Centering Partnership & Cultural Humility

Reinvigorate your sense of purpose, connection and capacity in a historical moment when you are so greatly needed.

Kat Castañeda, MSW, LICSW, ACC, Co-Founder- Equity Grounded Coaching

For the last two decades, I have been devoted to integrating social justice values, mental health awareness, and attention to the complexity of people's identities and experiences. Centering partnership and cultural humility, I provide coaching, consulting and training to leaders, managers and staff in human service and non-profit settings. My work is based on the conviction that expressing ourselves authentically is central to our individual and collective thriving. It is essential to me that those I work with feel seen and heard as we engage with challenges, lift up strengths, celebrate growth, and nurture relationships.


Services

  • Training

  • Consultation & Coaching

  • Implementation Coaching & Skill Building

Approach

  • reflection on personal bias, world views and assumptions; and the development of critical consciousness regarding dynamics of racism and other forms of power and oppression on interpersonal and structural levels (moving towards partnership and abandoning expert status).

  • emphasizing resilience and strengths rather than problems and deficits.

  • ensuring the meaningful participation and empowerment of all those involved in the identification of problems, strategies and strengths.

  • maintaining awareness of the ways in which re-traumatization can transpire in all systems.

 

Contexts

State and human service agencies

Non-profit and community-based organizations

Youth facing non-profit and community-based organizations 

Schools, colleges and universities