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Trauma-Informed Community Care Workshop
Macala “Kala” Lacy, LMFT & CYT
MCC Lounge
What is trauma-informed care, why does it matter, and how can it be applied in our relationships? We all want safe communities, but they aren’t created by chance. We need tools and practices that produce deep understanding, intention, and care. Join us for a workshop facilitated by Macala “Kala” Lacy from The Well Healing, where we’ll explore key principles of trauma-informed care and how to use them authentically to cultivate our communities. This workshop will support participants' conceptualization of trauma, its impacts, and the application of intentional approaches to build safer spaces.
Macala “Kala” Lacy (pronounced kay-uh; pronouns: she/they) is a licensed yoga-psychotherapist (licensed marriage & family therapist and certified yoga teacher) and one of the founders of The Well Healing, with her ancestors as the other co-founders. Kala wholeheartedly believes that she was given this life to support the healing journeys of LGBTQ+ Black and people of color. She uses her knowledge and experience as an LMFT & CYT to provide resources for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness to historically oppressed communities across the nation. Kala considers it her responsibility to provide, fight for, and challenge conceptualizations of care in oppressive spaces. They remind us that by centering our individual and collective health, we ensure sustainable resistance in a world designed to destroy and disconnect us from ourselves and each other.
Solidarity Sessions
Hosted by MCC Jackson Interns
MCC Lounge
Guided by the themes of Solidarity is Power and Cross-Cultural Legacies of Collective Action, Solidarity Sessions brings together organizers from diverse backgrounds to share their experiences advancing equity and justice. Together, we’ll explore how different movements inform and strengthen one another, and why our struggles are deeply interconnected. Join us for a day of learning, conversation, and community as we reflect on the power of solidarity across differences.
Cup of Culture
Nope
MCC Theater
After our inaugural Beyond the Lab! STEM Week last fall, we’re taking time this winter quarter to slow down, nourish ourselves, and continue building the community we fostered. To encourage connection and creativity, we’re excited to host a sci-fi horror film screening—a fun chance to relax, connect, and explore new imaginative spaces together.
Join us for our screening of Nope (2022), directed by Jordan Peele and starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer. It follows siblings OJ and Emerald Hayward, who inherit their father’s California horse ranch after his death. When they discover an unidentified flying object abducting their horses, they hatch a plan to capture footage of the UFO to make money. This effort brings them into conflict with both the otherworldly entity and their neighbor, Ricky "Jupe" Park, who is exploiting the same phenomenon for his theme park. A thrilling critique on spectacle and exploitation, Peele’s feel for the harrowing is unmatched; Nope unsettles and thrills, usually at the same time.
Stay after the screening for a post-film discussion and late-night pizza.
Spiritual Care Club
MCC Lounge
Spiritual Care Club is a recurring space where members will learn how to use and trust divine and intuitive tools for their healing and care, identity development, and dreams and goals formation. It will be an intentional space where we can experience personal and collective growth, joy, and care in a safe and
encouraging environment.
Thursday Mar 5 2:00-3:30 pm MCC Lounge
