This session will address ways leadership and connection can be shaped in a society that is often plagued with white supremacy practices and norms that often lead to disconnection from the self and each other. We’ll explore ways community solidarity can foster healing when faced with social, cultural, and systemic barriers.
Amiyoko Shabazz has a wealth of lived experience, including numerous periods of homelessness and involvement in shelter services, mental health recovery programs, and physical wellness programs. This experience drives her to give back and work towards her purpose. Her ongoing education, collaboration, and specialized training and certifications make her qualified to train, lead, motivate, inspire, and transform other experts with lived experience, peer specialists, trainers, providers, and private clients. She takes pleasure in sharing her light and helping others with self-growth, self-awareness, self-evolution, community empowerment, and community development.
LaRae Cantley, is a loving mother, Artist, Activist, and curator who writes and delivers creative expression as a form of liberation. Serving as Senior Manager Centering Community and Wellbeing with Full Frame Initiative LaRae ensures those that are closest to the inequities steer the drive towards systemic transformation through facilitating intentional partnerships with all stakeholders, including but not limited to community leaders, academics, nonprofits, government, funders, etc. with emphasis on Community.
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.
