Well Being Testimonials Please Click here to Listen to Testimonials from Participants of our Pilot Class in April 2023.
What is WellBeing?
The WellBeing Seminar is offered by La Clinica, an Oregon based group of nonprofit community health centers offering affordable, quality healthcare services at 25 locations.
WellBeing Seminar is a four-day profound and practical learning experience—a complete immersion in an environment that supports learning by doing. Through trauma informed activities and lectures that are grounded in psychological theory, this seminar teaches people to understand that they have control over their reactions and how to act out of conscious choice. In a safe and guided learning environment, participants try on new behaviors and see what happens. They learn the skills to continue to practice any behaviors they find more effective once they leave the seminar.
In April 2023, we offered the first Well Being workshop to 24 formerly incarcerated women. Every one of the participants, without exception, reported having a unique, powerful, and transformational experience.
We are seeking ways to sustain and support the success of this program by:
Offering the same 24 women an opportunity to take the advanced, Cross Over, 5-day workshop
Supporting 6-7 participants in a training program to become facilitators of this work.
Offering the Well Being workshop 1-2 times per year for formerly incarcerated women and eventually bring this work into the NY state correctional facilities for women, men and juveniles.
The ripple effect of this work has infinite possibilities and impact. As a group we remembered how our own Well Being, self-awareness and personal power effect our relationship with ourselves, our families, and how we want to be in service and contribute to our community.
It is our goal to make this workshop accessible to individuals who are impacted by the criminal justice system and to address the unique and profound trauma that is created by the experience of incarceration.