Rapid Response Network Workshops

This offering is provided by our non-profit, the Alejandre Foundation.

To sign up for the ongoing support groups, visit this page.

Rapid Response Workshop Sign-Up

Healing Workshops for Rapid Response Network Volunteers (Sign-Ups)

We want to thank you for you what you are doing for our communities. These workshops are exclusively for rapid response network leaders and volunteers, and serve as a way to help you take care of yourself while you take care of others.

These free, one-time 1.5-hour workshops are designed specifically for rapid response network volunteers and leaders who are often the first on the ground when ICE activity is reported. Many of you are balancing full-time jobs and family roles, and still show up for your community in times of crisis. We recognize the emotional weight and urgency that comes with this work, especially when your own families and communities are also impacted by deportation threats and ICE violence.

These educational workshops are created to support you—the social justice-oriented individuals doing critical, often invisible labor. Each session will offer insight into mental health awareness, coping strategies, and tools for navigating stress, somatic symptoms, and emotional exhaustion in the face of ongoing injustice.

Please note: These workshops are not clinical psychotherapy services. They are educational in nature and are not intended to replace therapy. The goal is to offer mental health awareness and teach practical, trauma-informed tools.

One-Time Workshop Options (1.5 hrs):

🗓 Sunday, March 8 at 10:00 AM PST
Topic: Nervous System Relief
Facilitator: Sofia Mendoza, LCSW

Topics discussed:

Engage the group in identifying and exploring what they're carrying
Psychoeducation on Vicarious Trauma and Impact (signs and symptoms).
Offer Nervous System Relief exercises that we will practice in session
Provide them with a worksheet where they can document the skills that worked best

🗓 Viernes, 13 de marzo a las 11:00 AM PST
Tema: Riendo, Llorando, y Sanando: Rabia Colectiva

Facilitadora: Andrea Vargas, LMFT

En este clima político, donde nuestras comunidades están siendo aterrorizadas, el cuidado de sí mismo es importante parte de la resistencia. Te invito a un espacio seguro para procesar y conectar con nuestra rabia sagrada y utilizar herramientas para sostener nuestra salud emocional y el apoyo a nuestra gente.

🗓 Thursday, March 19 at 6pm PST
Topic: Trauma, Oppression & Healing: Reclaiming Our Calm & Understanding Anxiety in a World of Uncertainty

Facilitator: Jesus Solorio, LMFT

This is is a community-centered workshop that explores anxiety as a natural response to stress, uncertainty, and oppressive systems. Through grounding practices, reflection, and cultural wisdom, participants learn to understand the cycles of anxiety, reconnect with their mind, body, and spirit, and access healing tools rooted in collective care, ancestral practices, and healing justice. The workshop invites participants to reclaim calm, strengthen resilience, and remember that healing is both personal and communal.

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Which Rapid Response Network are you part of?

Please select a workshop to attend:

Sunday, March 8 at 10:00 AM PST: Nervous System Relief

Viernes, 13 de marzo a las 11:00 AM PST: Riendo, Llorando, y Sanando: Rabia Colectiva

Thursday, March 19 at 6pm PST: Trauma, Oppression & Healing: Reclaiming Our Calm & Understanding Anxiety in a World of Uncertainty

Any questions in general?

Any questions you'd like answered during the workshop about the topic? (This will be given to your facilitator).

While facilitators are licensed mental health professionals, they are acting in an educational capacity only during these sessions. By checking this box, you understand that these workshops do not establish a therapist-client relationship with any of the facilitators. Please visit the directory to find a therapist: latinxtherapy.com/find or email us.

If you need to cancel your attendance, please let us know. Thank you!

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