What I Do
Collaboration
As a trainer, teacher or facilitator, my goal is to open people up to inspiration and creativity from multiple perspectives. In order to do so, a co-creative process is essential in order to bring a mosaic of viewpoints and best practices together to produce the kind of effective change that will last in the long term.
As a collaborative partner, I work with clients to customize workshops or trainings that provide information, experience and practical application that will expand your learning edges in the areas of cultural competency and awareness, social justice, intercultural communication, and somatic skill-building to interrupt implicit bias and oppression.
Consulting
Often, we find ourselves reaching the edges of our known professions or life experiences with a question that will bring us to our next step, or an even larger opportunity.
These are the questions that need another perspective in order to clarify the vision that is starting to emerge…what can we discover together about the problem, the missed opportunity, the greatest dream you’ve had?
As a consultant, I bring in a bit of my inner teacher, my therapist toolkit, my mother’s listening ear, and my artist’s desire to create to help you find your masterpiece.
Upcoming Events
Coming in 2024!
Marcia will be offering her first ever three-day immersive Embodied Code-Switching® training program! This training will bring together all the learning and experience Marcia has offered through her one-day workshops and shorter trainings with current research and practice gathered for her upcoming book (to be published in 2024).
Past Activities
Culture Internalized, Culture Embodied: What We Rarely Talk About When We Talk About Culture
(co-facilitator/trainer)
Jemez Institute
Santa Fe, NM - Mar 10-18 2016
Uncovering our Intercultural “Superpower:” Embodied Multicultural Identity as a Source of Resilience in a Polarized World
Winter Institute for Intercultural Communication (WIIC)
Santa Fe, NM - Mar 15 2018
Somatic & Trauma-Informed Cultural Awareness Fellowship Program Trainer & Consultant
WholeConnection Boulder - Bounder, CO - 2018-2019
Guest Speaker on Embodied Code-Switching® & Multicultural Identity
Somatic Counseling Program
Naropa University
Bounder, CO - 2017 & 2018
Bridging the Four I’s of Oppression with the I’s of Identity & Intersectionality: Counseling Skills for the Multiculturally-Minded Counselor
WholeConnection Therapy Boulder, CO - Nov 15, 2017
From Division to Connection: Using Neuroscience & Somatic Awareness to Bridge Difference
(co-facilitator/trainer)
SIETAR-USA 2017 Conference San Francisco, CA - Oct 20, 2017
Reaching Across the Racial Divide: It Begins with Me, It Ends with Us
(educational process group co-facilitator)
Lakewood, CO - Sept 30 - Oct 1 2017
Talking Race, Culture, & Connection: Reaching Across the Divide of Difference
(60 minute webinar, co-presenter with Phillip Horner, LCSW, WholeConnection Therapy, available on YouTube)
Embodied Code-Switching®: Moving Between Cultural Environments as a Multicultural Person
Evening Session, Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC)
Portland, OR - July 13, 2017
Embodied Code-Switching®: Moving Between Cultural Environments as a Multicultural Person
SIETAR- USA 2016 Conference
Tulsa, OK - Nov 10, 2016
Utilizing Culture as Prevention and a Pathway Towards Holistic Community Health
Fertile Ground II: Growing the Seeds of Native Health Conference
Minneapolis, MN - May 2-4, 2016
Culture Internalized, Culture Embodied: What We Rarely Talk About When We Talk About Culture
(co-facilitator/trainer)
Jemez Institute
Santa Fe, NM - Mar 10-18 2016
Embodied Code-Switching®
Code-switching is a unique skill of cross-cultural identity expression that many multiracial and multicultural people navigate on a daily basis. Originally identified as a characteristic of bilingual and multilingual speakers, code-switching has become a subject of interest in psychology as a cognitive and behavior phenomenon. It has also entered into popular culture as a way to describe the complex dance between reconciling one’s own inner awareness with the outside pressures associated with expressing racial, ethnic, and cultural identities.
Moving Between Identities: Embodied Code-Switching® (Chapter)
in Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, & Resolutions
A thoughtful exploration of Embodied Code-Switching® therapy, which integrates somatic awareness to support the healthy expression of multicultural identities.
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Moving Between Identities: Embodied Code-Switching® (Chapter)
in Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, & Resolutions
A thoughtful exploration of Embodied Code-Switching® therapy, which integrates somatic awareness to support the healthy expression of multicultural identities.
Bookshop helps support local booksellers.