Nepantlah 2024-2025
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
We will be sharing the basic principles of self love and self care and how they are deeply interwoven with community care.
We will be working from my book Badass Bonita and Audre Lorde and bell hooks’ work: two revolutionary Black queer authors and advocates.
Self care and self love are essential during these times. It is important to practice both and important to know the difference. Both are imperative to how we show up and care for our community. This is the only way forward. This is how we will build, organize, and heal as a collective. We need to learn to show up for ourselves and for our community in effective and consistent ways.
During these times especially, self love and self care will allow participants to be self aware, set boundaries, prevent burnout, attune to their purpose, enhance confidence, increase self regulation, and allow them to show up in a more present manner for themselves, their clients, and their community. This will in turn create a more solid sense of self, connectedness, and foster a more sustainable work-life balance.
This session will invite participants to reflect on ways in which they intentionally care for themselves, love themselves, and their community. We will leave with a renewed sense of clarity, commitment, and purpose. This will support therapists as individuals, provide them with tools to support their clients, and connect us as a collective.
Session Objectives:
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
Understand and apply concepts of self love and self care as a tool for personal wellbeing and professional well-being.
Develop a deeper sense of self and purpose pertaining to how they will show up with their clients and community.
Use self love and care as a therapeutic tool that will provide insight, attunement, and deepened awareness in an individual and systemic environments.
Provide a clear strategy for integrating self love and care as a means for collective care and liberation.
Learning Outcomes:
Feel empowered and inspired to integrate to guide clients from a place of confidence, deeper sense of purpose, alignment, and greater awareness.
Create personalized self care routines that address their emotional, mental, and physical needs.
Explore the relationship between personal wellbeing and community liberation and how they are interconnected.
Participants will learn how to engage in community activism that fosters collective liberation while prioritizing their own well-being.
Bio:
Kim Guerra is a queer woman of color. She is a butterfly woman who has given herself wings. She is a writer, advocate, and entrepreneur. Guerra is the creator of Badass x Bonita, a brand and movement that she considers to be a work of self-love and her love for her community. Guerra is the author of “Mariposa” and “Mija”: collections of bilingual poems, affirmations, and revolutionary love letters. Badass Bonita is for all humans who are giving themselves and their community wings through revolutionary love.
She was born and raised in LA county’s San Fernando Valley. Kim graduated from Cornell University and received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University in Seattle. She’s currently based in Oaxaca and planting seeds around the world.
