Speaking
Marcia is available for interviews, Q&A, guest articles, expert commentary, and speaking engagements on:
The intersection of heath, wellness and multicultural identity
A comprehensive look at how cultural identities weave into aspects of health and wellness, and the importance of culturally informed healthcare professionals
Moving between cultures
Innovative approaches to cultural education that can be incorporated into work with culturally diverse populations and oneself
Multiculturalism defined for the modern world
How the concept has evolved to include additional affiliations such as socio-economic status, gender, and sexual identity and more.
Marcia’s experiences as an Indigenous and Brazilian-Italian woman
How her identity has informed and impacted her work and role as a Somatic Counselor/Body Psychotherapist
5 practical tools and practices to begin bridging the mind-emotion-body gap
Cultivating the Pause, the Breathing Body, Mind-Emotion-Body Scan, Oscillation, and the Sensation-Interpretation-Action (SIA) Loop
Finding culture in our bodies
Exercises to explore and affirm how culture is both observed and experienced through our senses and environment
The Presence of Power
How power and oppression can be expressed in the body, and the ways we can shift that power in our work and in ourselves
Trauma and healing in multicultural bodies
The impact of trauma on the nervous system, and the specific ways trauma responses develop for multicultural individuals
Bridging cultural gaps
How being multicultural can unlock our ability to foster change, increase empathy, and bridge division into connection
New and future developments in multicultural psychology such as Embodied Code-Switching®
A therapeutic practice which takes code-switching from a reactive, unconscious behavior to a proactive, embodied skill – uncovering the “superpowers” of multicultural identity
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