Workshop title: Elevating Eldest Daughters: Navigating Expectations and Finding Healing as the First in our Families 

Session Description:

This session is tailored to center the experiences, health, and healing of university students who are the eldest daughters in their families. As eldest or only daughters, there are often unique challenges, burdens, and labor placed on the eldest to perform, caretaker, and hold up the family system. 

We will explore the unique experiences, pressures, and opportunities that come with being the eldest daughter and provide a safe and supportive space for exploring healing and personal growth, with a special attention to the experiences of eldest daughters of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and immigrant families. 

Session Objectives:

1. Understanding the Unique Challenges:

• Gain insight into the specific challenges and expectations often faced by eldest daughters in various cultural, racial, and familial contexts.

• Recognize how these challenges can impact emotional well-being and self-esteem.

2. Developing Self-Care and Healing Strategies:

• Learn practical self-care techniques tailored to the needs of eldest daughters, including setting boundaries and managing expectations and stress.

• Explore the importance of self-compassion and its role in maintaining mental and emotional health.

3. Fostering Empowerment:

• Discover strategies for transforming challenges into opportunities and fostering self-confidence.

• Explore ways to pursue personal passions and goals while fulfilling familial and societal responsibilities.

4. Building a Supportive Network:

• Identify the importance of seeking and providing support within and outside the family structure.

• Learn how to create and nurture a supportive community with like-minded individuals for ongoing encouragement and shared growth.

Registration is open!

Join the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA) on May 8 – 9, 2024, for our free, virtual conference, Creating Transformative Systems!

Our conference aims to unite stakeholders from diverse sectors to help prevent sexual violence and build collaborative, resilient systems of support for survivors, with a special focus on those with historically marginalized identities who often face increased instances of sexual violence and barriers to accessing care.

The event features a guided conversation with New York Times bestselling author and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem and a combination of panels and workshops led by experts in the anti-sexual violence movement and allied sectors.

Plus, in partnership with the Center on Research for Ending Violence at the Rutgers University School of Social Work, we are excited to offer 10 continuing education units (CEUs) to conference attendees at a highly discounted rate.

Register here!
https://lnkd.in/eCwu5yBe

Thursday May 9, 2024

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM

Transformative HR: Envisioning New Ways of Building Safe and Affirming Workspaces

This workshop offers a space for participants to explore healing from workplace trauma and harm. Through discussion and experiential exercises, we'll delve into recognizing the signs of trauma and burnout in the workplace, and explore strategies that support cultivating self-awareness, and establishing healthy boundaries. 

About Yoo-Jin Kang:

She is the eldest daughter of Korean immigrants, the eldest sister to Fran, and a trainer, astrologer, and healing justice practitioner with over 10 years of experience combining anti-racist equity principles, public health, and trauma-informed care into her work. She is on the leadership team for the Wellness and Healing Justice Jam and has been a jammer since 2018. Currently, Yoo-Jin is pursuing her Master of Public Health at UC Berkeley, where she studies racism as a social determinant of health. Yoo-Jin combines her experience as a healing practitioner, first-generation immigrant, and survivor, weaving mind-body modalities and anti-racist practices into her work. You can learn more about her work at www.ykangconsulting.com  

Date: April 3, 2024

Duration: 90 Minutes

Time: Time: 09:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET | 09:30 India

Suggested Donation: $10 - $ 40

RSVP: Register here!

Care Through the Stars Virtual Workshop

Join me for a workshop on how you can utilize astrology to cultivate deeper care for yourself and the community you love. We will do a deeper dive on how your moon, venus, and mercury placements inform your care languages and how you like to receive care. This workshop is offered through a gift economy- all are welcome whether you are new or experienced in your astro-knowledge!

*Note, this workshop will be recorded*

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Preparation:

✨Come prepared with your birthchart (https://chart.chaninicholas.com, https://astro-charts.com/tools/new/birth-chart)

✨If you'd like, bring something to take notes and stay present for our hour together

✨Learn more about my offerings here: https://www.ykangconsulting.com

Astrology as a Portal to Prototyping Care Ecosystems // Two-Part Virtual Series with Yoo-Jin Kang

Too often, capitalist and ableist practices of urgency stifle possibilities for communal care to emerge within our workplaces, our communities, even our social movements. What can the wisdom of astrology teach us about our relationship to care amid systems of oppression? How can it act as a portal to a world in which we are all free? Join our November Care Pod Series, where healing justice practitioner Yoo-Jin Kang will guide us through using astrology as a tool in prototyping care ecosystems, toward interdependence and togetherness.

We invite you to join both gatherings or one, choosing which focus feels most relevant for you. These experiences are virtual, free, and open to people practicing (or curious about) Design Justice and Design Justice Principles. DJN Membership and previous attendance are not required. Design Justice Principles will be weaved into each gathering and we will invite discussions that connect us back to creative, collaborative ways of working and being.

CARE CIRCLE
November 6, 2023 / 6 - 8:30PM EDT
In this Care Circle, we will gently enter the topic of care ecosystems through the lens of astrology and our Moon signs. With curiosity and compassion, we will illuminate the parts of ourselves that we keep hidden, as a way of opening up more doors to giving and receiving care—tending to our shadows, letting in the light. Through guided prompts and exercises, we will learn more about our care languages and styles and how we can be in community with ourselves—our gifts, our burdens, our triggers—as we design systems of care that can hold and sustain our external communities as well.

REGISTER FOR THE CARE CIRCLE

PRACTICE SPACE
November 18, 2023 / 1 - 3:30PM EDT
In this Practice Space, we will deepen into an embodied exploration of our care lineages, in relation to our Moon signs and care styles. We will harness a range of creative prompts and activities to prototype care ecosystems based on the gifts, intuitions, and lived experiences we each have to offer. As we weave present realities—exploitative and oppressive systems, isolation and alienation, our own wounds—with future possibilities, we understand community as something that must be built. We remember care as something we do intentionally and with loving discipline. Join us in dreaming of new worlds and ways of being that we can enact right now, while putting down seeds of care that may only bloom beyond our own lifetimes.

For this gathering, please have creative making materials available, if accessible to you, such as paper, markers, pens, and any additional supplies that bring you joy.

REGISTER FOR THE PRACTICE SPACE

This is for you if…

• You’re feeling isolated, depleted, or demoralized in your work to bring healing and design justice principles into your practice.

• You’re breaking cycles of internalized oppression and intergenerational trauma within your workplace, organization, family, or elsewhere.

• You’re interested in expanding your capacity to give and receive care, as part of an interdependent network, a community of collective struggle.

Practitioner Bio
Yoo-Jin Kang (she/her) is a healing justice practitioner with roots in trauma-informed yoga, mindfulness-based healing modalities, astrology, and Reiki. Her day work includes executive coaching, anti-racist consulting practice, and program creation and facilitation. Yoo-Jin blends her experience in violence prevention, trauma healing, and collective liberation practices to center the healing of the most impacted, with a special focus on BIPOC women in our workplaces and communities. Yoo-Jin is based in the Washington DC area and enjoys being by the water, re-watching her favorite Studio Ghibli films, and rollerskating during her free time!

Access Supports

• ASL interpretation

• Auto-captioning via Zoom Recording, with options for asynchronous participation

• Visual descriptions by speakers

• Emotional Support available during the gathering

• Tech support

• Scheduled breaks throughout the two and a half hours

• Show up as you are: feel free to take additional breaks, have camera on or off, move around your space, etc.

General Gathering Flow

• Opening & Landing

• Check-In Conversations

• Topic Explorations with Guest Practitioner

• Break

• Group Discussions

• Announcements & Closing

You can learn more about our DJN Care Pod at https://designjustice.org/djn-care-pod 

BIPOC Solidarity and Unlearning White Supremacy Culture

As Black, Indigenous and people of color in philanthropy, you’ve likely witnessed in yourself and others’ actions and tendencies that uphold and perpetuate white dominant culture in the workplace. Rather than distancing activities or blaming mindsets, this session of EPIP’s people of color network will explore how we can build solidarity and greater trust with other BIPOC colleagues that can contribute to a more liberatory approach to our work. Join Yoo-Jin Kang for a two-hour guided dialogue and healing session where you will: gain perspective and clarity on internalized white supremacy characteristics, discuss what makes it challenging to name and confront these with other BIPOC colleagues and practice healing modalities for connecting with more liberatory visions for leadership and relationships. 

This session is tailored for EPIP members who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color.  This session will address the impact of racial trauma and burnout amongst BIPOC people in the workplace and address commonly shared experiences such as navigating imposter syndrome, navigating micro and macroaggressions, and healing from and disrupting internalized racism and white supremacy culture (in others and ourselves). Participants will gain tangible self-care tools and frameworks that can support burnout and racial trauma recovery, as well as tools for interrupting and transforming white supremacy characteristics in the workplace. 

EPIP Communities of Practice are designed for EPIP members. Not a member yet? Visit our membership page to learn more and join this community of equity-minded changemakers. 

Questions about our communities of practice? Reach out to programs@epip.org. 

We look forward to connecting with this robust community!

💜 STAY IN, CHECK IN 💜
Join AMHP for a FREE community wellness circle and learning session…

⚡️With: Yoo-Jin Kang, Healing Justice Practitioner, DEI Coach, Training Astrologer
⚡️Topic: Integrating Astrology for Self and Community Care
⚡️When: WEDNESDAY 5/17 5:30PM PST/8:30PM EST

Invites are sent out by 3:30PM PST on Wednesday!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yoo-Jin Kang (she/hers) is a first-generation Korean-American with over 10 years weaving healing practices, trauma-informed care, and mindfulness into her areas of work. Yoo-Jin's background spans the worlds of intercultural communication, anti-racism in practice, public health, violence prevention, and healing justice, with a specific focus on first-generation immigrants and communities of color. She is a 200-hour certified yoga instructor, and Reiki energy healer, and is currently pursuing a certification in alchemical astrology as well as her Master of Public Health at UC Berkeley. You can learn more about Yoo-Jin at www.yoojinkang.com

Recognizing and Healing through Secondary Trauma & Burnout within the Corporate Social Impact Field

This session is tailored to help professionals in the Corporate Social Impact field address the impact of secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, and further, integrate an intersectional and anti-racist analysis to fieldwork. Participants will leave with a clear definition of trauma and burnout and have learned tangible self-care tools and frameworks that can support burnout and trauma recovery.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the prevalence of trauma and how this connects to the Corporate Social Impact field

• Identify the differences between compassion fatigue/secondary trauma and burnout

• Explore the critical need for intersectionality and an anti-racist framework within the Corporate Social Impact field

• Learn how trauma-informed principles and radical self-care ties into fostering individual and organizational resilience

Healing from Workplace Trauma- Bleeker Collective

• Tuesday, July 19, 2022

• Google Calendar ICS

It has been estimated that the average person in the United States will spend one-third of their life at work. The workplace, like any community setting, can bring challenging interpersonal and systemic dynamics that can traumatize and harm employees. This workshop will help participants identify the ways trauma shows up in the workplace and will offer tangible steps towards a pathway to healing.
After this workshop, participants will be able to…

• Obtain a working knowledge of trauma and intersectionality

• Identify trauma symptoms and how they show up in the workplace

• Articulate the difference between self-care and radical self-care in both the workplace and beyond

2022 Annual Michigan Higher Education Network Conference June 17, 2022 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Keynote Speaker:

We are here to see another through: Cultivating Trauma informed & Recovery-Centered Communities

▪ Qualifies for 1.5 Specific MCBAP Education Contact Hours Yoo-Jin Kang, Senior Training & Technical Assistance Specialist, Futures Without Violence

This keynote will specifically focus on the critical need to integrate trauma-informed practices into recovery and substance misuse prevention initiatives for college and college-aged students. Students in recovery, whether from addiction, trauma, eating disorders, and more, are often treated one condition at a time. Intersectionality reminds us that students are full people living with multiple identities and intersecting strengths, challenges, and traumas, and thus, require holistic and trauma-informed paths to healing.

This keynote will combine large group lectures, interactive large-group activities, and small group breakouts. Participants will leave understanding the definitions of trauma and addiction, the impact of trauma and the COVID-19 pandemic on recovery and substance misuse, as well as the overarching connections of diversity, equity, and inclusion in recovery work.

Objectives:

1. Recognize the prevalence of trauma and addiction.

2. Examine the relationship and interconnections of trauma and substance misuse & addiction.

3. Recall the critical need for intersectionality when discussing trauma and recovery.

4. Learn how trauma-informed principles, recovery, and radical self-care ties into fostering diverse, equitable and inclusive communities.

Register Here.

About the Event

Please join us in co-creating this space to process recent Anti-Asian behavior, its implications throughout the community, intersectionality, and why IDEAS is more important than ever. We will be hosting a panel of speakers to discuss their lived and learned experiences to broaden our understanding of the topic and how we can all be part of the solution.

Webinar: Building Resilience – Practical Tools for Supporting Survivors’ Mental Health in the Workplace

A two-part webinar series that explores practical and accessible tools for supporting survivors’ mental health in the workplace hosted by Yoo-Jin Kang and Carolyne Ouya, Senior Training Specialists.

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Creating Trauma-Informed & Recovery-Centered Healing Spaces

This session will address holistic and accessible ways to create trauma-informed and recovery-centered healing spaces. We will discuss how different forms of trauma, including racial trauma, impact both instructors and students in the classroom and the critical need for intersectional frameworks when discussing topics related to wellness, trauma, and recovery. 

There will be opportunities for visioning in both large and small group activities as we dive into real-world case studies. 

In this session, we will learn:

• The prevalence of trauma and addiction- and why this matters to yoga teachers, healers, and students.

• The critical need for intersectionality when discussing trauma and recovery.

• Recognizing and identifying trauma responses interpersonally and within the classroom

• How trauma-informed principles, recovery, and radical self-care ties into creating equitable and inclusive healing spaces on and off the mat

• Tangible tools for incorporating these principles into your teaching and interactions.

Collaboration with American University’s Public Health Association & Mutual aid fund.