Mark your calendars! CACF and Project CHARGE would like to invite you to our upcoming webinar "Uplifting AAPI Holistic Mental Health: A Closer Look at Non-Conventional Healing Practices" on Wednesday, June 28.
This in-depth conversation will focus on the importance of supporting and raising awareness for holistic care options that can provide a larger range of culturally responsive care to our AAPI community.
Panelists:
Fumiha Tanaka, Clinical Herbalist, Reiki, and Breathwork Practitioner
Fumiha Tanaka was born and raised in Japan, Indonesia, and Singapore, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She is a practitioner of Clinical Herbalism, Flower Essence, Conscious Breathwork, Usui Reiki and Earth Evolution Reiki, IET (Integrated Energy Therapy), and Medical Intuition, and for which she utilizes healing modalities from different indigenous traditions and weaves them into her work with plants.
Sumitra Rajkumar, Somatics Practitioner
Sumitra Rajkumar cut her movement building teeth in the racial justice uprisings of the mid 90’s. After a decade in popular education efforts as well as co-producing media and documentary work with youth, amidst ongoing study in political economy, she moved on to political education workshops and organizational support with community organizers under the auspices of Social Justice Leadership in 2010. Since then she has applied her training as a leadership coach and therapeutic practitioner to organizers, cultural workers and social justice organizations.
Vaidehi Jokhakar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mind the Gap Initiative
Vaidehi Jokhakar is a public health social worker and the founder of MGI. With her experience within multiple realms of healthcare, she aims to utilize her dual specialties to promote holistic mental wellness, especially in underserved populations. In her free time, Vaidehi enjoys learning martial arts and exploring the outdoors.
Simone Devi Jhingoor, Co-Director of Jahajee Sisters
Simone Devi Jhingoor is an Indo-Caribbean social justice thought leader working to transform her community in NYC. Driven by the values of love and compassion, Simone dreams of a world where all people across the gender spectrum are joyful, liberated and thriving.
Watch the full recording of our Uplifting AAPI Holistic Mental Health webinar below.