About Ellery

Ellery Graves is a Healing-Centered Coach (ICF Certified thru Blooming Willow Life Coaching Institute), and trainer supporting people working toward justice, healing, and collective liberation. Her work creates space to reconnect with what matters most, allowing each person’s unique strengths and inner power to guide them toward meaningful action in their lives and communities.

Over the last decade, Ellery’s approach has been shaped by her work at Oakland Private Industry Council and other Oakland-based community organizations, where she supported job seekers impacted by the justice system and community violence in securing livable-wage employment or career training, and stable housing. Centering purpose, agency, and dignity, she witnessed how transformation happens when people are supported not just in meeting goals, but in reconnecting to their power and vision for their lives. These relationships, along with her own lived experience and continued healing process continue to ground her coaching and training today.

Ellery now brings this healing-centered, justice-rooted approach to both individuals and organizations. Through 1-on-1 coaching and her monthly Amplifying Impact workshop series, she supports people committed to racial justice in untangling white supremacy culture from their bones and bodies, and deepening how they show up in alignment with their values. She also partners with community-based organizations to strengthen relationships, clarify values, and navigate the real challenges of living those values in practice.

Through her collaboration with Kevin Grant under EKG Trainings & Consulting, their offerings focus on strengthening relationships within teams, centering the wisdom of lived experience, and fostering curiosity and courageous conversations. Together, they create spaces that emphasize what’s strong with us—rather than what’s wrong with us—so we can more authentically and powerfully serve our communities. She has co-facilitated staff development trainings with local nonprofits and government entities including the City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention, La Familia, Westcoast Children's Clinic, Options Recovery Services, IHART of the City of Vallejo, A Better Way, Inc., Lincoln Families, Alameda County, and more.

Ellery believes healing starts (and continues) with strengthening the vitality of our relationship to our unique essence, our wins big and small, our connection to our lineage, what we hold sacred to us, and what we want to pass on to future generations. Ellery’s philosophies are based in her Buddhist practice of turning our karma into our mission.

If she’s not with her partner or family, you can find her sitting by the water of the Bay, playing drums with her band, rollerblading, writing, dancing, or enjoying live music with those she loves.

Ellery's Recent Inspiration

Kisa Soul - AGE OF ALIGNMENT

Beyoncé - BIGGER

Staff Development Training provided by EKG Trainings at A Better Way, Inc.

EKG Trainings & Consulting

Interview on VPR Radio