Palma Spirit Group is a biweekly three month-long offering for mental healthcare providers and caregivers. This group will serve as an educational and experiential space for clinicians to enrich their understanding of healing, clinical work, and themselves through a spiritual lens.  Acknowledging the co-optation and erasure of spirituality and Indigenous healing technologies by the mental healthcare field, the group will explore the stigmatization of incorporating spiritual modalities that center the spiritual health of clients and communities. Through guided ritual and practice, participants will have the opportunity to create and grow their own relationship to spirituality- one that can offer wisdom, healing, and expansion. 

PARTICIPATION

• 6 bi-weekly sessions

• Asynchronous communication through Slack channel

• Light reading and some practice in between sessions

SCHEDULE

• 105 minute bi-weekly Zoom sessions

• 7:15 am- 9:00 am PST/ 10:15 am-12:00 pm EST 

• May 17, May 31, June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26 

FINANCES

The group will have a monthly payment plan.

The following payment structure is inspired by and borrowed from the model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks and Skin and Spine with Joanna Hedva at Corporeal Writing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (retirement, savings, investments, expectation of an inheritance; how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and world); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$400/mo-Solidarity

$300/mo-True Value*

$200/mo- Community Care

*This reflects the “real” value of the offering

PLEASE NOTE

Therapists do not need to be fully licensed to participate, however, the KTC Palma Spirit Group is a consulting relationship and not clinical supervision. Services do not count towards licensure and unlicensed therapists will need to have a clinical supervisor in the state in which they are practicing. You can contact Nat with questions about the group here. Applications will be read on a rolling basis with a focus on maintaining an intimate, generative environment.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Nat Strafaci (they/them) is a licensed therapist, clinical supervisor, psychic medium, and spiritual herbalist living and working on Yokuts land (Fresno, CA). Their private practice, Sunshadow Healing, centers the healing of Queer and Trans People of Color at the intersection of spirituality and mental healthcare. They are a graduate of Columbia University School of Social Work and the Sacred Vibes Apothecary Spiritual Herbalism Apprenticeship Program. Nat's practice is informed by their own healing journey, and almost 15 years of school and community-based work. In addition to their psychotherapy practice, they also provide clinical consultation, mediumship readings, and various spirituality and mental health- focused trainings on topics including intuition development, spiritual herbalism, and trauma. To learn more about their work, you can visit their website at www.sunshadowhealing.com, or listen to their podcast Therapy is Gay.