Equity in Mental Health Symposium
Equity in Mental Health Symposium at the College of Marin.
Institute co-founders will be featured keynote speakers and facilitate an ancestral wisdom circle
The Stories We Carry : Rediscovering personal strength through plática, healing & altar creation
ONLINE
Stories of family. Stories of courage. Stories of struggle, faith, and identity. Our stories shape who we are.
The guided telling and sharing of stories can be deeply healing for individuals, families, and communities across generations. In this workshop plática, participants will explore the healing power of personal and family narratives and how these stories influence the ways we understand ourselves and move through the world.
Together, we will uncover the strengths, wisdom, and cultural values embedded within our stories—qualities that may have been forgotten, hidden, or left unnamed. Through reflection and dialogue, participants will learn ways to re-story painful experiences by reconnecting with the resilience and knowledge carried in our families and communities. This process invites us to re-member what has been forgotten and to make the invisible visible.
Drawing from Narrative Therapy and a Chicanx Psychology worldview, this workshop offers practical ways to reshape the stories we carry so they affirm our cultural identity, dignity, and legacies.
As the culminating experience, participants will transform the insights and strengths uncovered in their stories into the creation of a personal home altar or Wellness Altar —an intentional space of reflection, healing, and wellness that honors their stories, ancestors, and aspirations.
Join us for this workshop plática as we learn to re-weave the stories we have been told—and the stories we tell ourselves—into narratives of healing, resilience, and self-determination. Our personal stories are also part of our collective story. By reconnecting with the cultural strengths within them, we can nurture healing for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
All who register will receive the recording and it will remain accessible for two weeks.
La Cultura Cura: Chicana/o/x Indigenous Resilience
La Cultura Cura: Chicana/o/x Indigenous Resilience
$15.00 - $45.00
What does Raza wellbeing really look like?
Join us for an in-person community workshop in Austin, Texas focused on the strengths, wisdom, and healing practices already living in our community. This workshop draws from Chicana/o/x Psychology to challenge and decolonize ideas of “wellness” that often leave our people out.
Together, we’ll examine how culturally rooted practices and ancestral wisdom help decolonize dominant models of “wellness” that often exclude Chicanx communities. Participants will reflect on cultural strengths that support mental health while challenging harmful stereotypes that portray Chicana/o/x culture as unhealthy.
Our culture is not the problem.
We’ll name the real sources of unwellness—systemic oppression, marginalization, and historical trauma—and honor the power of our culture as a path toward healing.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
We will engage in small group discussions and interactive activities as we explore how our cultural values are a foundation of individual and collective resilience and wellbeing.
Everyone will also leave with access to a “Living Brown, Living Well Wellbeing Toolkit.”
Our culture is ancient, resilient, and powerful.
✨ We can live brown and live well.
Join us on August 8th for a conversation about Chicana/o/x resilience, mental health, healing, and community liberation.
LOCATION: 2000 Thrasher Ln. 78741
Chicana/o/x Identity - Chicana/o/x Psychology 101
This course will explore the different influences in Chicana/o/x identity development and its impact on individual and community wellness and well-being.
Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy: In Person Training
Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy: In Person Training
$555.00
2 DAY, In Person Training, Austin, TX
Nov. 7th & 8th
Dates of IN PERSON Training Session
November 7th & 8th
Times: 9:00am - 4:00pm Central
There will be a subsequent, asynchronous 3 hour recording of the final training module that will be provided to participants after Nov. 8th. Participants will have 4 weeks to review and submit an evaluation of the final module to receive their Certificate of Training Completion.
15 CEUs will be provided for those who attend the full training - This includes 3 hours of Ethics, 3 hours of Supervision and 3 hours of Cultural Diversity & Competence.
As a result of this training participants will understand the framework for a Chicana/o/x Affirmative approach, understand how a focus on identity, family, and spirituality are key in a Chicanx Affirmative approach, learn to be culturally responsive to Chicana/x/o culture in clinical interactions, gain an understanding of varying notions of mental well-being from a Chicana/o/x perspective, and apply these concepts with case scenarios in each training session. Features of the training series are: Constructing Chicana/o/x wellness & well-being, the roles of identity, family, and spirituality for Chicana/o/x mental health, facilitating a reconnection to current and ancestral cultural strengths in clinical practice, aspects of Chicana/o/x culture that complements the practice of counseling & therapy, values & assumptions of the mental health field that are not congruent with Chicana/o/x wellness culture, the impacts of marginalization and discrimination on Chicana/o/x well-being on an individual and community level, and the inclusion of historical trauma in the treatment of Chicana/o/x populations.
After completing the training participants will receive:
Certificate of Training Completion
On-going support and consultation for 6 months after training
Listing on our Clinician Directory
Annual group check in sessions and case scenarios
As a result of participating, the attendee will be able to:
Identify varying notions of mental well-being from a Chicana/o/x perspective
Describe how a focus on identity, family, and spirituality are key in a Chicanx Affirmative approach
Define the difference between individualistic and collectivistic worldviews in therapy
Identify 5 aspects of Chicana/o/x culture that complements the practice of counseling & therapy
Describe the 3 foundations and 3 principles of a Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy
Identify at least 3 clinical interventions that center Chicanx/Latinx cultural values or experiences.
15hr Training
Location:
2000 Thrasher Ln., Austin, TX 78741 - Resistencia Books/Red Salmon Arts
“This training modeled how to hold and nurture space in a indigenous affirming and centering way”
— Participant
“It was helpful to have a space to continually be reminded of collectivist values and the gifts of ancestral knowledge and wisdom that is not included in western psychology. ”
— Participant
“it gave me the opportunity to value collectivism just as much as individualism. This space simply doesn’t exist anywhere else, except when we intentionally make space for it!”
— Participant
“my ancestors brought me into alignment with this community and with the land. This training really helped me spiritually and feeling held by the elements, my ancestors, my maestros, my classmates, and my corazon”
- Participant
Cultural Resilience & Mental Health: Living Brown, Living Well
What does Raza wellbeing really look like?
Join us for an online community workshop focused on the strengths, wisdom, and healing practices already living in our community. This workshop draws from Chicana/o/x Psychology to challenge and decolonize ideas of “wellness” that often leave our people out.
Together, we’ll examine how culturally rooted practices and ancestral wisdom help decolonize dominant models of “wellness” that often exclude Chicanx communities. Participants will reflect on cultural strengths that support mental health while challenging harmful stereotypes that portray Chicana/o/x culture as unhealthy.
Our culture is not the problem.
We’ll name the real sources of unwellness—systemic oppression, marginalization, and historical trauma—and honor the power of our culture as a path toward healing.
We will engage in small group discussions and interactive activities as we explore how our cultural values are a foundation of individual and collective resilience and wellbeing.
Our culture is ancient, resilient, and powerful.
✨ We can live brown and live well.
Join us on April 18th for a conversation about Raza resilience, mental, healing, and community liberation.
NACCS (National Assoc Chicana/o Studies) Workshop “Living Brown, Living Well”
The Institute will be presenting.
"Breaking Barriers: Youth Mental Wellness Day" - ATX Caminos Program
Institute Co-founders will be Keynote Speakers and Healing Circle facilitators
https://www.austintexas.gov/event/esb-macc-8th-annual-breaking-barriers-youth-mental-wellness-day
8th Annual Breaking Barriers: Youth Mental Wellness Day
03/28/2026
10:00am-3pm
Millenium Youth Entertainment Complex
Register on Eventbrite to reserve your lunch!
Breaking Barriers (Rompiendo Barreras) is an annual event advocating for mental health awareness created by teens, for teens!
Join us for a powerful day to share thoughts, ideas, art, and music by teens, for teens!
Breaking Barriers is an annual event led by the teens in the ESB-MACC's Caminos Teen Leadership Program. It is a safe space to "break barriers" in mental health stigmas for teens and find connection with one another!
Breaking Barriers is a space for conversation, connection, and creation–We want to empower each other to break barriers, talk about our experiences (or not), and heal through creating, and building community with other teens (Ages 13-18).
You may also receive HS Volunteer Credit from attending - see below for more details.
ACTIVITIES:
Screenprinting (totebags, caps, t-shirts, and more)
Lunch and Snacks provided (IF you RSVP*)
Live Music
Crafts like Jewelry Making, Air dry clay, Zines, and more!
Note: You can attend without an RSVP, but RSVPs will be needed in order to secure your lunch!
*HS Volunteer Credit: All you'll need is your volunteer paperwork for staff to sign at the event, email Eufemia Rivera at eufemia.rivera@austintexas.gov for more details.
Brown Mamas' Circle
This circle is 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.
When we say “Brown” we are referring to Culture, not necessarily skin color. We are referring to the people who have roots from this continent.
Brown mamas also face many struggles as mujeres whose wisdom and experience as mamas is often devalued in this society. In this support and strengthening circle, we will come together as mamis to reconnect and re-member our wisdom, our skills a mamas and our spiritual connection to all things – our madre tierra, sacred energies, and sacred connection to the cosmos and universe. Mexica mesoamerican indigenous concepts will be incorporated to bring forth the fureza and paz Brown mamas need in their lives. We will also use the power of our imagination via guided small group exercises toward our own decolonial healing
DONATION BASED:
Donation range: $0 - $50
Recommended Donation of $15
Please donate what you feel is appropriate according to your financial health
No one will be turned away for lack of funds!
Be A Sponsor!
You may also give a Sponsor Donation of $25 for Mamas who are not able to contribute at this time.
Embodied Energía
Join Facilitadoras Jessica Xochitl Dominguez and Jessica Medina Flores for a 6-night retreat for Chicana mujeres, as they offer and exploration into las Sagradas Energías and how to be in relationship with these living ways.
March 1 - March 7, 2026 at Barbarenas Retreat Center in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México to
Space for 11 mujerxs to enjoy:
Pláticas
Movement
Círculos around the fire
A hike off-site
Temazcal
Daily activities centered on each enería, direction, element
Decolonizing The Field: Trauma of Racism & Somatic-focused Trauma Treatment
Institute Presenter, Javier Garcia, LCSW-
Decolonizing the field focuses on identifying how the modern mental field is a continuation of the exploitation of our indigenous communities. Not the exploitation of materials, land, and body but the exploitation of healing knowledge and the lack of indigenous contribution to the field of mental health. Pervasive trauma treatment: trauma of racism is a comprehensive examination of the onset of racism and its impact on the psyche. We use a Frantz Fanonion psychotherapy model to assess for and directly treat "symptoms" of racism. Somatic-focused Trauma Treatment is a basic overview of somatic-focused psychotherapy interventions, incorporating polyvagal theory and themes of rupture and repair.
Youth Circulo “Identity, Wounds & Healing - (Re)connecting to Our Own Brown Wellness”
Facilitating a teen workshop with CAMINOS - The Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center's Teen Leadership Program.
Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training Series: Clinical Responsiveness & Chicanx Mental Health
Dates of Online Training Sessions - 2026
January, 17, February 7, March 7, April 11, May 16, June 27, 2026
Session Times: 11:00am - 1:30pm Central Time
15 hr training
CE’s also available for purchase, if desired.
Círculo de Conexión: A Virtual Community Gathering
Join us for a supportive charla, where we can share, listen, hold space, and support one another. Now, more than ever, we need community and connection! This offering is FREE and will be recorded and shared with those who sign up.
RSVP and get Zoom Link below!
Group Consultation for Raza Clinicians
OCT. 23rd 5:30-7pm Central Time
The consultation group will focus on ways to centering Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x culture from a strengths-based, anti-colonial approach. We will review case scenarios and also welcome cases that participants bring to the consultation.
We include mesoamerican wellness.
The sessions will be conducted via Zoom and links sent out 30mins to 1hr before each session.
Recordings of each session available for one week.
Register Here:
Not White, Not Black: Hernandez v. Texas & Chicanx Identity
OCTOBER 11th, 2025 11am - 1pm CENTRAL TIME
Register: https://forms.gle/SuhuMk1vA9Gf4egv8
In this 2 hour 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
Register: https://forms.gle/SuhuMk1vA9Gf4egv8
Platica will also be recorded and the recording will be sent to all who register and will be available for viewing for 2 weeks.
NAMI Latinx Mental Health Forum
10th Annual Latino Mental Health Forum
Celebrate a decade of advancing Latino mental health! The 10th Annual Latino Mental Health Forum brings together professionals, advocates, and community members for a powerful day of learning, connection, and cultural celebration.
Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Manuel Zamarripa and dynamic panels on trauma, identity, access, and community-driven healing, this forum equips you with tools and insights to better serve Latino/Hispanic communities.
Whether you are a social worker, counselor, educator, healthcare provider, student, or community advocate, this forum provides valuable insights and continuing education opportunities to strengthen your practice and impact.
Círculo de Conexión: A Virtual Community Gathering
Join us for a supportive charla, where we can share, listen, hold space, and support one another. Now, more than ever, we need community and connection! This offering is FREE and will be recorded and shared with those who sign up.
RSVP here! https://forms.gle/z5mpAifGTuW3CKvEA
This gathering is free, and if you feel called to make a donation, your contribution will help promote and support our efforts to continue our esfuerzos to decolonize and reindiginize psychology and wellness for our comunidades locally, and across the nation.
Donations:
https://www.razapsych.org/checkout/donate?donatePageId=652aadd71922000b33fa73e5
"Our wellness is a form of resistance."-- Tlazoltiani Jessica Zamarripa, Co-Founder
Integrating Spirituality in Mental Health
Email info@jointeku.com for FREE access to this session!
Join us for a collaboration with the Integrative Psychiatry Learning Collaborative for a virtual plática on Integrating Spirituality into Mental Health Treatment.
All mental health workers welcome!
Reimagine - Virtual Candle Vigil
RSVP $0 -$30
Let's honor our loved ones, hold space for grief, and reflect on the possibilities of transformation with GRAMMY award-winning artist, businesswoman, and author Chiquis.
Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we've lost. This gathering features Chiquis, a Latin GRAMMY award-winning musician, entrepreneur, media personality, and author of businesswoman, and New York Times best-selling author Chiquis. Written for young readers, her newest book, The Girls Who Sings to Bees (Macmillan, 2025) was inspired by the life and legacy of her mother Jenni, as well as Chiquis' own journey to overcome bullying and self-doubt. Our other featured guests are Dr. Manuel X. Zamarripa and Tlazoltiani Jessica Zamarripa, co-directors and co-founders of the Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology & Community Wellness.
About Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
Clinical Consultation: Decolonzing & Reindigenizing
$30.00
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.
We include mesoamerican wellness that includes connecting with the sacred four Elements. Participants can bring questions about current cases.
Sunday August 24th; 11am - 12:30pm Central Time
Círculo Healing | Ancestral Wisdoms with Tlazoltiani Jessica Zamarripa
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Círculo Healing | Ancestral Wisdoms with Tlazoltiani Jessica Zamarripa
Experience a guided, interactive healing workshop with Tlazoltiani Jessica Zamarripa, co-director and co-founder of the Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology & Community Wellness. Learn about Chicanx healing practices and ancestral traditions.
Workshop participants will be introduced to foundational Mesoamerican healing tenets that draw from Indigenous worldviews, as they relate to memory, culture, and their preservation in a contemporary context.
XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination
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
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.
XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination
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.
Click on the image above to regisger!
XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination
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.
Click on the image above to regisger!
XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination
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.
Click on the image above to regisger!
XEIS - Xicano Institute for Education & Self-determination
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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The Escuelita "Living Brown, Living Well - Chicanx Indigenous Wellbeing"
Institute co-founds teach Raza high school students at The Escuelita
Clinical Consultation: Decolonizing & Re-indigenizing for Raza Clinicians
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.
We include mesoamerican wellness that includes connecting with the sacred four Elements. Participants can bring questions about current cases.
Wellbeing in a Targeted Community
We are living in a time where Raza (Latina/o/e) are being targeted socially and politically. Anti-immigrant and anti-Brown sentiment and violent actions of government agencies like I.C.E. have eroded a sense of safety and wellbeing for many in our communities. In this platica we will discuss, together, the impact this is having and ways we can attend to our wellbeing.
