Feb 27-March 1st Virtual Xinachtli Youth Rights of Passage Facilitator Training
February 27, 2023 @ 9:00AM — March 1, 2023 @ 5:00PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Xinachtli (Nahuatl for germinating seed) is a gender-responsive, culturally-based rites of passage philosophy, process, and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience, and leadership capacity of Chicana, Latina and Indigenous girls and gender expansive youth. The philosophy and curriculum supports the reframing of a new narrative of transformation healing and advocacy rooted in a gender, racial justice, anti-oppression framework. The Xinachtli curriculum provides a dialectic process of: • Reflexión (reflection) • Concientización (critical consciousness) • Creación (creation) • Acción (action)
All trained participants will be certified in the Xinachtli Rites of Passage curriculum. This 3 day training will support facilitators in their life-skills work with girls and gender expansive youth. The Xinachtli training prepares facilitators to provide a supportive process for young girls and gender expansive youth to develop a positive identity, self advocacy skills, and a leadership skills based on indigenous principals of the individual’s interconnectedness to the family, the community and the nation.
This registration fee includes:
- Curriculum Manual
- Program Handouts (Hardcopy and Electronic)
- Pre and Post Evaluations
- Two years of Technical Assistance and Support
- 21 hours of Training
- Access to retreats and gathering
Email Sara Haskie-Mendoza at shm@xinachtligirls.com to inquire about the scholarship application. Scholarships MUST be approved prior to registration.
Training will be delivered via Zoom.