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Indigo Cultural Center

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Root

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Seed

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Come join Indigo Cultural Center and the Sankofa Project for our September Visionary Speaker Series Workshop with Enjolie Lafaurie &amp; Maria Del Carmen Parra Cano of the Cihuapactli Collective!&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.cihuapactlicollective.org" id="isPasted" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">www.cihuapactlicollective.org</a> Workshop Title: &nbsp;Ecosystems of Healing -- Cultural revitalization &amp; healing justice for community wellbeing Workshop Date/Time:&nbsp;Thursday, September 17 from 10am-1pm Pacific | 11am-2pm Mountain | 12-3pm Central | 1-4pm Eastern | 5-8pm UTC Workshop Description:Healing justice is the foundation of the Cihuapactli Collective&#39;s work and is woven throughout every aspect of our Ecosystem of Healing. Rather than approaching healing as a single program, we integrate healing justice across our four bundles&mdash;Cultural Revitalization &amp; Education, Food Justice &amp; Land Restoration, Birth Equity &amp; Reproductive Justice, and Mental Health &amp; Integrative Wellness&mdash;to address the historical, cultural, social, spiritual, and structural conditions that impact Urban Indigenous families and communities of color.&nbsp; Join us as we discuss working with families in ways that weave the creation of culturally grounded spaces where community members reconnect with Traditional Knowledge, ceremony, language, ancestral foods, and collective care while strengthening protective factors that promote long-term health, healing, and wellbeing. Our Tonalpahqui Community Mental Health Support Program provides culturally responsive mental health support services through talking circles, Wellbriety programming, peer support, traditional healing practices, grief support, and community wellness gatherings. In conjunction, our Birth &amp; Reproductive Justice work expands our healing practices to include birther blessing ceremonies, postpartum cultural support, and coming-of-age ceremonies that honor significant life transitions while reconnecting families to Indigenous traditions and community support.&nbsp; This approach to family health and wellness recognizes that lasting community wellbeing requires more than individual healing&mdash;it requires transforming the systems and relationships that perpetuate harm while strengthening accountability, cultural identity, and community leadership. Together, these efforts continue to build community power, strengthen cultural identity, restore relationships, expand economic opportunity, and advance a vision of justice in which Indigenous families, women of color, transgender and gender-diverse relatives, and future generations can thrive with dignity, belonging, cultural continuity, and self-determination. If live Spanish interpretation would support your full engagement, we ask that you request this on the registration page prior to September 11th. PS- the event will not be recorded. Speaker Bios:<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1786749351/wysiwyg/gm2a5ss2p5bz5onzphcd.jpg" style="width: 140px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 140px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Dr. Enjolie Lafaurie, Psychologist, and Nonprofit Co-Founder&nbsp; Enjolie is a grandmother, widow, psychologist, hypnotherapist, womb-to-tomb comadre, celebrant, owner of Inspired Therapies, LLC, and co-creator of the Death Comadre Curriculum. Born in Southern California, she is AfroIndigena Maya &amp; Arawak from Cuban and Guatemalan descent. As a former faculty developer and professor specializing in the Psychology of Gender and Culture, her degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Southern California are in counseling psychology, emphasizing multiculturalism. Dr. Lafaurie&rsquo;s passion for cultures led to teaching in Tanzania, Africa, in 2005, on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other culturally bound practices. In 2007, Enjolie became a certified hypnotherapist, and in 2014, received training in mindfulness and biofeedback at New Mexico State University. Since transitioning out of academia, Enjolie has woven her varied experiences in academia, as a business owner, researcher, and educator within the nonprofit sector. She now focuses on her roles as Co-Founder, Comadre of Community Wellness &amp; Development, and Comadre of Tonalpahqui, for the Cihuapactli Collective, a non-profit organization supporting urban Indigenous families&#39; reconnection to ancestral knowledge. She also serves as the City of Phoenix District 7 Representative on the Human Services Commission. As a bilingual professional in English and Spanish, Dr. Lafaurie is a regular contributor to podcasts, is called on for speaking engagements, and, as a consultant providing leadership and counsel to a variety of boards and organizations, for example, as the former Vice President of the National Association for Certified Death Midwives. Her most recent writings have been included in the book titled Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection, and Healing, in the Non-Profit Quarterly, and as a guest on MSNBC&#39;s Velshi Across America. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1786749154/wysiwyg/ortmqncfcvnjr67hz5cy.jpg" style="width: 140px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 140px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px; text-align: left; max-width: calc(100% - 5px); float: left;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Maria Del Carmen Parra Cano (Maria or Carmen)Executive Director, Cultural Steward &amp; Co-founder of the Cihuapactli CollectiveMaria is an Indigenous woman born in Phoenix, Arizona, with her lineages stemming from the Acolhua, original Peoples from Texcoco, Mexico &amp; Raramuri Peoples from Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua. Maria was raised in Phoenix, Arizona in Barrio Garfield, along with her 7 siblings. She is a community organizer and activist at heart. Maria has experience in program development, grant writing, finance, evaluation, and implementation of social service programs for over 25 years. Maria received her undergraduate degree from Arizona State University in Non-Profit Administration &amp; Sociology, her MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Grand Canyon University, and a culinary arts degree from Scottsdale Culinary Institute - Le Cordon Bleu.Maria has birthed social entrepreneurship wings while also birthing 4 little ones with her husband, Brian Cano. Maria is not only a mother, but she is a wife, sister, aunt, community organizer, danzante y mujer de ceremonia as part of the Calpoalli Tlacahuatzin and other ceremonial circles for the past 30 years. Maria has been sharing traditional knowledge &amp; cultural education through food, dance, birthwork, and traditional medicine.&nbsp; Maria is a regenerative farmer/co-founder of the Food Forest Cooperative at Spaces of Opportunity in South Phoenix. Maria has also practiced traditional medicine, specific to her Acolhua lineage, over the past 30 years. Maria has been named a partera ancestral and a spiritual guardian of the Mexica tradition by her elders of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Maria is an Ancestral Foods Chef, Indigenous Lactation Educator, birth, death &amp; postpartum CoMadrita/Birthworker, flower essence specialist, and traditional babywearing &amp; rebozo use educator.&nbsp; In 2020, Maria was recognized as a Master in Ancestral/Indigenous Foodways through the Southwest Folklife Alliance.<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.tempe.gov/home/showdocument?id=85616&fbclid=IwAR0Sss1eoQK9UrUTAfR4K94kGCO3UgQrni9sLpmpNXNeJj8Toy8Q7kDi5vs" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">&nbsp;Recognized in the Arizona Indigenous Foodways Yearbook for 2020</a>, trained in the Traditional Native American Farmers Association Sustainable Communities Design Course, featured on<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/11/18/exp-human-factor-maria-parra-cano.cnn?fbclid=IwAR0aRhbhNqNLrAjgSqfw4f5xpH2tlRQ8pQU7mJCPqj1FTTTWRFVXIJl0wnU" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">&nbsp;CNN</a>, local<a fr-original-style="" href="https://borderlore.org/my-mothers-sauces/" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">&nbsp;articles</a>,<a fr-original-style="" href="https://youtu.be/H_FDUQ-KEWM" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">&nbsp;documentaries</a>, and<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/download/1047/1017/2065" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">&nbsp;journals</a> around Indigenous Foodways &amp; Food equity in South Phoenix. Maria launched a course at Arizona State University focused on Ancestral/Indigenous Foods. Maria has also represented Indigenous Birthworkers &amp; Midwives for the past 3 years at the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues at the United Nations with the Continental Alliance of Traditional and Indigenous Midwives of the Americas.&nbsp; Maria&#39;s work is a restorative movement aimed at healing Indigenous communities, assisting plant relatives in reversing diseases like diabetes &amp; hypertension, healing our bodies from birth, using food as medicine, and paying tribute to her mother. Maria has been recognized as an ancestral knowledge guardian and ceremonial leader by her elders in Mexico &amp; in Arizona. Maria is grateful for the teachings and trust she has received from Elders, Comadres, and relationships with Indigenous Peoples from around the globe.

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1786749803/wysiwyg/rtj4hh43mmkzkahbzcwa.jpg" style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: inherit;" fr-original-style="width: 600px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 196); overflow-wrap: anywhere; -webkit-user-select: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: inherit;">First name, Thank you for registering for our upcoming Visionary Speaker Series workshop with the Cihuapactli Collective! Ecosystems of Healing:&nbsp;Cultural Revitalization &amp;&nbsp;Healing Justice&nbsp;for Community Wellbeing Your registration not only gives you access to the virtual workshop, it also supports the ongoing sustainability of our Indigo Visionary Speaker Series. Please save the day and time on your calendar; we will send out the Zoom link a couple of days prior to the workshop. If you have any questions, please reach out to <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:sankofa@indigoculturalcenter.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">sankofa@indigoculturalcenter.com</a>.&nbsp; In Community,Indigo Cultural Center PS: Spanish language interpretation will be available if requested at least a week before the workshop. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Come join Indigo Cultural Center and the Sankofa Project for our September Visionary Speaker Series Workshop with Enjolie Lafaurie &amp; Maria Del Carmen Parra Cano of the Cihuapactli Collective! <a href="http://www.cihuapactlicollective.org" target="_blank">www.cihuapactlicollective.org</a> Workshop Title:  Ecosystems of Healing -- Cultural revitalization &amp; healing justice for community wellbeing Workshop Date/Time: Thursday, September 17 from 10am-1pm Pacific | 11am-2pm Mountain | 12-3pm Central | 1-4pm Eastern | 5-8pm UTC Workshop Description:Healing justice is the foundation of the Cihuapactli Collective's work and is woven throughout every aspect of our Ecosystem of Healing. Rather than approaching healing as a single program, we integrate healing justice across our four bundles—Cultural Revitalization &amp; Education, Food Justice &amp; Land Restoration, Birth Equity &amp; Reproductive Justice, and Mental Health &amp; Integrative Wellness—to address the historical, cultural, social, spiritual, and structural conditions that impact Urban Indigenous families and communities of color.  Join us as we discuss working with families in ways that weave the creation of culturally grounded spaces where community members reconnect with Traditional Knowledge, ceremony, language, ancestral foods, and collective care while strengthening protective factors that promote long-term health, healing, and wellbeing. Our Tonalpahqui Community Mental Health Support Program provides culturally responsive mental health support services through talking circles, Wellbriety programming, peer support, traditional healing practices, grief support, and community wellness gatherings. In conjunction, our Birth &amp; Reproductive Justice work expands our healing practices to include birther blessing ceremonies, postpartum cultural support, and coming-of-age ceremonies that honor significant life transitions while reconnecting families to Indigenous traditions and community support.  This approach to family health and wellness recognizes that lasting community wellbeing requires more than individual healing—it requires transforming the systems and relationships that perpetuate harm while strengthening accountability, cultural identity, and community leadership. Together, these efforts continue to build community power, strengthen cultural identity, restore relationships, expand economic opportunity, and advance a vision of justice in which Indigenous families, women of color, transgender and gender-diverse relatives, and future generations can thrive with dignity, belonging, cultural continuity, and self-determination. If live Spanish interpretation would support your full engagement, we ask that you request this on the registration page prior to September 11th. PS- the event will not be recorded. Speaker Bios:<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1786749351/wysiwyg/gm2a5ss2p5bz5onzphcd.jpg" style="width:140px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:bottom;margin:5px 15px 5px 0px;text-align:left;float:left;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;position:relative;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" />Dr. Enjolie Lafaurie, Psychologist, and Nonprofit Co-Founder  Enjolie is a grandmother, widow, psychologist, hypnotherapist, womb-to-tomb comadre, celebrant, owner of Inspired Therapies, LLC, and co-creator of the Death Comadre Curriculum. Born in Southern California, she is AfroIndigena Maya &amp; Arawak from Cuban and Guatemalan descent. As a former faculty developer and professor specializing in the Psychology of Gender and Culture, her degrees from Arizona State University and the University of Southern California are in counseling psychology, emphasizing multiculturalism. Dr. Lafaurie’s passion for cultures led to teaching in Tanzania, Africa, in 2005, on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other culturally bound practices. In 2007, Enjolie became a certified hypnotherapist, and in 2014, received training in mindfulness and biofeedback at New Mexico State University. Since transitioning out of academia, Enjolie has woven her varied experiences in academia, as a business owner, researcher, and educator within the nonprofit sector. She now focuses on her roles as Co-Founder, Comadre of Community Wellness &amp; Development, and Comadre of Tonalpahqui, for the Cihuapactli Collective, a non-profit organization supporting urban Indigenous families' reconnection to ancestral knowledge. She also serves as the City of Phoenix District 7 Representative on the Human Services Commission. As a bilingual professional in English and Spanish, Dr. Lafaurie is a regular contributor to podcasts, is called on for speaking engagements, and, as a consultant providing leadership and counsel to a variety of boards and organizations, for example, as the former Vice President of the National Association for Certified Death Midwives. Her most recent writings have been included in the book titled Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection, and Healing, in the Non-Profit Quarterly, and as a guest on MSNBC's Velshi Across America. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1786749154/wysiwyg/ortmqncfcvnjr67hz5cy.jpg" style="width:140px;display:inline-block;vertical-align:bottom;margin:5px 15px 5px 0px;text-align:left;float:left;cursor:pointer;padding:0px 1px;-webkit-user-select:none;position:relative;box-sizing:inherit;max-width:100%" />Maria Del Carmen Parra Cano (Maria or Carmen)Executive Director, Cultural Steward &amp; Co-founder of the Cihuapactli CollectiveMaria is an Indigenous woman born in Phoenix, Arizona, with her lineages stemming from the Acolhua, original Peoples from Texcoco, Mexico &amp; Raramuri Peoples from Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua. Maria was raised in Phoenix, Arizona in Barrio Garfield, along with her 7 siblings. She is a community organizer and activist at heart. Maria has experience in program development, grant writing, finance, evaluation, and implementation of social service programs for over 25 years. Maria received her undergraduate degree from Arizona State University in Non-Profit Administration &amp; Sociology, her MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Grand Canyon University, and a culinary arts degree from Scottsdale Culinary Institute - Le Cordon Bleu.Maria has birthed social entrepreneurship wings while also birthing 4 little ones with her husband, Brian Cano. Maria is not only a mother, but she is a wife, sister, aunt, community organizer, danzante y mujer de ceremonia as part of the Calpoalli Tlacahuatzin and other ceremonial circles for the past 30 years. Maria has been sharing traditional knowledge &amp; cultural education through food, dance, birthwork, and traditional medicine.  Maria is a regenerative farmer/co-founder of the Food Forest Cooperative at Spaces of Opportunity in South Phoenix. Maria has also practiced traditional medicine, specific to her Acolhua lineage, over the past 30 years. Maria has been named a partera ancestral and a spiritual guardian of the Mexica tradition by her elders of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Maria is an Ancestral Foods Chef, Indigenous Lactation Educator, birth, death &amp; postpartum CoMadrita/Birthworker, flower essence specialist, and traditional babywearing &amp; rebozo use educator.  In 2020, Maria was recognized as a Master in Ancestral/Indigenous Foodways through the Southwest Folklife Alliance.<a href="https://www.tempe.gov/home/showdocument?id=85616&amp;fbclid=IwAR0Sss1eoQK9UrUTAfR4K94kGCO3UgQrni9sLpmpNXNeJj8Toy8Q7kDi5vs" target="_blank"> Recognized in the Arizona Indigenous Foodways Yearbook for 2020</a>, trained in the Traditional Native American Farmers Association Sustainable Communities Design Course, featured on<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/11/18/exp-human-factor-maria-parra-cano.cnn?fbclid=IwAR0aRhbhNqNLrAjgSqfw4f5xpH2tlRQ8pQU7mJCPqj1FTTTWRFVXIJl0wnU" target="_blank"> CNN</a>, local<a href="https://borderlore.org/my-mothers-sauces/" target="_blank"> articles</a>,<a href="https://youtu.be/H_FDUQ-KEWM" target="_blank"> documentaries</a>, and<a href="https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/download/1047/1017/2065" target="_blank"> journals</a> around Indigenous Foodways &amp; Food equity in South Phoenix. Maria launched a course at Arizona State University focused on Ancestral/Indigenous Foods. Maria has also represented Indigenous Birthworkers &amp; Midwives for the past 3 years at the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues at the United Nations with the Continental Alliance of Traditional and Indigenous Midwives of the Americas.  Maria's work is a restorative movement aimed at healing Indigenous communities, assisting plant relatives in reversing diseases like diabetes &amp; hypertension, healing our bodies from birth, using food as medicine, and paying tribute to her mother. Maria has been recognized as an ancestral knowledge guardian and ceremonial leader by her elders in Mexico &amp; in Arizona. Maria is grateful for the teachings and trust she has received from Elders, Comadres, and relationships with Indigenous Peoples from around the globe.