Creating Spaces for Healing: Fall 2025 Program Highlights

Community Safety Network has been busy this fall with community programming. We just wrapped up a series of three mindfulness classes in partnership with Becoming Jackson Whole, with trainers Blanca Moye and Kirsten Corbett. These three classes were held at The Mental Wellness Collaborative, taught in English and Spanish, offered free childcare, and (like all events in our Trauma Healing Series), were possible because of funding from the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.   

About the Mindfulness Classes 

Trainers Kirsten and Blanca taught us the basics of mindfulness, from the science behind why it works, to explaining that mindfulness doesn’t have to be something huge and complicated that we add to our daily lives. Instead, mindfulness can easily be incorporated into the things we already do. Blanca and Kirsten led us through a number of practices, including the simple stop – pause – breathe, and a full body scan where we moved our consciousness across our bodies. Check out their website for many guided meditations recorded by Jackson locals.  

Participants showed extraordinary openness and comfort in this group setting, sharing the stresses in their lives, and the possible barriers to incorporating more mindful moments into their days. As we wrapped up everything we learned over the three-day course, we discussed all the possible solutions to barriers to practice. Discussing these solutions in the group setting will hold us all more accountable to making small healthy, supportive changes that will lower our stress levels, increase performance, and increase empathy with others – things mindfulness is proven to do!  

Latina Empowerment Circle 2.0 

Latina Empowerment Circle continues with a fall installment of 2.0. While 1.0 is a closed group with nine sessions, 2.0 is open to all graduates of 1.0, and the group varies week to week. Topics in this year’s series 2.0 include: women’s physical and mental health, supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence, professional development, and immigration. Content varies slightly based on what graduates of 1.0 are looking to learn and discuss.  

Thank you to our guest speakers: Alin Badillo, Julie Gonzalez, Moniza Ruiz, Ana Quiroz, Jessyca Valdez, CLIMB Wyoming, Adair Flynt, Reconciliation Health Therapy, and Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project.  

As always, Latina Empowerment Circle participants show up eager to learn, eager to teach, and eager to support each other. It is a group of extraordinary women, dedicated to growth, family, and community. An empowered woman is a safe, capable, connected community member who shares resources with her friends and colleagues and empowers those around her to live lives free from violence and full of safety and possibility.  

We’re grateful to our partners at St. John’s Church for their space, allowing us to offer dinner and childcare free of charge. This project was funded by the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole through a grant from the Katz Amsterdam Charitable Trust.