Expansive Possibilities of Attachment/Relational Health: Indigenous (Navajo) Connection and Relationships within Traditional Practices of Caregiving
Presenter will center Indigenous (Navajo) Attachment and Caregiving through Storytelling and Life Wonder-ing. The importance of spirituality and honoring self in intergenerational healing... (story is still being told)
Facilitated by Dawn A. Yazzie, MA, NCC - Founding Director Dził Nitsaa Consulting and Services, LLC
Workshop Details
Date: June 23, 2025
Time: 12-1:30 MST/1-2:30 CST/11-12:30 PST.
Where: Zoom
No recording provided due to the immersive nature of the facilitation.
Thank you for your understanding.
Dawn A. Yazzie, MA, NCC
Dawn currently focuses on her business, Dził Nitsaa Consulting and Services, LLC, to support states, agencies and Tribal communities to build culturally-relevant IECMH practices and IECMHC services to equitably support young children and families in their communities. She brings an equity focus by honoring spirituality and multigenerational healing as a beginning step to the healing justice work. This healing work is in parallel and intertwines with her western perspective work.
She previously worked as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (IECMHC) on the Navajo Nation for 8 years/ and provided national technical assistance to federal grantees around IECMH/IECMHC through the Center of Excellence for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation for 6 years. She brings this experience and the cultural perspective to the work and trainings she provides for administrators, ECE providers, and IECMH/IECMHC professionals about Infant Mental Health, and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation.
Dawn’s maternal clan is Ye’ii Dine’e Tachii’nii, born for Kiiya’aanii (paternal clan), and she is the baby of Asdzaa Naadleehi (Changing Woman – Diné female deity). Dawn comes from a lineage of resilient survivors of western colonization and the Navajo Long Walk of HwéeldÍ. Dawn is working to reclaim Navajo cultural practices alongside her family to carry forward for future generations.