Community Events
Events in the Chicago area that provide important education and experience for exploring the widespread effects of trauma on ourselves and our communities.
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Treatment not Trauma: Demanding Reinvestment in Chicago’s Mental Health Infrastructure
There are currently only 5 community mental health clinics in all of Chicago. Half of the public clinics were closed or privatized in 2012 under Rahm Emmanuel, and before that, reduced from 19 clinics to 12 under Richard Daley. For the past 30 years, community mental health resources in the city have been stripped away,…
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CCIH Welcomes New Community Members
We’d like to introduce you to the four new therapists who have joined our workplace here at CCIH! We are so glad to have Jenny, Christy, Nancy, and Hannah be a part of our professional community. Jenny Feliciano, LPC Why CCIH? Why CCIH? Great question! When I initially stumbled upon CCIH website I knew it…
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Yoga-Informed Psychotherapy: Yoga can happen off the mat
Yoga – so very misunderstood. I still remember when I thought that yoga was just exercises with some breathing thrown in. I was 12 years old and very bendy when I picked up a yoga book and thought the poses were cool. It wasn’t until I took the yoga teacher training at the Temple of…
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Why I’m Passionate About Somatic Psychotherapy
Many years ago I attended a workshop for an upcoming training in Somatic Experiencing. The trainer, Ariel Giaretto was asked a question about birth trauma and as part of her response she said: “Premies have one foot in this world and one foot still in the last.” She described my life in that one sentence…
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Put Your Oxygen Mask On First: Self Regulation Tools for Parents
We believe it is important for parents to focus on their self-care, their regulation, and for them to get the support they need to be the best parents they can be. As are result, we developed a workshop that is experiential, supportive, and informative with a focus on building a supportive community and parental self-care…
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Sitting: The Physical Art of Meditation
We have all discovered how the physical body seeks the optimum posture for meditation. This workshop offers practical instruction on how to release habitual patterns of tension, making the difference between struggling to conform to an ideal posture or the ability to relax more fully. Saturday, March 23, 2019 Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago 37 N.…
