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Dr. Manuel X. Zamarripa will be presenting along with others at the Embodied in Color Virtual Conference. You may register at the link above.

Dr. Zamarripa’s workshop will be: Creating a Wellness Altar: A Workshop of Restorying. Wellbeing & Healing

11am PDT/ 12pm MDT/ 1pm CDT/ 2pm EDT

1 Hour 30 Minutes

Led by Dr. Manuel X. Zamarripa

In this workshop, we will focus on constructing a home altar focused on your continuing wellbeing by tapping into past and present family and cultural strengths through the process of restorying. This can be both a process of personal growth and health and/or a therapeutic intervention. Thus, this is applicable for community members and mental health professionals/educators. Although the origin of this activity is rooted in the religious/spiritual tradition of home altars common in many Chicana/o/x homes, this will also be presented as creating a meditative space or space of intention to focus on wellness and tap into personal, familial and cultural strengths.

A main aspect of the workshop will be restorying personal and family stories to bring forth positive personal characteristics or strengths. Participants will then identify some current concerns in their lives. We will then place the identification of strengths with concerns to create the intention for participants’ altars (or intentional space of wellness). In discussion together we explore how this process can facilitate healing wounds, solving current difficulties, and adding to our own practice of mental and/or spiritual wellbeing. We will borrow from a Chicana/o/x affirmative approach and ideas from Narrative Therapy.

ONLINE Community Platica!

Our nervous systems are the information pathways for our beings. Everything we sense, know, and experience is made possible by the intricacies of our nervous systems connecting us to our inner and outer worlds. I am a late-identified autistic & ADHD (AuDHD) Chicanx psychologist who has been on a lifelong search for connecting to my medicina. Since I was a child, I felt called to a spiritual path that my family did not know how to guide me on. As an adult, I started to meet curanderes and elders in the medicina who provided me with pathways for what my heart longed for. However, it wasn’t until I was almost 50 that I was also diagnosed as autistic, and I began to realize how the autistic ways I processed the world overlapped greatly with my expression and connection to my medicina.

There is a great buzz these days about neurodiversity and neurodivergence. When we talk about neurodiversity, we are simply saying that we are all “wired” differently. When we talk about neurodivergence, we are saying that there are those of us whose “unique wiring” makes it challenging to fit into the box of what is called “neurotypical” in today’s society.

As neurodivergent beings, we often experience ourselves on the edges, the margins–dis-abled by a society that is not structured to meet our nervous system’s needs. This however, does not mean that we lack abilities–but that our abilities are commonly erased, marginalized, or hidden by a society that is not attuned to us.

In this workshop, we will dive deeper into an exploration of what it means to claim and listen to the ways that our nervous systems function. What if claiming our radical nervous system differences is a part of claiming our connection to our ancestres and therefore our medicina? Colonization has covered up and contorted so much of our knowledge systems. I suggest that this colonization has extended to our nervous systems–pathologizing nervous systems’ capacities that are not in alignment with a capitalistic civilization.

What if decolonizing ourselves includes decolonizing our nervous systems?

In our journey together, we will cover some basic themes:

• Neurotypicality is a construct of empire

• Bottom-up processing is an Earth-connected way of knowing

• Unmasking is a journey of decolonization

REGISTRATION FEE: $25

*Please note - no one will be turned away if the registration fee is beyond their means.

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✨ Let’s reclaim what has always been ours. Join the journey. 💛

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

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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.

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