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Trauma is the body's response to a perceived life-threatening experience. Trauma Focused- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy [TF-CBT] is an evidence-based treatment to help children and adolescents recover from trauma. It has demonstrated significant effectiveness in improving trauma symptoms and responses. This structured, short-term model effectively improves trauma-related outcomes. This training is for organizations wishing to train licensed mental health clinicians. This can be scheduled in person or virtually. This training qualifies for the TF-CBT National Therapist Certification Program. Momma Isis Bey is an approved Nationally Certified TF-CBT Trainer. To qualify for National Certification, licensed providers must obtain consultation, which is provided for an additional fee. For more information on the program, visit: https://tfcbt.org. This training will be available for booking as of October 2025. Click here to request organizational training.

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TF-CBT is a short-term treatment that helps improve trauma-related issues in 8-25 sessions for children and caregivers. It addresses PTSD symptoms but isn't limited to PTSD cases, also helping with anxiety, depression, and parenting skills. This workshop will provide organizations, non-clinical staff, child advocacy centers, law enforcement professionals, and Child Protection Departments with education and awareness of the treatment modality to better understand prior to making referrals. 

As human service and behavioral health professionals, we often treat grief as an internal, individual process. However, the "We in Me" framework acknowledges that our healing is linked to our collective and relational ecosystems. When a major change, systemic tragedy, or personal loss occurs, it requires navigating both the internal psyche and the communal ripple effects. Whether this loss occurred of a loved one, a personal identity, or a workplace culture, these dynamics manifest. 

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This workshop moves beyond the outdated "stages of grief" model, offering a healing-centered and culturally rooted framework. We will explore the nonlinear process of bereavement as a dynamic integration of the self, shaped by the quality of the client's interpersonal connections.

As helping professionals, we often hold the vision for a client’s transformation, yet we can easily lose sight of the key internal friction required to achieve it. Real change is not a matter of willpower; it is a complex, non-linear evolution of the brain and the spirit. It is "A Brain Thing." Understanding that change is a process, not a destination, is the difference between practitioner burnout and clinical mastery. Request this workshop for an in-depth exploration of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM).

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In this workshop, we move beyond surface-level behavioral shifts to examine the factors that influence transformation. We will deconstruct the stages of change, from the quiet stirrings of pre-contemplation to the courageous maintenance of a new self. By aligning our interventions with the client’s current "Stage of Becoming," we can reduce resistance, support genuine autonomy, and support those we serve through the challenging yet sacred journey of sustainable change.

Standard diagnostic models often fail to honor the depth of our lived stories and the wisdom of our survival. Join a transformative space designed to bridge the gap between institutional standards and the heart of healing-centered care. We will begin by grounding ourselves in the major categories of mental wellness, reimagining 'symptoms' as sacred adaptations to trauma and systemic weight. You will gain practical tools for conducting assessments rooted in dignity and co-creating restoration plans that move beyond symptom management, aiming instead for the reclamation of joy, restoration, and wellness.

This interactive workshop provides foundational tools for responding to crises with clarity, empathy, and cultural humility by offering basic information on mental health needs. Designed for mental health professionals, educators, first responders, and community advocates, the training explores how trauma, identity, and systemic inequities shape crisis experiences—and how practitioners can help prevent or intervene in ways that promote safety, dignity, and healing. This can be done for groups and organizations.

How trauma impacts others may vary but there are some common ways in which trauma impacts brain functioning. This workshop helps participants to increase knowledge about how trauma impacts the brain and nervous system. It will provide education to define types of traumatic experiences and differentiate between them. And lastly, it helps participants to develop understanding on the mind and body connection of how healing is truly a holistic process.

This interactive workshop takes us on a journey from the vagus to the village, exploring Polyvagal Theory through an African-centered lens— the science of the nervous system’s role in safety, connection, and resistance. Participants will examine how ancestral wisdom, communal healing traditions, and cultural resistance and hope practices align with and expand the understanding of Polyvagal Theory. We will explore practical applications for mental health, community care, and personal well-being, integrating storytelling, music, rhythm, and movement as regulatory practices.

This interactive session explores how Black Joy and hope, grounded in Radical Healing Theory, can restore balance to the nervous system, countering the embodied effects of historical and racial trauma. Drawing from neuroscience, African-centered wellness traditions, and the lived experiences of descendants of enslaved Africans, participants will discover how joy, hope, and radical healing practices serve as powerful tools for personal and collective liberation. Through storytelling, music, movement, and reflection, we’ll connect cultural perseverance to nervous system regulation.

Ideal for those committed to equity, cultural humility, and transformative care, this journey invites mental health professionals, educators, and advocates to critically examine the historical and ideological foundations of Western psychology and psychiatry through a decolonial lens. This is ventured through guided reflection, collaborative dialogue, and experiential learning. Participants will explore how colonial power structures have shaped diagnostic frameworks, treatment models, and the marginalization of Indigenous, Black, and global majority healing traditions. Participants are challenged to leave with a deeper understanding of the cultural and political dimensions of mental health and actionable strategies for integrating decolonial principles into their work. 

This dynamic workshop invites participants to move beyond surface-level understandings of the term BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and explore the complex layers of identity, bias, and power within and across communities of color. Designed for mental health professionals, educators, and advocates, this session centers self-reflection, cultural humility, and ethical care in the midst of systemic racism. Through storytelling, guided exercises, and community dialogue, this workshop creates space for vulnerability, accountability, and growth. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to navigate identity and bias in their practice, as well as how to co-create healing spaces rooted in justice and cultural integrity.

This workshop invites participants to reimagine mental health systems through the lens of justice, accessibility, and collective liberation. We will examine how colonial legacies influence current practices and develop strategies for advocacy, policy reform, and institutional transformation. Through reflection, dialogue, and action planning, participants will leave equipped to build liberatory spaces that honor ancestral knowledge, center marginalized voices, and sustain decolonial practices in their professional contexts.

This workshop aims to help participants understand the holistic healing process and seek ways to promote more African-centered practice.
In Western Society, we have been conditioned to view our way of life, values, and perspectives through an individualistic lens. Individualistic culture promotes a value system that prioritizes self-reliance, independence, and individual worth over the collective.

When we realize that this concept impacts EVERY area of our lives, how we heal, how we connect, how we love, how we help or seek help, how we approach problem solving, we can see why we continue to struggle as a whole in this society. This workshop aims to help participants understand the holistic healing process and seek ways to promote more African-centered practice and Collective ways of healing.

Life does not merely happen to us; it happens within us. Every experience we encounter carves a physical signature into our neural architecture. This workshop helps us to recognize that the way the brain encodes information is the very same mechanism it uses to direct the body toward healing. However, whenour body is hijacked by trauma or chronic stress, these neural pathways can become fragmented, distorting a person's worldview and dysregulating the nervous system.

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This workshop provides mental health professionals with a deep dive into the functional neurobiology of behavior. We will explore the dialogue between the brain and the nervous system, examining how the "high road" of conscious learning and the "low road" of survival instinct compete under stress. By understanding how the brain builds, prunes, and redirects neuropathways, you will gain the tools to help those you serve dismantle maladaptive beliefs and foster the cognitive flexibility required for sustainable behavioral change.

This in person workshop is the work of taking a deeper look into our self-awareness with self-assessment. This learning environment encourages and challenges human service practitioners and professionals to assess their self-awareness, cultural competency and implicit biases. This assessment will provide information as to how we can improve our services to others especially in vulnerable populations. There may be prerequisite activities, sent to those who are registered, to complete and bring results to the workshop.

Helpers and Healers are exposed to the traumatic experiences of those they serve, leaving them at risk of experiencing compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and/or burnout. This workshop helps participants to explore the differences and symptoms of compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma. Participants will be introduced to coping skills to increase self-care and vicarious resistance. 

The intersectionality between tobacco use and racial trauma has historical roots in the tobacco industry targeting marginalized communities and vulnerable populations, specifically the Black Community. Oppression and trauma have impacted tobacco use dependency, particularly in the Black Community. Tobacco use is an ordinary harmful coping skill for poor mental health, and is often overlooked by helping professionals. This workshop will lead participants on a learning journey to explore the holistic view of why it's so hard to stop using one of the most harmful substances. Participants will not only engage in the learning process but will also experience the connection. This is both a lecture, experiential, and interactive style of learning. 

This interactive workshop explores the historical and ongoing targeting of Black communities by the tobacco industry, with a particular focus on menthol products. Participants will examine the role of marketing, systemic inequities, and health disparities related to menthol cigarette use. Through education, storytelling, and dialogue, we aim to raise awareness, empower advocacy, and support culturally relevant cessation efforts. This session is ideal for community leaders, educators, youth advocates, and anyone committed to advancing health equity.

No one should have to heal in isolation. The Social Fabric is a 3-hour workshop designed to transform your understanding of group work from a simple gathering into a powerful clinical intervention. Rooted in social work group theory, this session explores the intricate layers of the collective experience across the lifespan.
We look beyond the surface to examine three threads of group practice: the individual member, the group as a whole, and the environmental ecosystem in which the group exists. This workshop weaves the gap between theory and reality, offering a dual-perspective learning style: you will engage in a clinical workshop while simultaneously experiencing the "member-perspective" through an immersive group discussion. Special attention is given to cultural humility, ensuring practitioners can effectively work with diverse backgrounds across settings.

In the high-pressure environment of professional wellness and consulting, your internal "tempo" dictates your external impact. Rhythm & Regulation is an immersive 3-hour experience designed to help you master the cadence of your emotional responses.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is more than a soft skill; it is the rhythm behind how we perceive ourselves, engage with others, and navigate complexity. This workshop deconstructs the five core components of EI, self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills, to help you move from reactive "noise" to a composed, intentional "flow."
Through guided reflection, real-world scenario mapping, and tactile tools, participants will learn to calibrate their emotional frequency, enhancing their ability to communicate with clarity and lead with composure under pressure.

In the art of healing, the intake process is not a series of checkboxes; it is the moment we set the loom. At IAB Wellness and Consulting LLC, we believe every client’s journey is unique. If the initial threads are tangled, the entire cloth is compromised. This 3-hour intensive workshop reclaims the intake process as a foundational craft, merging administrative precision with cultural humility.
Participants will move beyond "data collection" to learn the art of the Weaver’s Thread, the vital link that connects a client’s first vulnerable disclosure to their clinical diagnosis and ultimate wellness goals. We will explore how to anchor the "warp" (the structural integrity of HIPAA and compliance) with the "weft" (the lived experience and cultural context of the client).

Some people are born with natural leadership skills. Others are not,  yet can learn to develop them if the community wishes to create a legacy. Leadership requires a variety of hard and soft skills, including the ability to make healthy and harmonious decisions, problem solve efficiently, delegate with integrity, develop other leaders, and handle difficult situations with fairness. This workshop provides experiential activities, guidance and opportunities to explore how to create a leadership plan for cultivating or expanding these skills in self and others.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”, an African Proverb. Within any organization, agency, community, or entity, the key is endurance. Oftentimes we have forgotten our purpose to pass on the torch. We don’t always remember to create a legacy. Our youth have always been our future. Youth isn’t always defined as physical age. Our youth in our community are those that haven’t learned or gained as much wisdom as the elders. We identify those that have the capacity AND passion to carry on the mission and legacy. We help participants to leave a legacy by offering awareness, exploration, reflection, development and providing tools to establish succession plan for those to carry out the community’s mission. 

The Yellow brick road isn’t always easy to find; even if it’s paved with good intentions. Most often, one or many need a guide. The guide needs to be one who can facilitate others effectively through processes such as decision-making, problem-solving, and collaborative discussions. Effective facilitation ensures that meetings and workshops are productive, inclusive, and goal-oriented. This workshop helps to equip individuals with the facilitation skills needed to lead productive and inclusive group sessions.

This package is designed for staff retreats or a combo of workshops and sessions for human service professionals to reconnect, recharge, and reimagine their work. Through interactive sessions, we’ll asses readiness for change,  explore communication patterns, address implicit bias, process organizational grief, explore power dynamics, and center wellness and equity. This package offers a facilitated space to boost morale, foster growth, and build a more just, sustainable organizational culture.

Community isn’t just an idea—it’s action. This interactive workshop helps participants to move beyond planning and theory to real-world organizing that builds trust, momentum, and impact. Whether you're a seasoned community leader or just starting out, we’ll explore how to mobilize people around shared goals, build lasting partnerships, and turn values into collective action. In this 3 part series experiential journey, participants will leave with a set of actionable tools and a plan for taking the next step in their own communities. Come ready to listen, share, and build with others—because it truly takes a village.

This workshop equips participants with tools to craft compelling, culturally grounded narratives that communicate the purpose, impact, and meaning of their work. Through guided reflection and practice, participants will learn to translate data, goals, and lived experiences into stories that resonate across communities, challenge dominant paradigms, and inspire collective action.

Helping organizations function with wholeness through equity, wellness, and cultural humility.
Centering People. Cultivating Wellness. Building Culturally Responsive Workplaces.
At IAB Wellness and Consulting, we specialize in designing and facilitating transformative professional development, wellness programs, customized staff retreats, and dynamic workplace events that nourish both individual and organizational well-being. Our approach weaves together cultural humility, team cohesion, and holistic wellness to help organizations create environments where people feel seen, supported, and empowered to thrive.

Whether you are looking to address burnout, build cross-cultural understanding, or deepen team connection, we offer experiences that are both restorative and growth-oriented. Grounded in evidence-based practices and guided by the African-centered principle of “I Am Because We Are”, our programs invite participants to pause, reflect, and realign—together.

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Our Offerings Include:
Custom Wellness Retreats (on-site or off-site); Team Building & Communication Workshops; Cultural Humility & Bias Awareness Training; Mind-Body Wellness Sessions (e.g., breathwork, movement, mindfulness); Healing Circles & Reflective Dialogue Spaces; Workplace Wellness Strategy Consultation

We partner with mission-driven organizations, schools, nonprofits, and businesses that value equity, connection, and care. Let us help you invest in your team's well-being and your workplace culture.
 

Incorporating wellness into your events is key in maintaining a work-life balance. Hatha yoga focuses on restorative and slow yoga flows. This form will help to increase strength, improve flexibility, and balance chakras. Yoga is more than a physical exercise that builds strength and flexibility; it's an opportunity to make a mind-body connection. This workshop offers participants an opportunity to increase body awareness, engage in breath work, and explore change processes, which can help decrease stress, improve mood, and promote peace, ultimately enhancing our readiness for change. This is an experiential session designed to explore the mind-body connection and how the body responds to changes in our environment.

Best in Person, can be done virtually. Mindfulness through Crafts are used in working on repair. This workshop integrates developing a product to use as a tool that allows us to integrate affirmations into our self work, our commitment to change, reinforcing it and creating a product that aligns with the work you are seeking to do. This helps us in practicing self care, to increase mindfulness, and to allow those things that no longer serves us to be released. 

Seeking team building activities? This is a creative workshop that guides participants through painting their own version of a pre-selected image. We travel to your event with the art materials needed, set up the art stations, and teach the painting through demonstration. (We ask that you provide tables and chairs.) We work together to create an image specifically for your event, theme or concept of processing work. We'll make the image captivating, yet simple, to accommodate beginner level art skills. We want your guests to focus on fun, not artistic abilities.

This is a team building workshop that aims to integrate developing a hands on product  that supports participants in creating within self work, commitment to change, reinforcing it and self care. This  workshop uses caring, mindfulness and meditation to practice self care, to increase self awareness, grounding  and connecting, working in a collective space and seeing a finished product based on the connection to self. 

Don't see what you're looking for. We are able to design your behavioral health, wellness, change culture, tobacco awareness, chronic disease education, healing retreat, organizational development, cultural immersion, staff retreat, creative/self-expression, and self/professional development workshop based on your organization's needs. Contact us to see if it's within our scope.