Opportunities to connect, learn, and contribute
Events
Wellbeing Series: Reflect and Restore-Practices to Cultivate Self and Community Care with Jonelle Lewis
Pause and renew in compassionate community as we close out the year. Join us for a gentle session of reflection and restoration, offering accessible practices to nurture yourself amidst the vital work of caring for our communities.
Wellbeing Series: Healing Trauma with Yogic Principles with Tejal Patel
Join Tejal for an introduction of Secondary Trauma & Race and Ethnic-Based Stress and Trauma, and the utilization of yoga and meditation for healing and harm-reduction.
Wellbeing Series: Living and Leading From the Heart with Ruby Sheng Nichols
Learn an active meditation method with tangible steps to guide you out of mental anxiety and ground into the wisdom of your heart and body.
Wellbeing Series: Therapeutic Chanting for Sleep with Melissa Shah
Attendees will be guided through three mantras or chants that encourage their ability to let go and improve sleep.
Liberatory Workplaces
For team leads to Executive Directors - anyone who wants to build a nurturing, agile, and thriving workplace for their teams.
Participants will focus on ways to build organizational and institutional structures that create liberatory workplaces.
Liberatory workplaces are intentionally anti-racist and foster team genius and wellbeing.
Facilitated by Christine Margiotta
5x1.5 hour sessions
$395
Wellbeing Series: Healing Pathways and Spiritual Care for Frontline Workers & Their Supporters
Explore transformative practices for frontline workers through this workshop on self and communal care, burnout prevention, and the integration of spiritual care into activism.
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: 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.
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.
Liberatory Leadership
For aspiring leaders looking to break the traditional mold and forge their path as an authentic, equitable leader.
Participants will explore their personal genius, find supportive community, shake off traditional leadership norms, and skill up to lead in an anti-racist, liberatory way.
Facilitated by Kelli Poole
4x1.5 hour sessions
$295
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.
Fast Pitch Workshops
For staff in leadership, development, advocacy, communications and organizing who are working at organizations striving to transform systems, and create communities of care and belonging.
Harness the art of compelling storytelling, grounded in racial and social justice values. Learn how to distill the breadth and complexity of your nonprofit’s work into a pithy 3-minute pitch.
Upcoming Course Begins November 27th
Facilitated by Frank Romero-Crockett and Sharon Stratton
2 sessions
$295
Systems Change Fellowship Informational Session
Join this information session to learn more about the Systems Change Fellowship and the application process.
Fast Pitch 2024
Join us for an afternoon of connection at Fast Pitch 2024! Witness the nonprofit leaders of the Systems Change Fellowship as they share their visions for a better community. Fast Pitch is your gateway to the heart of LA's systems change initiatives.
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.
Racial Equity in Homelessness Fellowship Information Meeting
Learn more about the Racial Equity in Homelessness Fellowship from Racial Equity in Homelessness Program Manager Frank Romero-Crockett.
Ask questions about eligibility requirements and how the program and application process work.
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.
Fast Pitch Workshops
For staff in leadership, development, advocacy, communications and organizing who are working at organizations striving to transform systems, and create communities of care and belonging.
Harness the art of compelling storytelling, grounded in racial and social justice values. Learn how to distill the breadth and complexity of your nonprofit’s work into a pithy 3-minute pitch.
Upcoming Course Begins November 27th
Facilitated by Frank Romero-Crockett and Sharon Stratton
2 sessions
$295
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.
Liberatory Leadership
For aspiring leaders looking to break the traditional mold and forge their path as an authentic, equitable leader.
Participants will explore their personal genius, find supportive community, shake off traditional leadership norms, and skill up to lead in an anti-racist, liberatory way.
Facilitated by Kelli Poole
4x1.5 hour sessions
$295
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.
Liberatory Workplaces
For team leads to Executive Directors - anyone who wants to build a nurturing, agile, and thriving workplace for their teams.
Participants will focus on ways to build organizational and institutional structures that create liberatory workplaces.
Liberatory workplaces are intentionally anti-racist and foster team genius and wellbeing.
Facilitated by Christine Margiotta
5x1.5 hour sessions
$395
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.
Accelerator Selection Team
5-6 hour commitment
SJPLA Partners and programs alum serve as coaches at the applicant workshops, meeting applicant teams, and then convene for collective decision-making to make recommendations for our incoming Accelerator cohort.
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.