Care Circles, Spiritual Gatherings, Workshops

Connection, Community, Compassionate Action

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