Living Brown, Living Well: Remembering Our Roots
An experiential and creative expression workshop for reclamation of our poder and joy!
Conflict with Connection: Upholding Collectivistic Values with Familial Conflict
For many women of color that ascribe to a collectivistic culture, navigating conflict, especially within the family, can be difficult. In particular, women who identify as Latina or Chicana who uphold collectivistic values such as personalismo and familismo (Ramirez, 1990) can find it distressing in therapy when therapeutic interventions center individualism and are not culturally relevant. In the clinical setting, the work to de-center whiteness, individualism, and sexism is critical to support the development of healthy relationships that are culturally congruent.
Presenter will address clinical responsiveness to Latino/a/es/Chicano/a/es who are navigating conflict with family members centering collectivistic values and indigenous philosophy. This workshop will engage participants to reflect on personal and professional values that influence the therapeutic work as well as present a more inclusive and culturally responsive approach to working with clients with familial conflict.
Registration fees:
Students: $50
Professionals: $150
REGISTER here!
Claiming Our Neurodivergence: Claiming our Medicina
Comunidad, something powerful is coming your way!
An upcoming gathering is in the works—an opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate the intersection of neurodivergence and cultura. Together, we’ll explore how our unique ways of being are not only valid but deeply rooted in our medicina.
🔗 Want to learn more? Be the first to know! Fill out the interest form HERE and stay connected for updates on this transformative event.
✨ Let’s reclaim what has always been ours. Join the journey. 💛
Chicana/o/x Psychology 101: Foundations
This is a 6 week online course series in Chicana/o/x Psychology. This course is open to anyone with an interest in this content. This course examines the current and historical status of Mexican Americans in the field of psychology. Psychological research and theory on the cultural, societal, and historical influences on the well-being and characteristics of Mexican Americans will be explored.
Not White, Not Black - Hernandez v. Texas & Chicanx Identity
In this 90-minute platica, we will revisit the landmark 1954 Hernandez v Texas Supreme Court ruling which acknowledged that Mexican Americans experienced systemic discrimination and segregation, despite being classified as White.
Largely overshadowed by the Brown v Board of Education decision, the Hernandez case was a huge victory for Chicano/a civil rights, yet few of us learn about this historical event in school.
We will discuss how the acknowledgement of Mexican Americans as a protected class mirrors the identity processes of "in betweenness" that many Raza navigate growing up in a country that frames race as Black versus White.
We will also consider strategies for learning and teaching our history as a way to strengthen our own and our youths' ethnic-racial identity and promote flourishing.
Registration Fee: $25
Platica will also be recorded and the recording will be sent to all who register and will be available for viewing for 2 weeks.
Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training Series: Clinical Responsiveness & Chicanx Mental Health
Dates of Online Training Sessions - 2025
January, 18, February 8, March 8, April 5, May 17, June 28, 2025
Session Times: 11:00am - 1:30pm Central Time
15 hr training
Continuing Education
Those wishing to attend this professional training for CEs, please follow the link provided HERE for registration with Innovation Behavioral Health Solutions, LLC.
Innovation Behavioral Health Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Innovation Behavioral Health Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Therapy is Ours: The Impact of Training in Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy on Chicana Clinicians Who Experienced Professional “Susto”
In this offering, presenters will explore how training in Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy with the Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology and Community Wellness has impacted them, the way they approach and engage in therapy with their communities, and how participating in the training has reinforced a decolonized approach to not only center culture in practice, but also shifted their understanding of how knowledge can be shared within community and in the greater field of psychology, and helped them heal their experiences of professional “susto.”
Equity in Mental Health Symposium
The 3rd Annual Equity in Mental Health Symposium at College of Marin continues the connections with ancestral wisdom, the power of nature, culturally responsive pedagogy, healing, and mental health to create a culture of community rooted in equity.
Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians
The consultation group will focus on ways to Brown your counseling by centering Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x culture and discussing how to decolonize mainstream aspects of mental health practice.
Our focus on mesoamerican wellness this session will include connecting with the sacred energy of Ehecatl and the element of Wind for both the healers (clinicians) and the healing process itself. Participants can bring questions about current cases.
Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians
The consultation group will focus on the principles a Chicana/o/x Affirmative approach to therapy and how to integrate these principles in your practice. We will explicitly connect with mesoamerican wisdoms of wellness and spirituality and explore how these can walk with some notions of culturally responsive Western psychology.
Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians
The consultation group will focus on the principles a Chicana/o/x Affirmative approach to therapy and how to integrate these principles in your practice. We will explicitly connect with mesoamerican wisdoms of wellness and spirituality and explore how these can walk with some notions of culturally responsive Western psychology.
Elderly Chicana/o/x Families
This class will look at the current state of elderly Chicana/o/x family members and examine how cultural, social, and historical influences impact the current state of Chicana/o/x family development and well-being.
Religious and SPiritual Family Rituals/Traditions
In looking at some of our family spiritual or religious traditions/rituals, we will examine how cultural, social, and historical influences impact the current state of Chicana/o/x family development and well-being.
Intro to Xicana/o/x Identity
In this community platica, we will briefly outline the historical context of our Xicana/o/x identities, including the role of cur Indigenous roots, the political history of modern borders, the Chicana/o/x movement, and the current resurgence of Chicanismo.
Contemporary Chicana/o/x Families: A Chicanx Psychology Course
The role and influence of the family system on psychological development, social development and overall wellness of Chicana/o/x individuals is of significant importance historically and currently.
Raza and Trauma: Individual, Family, & Community Impact
We know that our people deal with intergenerational, historical, and racial traumas. These experiences have affected us individually and as a community. The results of these experiences can show up in many ways including post traumatic stress and post colonization stress. Our community and culture also has intergenerational wisdom, resilience, and ancestral legacies of healing.
This workshop plática will discuss the various ways suffering and trauma have affected us and more importantly how we can respond in ways that are culturally relevant for our people and ways we can incorporate our cultural strengths in our healing. Together we hope to re connect and re imagine our cultural strengths to create pathways for healing in our individual lives, our families, and in our communities.