About
FLOW represents all that is
[F]ELT , [L]ISTENED TO , [O]PTIC & [W]ORDED
Boston-based platform founded by Malika Bone in 2018 to bring people together through creative expression, mental wellness, and community healing. We believe in creating safe, vibrant spaces where art, conversation, and connection flow freely.
OUR MISSION
Create generational mental health healing through specialized community events and mediums of communication, relationship building, and artistic expression.
FLOW’s mission is to always serve our community intentionally in purpose of helping us heal through human connection and conversation. Serving FLOW’s purpose means:
• Showing up authentically as a representation of our community’s lack of. Specifically, a microscope highlighting the underlying talent in Boston, local artists, and small businesses
• Curating safe spaces of support and local Boston neighborhood events to share resources and collaborate on with up & coming projects
• Promoting “mix and mingling” to meet new friends by facilitating themed events for entertainment and leisure, encouraging small businesses to network professionally, boosting all efforts of public speaking, and putting different facets of creativity and interests all in one room surrounded by like-minded and experienced perspective individuals, who broaden our understanding of the way one thinks, reacts, communicates, copes, and lives through everyday life circumstances
• Present the stage for showcasing, feedback, practice, and artistic development. Putting people in the position to do the jobs they love, by providing the opportunity for videographers, photographers, DJs, event decorators, crafters, caterers, etc. to do so at a FLOW event, and be recognized across FLOW’s platform for doing so
• Incorporating family and child appropriate special events that keep families outside together, allow children expression and participation, incorporate things to do together to strengthen household relationships
• Creating games, books, workshops, and other educational insightful tools that can be used in grade school/ colleges, community centers, nursery homes, therapy/counseling groups or individual sessions, as forms of entertainment for community engagement, conversation starters, department curriculum resource use, social comprehension, and challenges communication to serve as a ground for healing, learning, and mediation.
• At the base of healing is communication, human connection, and understanding. Today we are subject to a lack of in-depth conversation, safe spaces to enjoy ourselves, and the capacity to allow authentic human connections to form without accessing our traumas.
• Many of the traumatic experiences we experience don’t get addressed, and get buried instead. People just move past trauma and later encounter issues that stem from the traumas we failed to address.
THE PROBLEM
THE SOLUTION
• Bringing forth multiple mental wellness avenues to bring people together in safe spaces to feel human connection through relatable experiences expressed through mediums of performance art open mics, small business networking, paint night instruction, workshops, fellowship, books, games, and entertainment.
• Allow community healing by providing space for energy release, raw expression, relationship building, and different mediums to explore encouraging youth and adults to have meaningful conversation to develop understanding in different perspectives and life experiences.
• The Open Discussion: Friends Edition game was created to highlight the reality that many necessary topics do not get discussed in the average household, or friends circle, due to the fear of causing controversy, facing rejection, or unleashing a plethora of unhealed emotions. It was designed to help youth (17+) and adults maneuver through a variety of tough conversation starters to learn, breakdown, heal, rebuild, and strengthen bonds. Before getting to this point, one must be open to discussion.
• The workshop takes a different approach, utilizing open expression through 2-minute free-writes, that lead into friendly popcorn style discussion. It allows passive group participation, opening discussion with volunteers that willing want to share their answer to the topic. Others can add to it by sharing their own answer or adding on to the last response mentioned. If no one else would like to share, allow another participant to roll the die and restart the process.
THE DIFFERENCE
OUR HISTORY
Founded Nov 2018
Officially registered to do business in Boston as FLOW on March 19th 2019
Fist Event December 16 2018
"FLOW: Freestyle, Poetry, Spoken Word" -An open Mic held at City School located in Uphams Corner. Dorchester, MA
First Intro to Paint Night March 2019
Partnered with ItsSoMari "Modern Vs. Millennium" at Dorchester Art Project in Dorchester , MA
First Intro to Small Business
Networking May 2019
"Flow'd up & Glo'd Up" at Mad Music Mill Dorchester, MA
Officially Registered into City of Boston Nov 2024
Minority, Women-owned business, small business
Officially Registered as a City of Boston Vendor Dec 2024
Meet Malika
Bachelors in Exercise & Health Science and certification in Entrepreneurship.
Born and raised in Boston. Founder of FLOW. Spoken word Artist.
All-around creative. Mental Health advocate.
Hi, I’m Malika—writer, empath, and community builder.
I created FLOW as a space where real stories, healing, and self-expression could thrive. Growing up in a big family, "I often felt surrounded, but not understood. Like many, I learned early how powerful (and painful) it can be when communication breaks down—how it can disconnect us, even from the people closest to us.
Writing became my outlet—first in notebooks, then in poetry, and now through curated experiences that invite others to speak, listen, and feel.
FLOW is more than a platform; it’s a space for underserved communities in Boston to express themselves freely, connect deeply, and grow together. Whether it's through our open mics, workshops, or conversation games, everything we do is about creating opportunities for dialogue, healing, and creativity.
I’m passionate about promoting generational mental health wellness, sharpening communication skills, and building bridges in our communities. At FLOW, you're not just participating—you’re part of a movement to be heard, felt, and understood
