Together, let’s co-create learning spaces where Latinas lead, create, and thrive.
Sentipensante Connections offers professional learning and creative wellness experiences grounded in a culturally sustaining approach that draws on creativity, ritual, and reflection as essential tools for well-being and learning. All work is guided by the Magic • Play • Love Framework, which supports educators and students in reconnecting with their creative force, strengthening relationships, and cultivating learning spaces rooted in joy, care, and cultural affirmation.
From this foundation, there are two primary pathways to collaborate, depending on your context and goals.
Pathway 1: Creative Wellness Professional Development
(Educator & Program-Facing)
This pathway is designed for after-school and expanded learning leaders who want to strengthen their team’s capacity to design and lead culturally sustaining creative wellness spaces.
Through immersive professional learning, coaching, and tools, I support educators in cultivating environments where Latina middle and high school students can build confidence, strengthen community, and nurture their creative force.
This work is especially well-suited for teams who:
Offerings may include:
Pathway 2: Student-Facing Creative Wellness Workshops
(Student-Centered)
This pathway is designed for college programs, student support offices, and community spaces seeking direct, student-facing creative wellness experiences.
These workshops support students—often Latina students and youth of color—in nurturing creativity, affirming identity, and supporting well-being through ritual, storytelling, reflection, and play.
Current student workshop offerings include:
*Ritual Work for Creativity
Help participants transition from mental chaos to a state of grounding and clarity. This workshop reconnects them with their innate creative force, serving as an inner beacon of light and purpose.
*Creative Play as a Wellness Practice
Empower participants to break free from pressures and harmful norms, embracing permission and joy. Through play, they discover wellness as a path to lightness and embodied joy.
*Creative Spaces of Care: Being Seen, Heard, and Loved
Guide participants from isolation to a space of recognition and affirmation. Through creative expression and attentive witnessing, they find relational safety and connection.
Each workshop is designed as a standalone experience, offering a low-barrier entry point into Sentipensante Creative Wellness.
Impact
Evidence Rooted in Practice
Every aspect of Sentipensante Connections is intentionally designed and research-informed, drawing from over a decade of program design, facilitation, and reflective evaluation. This work is grounded in real-world practice—implemented first through Liberando Nuestras Voces, and now carried forward through Sentipensante Connections’ professional learning and creative wellness offerings.
The Magic • Play • Love Framework reflects years of lived practice, not theory alone. While Sentipensante Connections represents the formalization of this work into a consulting practice, the results, pedagogy, and impact are rooted in long-standing experience working directly with students and educators.
A Proven Foundation
The framework was originally developed and refined through Liberando Nuestras Voces, a creative writing and arts-based initiative for Latina middle school students. In just 12 weeks, participating students experienced:
📈47% increase in self-confidence
🗣️84% of students reported improved public speaking skills
🎨58% became more willing to take creative risks, even when it felt challenging or scary
These outcomes continue to inform how Sentipensante Connections designs creative wellness experiences across settings.
Results from Sentipensante Connections
Feedback and survey data from Sentipensante Connections workshops and professional learning experiences point to consistent patterns of impact across contexts.
Participants in recent offerings report:
Across responses, participants consistently describe the work as:
What Participants Are Saying
“My confidence has changed dramatically and I think this is because everyone is incredibly nice and supportive. One moment that really stood out to me was when I had to share in front of the group and the “love notes” were passed back to me. This made me feel not so scared and more confident.”
— Student participant
"It allowed me to think about who I am as a person, with all the complexities that come with it. I reflected on who I represent, why I feel what I do, and what tangible actions I can take to release/process them."
— Workshop participant
"Remembering to pause in life and play."
— Educator participant
Curious about which pathway is right for your context?
If you’re exploring how this work might support your students or program, I’d love to connect.
📅 Book a free discovery call to explore alignment, capacity, and next steps.