Navigate the challenges of family expectations, cultural values, and personal growth in a safe, supportive space. Through interactive activities, you’ll explore your own boundaries, practice healthy communication, and reflect on ways to honor both yourself and your family. Open to all students. Facilitated by a mental health provider. Attending this Skillshop in person? Meet us… Continue Reading Skillshop: Balancing Family, Culture, and Self: Understanding Boundaries Across Cultural Spaces (In-Person)

This workshop is designed for first-generation students at Palomar College who want to explore how their cultural background, family experiences, and personal values shape their college journey, while centering Latino experiences. Through guided reflection, discussion, and interactive activities, students will examine how their identities, including culture, language, family expectations, and lived experiences, connect to their sense of… Continue Reading Skillshop: Navigating Identity: First-Generation Latino Students Experiences (In-Person)

Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana feminist, poet, and cultural theorist, described her life’s work as writing with your tongues of fire — a creative act of passion, resistance, and transformation. In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa writes that her art and scholarship are a blood sacrifice that transforms the soul, body, and Earth; an energy… Continue Reading Skillshop: Navigating College as a First-Generation Student: Doing What Sets Your Soul on Fire (In-Person)

When was the last time you looked in the mirror and said, I love you? In this transformative workshop, we will explore the power of self-love through mirror work and deep reflection on the experiences and people who have shaped us. Through guided exercises, affirmations, and heartfelt discussions, we will reconnect with our inner selves,… Continue Reading Skillshop: Love Yourself (In-Person)