Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, justice Training Program

Critical Compassion and empathy building

HOW TO BUILD THE CAPACITY TO LOVE

We all have boundaries/tolerances of empathy and compassion. To love one another is a practice, not a characteristic. Love opens our body, mind, and spirit moving us towards and away from others. Love allows us the ability to see the other as sacred, important, and in need of care. It allows us to move past our egos, social narratives, and negative beliefs about ourselves and each other.

I see all things as acts of love. Even the worst acts can be followed to the root of love and fear; building our capacity to see love as the primary motivator of all action. ‘Love as action’ not only asks us to care for and hold others sacred but to hold ourselves as sacred and deserving of tenderness. Love asks us to bear witness to all parts of ourselves with gentleness and sanctity.

“Love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the mask that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the…sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth” (95).

-James Baldwi

disability, mental illness, and madness

There is a crucial need for practitioners to be educated in the field of madness /mad studies.

It is imperative that we start to include and center madness and Mad peoples’ epistemology and embodied experiences into DEI training as it has been systematically silenced in academic, social justice, healing, and DEI worlds.

My curriculum will take participants through the historical and cultural lineage of madness, the construction of madness in relation to reason and rationality, the historical lineage and contemporary implications of madness, and Mad peoples in relation to disability and mental illness.

Mad studies training for mental health practitioners, healers, and physicians is already being required in continuing education requirements in various countries such as Canada and Ireland and will continue to gain respect and momentum in the states.

DEIJ PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Approach: Centers around Critical Love and Affect Theory to meet people where they are at and re-orient engagement toward others and ourselves. Small group, in-person and virtual training to foster vulnerability and safety.

3-level Program D.E.I.J. Training for Private and Corporate Sectors

WHO I WORK WITH: THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN EXPANDING THEIR EMPATHY AND LOVE SKILLS.

who we’ve trained

Utah State Office of Rehabilitation (USOR)

Governor's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities & Business Relations
USARA

Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness

No DEI training is fully realized without compassion, affect, and madness components.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, justice Training Program

Critical Compassion and empathy building

disability, mental illness, and madness

There is a crucial need for practitioners to be educated in the field of madness /mad studies.

DEIJ PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Approach: Centers around Critical Love and Affect Theory to meet people where they are at and re-orient engagement toward others and ourselves. Small group, in-person and virtual training to foster vulnerability and safety.

3-level Program D.E.I.J. Training for Private and Corporate Sectors

WHO I WORK WITH: THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN EXPANDING THEIR EMPATHY AND LOVE SKILLS.

Utah State Office of Rehabilitation (USOR)

USARA

No DEI training is fully realized without compassion, affect, and madness components.

Customized DEIJ Training

INDIVIDUALIZED COACHING 1:1

Small Group Workshops

Corporate Workshop Packages

Heal yourself, heal your community, heal the world