Mission-Aligned Training for a Different Kind of Practitioner

Our workshops are not clinical trainings in the traditional sense—they are re-imaginings of what it means to hold space, bear witness, and interrupt cycles of harm in both therapeutic and communal contexts. Whether you're deepening your one-on-one work, supporting groups, leading community-based initiatives, or organizing within systems, our workshops offer the tools, reflection, and healing space to do this work with integrity, humility, and courage.

These offerings are grounded in our practice-wide Mission Statement:

Echo Community Practice is a trauma-responsive therapy collective that fosters healing through connection, reflection, and community.
We believe that the echoes of past experience—whether joyful or painful—deserve space to be heard, honored, and transformed. Through individual, group, family, and couples therapy, we co-create environments where clients can reclaim their voice, build relational partnership, and cultivate self-trust. Guided by liberatory principles, our practice centers lived experience, identity, and mutual care as foundations for meaningful healing.

Core Values in Action Through Workshop Facilitation

Each clinical workshop embodies our Core Values & Principles:

• Voice & Reflection: We prioritize participant voice and create spaces for personal and professional reflection that challenge internalized oppression and uplift embodied truth.

• Community & Belonging: We create containers of learning that foster deep connection, cultural humility, and relational safety across lines of difference.

• Trauma-Responsive Liberation: We connect therapeutic theory with lived experience of oppression, inviting collective strategies for healing and transformation.

• Resonance Over Fixing: Our workshops hold space for discomfort and complexity, privileging emotional resonance and emergent insight over prescriptive answers.

• Flexible Boundaries & Deep Listening: We model and teach boundary practices that are rooted in care, clarity, consent, and relational accountability.

Workshop Themes & Learning Experiences

Each workshop is co-designed with reflection, embodiment, and integration in mind. Formats may include lecture, experiential practice, live demonstration, peer consultation, somatic resourcing, guided writing, and collective dialogue. Topics include but are not limited to:

1. Therapy as Resistance: Narrative, Identity & Power

Explore how narrative therapy can help clients and clinicians resist dominant discourses, reclaim agency, and re-author identity in ways that are culturally, politically, and spiritually rooted.

2. Relational Healing in a Violent World

Examine how relational therapy can address attachment trauma, systemic rupture, and emotional disconnection in a world that often severs connection. Participants will explore rupture-repair processes and co-regulation through the lens of abolitionist ethics.

3. Liberatory Clinical Practice: Ethics Beyond Compliance

Move beyond traditional ethical frameworks into a liberatory ethic rooted in collective care, transformative justice, and practitioner accountability. Includes exploration of carceral logic in clinical systems and how to intervene in cycles of harm.

4. Supervision, Mentorship & Anti-Oppressive Holding

A workshop for supervisors and educators seeking to practice reflective, anti-racist, abolitionist mentorship that resists gatekeeping, prioritizes transparency, and centers the wisdom of emerging clinicians.

5. Somatics, Story & Systemic Trauma

Combine body-based practices with narrative work to explore how trauma lives in the body and how therapists can support clients in becoming more resourced, present, and embodied—even in the face of historical and systemic harm.

6. Therapy at the End of the World: Grief, Collapse & Community

A space to explore ecological grief, collective uncertainty, and communal healing practices in the face of climate collapse, political disillusionment, and burnout. Participants engage in reflective practices, ceremony, and ritual building.