The Village Well Fellowship

Program Overview

The Village Well Fellowship is a series of workshops that equips educators and families with the knowledge, skills, and tools to cultivate a more healing-centered home and school environment for their children while developing deep self-awareness of themselves and co-creating a village of support together. This fellowship is unique in that educators and caregivers attend the sessions together to foster trust, and collaboration, honor families’ racial and cultural contributions and build their capacity and knowledge of toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences. By the end of this workshop series, families and educators will be well on their way to communally cultivating a healing-centered practice that interrupts intergenerational, systemic trauma and puts students on the path to thriving both academically and in their social-emotional development.

Fellowship Outcomes

  • Educators and families will understand their ways of being, explore their socialized identities and its impacts on their work with children, and facilitate their healing practices.

  • Educators and families will build trust, empathy, and capacity that cultivates a strengthened partnership to help them explore more targeted ways to meet the academic and social-emotional needs of the child in their care.

  • Build and enhance their capabilities and cognition on trauma-informed practices and toxic stress research to create environments that facilitate and promote healing in schools and homes.

Who is it for?

Educators and Families

Why you need this fellowship?

  • Does your home, classroom, and/ or school feel stressful and chaotic, causing or leading to overwhelm, lack of focus, and being off-centered?

  • Is the culture of your home or school a culture of anxiousness, frustration, and burnout?

  • Are you looking to take your healing-centered practices to the next level by maximizing your zone of genius in your home, school, and/or community?

  • Are you confused about how to create a healing-centered school, classroom, or home?

  • Are you struggling to cultivate meaningful relationships and emotional resilience within your students/children? Or with families and caregivers?

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We address inequitable discipline and culturally unresponsive learning practices that target underrepresented students and create psychologically safe learning environments. Leading A(head) Collaborative (LAC) cultivates an evidence-based intervention that develops Black and brown students’ love for themselves and their identity, socio-cultural consciousness of their place in the world, and helps them to determine their budding gifts and purpose to positively impact the world around them.