In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn body-based movement, emotional tending, and grounding practices to help you meet overwhelm with presence and compassion, for yourself, your team, and the people you serve. We’ll explore stress cycles, try on simple “tools and toys” you can use in real time, and practice trauma-informed invitations that honor autonomy and build trust. You’ll leave with a personalized menu of strategies you can use daily to move from hyper-alert to more regulated and resourced.
EK (Erin-Kate Escobar), M.Ed. (they/them) is a facilitator, educator, strategist, and activist who brings over two decades of experience in challenging oppression, building belonging, and guiding transformation. As a queer, non-binary, Latine and white, multi-generational and Jewish person of color, EK draws from lived experience, decades of activism, and training in trauma-informed practice, intergroup dialogue, resilience, somatic embodiment, spirituality, art, and grief.
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.
