Welcome to your Transformational Journey
Where you are heard—your voice matters.
Where you reconnect with the truth of who you are.
Where you find a web of support, growth, and reciprocity.
Where you step forward with others—rising fully, together, regeneratively, sustainably.
Let’s tend to the seed of a new flower, ready to bloom.
Together, we break the illusion of separation—above vs. below, powerful vs. powerless, better vs. lesser—and reclaim our rightful place, side by side.
We surrender to the reciprocal flow of knowledge & wisdom, giving & receiving.
Healing the deep wounds of disconnection.
Let’s breathe life into the spaces in between.
How can we relate differently to one another and together co-create the world we wish to see?
Listening deeply
Shifting perceptions
Celebrating diversity
Redefining wounds of division & separation as fertile ground for healing & growth
Disrupting
Shifting
Standing for the beauty & possibility in self & other
Reclaiming voice, identity, full presence
Co-creating through radical interconnectivity
Bold solutions are needed to tackle the complex challenges we face today.
You are being called to help create a new reality—one rooted in inclusion, reciprocity, deep listening, non-linearity, horizontal participation, equity, and social justice—all while bringing your full, unapologetic presence.
Offerings
Transformational Spaces
Equalizing, horizontalizing, reciprocal, heart-centered collective spaces that contribute to shifting perceptions, connecting to soul calling & essence self, unlocking possibilities, and stepping into deeper meaning, alignment & purpose. We connect more deeply with one another and build bridges across walls of division & separation, weaving our threads together into a dream of tomorrow.
Types of spaces:
Women’s Circles & Dialogue Groups
Spaces of co-creation: building bridges across walls of separation, weaving our threads into a dream of tomorrow
Rites of Passage (mother’s blessing, unions, departures)
Consultancy & Mentorship
For individuals & organizations committed to decolonize for authentic community engagement & empowered, respectful co-creation with historically marginalized peoples. For students, health practitioners & leaders wishing to create wholistic spaces for individual & collective healing, growth & transformation.
I draw from > 20 yrs of hands-on experience & a diversity of tools to guide you on your journey so that you may create safe spaces for transformational change, including: group facilitation, women-centered coaching, participatory research, arts-based methods, learning through play, and a deep knowledge of bio-psycho-social dimensions of health & wellbeing across cultures.
Keynotes & Course Offerings
Weave together a lifetime of bridging cultures and > 20 years of working alongside some of the most marginalized populations across five continents - as a physician, community engagement practitioner, scholar, mentor, and founder of Buena Semilla.
Topics:
The lost art of the Feminine: Reclaiming the heart of healing
Cultivating engagement: How-to rewire ourselves as agents of change in our health & wellbeing
We are each other’s medicine: Decolonizing health systems
Un-ease & dis-ease within a global system of stress & division: why it is time to step into a new narrative
Through the blessing of my experience, I have come to know my calling is simply to honor the undeniable need to overcome the walls that divide us and keep us separate from ourselves and one another.
About Anne Marie
Honoring the call to bridge worlds & cultures
Anne Marie Chomat (MD, PhD, MPH) is a practitioner and thought leader in decolonizing, holistic approaches to health and wellbeing. With a PhD in stress research, she has dedicated her work to understanding the intergenerational impact of stress on women and their children in marginalized communities.
With over 25 years of experience as a mentor, teacher, physician, and community engagement practitioner, Anne Marie has worked alongside some of the world’s most marginalized populations across five continents. She co-founded Buena Semilla with Indigenous Maya women in Guatemala, where she has spent the last 15 years. Buena Semilla is widely recognized for its innovative work in women’s empowerment, participatory community mental health, and collective healing as a pathway to transformative change.
Anne Marie’s deepest passion lies in co-creating decolonized, transformative spaces for the unheard and voiceless. She believes these communities hold profound medicine for healing—not only for themselves and their communities but for our entire planet.
Fluent in English, French, and Spanish, Anne Marie is also a dedicated poet and ceremonialist.
LEARN MORE ABOUT
Buena Semilla
is a Grassroots Collective based in Guatemala that supports marginalized Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and their communities in their quest to reclaim their voice, wellbeing, self-authority and self-determination.
In fragile contexts heavily marked by colonialism, conflict, and gender-based violence, our safe, transformational spaces catalyze the reweaving of a broken social & cultural fabric and reframe historically disempowered individuals and collectives as agents of change in their lives, families, and communities.
Buena Semilla is a living example of flipping positions of power upsidedown to create more equitable structures for those with less privilege to reclaim sovereignty.
“Buena Semilla is: to build, to light, to weave, to link, to create, to sow, to harvest, with all possible people, at all possible times, with all possibilities.”
- local coordinator
“In the circle, we are all equal. There is no one in front of you. And there is nobody behind you. No one is above you, no one is below you. The circle is sacred because it is designed to create unity.”
- Lakota Wisdom