about us

we are the slapcollective

the SLAPcollective Articulation: What’s been SLAPpening

the SLAPcollective is a community-led arts and wellness organization devoted to nurturing creativity, care, and collective growth. We champion the wellbeing and development of people and the communities they call home.

Our work applies infrastructure to impact - transforming ideas into systems that support real growth and equitable advancement. We build frameworks that help creativity sustain itself, wellness stay centered, and community stay in motion.

Founded by artists, strategists, cultural practitioners, organizers, and wellness professionals, we understand the balance it takes to create, serve, and sustain. Our offerings intentionally merge artistry, wellbeing, and community structuring - shaping a culture where collective impact is practiced daily.

As a collective, we incubate and activate the talents of our members, sharing resources, insight, and opportunity. We move through collaboration and value lived experience as knowledge and every contribution as impact.

SLAP stands as a bridge: between creativity and connectedness, between practice and purpose, between communities and actionable wellness — social, mental, organizational, and beyond.

We set the stage for community, expression, and wellbeing to intersect and alchemize — turning intention into infrastructure, and connection into change.

SLAP Impact math

As agents for impact, we are rooted in collective worth – guided by our core principles of self love, affirmation, and preservation (SLAP) – and drive impact through practices of artistry, wellbeing, and community structuring.

Our impact lives where artistry, wellness, and community meet. We build systems that make space for creativity to flourish and for people to feel seen, supported, and sustained.

Our approach is integrative and intentional: we design community structures that nurture growth, encourage participation, and honor every contribution as valuable. A sustainable community is one that invites everyone to the table and holds space to co-create, to share wisdom, and to sharpen each other through active practice.

By strengthening the relationships, opportunities, and resources that already exist among us, we expand what’s possible; for self, for teams, and for communities alike.

At SLAP, we optimize impact.

Our mission is To activate dimensional wellness and shared-impact models that make self love, affirmation, and preservation tangible in everyday life.

We’re building frameworks that empower people to grow, connect, and create lasting change — together.

Our vision is to lead a culture of collective impact by harnessing creativity, care, and community wisdom. Cultivating a sense of worth that transforms lives, strengthens connection, and drives sustainable growth is our North Star.

WE STAND FOR

SELF LOVE

AFFIRMATION

PRESERVATION

WE VALUE

  • RADICAL ACCEPTANCE

    The ability to to meet everyone where they are, as they are, increases the possibility of growth of capacities and participation.

  • INCLUSIVITY

    Everyone should have access to resources and support systems needed to personally thrive, opportunities should not be limited by background, identity or location.

  • EMPOWERMENT

    Supporting black creatives, professionals, and practitioners by enhancing skills and fostering a network that empowers everyone.

  • CONNECTION

    The power of connection is community, better understanding and knowing of oneself and others creates a more supportive and collaborative environment to excel.

  • GROWTH

    Cultivating self worth and infrastructures for impact, incubating ideas, initiatives and projects that accelerate collective growth and wellbeing.

  • EXPRESSION

    All actions and inactions are expressions, whether creative or within the wellness space, honest and transparent practices of self expression are encouraged, uplifted and shared.

  • BELONGING

    There is a human need and nature to be a part of a collective, tribe, or unit. Feeling secure as an active part of a transparent community can catalyze impact.