The conversations that change us are rarely the comfortable ones.
These seminars, workshops, and continuing education courses are designed to take you somewhere real — into the intersections of race, culture, trauma, and identity where the most important work lives. Whether you are a clinician, educator, or member of an organization, you will leave with more than information. You will leave with a framework for showing up differently.
Course Offerings
Cultural Moral Injury: The Longitudinal Impact of Existing in a Racialized Society
This novel psychological construct concept examines how living in a racialized society carries a profound internalized cost - physiologically, psychologically, emotionally, and socially - that can lead to cultural moral injury. Unlike occupational moral injury, cultural moral injury is deeply rooted in nation’s historical, systemic, and insidious trauma making it both more pervasive and more difficult to heal from as it continuous across one’s lifespan.
Format: 4 to 6 hours
This seminar deepens your understanding of your own proximity to power, personal privilege, and the prejudices you carry. We examine the intersections where these forces meet and how they can be used to either promote dignity and connection or diminish it.
Format: 4 to 6 hours
Power, Privilege, and Prejudice: Understanding Social Dynamics
Awareness, Acknowledgment, and Aversions
Designed to equip participants with a practical understanding of key concepts that influence personal awareness, decision-making, and effective practice. The objective guide learners through recognizing responses to change, gaining familiarity with the Stages of Change model and the ACES Study, and examining how trauma and cultural moral injury can affect individuals and communities. By connecting these topics to mission and methodology, the training supports participants in applying these insights thoughtfully and effectively in real-world settings.
Format: 4 or 6 hours
Brown vs. Board of Education: Academic Assimilation vs Integration
Nearly 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, African American students still face persistent inequities across urban, surburban, and rural schools. If separate was unequal, why does “together” remain unequal and in many instances unsafe. These historical overview invites participants to critically examine the legacy of school “integration”, when the education “gap” truly began. Along how using African American children as pawns to gain greater acceptance into society as whole never happened and African American children are still paying the price for it.
Format 4 to 6 hours
Burnout, Boundaries, and Balance
Attendees learn the difference between burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. Along with recognizing early warning signs, and explore the role of healthy boundaries in sustaining personal and professional well-being. Designed for professionals in helping, service, or high-stress roles, the session offers practical language and reflection tools to identify emotional overload before it leads to discouragement, exhaustion, or reduced empathy.
Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how chronic stress and exposure to. others’ suffer affect resilience, as well as simple strategies for setting boundaries, supporting self-care and maintaining compassion by learning the physiological clues that your nervous system is becoming overwhelmed. This workshop is practical, accessible, and well suited for staff development, well programming, or team learning conversations.
Format: 4 to 6 hours
This workshop builds your ability to recognize the physiological signs that precede personal dysregulation. You will learn the difference between adaptive and maladaptive coping skills, and practice self- and co-regulation techniques that interrupt amygdala-driven trauma responses.
Format 4 hours
Regulate, Rest, Restore
Healing Without Amnesia: Rethinking What It Means to Heal
Healing is often described as something that happens automatically with time, but in reality it is an active process that requires intention, energy, rest, and support. This workshop challenges the idea that healing means forgetting you were hurt. Participants will examine different types of wounds experienced across a lifespan and build a practical framework for navigating their healing journey. Drawing from psychology, sociology, physiology, somatic and cultural experiences, this session equips people to set realistic expectations for healing.
Format 4 or 6 hours
Is it Really Autism Spectrum Disorder: Traumatized Children in a Post-COVID World.
Children born during the height if the pandemic from 2020 to 2023 are now entering K-12 classrooms with a unique set of developmental delays as a direct impact for early and extended isolation. Many have challenges bonding, self and co-regulation, along with interpersonal social skills. The seminar equips those who work with children regularly to begin discerning attachment disorders, early trauma responses as opposed to children being over- and/or misdiagnosed with ASD.
Format 4 hours
The Reality of Race
Race is a societal construct that was created purely to maintain the American caste system. Millions of Americans, particularly European Americans believed the illusion that racism was “over” and nation had reconciled the “sins of their forefathers” with the election President Obama. While many were temporarily disheartened during the battle for “the soul of nation” during President Biden’s election and early days of his administration. We are yet again at the same racial crossroad that American century after century returns too.
Format 4 or 6 hours
Hues of Hurt: The Intersection of Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy
This course teaches the distinction between Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy, along with how both differently impact African Americans, Black Americans and European Americans - while simultaneously reinforcing our societal caste system. We will also examine how treatment of or reactions to harm or dismiss the lived realities of certain populations.
Format 4 or 6 hours
More to come soon!