Course Description:
Clinicians of Color!
We are hosting a one day event to foster connection, offer reprieve, and provide reminders!
This year has presented us with significant challenges…changes to funding, multiple closures of departments or divisions that support the communities we serve, and unlawful deportations… to say the least. So many significant changes can cause us to practice from a place of uncertainty rather than centeredness.
Clinicians of color have an innate ability to connect to a source that carries us through the storm. Join us for a day of turning inward to reconnect to that which settles you, to what excites you, to what brings you joy. Leave with new or rekindled connections, a sense of community and a reinvigorated plan to thrive in the eye of the storm. We hope to provide space not only for connection and community but also activities that lead to personal reflection. You will be invited and encouraged to process in ways that feel most natural for you.
*If part of your identity is Black, Indigenous, a Person of Color, or Multiracial and you live in a White presenting body, we want you to join us. We do not want those parts to be erased, hidden, or left unattended!
Learning Objectives:
1. Create a personal “container” to externalize current challenges to your clinical practices, places of employment, or community work. (Name the Storm)
2. Identify and engage with mediums of art, music, movement, connection or quiet practices that soothes and reconnects you to yourself. (Find the Eye)
3. Develop your recipe of connection, community, and joy. (Thriving within the Eye)
Designed For: All types of healers, mental health professionals, social workers, space holders, community leaders and organizers, and educators.
This workshop is ideal for clinicians and healers of color who are fatigued, anxious, enraged, disoriented, overwhelmed, grieving, numb, and/or longing to be in community. All parts of you are welcome!
Hosted By: Joy Life Counseling & Experience Change
Date/Time: Friday, October 17, 2025 from 10:30am-4:30pm with a 1-hr lunch break around 12:30pm
Location: Martin Luther King Jr Library (9898 E Colfax Ave., Aurora, CO 80010)
Meet Your Facilitator
Dr. Melody Brown, PhD, LMFT
Dr. Melody Brown, PhD, LMFT is the owner of Systemic Solutions, LLC and serves the community by providing public speaking, training, clinical supervision, and consultation to organizations seeking to improve their services through an equity and community conscious lens. She identifies as Black/African-American, Cis-Gender Female, Queer, Mostly Able-Bodied, Married, Raised Christian with Meta-Physical Practices and Beliefs. She grew up in Louisiana and learned early on to pay attention to issues of injustice and oppression. She learned to appreciate and love her intersecting identities and loves passing that appreciation on to clinicians living on the margins.
Meet Your Healers
During workshop breaks and directly after the workshop, take a mindful pause and reconnect with your body, spirit, and ancestral wisdom during restorative mini-healing sessions designed to realign and rejuvenate your energy. *Healing sessions are provided at an additional cost.
LeKisha Moore (Bitcraft Works)
Kisha bridges psychology and spirit through Ancestral Insight Readings, helping you explore inherited patterns, emotional cycles, and generational strengths for empowered healing.
📧 mybitcraftworks@gmail.com
🌐 tarotoracle.co
Jessica Watson (RYT 200)
Jessica guides participants in slow, mindful movement and breath to reconnect with body and self.
📧 jessiwatson@comcast.net
📱 303-350-7956
Joshua Oliver Al-Hakim (Wiser Intentions)
Joshua combines Reiki energy healing, chakra balancing, aura assessments, and Spiritual guidance to support emotional, physical, and spiritual alignment.
📧 joshua@wiserintentions.com
📱 720-440-2169
Michael Mendoza (Healing Hands Holistic Therapy)
Michael blends licensed mental health therapy (including EMDR) with spiritual tools. Using oracle cards, ancestral medicine, and energy cleansing to support the whole person.
📧 michael@hhhthx.com
🌐 www.hhhthx.com
Cynthia Randall (Peace in Needles Integrative Therapy)
Cynthia offers AcuDetox – a gentle ear acupuncture protocol proven to support emotional healing, reduce stress and cravings, and promote balance and clarity.
📧 cynthia.fes@gmail.com
📱 720-384-9860
Cost
- Supporter Rate (subsidizes lower rates): $150
- Standard Rate: $120
- Group of 3: $330 ($110 per person)
- Group of 4: $400 ($100 per person)
- Group of 5: $450 ($90 per person)
Refund Policy
Cancellations received at least 30 days before the workshop will be refunded 100%. Cancellations received less than 30 days before the workshop will receive no refund or credit. Your registration may be transferred to another participant if needed.
Scholarship Spots
If you are in need of a reduced rate, please contact emily@experiencechange.net. We are committed to ensuring everyone has access to educational opportunities.
Certificate of Completion
No CEs are offered for this event. A certificate of completion, which may be used to satisfy your state’s continuing professional development requirements (see your state’s profession and rules), will be emailed to every participant who attends the full 5-hr workshop. Certificates will not be provided for partial attendance of the workshop.
Accomodations
To request accommodations for this event or to inquire about accessibility, please email joshua@experiencechange.net, at least one week in advance of the event date.
Your Co-Host!
Joy Life Counseling is a Black-owned business, providing therapy, wellness, and neurofeedback services. Our team works from a holistic, client-centered approach, that includes mind, body, and soul. We believe that the work done in therapy is sacred. We are truly passionate about helping people and families through life transitions.