The Institute is a community-building entity focused on wellness and strengths of the Chicana/o/x community through the lens of Chicana/o/x Psychology. In our work, we address both risk and protective factors related to the wellness of the Chicana/o/x community, including historical factors of oppression as … Continue reading Institute of Chicana/o Psychology – Who We Are
September 25th 8pm – 10pm CDT Online Event This circle will be facilitated by Tlazoltiani Jessica Zamarripa, co-founder of the Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology. Brown mamas have many beautiful cultural and ancestral strengths, however, we are not always connected to these legacies of wisdom. Brown … Continue reading Circle for Brown Mamas: Fuerza y Reconectando with the Divine Feminine
NOV. 5th, DEC 3th, JAN 7th, JAN 28th – All Sessions 11am – 1:30pm CDT This 4-session training it the second level of the Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training Series. Each session is 2.5 hours and will contain two case scenarios each session. In particular, Level … Continue reading Chicanx Affirmative Therapy Training Series – Level 2, 2022
September 10th, 2022 11:00am – 2pm CDT. This will be an on-line Webinar using zoom.us This training workshop will explore the idea that the process of therapy (talking with a professional for work on one’s struggles) actually connects historically with the ancestral practices of the … Continue reading Therapy is Ours: De-Stigmatizing & Decolonizing Mental Health
August 16th, 12pm – 2pm CDT (10am – 12pm Pacific) This will be an online workshop. In this session we will discuss specific historical contexts and contemporary intergenerational patterns of the Chicanx/Latinx community. A genogram is a specific type of diagram originally used in family … Continue reading A Healing Genogram Workshop: Cultural, Familial, Ancestral Resources
July 19th (TUESDAY) 12pm – 2pm CDT (CENTRAL TIME) This will be an online Zoom workshop. Participants will receive their link 30mins before the workshop begins. In this workshop, we will focus on constructing your own wellness altar focused on your continuing wellbeing by tapping … Continue reading Creating a Wellness Altar: A Workshop of Restorying, Wellbeing & Healing
Familia, Comunidad, Children are sacred. Children are sacred. Not being able to keep our children safe is the most horrifying thing that happens. We’ve been too devastated to add our voices to this tapestry of anguish, words, feelings, and tears. The mass killing in Uvalde, … Continue reading Uvalde
June 11th, 2022 10:00am – 1:00pm CDT (Central Time) 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. We will … Continue reading Yerbas y Remedios de Las Abuelas de Mexico
Saturday, May 7th, 2022 10:00am – 1:00pm CDT This will be an online offering using Zoom. This is an updated version of our workshop platicas on spiritual ancestral wisdom from a mesoamerican indigenous perspective. This platica will focus on how to honor and connect with … Continue reading Chicanx Indigenous Spirituality & Wellbeing – Honoring & Connecting with Sacred Energies
Saturday, April 9, 2022 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT A workshop/plática with Institute presenter & keeper of the Rock for her Mayan clan, Rose Two Feathers Hernandez (she/they) This workshop/plática with Rose Two Feathers Hernandez will consist of discussion on the Rocks, Stones, and … Continue reading Our Relatives, Your Allies; The Medicine of the Rocks and Crystals
Saturday, March 26, 2022 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM CDT A workshop/plática on the cosmovision of the rebozo with Institute presenter, Irasema Reza Bailey (she/her) In this workshop with Irasema Reza Bailey, we will be talking about the cosmovision of the rebozo and go over … Continue reading Rebozo como Arma Cosmica
