Explore how to use poetry as a ritual to honor and process grief. In this session with Jaden Cervantes-Fields, you'll write, read, and reflect in a space that holds the complexity of loss with care and compassion. This practice supports emotional release and collective witnessing.
Jaden is a survivor organizer, poet, educator, and cannabis enthusiast cultivating healing-centered spaces committed to collective liberation. He is the Co-Director of Mirror Memoirs, an abolitionist storytelling and organizing project intervening in rape culture by uplifting the healing and liberation of QTIBIPOC survivors of child sexual abuse.
His work within grassroots and nonprofit organizations has included designing and leading programs for trans folks to access health services, training government agencies to better serve transgender people, participatory action research, and policy advocacy at the city, county, and state level. As a consultant, Jaden supports organizations, collectives, and professional groups to increase their knowledge and capacity to support and uplift communities that continue to be marginalized by white supremacy. Jaden is a performance poet and frequent keynote speaker. Jaden self-published his poetry chapbook, Intentional Musings on Staying Alive When I Want To Die (2019).
SJPLA’s Wellbeing Series is a free workshop every second Thursday of the month at 11 am. The workshops introduce a variety of healing modalities as part of our Racial Equity in Homelessness Initiative. These sessions promote personal rest, renewal, and connection creating space for discussion on how to sustain wellbeing practices.
