• Relational Wealth: The MEND Model as a Framework for Liberation in Infant Mental Health

    Virtual

    In a world where inequities create relational poverty that strips families of joy, dignity, and connection, how do we replenish what has been lost? This interactive workshop introduces relational wealth as a liberatory resource, defined not by dollars but by our ability to attune, reflect, and co-heal. Drawing from Dr. Siemone Smith’s dissertation research on the impact of the

  • BSK: Centering Black Excellence Symposium

    Highline College South 240th Street & Pacific Highway South, Des Moines, WA, United States

    The Best Starts for Kids Workforce Development Strategy, in collaboration with WestEd, invites you to attend the Centering Black Excellence Symposium happening Tuesday, December 9th from 9 AM - 4 PM at Highline College! This in-person symposium where we will center the professional and lived experiences of accomplished Black Women who will share with us

  • ESIT Foundations of Reflective Practice

    Virtual

    Foundations of Reflective Practice Wednesday | December 10 | 9am – 12pm with Dra. Meyleen Velasquez This workshop provides an introduction to reflective practice and the foundational values and skills that support it. Participants will learn the purpose and benefits of reflective practice, explore key skills, and identify strategies for incorporating reflection into daily experiences and

  • “Embodying Adaptive Leadership: Rooting and Leading in our Courage”

    Virtual

    This experiential workshop will invite participants to explore elements of Adaptive Leadership and we can integrate these elements in our everyday ways of showing up. The workshop will integrate experiential activities as a way to ground and root in embodied practices as we serve in our communities. Register now.

  • On Our Compassion’s Fatigue: Treating Our Hearts After We’ve Given Too Much

    Virtual

    This session offers a care-filled, multibranched approach to compassion fatigue: the very felt sense that we have run out of resources, or even care, for those we support. Our time together will be grounded in relational psychology, somatic abolition, collective care praxis, and belonging. Together, we can name the structural, ancestral, and personal burdens that

  • “Enough, Already – Reclaiming the Resources We Are”

    Virtual

    It’s no surprise that we’ve had enough, already. Together, we’ll share space to reignite what calls us to center children and families, reclaim the power we already carry, and remember that we’ve been enough this whole time. Register now.