Wednesday, December 18, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Come join Ohio Voice for our last “Lunch & Learn” for 2024. We’ve had so much fun collectively learning with the community and our partners this year! We truly thank you.

This month, we are ending on the topic of incorporating healing and wellness into your organizing programs and campaigns. How can we build collective power and be intentional about our wellness? How do we make sure our organizations practice community and self-care? How do we prevent burnout and compassion fatigue? Come hear from organizer and therapist Kynetta McFarlane with Transformative Health to learn more!

Read about her fabulous work at transformativehealth.net/about.

Check out her bio below!!

I was born and raised in Washington, DC — the daughter of two Bisons, half-African American and Guyanese, and half first-generation American. This helped me appreciate the beauty of being Black and Proud and being a nerd. As a nerd, I love learning about the connection between mental and physical health.

I was a trauma kid, and my strong advocacy for my patients is because I could have easily been any of my clients. I experienced trauma early on and saw how it affected my self-perception. As the oldest of my siblings, I was also able to see how the stress of trauma affected my family, particularly my mother. I try to use this knowledge of how stress and lack of understanding of self can lead to mental health problems when advocating and working with my clients.

I’m the daughter of a Girl Scout Leader and a former Leader myself. As an “Always Girl Scout,” I aim to leave every situation better than I found it and bring that same perspective to treatment, where I aim to make positive change.

I’m a single parent. I began working on my advanced degrees with a 2-year-old in tow. During my parenting journey, my daughter was diagnosed with ADHD. Like many women, I was diagnosed with ADHD after my daughter was diagnosed. I think that experience reminds me that people often have unseen struggles, which affect their behaviors. Like many parents, I felt bad when I was unable to help my daughter; when she struggled, I struggled. I use this to remember how if one member of a family is off balance, it affects everyone.

I’m a “stealth queer” cisgender woman. As someone who is usually in heterosexual relationships and whose gender identity and sex assigned at birth align, I have privileges that many of my clients do not have. With this, I remember how lack of privilege can affect mental health in seen and unseen ways.

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