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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. 

Grief is induvial or collective, so the healing should be as well. When a major change or loss, tragedy of any nature strikes an individual or community, it impacts not only individuals in a specific way but the community as a whole. This can be change or loss of any kind, including personal identity, or workplace culture. This workshop aims to enhance participants' knowledge of both personal and communal grief and bereavement. It aims to help professionals to support those they serve to move through their grief, not avoid it; in order to support their ongoing healing. 

Change doesn’t happen in a linear process. This workshop helps professionals to further understand the change process and how to support those they serve through this challenging journey during each stage of the process. Participants will learn a tool to assist Self and others assess their readiness to change which is based in Motivational Interviewing Framework. This can be designed for providing services or preparing for a change culture process.

This workshop is designed to help participants understand the connection of mental and physical health. It provides knowledge and helps to disrupt stigma and stereotypes around Mental health and how the two interact interdependently. It can be custom designed to address specific populations.

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.

As one experiences life it impacts the brain. The way the brain learns and receives new information is also the way the brain tells the body how to heal. Events and experiences can rewire and or disfragment the brain’s understanding of life and worldview. This also impacts the nervous system. This workshop helps participants to better understand what’s happening in the brain and the connection to human behavior, specifically in times of stress.

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 resilience. 

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.

Oftentimes those we serve feel alone in their journey of healing. Group work is a great way to provide a collective experience and grow support systems. This workshop focuses on the application of social work group theory as it applies across the life span to client intervention groups. Three focal areas are addressed within the context of social work group theory: the individual group member, the group as a whole, and the environment in which the group functions. Attention is also given to a theoretical approach for working with individuals with diverse backgrounds in diverse settings. This workshop is both lecture and interactive style learning.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a critical skill set that influences how we perceive ourselves, interact with others, and manage challenges. This interactive workshop provides participants with a foundational understanding of the five core components of EI: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Through guided reflection, scenario-based activities, and practical tools, attendees will build insight into their emotional responses, improve communication, and enhance their capacity to respond thoughtfully under pressure. This is especially designed for professionals and organizations.

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.

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. 

“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 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 the well-being of your team—and the culture of your workplace.
 

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.

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.