Mental Health at the Intersections Conference: Community Care

Each year, the Pacific Center for Human Growth, in collaboration with Alameda County Behavioral Services, brings the Mental Health at the Intersections conference to the community. This conference is a day of interactive and immersive learning centering Queer & Trans, Black, Indigenous, Mixed Race, People of Color (QTBIMPOC).

Together, facilitators and participants explore the ways in which QTBIMPOC experience multiple forms of oppression that, too often, are not addressed effectively within the therapeutic context. Combining personal stories, educational theory, and professional experience, workshop facilitators help participants move beyond dominant mental health paradigms toward a more holistic, culturally relevant, integrated approach.

The conference will be held in-person and online. For online participation, please select Online Admission at the checkout and enter an email address to receive the Zoom information closer to the date.

This will be an experiential workshop exploring our interconnectedness from nervous system to nervous system. We will explore how a relationship with our own physiology can support grounding (self-regulation) and how we can show up to support each others’ ease and aliveness in the moment. There will be some teaching about the nervous system and a lot of exploring what it means to be a body in relationship with other bodies, all trying to heal.

Introduction of RooT’s abolitionist space holding practices in the work of collective accountability work, demystifying and clarifying abolitionist responses to violence. Experience first-hand practices in responding to conflict with tools that generate compassion for self and others and reflect on barriers to abolitionist work that intentionally exist in our dominant culture, oppressive systems, institutions of power, and social conditioning.

This workshop will provide space to explore the idea of community care and its relationship to the individual. There will be experiential activities, small group exercises, and use of real-world scenarios to support learning about boundaries, clarifying personal values, and improving self-awareness.

In this workshop I'll introduce my Radical Nature Framework and talk about its benefits and connections to Holistic Healing. As an interdisciplinary practice I’ll show participants the potential pathways of integrating this framework as an assessment tool for discovering your “trailhead to healing”.

This will be an experiential workshop exploring our interconnectedness from nervous system to nervous system. We will explore how a relationship with our own physiology can support grounding (self-regulation) and how we can show up to support each others’ ease and aliveness in the moment. There will be some teaching about the nervous system and a lot of exploring what it means to be a body in relationship with other bodies, all trying to heal.

Introduction of RooT’s abolitionist space holding practices in the work of collective accountability work, demystifying and clarifying abolitionist responses to violence. Experience first-hand practices in responding to conflict with tools that generate compassion for self and others and reflect on barriers to abolitionist work that intentionally exist in our dominant culture, oppressive systems, institutions of power, and social conditioning.

This workshop will provide space to explore the idea of community care and its relationship to the individual. There will be experiential activities, small group exercises, and use of real-world scenarios to support learning about boundaries, clarifying personal values, and improving self-awareness.

As a quintessential workshop focused on the needs of BIPOC communities, I’ll introduce the mechanics of triggers so participants have a deeper and spiritual perspective about the movement of triggers from a conversation to the embodiment of our traumas. Understanding “Daylighting” as a practice of healing, especially intergenerational trauma will offer participants an opportunity to consider the possibilities of self healing through storytelling.

• Negative COVID test result within 48 hours required (On-site COVID test provided)
• Temperature screening at check-in
• Proof of vaccination will be required for all event attendees
• Security and the Front Desk will check vaccination cards with ID’s upon check-in
• Masks are encouraged

Host or Publisher Pacific Center for Human Growth