Join us for this workshop platica where we will explore the legacy of our cultural strengths and resources in ways we can use to advocate for ourselves, our families, and our community. Dr. Selma Yznaga, LPC, a national leader in counselor advocacy and social justice, will facilitate this hands-on interactive workshop that will amplify collective cultural resources and deepen the development of our ethnic consciousness.

A workshop plática with Institute presenter & community elder: Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli, LCSW. In this workshop we will review yerbas y remedios most commonly used that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Spirituality is an important aspect of Chicana/o/x well-being. This two-part community platica is intended to be an introductory overview of how to respectfully reconnect to our indigenous wisdom while also respecting and honoring the various spiritual ways that have been part of our community.

This workshop/plática with Rose Two Feathers Hernandez will consist of discussion on the Rocks, Stones, and Crystals, their shapes and medicine.

Join us for an evening with Roberto Cintli Rodriguez as he discusses his most recent book Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World: Testimonios on Violence, published by U of Arizona Press.

The goal is to strengthen and re-connect to the role spirituality has and continues to play in collective/individual healing, collective/individual resistance, and ethnic affirmation for the Chicanx community.

A workshop/plática on the cosmovision of the rebozo with Institute presenter, Irasema Reza Bailey (she/her)

Institute presenter and community elder, Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli, LCSW will address how our Indigenous population (all of us who are claiming indigeneity) is being affected by death.

Our teens & pre-teens face many negative stereotypes in a society that often fears them or does not understand them. Much of these impacts manifest within family interactions. Schools disproportionately criminalize our youth (e.g., school to prison pipeline, unfair discipline) and place low academic expectations on them.

An Online community workshop plática to continue the process of learning and passing down our family histories. We know our elders who can recite neighborhood & community and family histories. This has been a beautiful cultural tradition for our people

This platica will focus on how to honor and connect with our spiritual wellness with strong influences from Mexica and mesoamerican beliefs.

Learn about the relevance of Chicanx Psychology to Mexican American Studies. Learn what is included in the teaching of a Chicanx Psychology course. Learn about the relevance of a Chicanx world view and psychology in our current social and political climate.

Drawing from Indigenous codices, chronicles, scholarly works and the knowledge she’s learned from elders and knowledge keepers, Dr. Saldaña will share ways in which we can indigenize

our diet for personal and collective healing and wellness.

Stories of survival. Stories of courage. Stories of oppression.Stories of faith. Stories of gender. Stories of sexualties. Stories shape our identity. The telling and sharing of stories can be healing for intergenerational, community, family, and individual soul wounds. Narratives can play a powerful role in how many our people navigate and shape meaning in their lives.

This Webinar plática is a recognition, re-connection and celebration of the wellness and healthy ways of living that are present in our community as well as our ancestral legacy of health and healing. Negative stereotypes portray our culture as being unhealthy. We are do not have an unhealthy culture. The unwellness in our community (currently & historically) comes from colonization, marginalization, exclusion, and oppression.