This three-day training will prepare you to facilitate the Xinachtli Rites of Passage Curriculum.

The Xinachtli Rites of Passage Facilitator Training is a gender-responsive, culturally based rites of passage philosophy, process and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience and leadership capacity of Chicana, Latina and Indigenous girls. The philosophy and curriculum support the re-framing of a new narrative of transformation healing and advocacy rooted in a gender, racial justice, anti

This three-day training will prepare you to facilitate the Xinachtli Rites of Passage Curriculum.

The Xinachtli Rites of Passage Facilitator Training is a gender-responsive, culturally based rites of passage philosophy, process and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience and leadership capacity of Chicana, Latina and Indigenous girls. The philosophy and curriculum support the re-framing of a new narrative of transformation healing and advocacy rooted in a gender, racial justice, anti-oppression framework. Based on indigenous principles of the individual’s interconnectedness to the family, the community, and nation.

The Xinachtli Rites of Passage curriculum promotes leadership development and personal community responsibility so participants serve as teachers and guides for other young women in the community. The Xinachtli curriculum process includes cultural identity development, women’s human rights, life skills development/healthy rites of passage, health, hygiene and reproductive health, healthy family relationships and cyber-bullying, youth relationships, dating violence and maintaining self respect, substance abuse prevention and substance development, community violence and cycles of oppression, vision and goal setting, violence and human rights as a community health issues, and action circles.