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OWN YOUR TRUTH & VIBRANTLY EXIST AS YOU ARE!
Designed for courageous, mixed identity professionals who want to unapologetically own their truth - without oppressing others.
Watch the video for more on this playfully progressive program.
— You Should Apply If —
You’re a mixed identity professional still hiding parts of who you are for someone else’s comfort - and you’re ready to unmask.
You’re here because, like me, you’re a courageous, mixed identity professional who’s done with still feeling ‘less than’ after a cultural confrontation: moments in which you are left feeling disconnected, minimized, or even confrontational with yourself and others due to cultural differences in age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender… Despite all the cultural work you’ve done to this point, something still isn’t adding up, and whatever it is that’s not adding up is causing a lot of drama in your professional life — and likely in your personal life as well.
— In a Nutshell —
Our playfully progressive program shows that you are only one Empowered Human moment away from your most vibrant existence.
No more stressing over how you “should” show up - you will know how YOU show up. The Quest is designed for completion in six months for meaningful change, and Members receive access to program & support for one full year to provide a truly life-changing experience.
— The Goal? —
Own your truth & confidently show up everywhere you go!
No more energy spent covering up parts of you. In The Quest, you’ll invest energy in turning up the volume on YOU, so that your confidence & security ripple out into the world around you: the best friends of your life, the life partner of your dreams, the job offer of the century — or my personal favorite: the recognition that you now carry Home within you, everywhere you go. That, my friend, is freedom.
APPLY NOW FOR OUR 2024 COHORT
WELCOME TO THE EMPOWERED HUMAN QUEST
Watch the video below from our very first Quest (the “Own Your Individual Culture Challenge”), and hear why I initially developed the program - any of it sound familiar?
Now ask yourself…
✅ Are you someone whose identity doesn’t easily fit in a box?
✅ Do you want to ‘be yourself’ - but struggle to exist within the intersection of your mixed identity categories?
✅ Do you want to be your fullest, most authentic, most empowered human self - but insecurities or misunderstandings just keep getting in the way?
✅ Do you want to feel unapologetically yourself - without constantly feeling rejected by people who don’t understand uniquely diverse you?
✅ Are you ready to move beyond the misunderstandings and misrepresentative moments - to fully embrace & celebrate your personal truths?
✅ Are you beyond ready to stop minimizing, misrepresenting, and outright rejecting parts of yourself and others?
>>> Does any of this sound familiar?
If any (or all) of the above questions run through your head, disrupting your life day after day - I might be able to help.
Nina here. I’ll be your Lead Guide throughout the Empowered Human Quest.
And while I don’t claim to know it all, I have empowered hundreds of beautifully diverse souls to transform the way they exist in the world by creating a sustainable, step-by-step action plan based on their unique presentation.
This is the Empowered Human way: fueled by your unique vibra
Is this transformative quest for me?
This transformative journey is for courageous, mixed identity professionals who want to unapologetically own their truth without oppressing others.
If you just heard yourself think:
- I’m not courageous enough…
- I’m not mixed enough…
- I’m not professional enough…
DISRUPT THE NOT ENOUGH PATTERN NOW.
These are oppressive shaming patterns that keep you from stepping outside of whatever box someone else wanted to keep you in.
If shaming yourself and others is how you’ve learned to exist in this world, we will be disrupting that dynamic - today.
As a Drama Therapist, Trauma Specialist, and Empowerment Coach living in the margins, I have developed a playful, humanistic, trauma informed way to engage with antioppression and transform the way you exist in the world - not according to how I exist in the world, but how you exist in the world. You matter ❤️
My own journey as a person of color - who is generally considered white presenting - has led me to become acutely aware of the cost of invalidation trauma. A type of trauma that any of us can experience when a part of our personhood experiences significant rejection. My intersection of identities combine a variety of cultural ideas that - in the beauty of their diversity - can and do lift each other up.
What I’m about to share with you is what I’ve distilled through my own personal experience with invalidation trauma, as well as professional training & experience helping clients 1:1 and in groups overcome their own identity invalidation. You deserve to own your truth & embody your brand of vibrant existence so you can confidently show up - everywhere you go.
Let’s get started.
Curious about the adventure-themed “destinations” you’ll be
Check out our roadmap video below!
You begin the Quest with an online group Enculturation Retreat that covers your first two destinatio
Destination 1|📍The Drop-Off Point
- Meet your Lead Guide & fellow Empowered Human Ambassadors;
- Dive into your QUEST BACKPACK & get familiar with foundational survival tools to thrive along the journey ahead;
- Come away with the specific Empowered Human identity you want to turn the volume up on so you can vibrantly exist!
Destination 2| 📍Home Base
- Practice wielding and developing skill in each of the tools from your QUEST BACKPACK before you enter the woods of Courageous Existence;
- Meet with the Fortune Teller & come away with your individualized ROADMAP, to gain
- Clarity on the unique challenges that lie ahead for your personal journey!
From here, you will travel at your leisure through weekly group meetings, online curriculum, 1:1 sup
Destination 3| 📍Courageous Existence
- Enter the woods to explore your Individual Culture;
- Come away with heightened ability to lean in to your edge and courageously shine a light on the parts you’ve been hiding in the shadows!
Destination 4| 📍Healing Humanity
- Explore the waters surrounding the pathways to healing from identity invalidation;
- Come away with a series of adventure challenges within your real life to practice effortlessly owning your truth, and
- Showing up confidently with the skills to heal the relationships in your life.
Destination 5| 📍Building Bridges
- Enter the land of potential Bridges of Belonging between you & the world at large;
- LEVEL UP by engaging in real life adventure challenges of your own design;
- Come away with the skill to Boundary Set and confront rejection with Empowered Confrontation, and transform how you show up - everywhere you go!
Finally, you will arrive at:
Destination 6| 📍Quest’s End: Transformation Station
- Commit to moving forward on your Empowered Human Quest with your transformation embodied;
- Officially declare your ability and commitment to own your truth & confidently show up everywhere you go - because you now have the ability to carry Home within you.
Are you ready to join the Quest, Empowered Human?!
— MEET YOUR LEAD GUIDE —
NINA GARCIA, LPC, RDT, CCTP
I’ve Empowered hundreds of people to:
I’ve Empowered hundreds of people to:
I’ve Empowered hundreds of people to:
✅ HEAL from traumatic invalidation around one or more mixed identities.
✅ CHALLENGE oppressive parts in yourself and others.
✅ CREATIVELY and PLAYFULLY develop your most vibrant, authentic self.
✅ TRANSFORM from Disempowered to EMPOWERED HUMAN.
My humanity in a nutshell:
I’ve Empowered hundreds of people to:
I’ve Empowered hundreds of people to:
- Energizing
- Compassionate
- Growth Oriented
- Latina - “Mixed”
- Outdoors Enthusiast
- MAMASAURUS
- Neurodivergent
- Sober Pride
And more - just like you!
THE QUEST IS DEFINITELY ✅
THE QUEST IS DEFINITELY ✅
THE QUEST IS DEFINITELY ✅
- An adventure themed wellness coaching program with online coursework, and live individual as well as group sessions;
- Therapeutically addressing a variety of Identity wellness facets;
- Designed for humanity: people existing all along the human spectrum;
- Catering to humans who want to courageously exist as they are, heal their identity, and truly belong;
- A playful way to heal individuality & Humanity: the one within your Self, Others, and the world at large!
THE QUEST IS NOT ❌
THE QUEST IS DEFINITELY ✅
THE QUEST IS DEFINITELY ✅
- Solo therapy: each member is expected to participate in group sessions & complete the coursework at their own pace;
- Randomized work: you are given a map & a step-by-step framework to explore Empowerment skill-building;
- A space for “only certain kinds of people”: we have designed an intentionally diverse program to accommodate for reality;
- For people seeking to just “think on it” or check that “DEI” box: Empowered Humans actively engage in “the work”, and we’re motivated to do so.