Keynotes, Workshops, & Poetry Performances
Employee Engagement (Zoom Groups):
With a partnership of another therapist, we customize programs that allow for employees to safely dialogue and process their feelings and concerns on issues of race and ethnicity in an ongoing fashion via live Zoom Group classes.
The safety and intimacy of smaller groups allows for feedback, discussion, and deeper engagement than what’s typical of didactic teaching or training. In these groups, your employees are the ones doing the talking with our team of coaches and therapists facilitating and moving the conversation forward.
Slanted Eyes: The Asian-American Poetic Experience
With the use of spoken word poetry, compelling videos, and human-interest stories, participants get a new perspective on what it means to be "Asian-American". Stories that have been ignored, neglected, or minimized through the ages are given a voice so the cultural contributions and challenges of Asian/Pacific Islanders can be validated, heard, and preserved.
Emotional Wellness: Building Skills for Resiliency
We all need skills for emotional health and well-being. Part of the process involves finding our own unique strengths to help us cope through difficulties. In this workshop, you will find a number of means to address stress and other life challenges.
Burn Bright without Burning Out: Self-Care Essentials
Are you finding yourself burning out, disinterested, or lacking spontaneity in your work? If so learn new skills in this innovative and refreshing workshop which blends individual and group experiential exercises that both relaxes and reinvigorates your inner core.
This training will give you the tools to feel refreshed and reinvigorated in your work as we learn to detach from our screens and connect with others in a deeply, meaningful, and transformational way using movement, imagery, stories, and other experiential exercises.
Connect Your Dots: Navigating Cultural Influences & Creating a Sense of Identity
In a world filled with passive learning, this experiential workshop allows participants to actively engage in seeing, sharing, and redefining who they are in the presence of others, utilizing a culturally-informed framework. Sam's extensive experience as a group therapist informs this workshop where elements of drama therapy, story-telling, movement, and much more are incorporated in the process. This should be viewed less as a workshop for "head knowledge" but more as an encounter that leaves a lasting imprint on your being.
My Story, Your Story, Our Stories: Exploring our Identities & Privileges
What are your privileges? What are you social identities? How do these make you who you are -- and who would you be without them? A vibrant experiential workshop filled with activities and interactions with others where you can see, hear, and share your experiences with others in a creative and engaging atmosphere. Participants will be follow structured group exercises to maximize learning and growth.
Asian Shame: Suffering in Silence
Asians are collectivist by nature and consequently the shame of disgracing their families and ancestors lead many to “suffer in silence” with addictions, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health issues. Through this powerful workshop, Sam traces the roots of Asians afflicted by "Asian shame" to the cultural values of honor and "face".
Healing the Shame that Binds You
What we feel we cannot say often contains the seed of the most unique gifts we have to offer. When it comes to culture and our own sense of identity, how do we safely venture into the territory of the taboo, and begin to name and share the experiences that have influenced us at the deepest level?
In this experiential workshop, we will practice shame resilience in action: increasing our self-awareness around shame, creating an environment of trust and support for ourselves and others, and sharing our personal stories in an expressive way using voice, dialogue, and movement.