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Creating safe spaces for our clients can be tricky–especially when times are difficult for us, too. In this live-recorded class, Cynthia Santiago-Borbón offers a ton of helpful, practical insights. She describes how we can authentically create a sacred container to hold space for others right now. She offers ways to figure out what our core values are, including questions to ask ourselves that might help us to shift, grow, and transform our beliefs. Cynthia teaches the importance of helping others trust their own wisdom instead of being a guru or authority, how to know which parts of our personal stories are healed enough to be shared with others, and introduces us to a "both-and" strategy to hold sacred space for people with whom we might not share a values system.

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Video Details:

⌛ 55 minutes

🎤 Recorded class-style format

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TEACHER

Cynthia Santiago-Borbón

Pronouns: She/her/ella

Based in: New York City, NY, USA & Puerto Rico

With over two decades of expertise in the mental health and wellness space, Cynthia Santiago-Borbón, a clinically trained therapist, healer, and Priestess of Obatala, trains other clinicians, transformational workers, coaches, leaders, and healers to reclaim their spirituality, their wisdom traditions, and their lives so that they can be the healers and the leaders that our world needs at this moment.

Cynthia’s multi-disciplinary, culturally informed, spiritual approach has always been deeply rooted in liberation, equity, and anti-oppression. She provides personal and professional development services including private coaching, clinical supervision, group coaching, workshops, and retreats for other practitioners and leaders that want to decolonize their work and businesses and ensure that they are not replicating harmful, oppressive practices within their lives, with their clients, and in their work.

Cynthia has been featured in numerous media outlets and organizations including USA Today, New York Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Women's Day, Bustle, Byrdie, NBC, Squarespace, Columbia University, and the NASW.

While Cynthia has formal training and certifications across numerous modalities and disciplines, she credits her powerful and transformative approach to healing, growth, and personal and entrepreneurial development to the wisdom of her African and Indigenous Ancestors and to the Orishas that have guided her journey. Cynthia has a Master of Social Work from Fordham University, and a B.A. from Hamilton College and certifications across related fields.