Wellness on my Terms - Practical Tools for Students and Survivors with José-Luis Tekun Mejia
CCSF's Project SURVIVE and Women's & Gender Studies department invite students and partners in our broad community to engage in a workshop to promote healing from historical and individual trauma. 

Event: Wellness on my Terms - Practical Tools for Students and Survivors with José-Luis Tekun Mejia, a workshop and community meal
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024
Time: 5:00 to 7:30 PM
Location: Chef's Table at the Pierre Coste Room, Ocean Campus, City College of San Francisco
Workshop Description: 

Life can be stressful as students living in the city and Bay Area! Add the trauma, loss, grief and other painful experiences many of us deal with, and it can be a lot to navigate day-to-day without pulling out your hair or drowning in unhealthy behaviors.

In this workshop students will be guided through an experience aimed at creating deeper self-awareness and gain practical tools to support their own mental health and holistic wellness. We will combat the myths of individualism and isolation, to instead make healthy connections that contribute to building collective power and sustainability in our lives. 

Workshop leader José-Luis Tekun Mejia uses modalities drawn from a politicized trauma and resilience-informed lens, the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), restorative justice, cultural/ancestral wisdom, and popular education pedagogy. Together we will build collective knowledge and create our own personalized wellness plans. We will close with collective rituals that can be adapted to fit into any daily routine or personal practice of hope, healing, and self-care.

Participants will share a healthy community meal prepared by students in the CCSF Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies department. The event will be held on Thursday evening, 5:00-7:30 PM, April 25, 2024.

This is a free workshop for those involved in or interested in learning more about the Project SURVIVE community at CCSF, but capacity is limited. Pre-registration is required.

For more information, contact the chair of Women's and Gender Studies, Maggie Harrison, mharriso@ccsf.edu or (415) 452-5825. For disability-related accommodations, call (415) 452-5481, at least 48 hours in advance.
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Workshop leader's bio:

José-Luis Tekun Mejia has worked to serve his community for 18 years from a public health lens through direct service provision, policy advocacy, community organizing, and civic engagement. As a direct service provider in violence prevention and intervention with K-12 students and adults impacted by the street economy, he led in-school and community programs in multimedia arts, storytelling, rites of passage, mentorship, and re-entry. 

As a policy advocate and qualitative researcher, José-Luis worked to inform strategic plans, equity initiatives, resource allocation, program quality standards and increase housing and workforce development opportunities in San Francisco and nationally for Transitional Aged Youth/Opportunity Youth. As part of the Adolescent Health Working Group (AHWG), José-Luis contributed to the development of the TAY and Youth Trauma Toolkit and the Trauma training initiative for the SF Department of Public Health. 

As a community organizer with Coleman Advocates, he worked to implement policies taking a holistic trauma-informed lens to support youth and bring them in, rather than push them out and into the school-to-prison and deportation pipeline. He worked with Black and brown families and coalitions to develop their leadership to address education and racial equity needs in K-12 and community college systems in San Francisco, CA, and beyond. 

José-Luis is a trained coach, Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) and rites of passage facilitator, and peer-educator to eliminate stigma around mental health conditions.

Combining professional expertise and grounding it in his personal lived experience as a peer recovering from Complex Post Traumatic Disorder (CPTSD), being an adult child of a family with substance abuse issues, surviving sexual and domestic violence, and the street economy and warfare, José-Luis empathetically transmits a loving care that breaks barriers and reaches the mind, spirit, and conscience of clients.

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