About this Fun(d)raiser
Weave liberation, justice, and indigenous medicines into your early childhood work in this Monday lunch-n’-learn series.
Walk away from each 90-minute session with concrete ways to walk the social justice walk in your work, in your communities, and IRL (in real life as the kids say).
All of your dollars go towards the Birth of Brilliance (BoB) 2026 Conference and Cultural Fair.
Become a Supporter
Your dollars help enrich BoB’s annual conference.
With each registration, you’re closing the gap between your social justice intention and action.
You’re practicing solidarity, collective care, and mutual aid network with us.
To honor your action and express our gratitude, Dawn, Eva, Monica, Siemone, Aditi, Andrea, Tony, Mari, and myself invite you to our signature workshops. Come curious. Come as you are…
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Expansive Possibilities of Attachment/Relational Health: Indigenous (Navajo) Connection and Relationships within Traditional Practices of Caregiving
November 10, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Dawn A. Yazzie, MA, NCC - Founding Director Dził Nitsaa Consulting and Services, LLC.
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Applying Ubuntu in IECMH: From Intention to Implementation
November 17, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Eva Marie Shivers, J.D., Ph.D. Executive Director and Founder at Indigo Cultural Center, Inc.
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Practicing Decolonized Parenting When You’re Triggered & Tired
November 24, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her), Founding Steward of Come Back to Care and host of the Come Back to Care Podcast.
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Weaving Our Medicines - Ancestral Somatics and Perinatal Mental Health as a Pathway to Collective Liberation
December 1, 2025
12-1pm MST | 1-2pm CST | 11-12pm PST
Facilitated by Monica Alejandra Noriega, Psy.D., is a postpartum chicane clinical psychologist from Central California.
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Relational Wealth: The MEND Model as a Framework for Liberation in Infant Mental Health
December 8, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Siemone Smith, PhD, LCPC, MFT, Founder of Generation Mend.
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"Embodying Adaptive Leadership: Rooting and Leading in our courage"
December 15, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Aditi Subramaniam, LMHC, R-DMT, IECMH-E®, a licensed mental health clinician, and Andrea G. Oliveira, IECMH-E®, a clinical psychologist.
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On Our Compassion's Fatigue: Treating Our Hearts After We've Given Too Much
December 22, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Tony Chavira, LMFT (he, him) Marriage & Family Therapist.
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"Enough, Already - reclaiming the resources we are"
December 29, 2025
12-1:30pm MST | 1-2:30pm CST | 11-12:30pm PST
Facilitated by Mari (sounds like “Mario” but without the “o”) a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and endorsed Infant Mental Health Specialist in Colorado.
All workshops will take place on Zoom
For other accessibility needs or questions, please email Nat at nat@comebacktocare.com.
No recording provided due to the immersive nature of the facilitation. Thank you for your understanding.
The Birth of Brilliance Conference was conceived to raise the collective consciousness around the effects of racial dispairities and implicit bias in mental health, social services, developmental services, early childhood education, and medical care.
Held annually on the 4th Thursday and Friday of February to honor Black History month.