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Reserve Your Breakout Sessions

To complete your registration, you must reserve your spot for each breakout period.

All sessions have limited capacity and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you would like to change your selection later, please use the cancellation link in your confirmation email before reserving a different session.

Breakout Session Descriptions

Click below to review the session in each track.

You Don’t Have to Carry It All: Capacity, Boundaries, and Collective Care

Sonya Martinez-Ortiz, LCSW, RYT 500 • Breakout Session 1

This experiential group session invites participants to reconnect with their existing strengths, wisdom, and capacity. Grounded in a healing justice framework and sensorimotor psychotherapy, we’ll briefly explore how stress and vicarious trauma live in the body, and how care can be practiced across different domains (body, mind, spirit, relationships, and community).

Through practice and discussion, participants will have the opportunity to build awareness of their internal cues, and experiment with sustainable ways of staying connected to themselves and others. Together, we’ll explore “anchors” for ongoing care—micro practices, connection practices, and cyclical practices—that support choice, boundaries, and collective wellbeing. This is not a space for deep processing, but for resourcing, reflection, and leaving with something practical to carry forward.

Beyond Self-Care: Boundaries, Capacity, and Burnout

LaShawn Williams, MPA, EdD, LCSW • Breakout Session 2 & 3

This session explores burnout beyond surface-level self-care by focusing on the relationship between personal capacity, boundaries, and chronic stress. Participants will reflect on where they may be overextended, under-supported, or disconnected, and learn practical strategies to restore balance through intentional boundaries and sustainable self-care. Includes guided reflection and simple mindfulness practices.

Pausing the Productivity Machine

Niecie Jones, PhD, LMFT • Breakout Sessions 1, 2 & 3

The call has been coming from inside the house to use rest as a primary part of your resistance. Have you been listening? Come to this space to reflect on your current rest practice and where you can expand yourself by doing less. You will respond to guided prompts on rest in writing and have the opportunity to share your reflections with an intimate community.

Elements Toward Awareness

Iberty Mojica Gedeon, CMHC • Breakout Sessions 1, 2 & 3

This session utilizes a series of bilingual prompts designed for journaling, movement, and intrinsic healing.

English Summary

This session focuses on “Knowing ourselves is loving ourselves.” Through a step-by-step process of pausing, movement, and breathing, participants will engage with 13 “Conscious Elements.” These prompts guide individuals to shift their perception, recognize the magnetic power of the heart, and distinguish between being and having. The experience culminates in “Healing Poetry” and mindfulness practices that bridge the gap between our finite environment and our infinite inner experience, leading to liberty, harmony, and wisdom.

Resumen en español

Esta sesión se centra en la premisa “¡Conocernos es amarnos!” A través de un proceso paso a paso que incluye pausas, movimiento y respiración, los participantes trabajarán con 13 “Elementos hacia la conciencia”. Estas pautas guían a la persona a cambiar su percepción, reconocer el poder magnético del corazón y entender la diferencia entre ser y tener. La experiencia culmina en “Poesía Sanadora” y prácticas de mindfulness que conectan nuestro entorno finito con nuestra experiencia interna infinita, alcanzando así la libertad, la armonía y la sabiduría.

Gentle Yoga

Lebo Goad E-RYT, RPYT • Breakout Sessions 1

Anthony Reed, E-RYT 500 • Breakout Sessions 2 & 3

An all-levels yoga practice offering gentle movement, grounding breath, and meditation to help you slow down, reconnect, and access a sense of deep rest. You’re invited to move at your own pace, rest when you need to, and be part of a shared space that is grounding and supportive.No experience is needed—come as you are in comfortable clothing.

Exhale

Camille Nugent & Davina Hanchuck • Breakout Sessions 1, 2, & 3

This is a powerful vinyasa flow that builds heat, challenges your focus, and invites you to stay present with what’s rising in your body without needing to push past your edge. You will move continuously and use your breath as an anchor through it all. Expect a fluid, creative flow that feels strong and expressive, while still giving you space to listen and adjust in real time. You’ll move energy through your body and leave feeling grounded, open, and more connected to yourself, with a clearer sense of what you’re ready to release.

Rest, Release, and Restore: Healing in the Body

Sherrá Watkins, PhD, LCMHC-S • Breakout Sessions 1, 2 & 3

This session centers the bodies and minds of advocates, caregivers, and community leaders who show up for their communities every day, often at great personal cost. Many carry stress in both visible and invisible ways. Guided by Dr. Watkins, participants will be introduced to Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tapping, a body-based practice that uses gentle tapping on specific acupressure points, along with focused awareness and emotional processing, to support stress relief, grounding, and restoration. Rooted in multicultural perspectives on healing and activism, this session offers practical tools to help participants deepen self-awareness, reconnect with rest, and build sustainable ways of caring for themselves while continuing to care for their communities. Participants will leave with a technique they can use immediately — in their bodies, in their work, and in their communities.

You will explore:

Stress, burnout, and trauma in the body
EFT Tapping for grounding and relief
Body-based tools for restoration
Rest as a sustainable method of care
Reconnecting with self and capacity