workshops

Amidst escalating ICE raids and growing threats to our neighbors, we’re at a threshold—one that calls for deeper activism rooted in protection, solidarity, and collective liberation.

In response, we’re offering a 90-minute workshop grounded in trauma-informed care, mindfulness, and community resilience. This session provides a supportive space to breathe, process, and plan with dignity and agency—while also connecting you to somatic tools, therapeutic-adjacent support, and legal-advising resources. Whether you’re directly impacted, supporting a loved one, or organizing for safety, you don’t have to navigate this moment alone. Come as you are. Leave with practical tools, clearer next steps, and a stronger sense of grounded support.

Who Is This For?

Caretakers, Individuals, and Families
Immigrant Communities
Activists, Educators, and Organizers
Professionals
Healthcare and Mental Health Providers
Creative Practitioners

What Will We Be Providing?

Grounding Practices
Mindfulness Skills
Micro-Practices
Trauma-Informed Care
Legal Advising and Recources

Facilitators:

Dr. Shalini Bahl, Ph.D (she/her), founder of Sama Life, teaches practical mindfulness skills that help people work with stress, interrupt default patterns under pressure, and respond with clarity and care. An educator, certified MBSR and Search Inside Yourself teacher, author of Return to Mindfulness, and former town councilor, she brings an integrated approach that helps people listen more deeply, trust inner intelligence, and design their lives with greater agency and skill.

Laureen Andalib (they/them), founder of Studio Somatics, is an interdisciplinary storyteller and trauma-informed educator passionate about equipping youth and communities with the tools they need to thrive amidst violence, uncertainty, and adverse political climates. Laureen holds a BFA ('17) from Cornell University and MDes ('23) from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Angana Saha (she/her) is a Bengali American legal advocate and Boston College (’24) graduate working at a leading global trial litigation firm. Raised in Jamaica, Queens, in a predominantly Black and brown, mixed-status community, her work is rooted in lived experience and solidarity. She supports complex litigation and pro bono cases addressing immigration injustice, unlawful detention, police brutality, and sexual violence, and has developed media literacy tools to challenge fear-based narratives, advancing accountability, healing, dignity, and collective resilience.