What is the relationship between mindfulness, vulnerability and mental health? This workshop explores the distinction between mental health and mental illness, and presents actionable practices focused on “mental hygiene” as a path to mindful wellness. Together, we’ll examine how mindfulness practice can help us overcome mental health stigmas and cope with acculturative stress. Participants will learn basic tools to implement in their daily lives, and ways to integrate these culturally-attuned mindfulness practices during every season of life.
Designed by the international mindfulness organization AlmaYEspiritu, the purpose of United in WellBEing sessions is to develop awareness of our human vulnerability with empathy, compassion, and connection. All are welcome as we mindfully honor ourselves and one another in community.
Led by Criss Cuervo, Charity Collier and Elaine Ramos-Rodriguez
$22 per session. Be Well Be Here offers scholarship and subsidies so ALL can be included, regardless of ability to pay - simply fill out the BWBH Scholarship Form.
About Criss Cuervo, Founder and Leader of AlmaYEspiritu
After several years in the corporate world working for companies such as CBS, Telemundo, Comcast, ESPN, DishLATINO—and receiving multiple awards for leadership, performance and innovation skills—Criss decided to make a radical change in her profession. Why? She was intrigued by what made some people successful and how they maintained a balance between professional and personal life. In 2016, she launched AlmayEspiritu.com, a socially responsible company whose mission is to deliver mindfulness-based life and work balance tools to people around the globe. In 2019, Criss earned a Masters Degree in Mindfulness from Lesley University, and in 2020 became a certified teacher of the renowned leadership program developed at Google, Search Inside Yourself. That same year, Criss published her first book, PERTENÆCER: Eight-Week Mindfulness and Meditation Training and Practices for Latinx Immigrants in the United States ©, through which she shares mindfulness-based stress management tools for immigrants in the US. Originally from Venezuela, Criss spent most of her adult years in the United States. She currently resides in Toledo, Spain. In her free time, she enjoys to meditate, read, walk in nature, do yoga, Zumba, or play tennis!
