Talks + Workshops

2018

Jan. 23

Belonging
Dialogue
San Francisco, CA
Co-facilitated and co-designed a dialogue on Belonging

Apr. 14-15

Creating spaces of dialogue and inclusion
The Culture Conference
San Jose, CA
Facilitated small group huddles

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2017

Mar. 8

NO SHOW* // Belonging
Dialogue & Gershoni
San Francisco, CA
Co-facilitated dialogue on Belonging

Jul. 18

Belonging
Dialogue
San Francisco, CA
Co-facilitated and co-designed a dialogue on Belonging

Sep. 19

Belonging
Dialogue
San Francisco, CA
Co-facilitated and co-designed a dialogue on Belonging

Nov. 11

Hakomi and Difference
Berkeley, CA
Workshop for students in the Hakomi Method Comprehensive Training. Co-facilitated and co-designed with Brian Lim, MFT Intern

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2016

Jan. 20

Unconscious Bias
California Diversity Council @ Gensler
Oakland, CA
Introduction to Unconscious Bias.

Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24

Affect and Neuro-Regulation
Women’s Therapy Center
Berkeley, CA
Four-week class exploring self-regulation for our clients and for ourselves as practitioners.

Apr 5

Courageous Conversations
IDEO
San Francisco, CA
Beginning of a series on navigating diversity. (2 hrs)

Apr 22

Interrupting Your Interruption Patterns: Exploring the Link Between Unconscious Bias and Collective Learning
Lookout, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Co-facilitator, Ken Homer. (1.5 hrs)

Apr 28

Working session on Diversity
Instacart
San Francisco, CA
Co-facilitator, Alan Ratliff.  Great all day working session with Instacart’s diversity committee. (Pics from Twitter)

May 19

Courageous Conversations, Part II
IDEO

San Francisco, CA
Class 2 on navigating diversity. (2 hrs)

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2015

Feb 28

Trauma and Integral Coaching (2-Part)
Identity and Trauma

Palo Alto, CA
Three-hour experiential workshop on how the sex of a client, cultural background and other aspects of identity can create challenges for our clients.

Nov 13-14

Navigating Difference: Emotional Intelligence for the Difficult Conversations
with Ricardo Molano Nieto
White Privilege Symposium, Oakland and SF, CA
This interactive workshop will focus on how to build inclusive containers to effectively begin, manage and end conversations about identity and differences.  The workshop will highlight group and power dynamics that can surface in groups of any kind. It will explore how to respond to emotional bids to build connection, utilize empathic listening for honoring individual stories and effective interventions to access the freedom of choice.

Nov 17

Identity @ Work
IDEO, SF, CA
One-hour talk on the complexity of identity in the workplace. Introduced a model of how to hold our multi-layered identities and how some identities can come into conflict at work.

2014

May 30

New Ventures West Graduate Roundtable
San Francisco, CA
Three-hour talk on an introduction on trauma for coaches.
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Nov 5

Identity: Beyond the Binary
Women’s Therapy Center

Berkeley, CA
Three-week class exploring new paradigms of identity for the two-year training program.

Nov 12

Blind to What Binds
International Coaching Federation (ICF) SF Chapter

San Francisco, CA
How challenging childhood experiences block a client. Video of talk available online for ICF members.

Nov 15

Trauma and Integral Coaching (2-Part)
Neuroscience, Development and Trauma

Palo Alto, CA
Three-hour experiential workshop on a basic understanding of trauma, how to recognize trauma activation in sessions, and what to do when it arises.