Girls Ages
12-15
with priority for youth living in Riverside + San Bernardino Counties
July 19th - 22nd
Wednesday - Saturday
12pm - 4pm
Corazón Counseling
3742 Tibbetts Street
Suite #201
Riverside, CA 92506
Limited Space
Facilitated by Emilia Ortega-Jara and Lisset Mendez
Xinachtli is a gender-responsive, culturally based rites of passage process and curriculum that promotes the healing and leadership capacity of
Indigenous, Chicanx/Latinx adolescent girls.
Xinachtli Summer Youth Circles Will Include:
🌿 Cultural Arts
🌿 Danza Azteca + Cantos
🌿 Talking Circle
🌿 Ceremony + Ritual
🌿 Connection + Mentoring
🌿 All art supplies provided
🌿 Lunch + Refreshments
Topics Include:
🌿 Healthy Relationships, Communication + Maintaining Self -Respect
🌿 Moontime / Reproductive Health Education
🌿 Substance Abuse Prevention
🌿 Cultural Identity Development
🌿 Visioning + Goal Setting
🌿 Advocacy + Community Organizing
 | Emilia Ortega-Jara, LCSW is a Xicana psychotherapist in private practice, with over 25 years’ experience working in the mental health field. Emilia highlights the importance of culture, ceremony, and ritual throughout the work she facilitates with both youth and adults incorporating aspects of traditional Indigenous wisdom and eastern wellness techniques. In addition, to her psychotherapy practice, Emilia provides community trainings and workshops on various topics related to Xicanx/Latinx mental health and facilitates rites of passage ceremonies and nature-based grief retreats. She is the owner and clinical director of Corazón Counseling Service, a healing space which provides bilingual culturally centered, holistic psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families in the Inland Empire.
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 | Lisset Mendez, Macuilli Cihuatl Mazatl Lisset is a chicana mother, wife and community activist/ advocate for the past 2 decades. She enjoys her work as a board member of a local nonprofit and has a passion for co- creating healing spaces using indigenous tradition and wisdom through her facilitator role in Xinachtli: Rites of Passage.
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