Opportunities to connect, learn, and contribute
Events
Wellbeing Series: Love Letters to my Childhood Self - Reading Octavia E. Butler and Writing Yourself In
Join Dr. Ayana Jamieson for a session exploring self-creation through the inspiring works of Octavia E. Butler.
Wellbeing Series: Ancestral Healing Movement Meditation with Alexis Saenz
Explore personal and ancestral healing through movement in our upcoming workshop, utilizing insights from epigenetics to release old energies and embrace resilience.
Community Care and the Workplace Fall 2024
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Honoring Grief with Sofia Rose Smith
In this one hour practice session, we will take some time to breathe, journal and share about how grief and loss show up for us in our work, in our bodies, and in our lives.
Community Care and the Workplace Summer 2024
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Mindfulness with Mel Mah
We'll explore what it means to be mindful and how this wide-ranging topic can enhance every aspect of our lives. This session will consist of gentle breath work, meditation, journaling, and intentional discussion.
Wellbeing Series: Unlikely Yoga - Big Movement in Small Spaces with Jessica Rihal
This is going to be a practice that can be done seated and standing from any location where space is a limitation and a yoga mat/floor space may not be accessible. This practice will be suitable for all levels.
Wellbeing Series: Honoring Yourself While Helping Others with Angel Towler
Participants will explore the often overlooked mental, physical, and emotional toll of the valuable work they do, with a focus on the unique challenges faced by BIPOC workers.
Community Care and the Workplace Spring 2024
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Energy Healing and Herbs for Self-Regulation with Andrea Penagos
Delve into profound energy healing secrets with Andrea Penagos, L.Ac., and explore the transformative world of herbal wisdom. Equip yourself with practices and insights to navigate daily stress, whether at work or at play.
Wellbeing Series: Finding Your Ease in the Struggle
Explore breath work, nutrition, sleep, and exercise.
Community Care and the Workplace
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Intentions as Medicine with Zami Hyemingway
Join us on a unique journey into the realm of daily intention setting, inspired by Yoruba practices. You'll discover the art of speaking to your indwelling spirit, a method designed to reshape your internal narrative, foster healing, and empower personal growth.
Community Care and the Workplace
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Pranayama Tools for Anxiety with Melissa Shah
In this workshop, participants will learn about how anxiety impacts the body and mind from a yogic and Ayurvedic lens, and will learn how to use the breath to nurture the process of letting go.
Wellbeing Series: Pleasure Plants - Botanicals for Beauty and Self-Love
Join Sade in a demonstration of how these plants can be crafted into natural products such as herbal oils and facial masks.
Wellbeing Series: Getting Real in the Age of AI with Susan X Jane
We'll explore the concept of reality and how to navigate the rise of AI. Together we'll practice ways to ground ourselves in authenticity and wholeness.
Community Care and the Workplace
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Time Travel & Dreaming for Liberation with Audrey Kuo
This session will offer participants a guided meditation to visit past and future experiences of liberation.
Wellbeing Series: Be-friending the Body with Dora Kamau
In this session, learn how to begin creating a more compassionate relationship with your body utilizing gentle breathing exercises, mindfulness, intentional group dialogue, and self-reflection.
Wellbeing Series: Deep Medicine Soulstainable Practice with Amiyoko Shabazz and LaRae Cantley
We’ll explore ways community solidarity can foster healing when faced with social, cultural and systemic barriers.
Community Care and the Workplace
SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.
Wellbeing Series: Pods & Podmapping with Mia Mingus
This will be an introduction to the concept of pods: how it came to be, how it can be used, lessons learned, and how to map your pods.
Wellbeing Series: Cultivating Emotional Well-Being with Siedeh Foxie
By tapping into our emotional intelligence systems and befriending the body, we’ll engage in a practice to broaden our perspective of self-healing and remembrance.
Wellbeing Series: Connect to the Earth with Lama Rod Owens
In this practice session, we will work to connect to the earth to experience a sense of care and holding during these times of intense disruption.
Healing Justice for Ourselves, our Communities, and our Workspaces - Fall Session
A free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. Through guided discussion, practices, guest speakers, participants will learn more about the healing justice framework.
Wellbeing Series - Processing It All: Herbs for Digestive and Nervous Support with La Loba Loca
In this workshop, we will learn about herbs that can support our digestive and nervous systems.
Wellbeing Series: From Coping to Thriving - Self Care Practices During Times of Crises with Kazu Haga
In this session, we will begin to discern the differences between coping and thriving strategies, share with other participants the tools that work for you, and to map out a strategy for self-care. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can contribute to a thriving world.
Wellbeing Series: Radical Imagination with Nicole Cardoza
In this session, Nicole will illuminate the skills we need to move forward to build a practice that centers our collective wellbeing.
Healing Justice for Ourselves, our Communities, and our Workspaces - Summer Session
A free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. Through guided discussion, practices, guest speakers, participants will learn more about the healing justice framework.
Building Ojas: An Ayurvedic Approach to Wellbeing with Nicole Taylor
Join Ayurvedic Health Counselor Nicole Taylor for an interactive session on cultivating well-being the Ayurvedic way. You’ll learn about ojas--the vital sap that keeps our immunity and equanimity intact. You’ll leave with practical ways to refill your inner well of vitality so that you can do your healing and social justice work in a sustainable way.
Reconnect: An Ancient Tool for Modern Living and Connection with Natalie Patterson
By fostering attentive listening and authentic expression, Council builds relationships between participants and neutralizes hierarchical dynamics formed by the inequality of status, race, or other social factors.
Care Don’t Carry: Energetic Boundaries for Empathic Leaders & Helping Professionals with Charlotte Nguyen
This workshop will empower you with holistic healing tools so you can easily and ethically help others while enjoying your personal relationships much more.