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.