Trainings, Workshops and Presentations 

It is the greatest honor to be able to share my approach to trauma, mental health, race, oppression, healing and liberation with the greater public. Over the years I have conducted workshops, trainings, and presentations, on a variety of topics, both on a small and large scale, online and in person, for city and county government, non-profits, community organizations, and the private sector. 

I am available for customized webinars and in-person events either in English or Spanish. I work collaboratively with event organizers in designing content that centers their hopes and dreams. 

Please see below for topics of interests and some recent offerings: 

• Ancestral and Intergenerational Healing

• Mental/Psychological/Emotional Health and Wellbeing

• Compassion Fatigue/Burnout

• Sacred Boundaries

• Embodied Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression

• Systems Change and Equity Work

• Social Work and Social Justice

• Latinx Issues

• Radically and Wholistically Trauma Informed

• Immigration and First Generation

• Resilience and Sustainability

• Self-Care and Collective Care

Recent Offerings:

Trauma and Healing: A Holistic and Radical Approach

This webinar will define individual, communal, intergenerational, historical, and racial trauma. It will explore ongoing impacts on the individual, communal and societal levels. As well as incorporate the impacts of COVID19, the 2020 social uprisings, and other relevant social events. It will offer practical steps to embodied healing, connection, and engagement.

We Should All Be Equity Workers: Making Social Justice an Embodied and Sustainable Practice

This webinar will introduce a radical approach to trauma by incorporating conscientization, embodied reflection and action. It will offer an opportunity for social justice equity and change workers to cultivate decolonial strategies for change, resilience and sustainability.

Deeply Rooted: Resilience for BIPOC individuals

This workshop will explore a radical approach to trauma. It will define the unique impact that oppression has on BIPOC individuals and communities. It will draw on individual, ancestral and collective strengths to further nurture our mental health, overall wellbeing and resilience across the generations.

“The Great Reckoning:” Exploring what it takes to be Whole as a white person

This workshop will offer an opportunity for white folks to continue to explore the roots of white supremacy and its impact on the individual and collective overall wellbeing. We will also explore the struggle once one starts to come into consciousness, including white guilt and paralysis, and how this can be detrimental to healing self, cultivating reciprocal relationships and sustaining movement building.

Politicizing Private Practice; Clinical Activism in Private Practice

In this workshop, we will dialogue and offer insights from our own experiences as social workers who identify as politicized healers and clinical activists and explore what it means to build a psychotherapy practice that is politicized, anti-oppressive, decolonial, anti-racist, indigenous and race conscious, culturally responsive and integrative, disabled justice, LGBTQ2S+ affirming, how to support the fierce embodied holistic healing, transformation, and liberation of the self and of community at large, and how to engage in activism that is self-preserving, sustainable, and honors the ancestors and the descendants of our lineages.

Walking Alongside Undocumented Immigrants

This workshop provides insight into social work and social justice around immigration advocacy. The micro, mezzo, macro effects of undocumented status, illegality, on immigrants, their families, and the greater community are explored. The workshop will discuss the multiple layers of trauma that immigrants experience and their re-traumatization in the mental health and social work field. Suggestions for therapeutic interventions are provided. 

Past Partnerships: 

• City of Seattle Human Services Department (HSD) 

• City of Seattle Human Resources Learning and Developmental Unit 

• City of Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections 

• City of Seattle Community Police Commission

• City of Seattle Parks & Recreation

• King County Department of Community and Human Services

• Casa Latina

• Goodwill

• Swedish Medical Center Oncology Social Workers

• Alimentando el Pueblo

• Farestart

• Northwest Education Access

• Highline Community College - Trio Program

• Washington State University Clinical Psychology Department

• Lions & Tigers

• TPN Health 

• Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center

• Denny Middle School

• Chief Sealth High School

• White Center Community Development Association

• Burien Collaborative

• Mercy Housing

Word of Mouth: Clinical Practice

Diana's approach and perspective on how to decolonize engagement with clients is foundational. By framing a liberation perspective on therapeutic services, it has challenged me to think more about the internalized role of person-based services. I will be eager to think about how to integrate or adjust training frameworks .

I really appreciated the lenses and techniques that were shared in the presentation. The discussion about alignment is so important to our work and making sure it is sustainable and I appreciated that the presenter helped us reflect on this.

I can and will keep going because it’s not me or my broken community but systems in place to hinder process for many… and who we are and what we do is enough… Trauma is real…Its not me. It’s the system and as a person with a purpose I can and will make it.

I have a sticky note by my desk with the closing quote: "the times are urgent, we must slow down". I'm using it as a reminder of many things I took from the training, but mostly to slow down and to be aware of how I'm feeling and how those feelings may impact my decisions and work with colleagues and clients.

I will start to practice self care as a essential part of my job .