Professional Development Series: Microaggressions

Microaggressions are brief verbal or non-verbal insults towards a disadvantaged group of people. Latinos/x often experience microaggressions, intentionally or unintentionally, on a daily basis at their workplace, school, and communities. This session considers how microaggressions manifest themselves among Latinos/x living in the U.S. and how they affect their mental health.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have:

• Identified the different types of racial microaggressions in their environment
• Examined the effects of microaggressions on mental health
• Learned techniques on how to respond when exposed to a microaggression

This workshop is the second in a five workshop series that Ysabel Garcia is facilitating for MMP. All are welcome to attend, regardless if you attended the first workshop. Ysabel asks that all registrants attend for the entire three hour workshop.

Register HERE

About the Presenter

Ysabel Garcia is a first-generation Dominican immigrant with a bold and ambitious mission to dive heart first into raw and honest conversations about mental health, equity, and suicide prevention. She is a social justice educator, skilled dialogue facilitator, wounded healer, and disruptor of systems of oppression.

She embodies her messaging and personality through Estoy Aqui LLC, a grassroots initiative that provides suicide prevention training and social justice education to organizations and institutions serving the Latino/x and Black community. Her main goal is to raise awareness of the underlying social, cultural, and racial factors that create conditions for suicide to exist in these populations.

She has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Bay Path University.