Xinachtli Rites of Passage Los Angeles Training
May 7, 2024 @ 8:30AM — May 9, 2024 @ 4:30PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Eastside Cafe: 5469 Huntington Dr N Los Angeles, CA 90032 Get Directions

Xinachtli Rites of Passage Facilitator Certification + Mental Health First Aid Training
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.
- Curriculum Manual
- Program Handouts (Hardcopy and Electronic)
- Pre and Post Evaluations
- Two years of Technical Assistance
- 21 hours of Training
- Membership to our national network XCNC
- Monthly Online Circulo with TA
No Scholarships are available at this time