This workshop will introduce participants to embodied practices as tools to support self-care for themselves and the populations they serve through cultivation of inner resources and those that are sourced from community and the environment. With a deep dive into the neurobiology and impact of stress and trauma, participants will expand the lens through which they view their needs and those of the populations they serve and broaden the toolkit of resources to support clients to be resilient and liberated. This workshop is ideal for educators, medical professionals, clinicians, law enforcement, social workers, counselors, and parents.

Topics include:

• The neurobiology of stress and trauma
• Race-based trauma
• Resiliency theory
• Creating safe spaces
• A sustainable framework for self-care
• Experiential practices that relieve stress & integrate the body, mind, heart
• Self-care as political activism
• Love as social justice

As professionals in a modern, fast-paced world, the doing, going, uploading and downloading required to maintain optimal productivity in the workplace takes tremendous toll on the body and mind. Out of necessity leaders in the workplace are typically on to the next thing, compulsively doing what has to get done VS. mindfully being with the moment to moment tasks and challenges they may face. This can lead to burnout and feeling disconnected from a sense of wholeness that arises when connected to oneself, one’s team and larger community, as it decreases joy, individual productivity and overall organizational efficacy. This workshop will introduce participants to self-care, sustainability and organizational wellness fundamentals that bolster individual creativity and performance and organizational innovation.

Topics include:

• Defining self-care and sustainability through a mindful lens
• The neurobiology of stress and trauma
• Race-based trauma
• Identifying toxic stressors at home and in the workplace
• Experiential practices that relieve stress & integrate the body, mind, heart
• Experiential practices and personalized self-care toolkit
• Integrating an organizational wellness infrastructure

This workshop will introduce women to a definition of self-care that broadens the scope on what is fundamentally an urgent need for women, the caregivers and change-makers of our communities and world, to be both successful and vital. Participants will explore embodied practices as tools to support self-care and vitality despite the chronically stressful circumstances of modern life. Women will deepen their understanding of the feminine role as the central axis for fostering empathetic connection, balanced emotional attunement and racial, social and political equity in our perpetually troubled world.

Topics include:

• The neurobiology of stress and trauma
• Creating brave spaces
• Defining love & a sustainable framework for self-care
• Experiential practices that relieve stress & integrate the body, mind, heart
• Moving toward wholeness & liberation
• Love in action: taking self-care into work in the world

Though human beings are hard-wired to connect, the workplace can present challenging obstacles that hinder our ability to see, respect, be courageous, communicate, collaborate and innovate within teams and within the organizational community. This workshop will introduce a conceptual framework on connection that serves as the force around which our capacity to thrive in community revolves, such that the recognition, appreciation and leveraging of individual strengths and the nurturing of organizational efficacy, expansion and creative innovation are a realistic possibility.

Topics include:

• Defining love’s role in community building
• Creating brave spaces
• Deepening connection to others
• Mindful communication
• Auxiliary tools to foster connection: laughter, play and food
• Analyzing individualism & emphasizing interdependence
• Considerations for extroverts & introverts
• Collaborative problem solving

Listening to one’s self and others is an art. Most of us do not honor the challenge required to truly listen to another because we are too busy attuning to our own needs, waiting to speak, thinking of how we will respond, or some combination of judging, criticizing, demanding justifying and more. This workshop will introduce participants to a philosophy on communication that asserts that all challenges can be resolved through mindful communication. This workshop emphasizes mindfulness as a grounding and centering practice, cultivation of emotional intelligence, the art of compassionate listening and speaking, and mindful conflict resolution as tools for empowered relationships to self, team and the larger community.

Topics include:

• Mindful listening
• Emotional intelligence
• The neurobiology of emotion
• Disconnection habits
• Empathy/compassion fostering practices
• Mindful resolution strategy

Inclusive practice powerfully impacts employees’ sense of belonging, the accessibility of equitable wellness, and thereby overall organizational efficacy. Through the values organizations uphold, they may mean to create compassionate places of work for all. Yet cultivating an authentic culture of inclusion that demonstrates real care and the empowerment of individuals and organizations requires reflection on the systemic harm experienced by underrepresented populations in society and the professional workplace. Through the lens of mindfulness, this workshop empowers professionals through exploration and examination of implicit bias, privilege and the various traumas that systemic inequity thrusts upon individuals who aim to thrive together in the community of the workplace and the world.

Topics include:

• Social identifiers, blindspots & bias
• Mindfulness: a tool to bring blindspots into view
• What to do with privilege & becoming an Accomplice
• Race traumatizes all of is: embodiment as a tool to heal race-based trauma
• Empathy & compassion: finding comfort with discomfort
• Creating brave space for truth, reconciliation and ongoing healing