About
Alison Cebulla
Alison Cebulla has a Master’s of Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health (’19) a top 10 program. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009 with a BS in Conservation and Resource Studies with a focus in agricultural ecology. Alison went on to intern at ecological nonprofits in Belgium and the Netherlands, then worked in Fair Trade, an industry that seeks to end violence against women through economic empowerment. She runs an online program that helps people quit sugar and heal emotional eating. Alison has written about the transformative power of kindness and gratitude in the Huffington Post, and has taught workshops and spoken on stage in Paris, Barcelona, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin. She is an avid trail runner, yogi, meditator, blogger, and food grower. She left her role as Community Facilitator for PACEs Connection, an organization that works to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences, in March ‘22, then worked as an Associate Director at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School’s Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma, and now has founded Tend Collective, a trauma science and psychological safety education consultancy. She is bicoastal, splitting time between Boston, MA and San Luis Obispo, CA but is currently nomadic.
In 2023 she spent time in Sweden, Finland, England, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Italy.
Kind Warrior started as “The Kindness Challenge” on June 6, 2012.
Kind Warrior Mission and Values:
Our values center around promoting environmental sustainability, compassion for all living beings, and the transformative power of healing personal and historical trauma. We advocate for a holistic approach to well-being, embracing interconnectedness, knowledge empowerment, and fostering a society rooted in empathy, love, and respect for all.
Environmental Stewardship:
Promoting practices that sustain and enhance the health of our planet.
Compassion for All Living Beings:
Nurturing kindness and empathy towards every living being.
Personal Growth through Healing:
Recognizing that healing personal trauma is fundamental to self-actualization.
Social Harmony through Historical Healing:
Acknowledging the importance of healing historical trauma for the creation of a non-violent world.
Science-Based Health Promotion:
Offering health tips firmly grounded in scientific evidence.
Open-Hearted Living:
Cultivating a lifestyle of soft-heartedness and openness.
Curiosity, Wonder, and Awe:
Encouraging a perspective that sees the world with curiosity, wonder, and awe.
Empathetic Understanding:
Actively listening and seeking to understand others without judgment.
Creation and Appreciation of Beauty:
Actively seeking and contributing to the creation of beauty in all aspects of life.
Confronting Injustice:
Acknowledging and addressing suffering caused by patriarchy and white supremacy as a crucial step towards change.
Universal Love and Respect:
Affirming the inherent worthiness of every living being for love and respect.
Emotional Well-Being:
Embracing the full range of human emotions as integral to a vibrant, healthy, and whole life.
Knowledge Empowerment:
Recognizing knowledge as a source of power and peace.
Transparent Power Dynamics:
Acknowledging the existence of power and promoting open discussions around it.
Mental Health Awareness:
Reducing stigma and fostering understanding of mental health for a more peaceful society.
Holistic Mind-Body Connection:
Emphasizing the inseparable connection between the mind and body.
Interconnected Existence:
Acknowledging that everything exists within interconnected ecosystems.
Handcrafted Soulfulness:
Valuing the therapeutic benefits of making things by hand.
Heart-to-Heart Connections:
Encouraging frequent and meaningful heart-to-heart conversations.
Inherent Goodness of People:
Believing in the innate goodness of individuals and the importance of overcoming violence through positive brain training.