Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Honor of Individual Cultural Wisdom
8:30 - 10:30am CST
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $10 full members; $25 partial members and nonmember
Trainer(s): Jojopahmaria Nsoroma
Continuing Education Hours: 2.0
Course Description
This workshop will explore the intersection of DEI, Cultural Reverence, trauma-responsive, and behavioral health programming. The workshop leader will facilitate exploration of identity-based trauma and its effects on the nervous system. Racial injustice will be explored as a chronic, systemic, collective, and personal form of trauma. Moreover, in our current socio-political climate, there are a number of identities that are under attack in addition to racebased assaults on African Americans. Breakout groups will have the opportunity to reflect on identity-based trauma in meaningful and personal ways. Most importantly, workshop participants will engage in an exercise of dismantling dominance dynamics together with the help of social dominance theory and the traditional wisdom of the Dagara Medicine Wheel, an ancient healing technology from West Africa. The goal is to journey beyond the traditional limits of behavioral health practices, to inspire self-mastery, and to inspire the wisdom of both service providers and recipients. Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will have greater: • Awareness of the intersection of DEI, Cultural Reverence, trauma work, and behavioral health • Insight into identity-based trauma • Ability to detect and name dominance hierarchies and dynamics • Ability to apply social dominance theory in the service of dismantling dominance • Insight into and ability to use traditional wisdom to heal individual and collective identity trauma.
Learning Objectives:
• Awareness of the intersection of DEI, Cultural Reverence, trauma work, and behavioral health
• Insight into identity-based trauma
• Ability to detect and name dominance hierarchies and dynamics
• Ability to apply social dominance theory in the service of dismantling dominance
• Insight into and ability to use traditional wisdom to heal individual and collective identity trauma
About Your Trainer
Jojopahmaria Nsoroma
Jojopahmaria Nsoroma, the Owner and Steward of Higher Expectations Consulting Collaborative, a Senior Team Member of Share Collaborative, the creator of the Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery program at the Alma Center in Milwaukee, WI, and the author of the book by the same name. At any one time, I am a teacher of emotional and spiritual intelligence who influences personal, professional, and institutional change, an organizational development specialist who promotes justice, equity, inclusion and diversity as the foundations for organizational and community wellness, a podcaster, a YouTube creator, and a modern-day shaman and self-mastery sage, dedicated to using ancient indigenous wisdom to support the evolution of the human services field. I have held many leadership roles in human services throughout my 45 years since graduating magna cum laude from Ford University with a BA in English Literature.