XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination (Copy)
Aug
4

XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination (Copy)

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Thank you for your interest in the Xicano Institute for Education and Self-Determination (XIES) Summer Program, "Año de Cierre y Renovación, Year of Closure and Renewal". Dr. Jorge F. Rodriguez, now Associate Professor at Chapman University, and Silvia Gomez de Soriano co-founded the Xicano Institute for Education and Self Determination (XIES) summer program in 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. This two week summer program was created to help Raza students dig deeper into their roots, find their identity, learn about OURstory, and teach and encourage social justice skills to prepare them to engage in their community with confidence and knowledge via invited presenters such as university professors, activists and other community leaders and elders. With this knowledge, we hope to awaken your inner ancestors to help fight the many injustices and the many ways the colonizers tried to eradicate our existence.

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XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination
Aug
5

XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination

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Thank you for your interest in the Xicano Institute for Education and Self-Determination (XIES) Summer Program, "Año de Cierre y Renovación, Year of Closure and Renewal". Dr. Jorge F. Rodriguez, now Associate Professor at Chapman University, and Silvia Gomez de Soriano co-founded the Xicano Institute for Education and Self Determination (XIES) summer program in 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. This two week summer program was created to help Raza students dig deeper into their roots, find their identity, learn about OURstory, and teach and encourage social justice skills to prepare them to engage in their community with confidence and knowledge via invited presenters such as university professors, activists and other community leaders and elders. With this knowledge, we hope to awaken your inner ancestors to help fight the many injustices and the many ways the colonizers tried to eradicate our existence.

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Aug
6

XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination (Copy)

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Thank you for your interest in the Xicano Institute for Education and Self-Determination (XIES) Summer Program, "Año de Cierre y Renovación, Year of Closure and Renewal". Dr. Jorge F. Rodriguez, now Associate Professor at Chapman University, and Silvia Gomez de Soriano co-founded the Xicano Institute for Education and Self Determination (XIES) summer program in 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. This two week summer program was created to help Raza students dig deeper into their roots, find their identity, learn about OURstory, and teach and encourage social justice skills to prepare them to engage in their community with confidence and knowledge via invited presenters such as university professors, activists and other community leaders and elders. With this knowledge, we hope to awaken your inner ancestors to help fight the many injustices and the many ways the colonizers tried to eradicate our existence.

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Aug
7

XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination (Copy) (Copy)

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Thank you for your interest in the Xicano Institute for Education and Self-Determination (XIES) Summer Program, "Año de Cierre y Renovación, Year of Closure and Renewal". Dr. Jorge F. Rodriguez, now Associate Professor at Chapman University, and Silvia Gomez de Soriano co-founded the Xicano Institute for Education and Self Determination (XIES) summer program in 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. This two week summer program was created to help Raza students dig deeper into their roots, find their identity, learn about OURstory, and teach and encourage social justice skills to prepare them to engage in their community with confidence and knowledge via invited presenters such as university professors, activists and other community leaders and elders. With this knowledge, we hope to awaken your inner ancestors to help fight the many injustices and the many ways the colonizers tried to eradicate our existence.

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Chicana/o/x Psychology 101: Foundations
Aug
7

Chicana/o/x Psychology 101: Foundations

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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.

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Aug
8

XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination (Copy) (Copy) (Copy)

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Thank you for your interest in the Xicano Institute for Education and Self-Determination (XIES) Summer Program, "Año de Cierre y Renovación, Year of Closure and Renewal". Dr. Jorge F. Rodriguez, now Associate Professor at Chapman University, and Silvia Gomez de Soriano co-founded the Xicano Institute for Education and Self Determination (XIES) summer program in 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. This two week summer program was created to help Raza students dig deeper into their roots, find their identity, learn about OURstory, and teach and encourage social justice skills to prepare them to engage in their community with confidence and knowledge via invited presenters such as university professors, activists and other community leaders and elders. With this knowledge, we hope to awaken your inner ancestors to help fight the many injustices and the many ways the colonizers tried to eradicate our existence.

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Embodied in Color Conference
May
30

Embodied in Color Conference

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https://www.embodiedincolor.org/

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.

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Claiming Our Neurodivergence: Claiming our Medicina
May
17

Claiming Our Neurodivergence: Claiming our Medicina

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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. 💛

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Fighting for La Raza: Resisting Activist Burnout
May
2

Fighting for La Raza: Resisting Activist Burnout

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April 30th marks the first 100 days of the new administration. We join in círculo as we connect with our comunidad and discuss ways to resist overwhelm, hopelessness, and burnout. We will share the rich history and power of the Chicanx community in the fight for equality with the use of Hope as our guide. Dr. Ofina will weave in the lessons from our connection with the sacred elements as we learn to maintain balance in our hearts and minds.

After the plática, we will join in círculo and share. 

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Conflict with Connection: Upholding Collectivistic Values with Familial Conflict
Apr
16

Conflict with Connection: Upholding Collectivistic Values with Familial Conflict

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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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Not White, Not Black - Hernandez v. Texas & Chicanx Identity
Feb
15

Not White, Not Black - Hernandez v. Texas & Chicanx Identity

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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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Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training Series: Clinical Responsiveness & Chicanx Mental Health
Jan
18

Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training Series: Clinical Responsiveness & Chicanx Mental Health

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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.

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Therapy is Ours: The Impact of Training in Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy on Chicana Clinicians Who Experienced Professional “Susto”
Nov
16

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.” 

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Equity in Mental Health Symposium
Oct
17

Equity in Mental Health Symposium

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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.

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Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians
Jun
29

Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians

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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.

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Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians
Jan
7

Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians

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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.

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Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians
Dec
3

Group Consultation: Decolonizing for Raza Clinicians

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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.

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Elderly Chicana/o/x Families
Nov
16

Elderly Chicana/o/x Families

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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.

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Intro to Xicana/o/x Identity
Sep
23

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.

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Raza and Trauma: Individual, Family, & Community Impact
Sep
9

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.

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