Utilizing the Eritrean coffee ceremony as a guiding frame, participants will learn how rituals, stories, and shared practices create safe spaces for belonging, reflection, healing, and emotional regulation.
This interactive workshop explores how cultural heritage can be a living source of resilience and healing for young people and how culture connects back to unity within the community.
The training session will blend short experiential elements, guided discussion, and skill-building approaches so participants can identify inherited culturally grounded coping skills to support wellbeing. The afternoon session will provide opportunities for participants to reflect on one’s own cultural practices and values and to consider how this impacts work with youth and how to integrate concepts of culture as a framework to support recovery within youth service delivery.
Location:
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
11 French Drive
Boylston ,MA 01505
Light breakfast and lunch provided
Agenda:
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Arrival & Breakfast
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Welcome & Introductions
Intentions and Schedule for the day
Honoring Our Continuum of Care
Ice breaker: Compassion in Action
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Morning Session with Shannon Radford, Hanna Petros, and Mahelet Kassa :
Cultural heritage can be a living source of resilience and healing
- Including: Hands-on, engaging workshop centering rituals, stories, and shared practices that creates a safe spaces for belonging, reflection, and emotional regulation
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch break and networking
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Self-care Breakout Sessions
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Reflections on the day
Closing activity
Evaluation
Who Should Attend:
This training is open to all youth and young adult substance use treatment providers in Massachusetts who are funded by BSAS’s Office of Youth & Young Adult Services. Additional training is available to staff who provide services in CBHCs.
Registration closes Friday May 22
CEUs have been applied for, more infomation coming soon.