Mental Health Programming

La Maida Project’s programming is an upstream approach to supporting mental health, working at the root of the problem to promote the conditions for regenerating connection and community as the natural foundation of optimal mental health. Central to each program is a framework shift to an ecological lens of health. This lens moves away from the widely-held belief that mental health is an individual problem with individually-oriented solutions and towards the understanding that individuals exist in a web of relationships – to self, community, purpose, and nature.

La Maida Project’s health-promoting Ecological Trauma-Informed Model includes a range of experiential workshops, training programs, and large-scale projects where participants gain the tools to understand their innate capacity to heal and catalyze change in their own lives, communities, and organizations.

Experiential Education Series

Four session program exploring the foundational pillars of La Maida Project’s health framing, ecological trauma-informed model, theory of change, and accessible, actionable steps to implementation, both as an individual and a group.

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Student Experiential Education Series

Three session experiential education series designed for K-12 students to interact, reflect, and self-discover in order to become active participants in reframing and generating mental health

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Train the Trainer

A whole system approach to improve health and well-being, this program is an in-person certification program that includes nine sessions of experiential education and facilitator training with ongoing support and coaching.

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Experiential Workshops

Customized individual workshops focus on a range of custom health-oriented topics and emphasize the individual’s felt experience in seeing how they exist in a web of relationships, their unique role within the communities they keep, and the supportive values and practices that sustain health through and with community.

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