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Workshop & Training Facilitation
The word ‘facilitate’ comes from the Latin root word facilis, or ‘to make easy.’ For over 15 years, I have created ‘easy’, intentional and engaging spaces for young people, community members, organizations and the like to learn, grow, heal, show up and be present in community with one another. From my first time facilitating a workshop in middle school, to currently training undergraduate, graduate social work interns and staff, I’ve garnered a robust set of transferable skills that make me a dynamic and sought after facilitator. My facilitation style has roots in my own indigenous cultural traditions, mindfulness and circle practices, and is inclusive, energetic and interactive. I bring humor, storytelling and a deep, genuine care to and for this work. I know my responsibility is to create and hold space for people across diverse personal and professional lived experiences to practice building community and cultivating connections.Trauma Informed & Responsive Care
Trauma is complex, universal, and can be intensely dysregulating to your nervous system. To define simply, trauma is when you experience something unsettling and you don't have the appropriate internal and/or external factors to be able to cope and move through the traumatic event. Trauma Informed Care is shifting our approach to care work from asking questions like, “what is wrong with you/a client/a staff member?” to “what lived experiences have you witnessed that are informing how you show up today/currently?” Trauma Informed Care is person centered and a compassionate and empathetic framework to healing and community care. I facilitate workshops, trainings, discussions and restorative and healing circles on trauma and its effects on the brain + body, sexual trauma, racial trauma and systems of oppression. In addition to my current psychotherapy training with the Critical Therapy Center, I have additional expertise with gender based violence and intimate partner violence from formal training and years of clinical non profit work.Professional Development & Coaching
Offering spaces where people are supported to practice their soft and hard skill sets while amplifying their professional competencies needs to be paramount in the workplace. It is an opportunity for leaders and organizations to provide expansive, impactful professional development experiences for staff that will ultimately enhance the overall mission of the organization. I have a wide-ranging history training folks from different lived experiences and identities.