Nepantlah 2025-2026
about the session
Criándome, Cuidándome: Reparenting Ourselves for Generational Healing is a trauma-informed, healing-centered training for licensed mental health professionals and community members alike. In 90 minutes, participants will explore reparenting as a personal practice, examining how intergenerational narratives and unmet childhood needs shape our relationships, our healing, and the families we serve and belong to. Participants will leave with culturally grounded insight into the Inner Child and Inner Parent dynamic to support generational healing in their work and in their own lives.
Learning Objective 1
Identify at least 2 ways intergenerational narratives shape our relationships, our healing, and how we show up for the families and communities we serve and those we belong to.
Learning Objective 2
Name and describe the 8 Pillars of Reparenting and reflect on which pillars are most present, and most needed, in their own lives.
Learning Objective 3
Engage in at least one experiential practice to deepen their personal connection to their reparenting journey and identify one concrete step they can take toward generational healing
Leslie Priscilla is a first-generation non-Black Xicana with Indigenous Rarámuri lineage from Chihuahua and Colima, Mexico, a child of immigrants, and a mother to three bicultural children. She is a certified Parent Coach with over 17 years of experience supporting families through coaching, workshops, and advocacy via Latinx Parenting — locally, nationally, and internationally. Her work is rooted in Nonviolent Parenting, Reparenting, Intergenerational and Ancestral Healing, Cultural Sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive family practices toward wellness, thriving, and liberation. Leslie is the author of the upcoming book CHANCLA: Healing Our Families, Ourselves, and Our Culture through Nonviolent Parenting.
Formerly an early childhood teacher and 1:1 behavioral coach, Leslie has worked with children and families for over 14 years. She has a dual degree in Child Development & Family Studies as well as Family Life Education from CSULB, and attended the Masters in Social Work program at Cal State Fullerton before pausing to focus on her babies and the Latinx Parenting movement. She is trained as a facilitator in various parent education curricula including Trauma-Informed Nonviolent Parenting, Positive Discipline, Supporting Fatherhood Involvement (SFI), Community Parent Education (C.O.P.E) and others. She has facilitated groups in both Spanish and English for hundreds of parents in schools, transitional homes, teen shelters, drug rehabilitation centers, and family resource centers throughout Orange County, CA.
Over the years, Leslie has long worked within mental health agencies in positions serving as Interim Director of Parent Education for the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Orange County, Youth & Professional Programs Manager for NAMI Orange County, and as a Consultant for the Dads Matter Program of Children's Bureau.
