WHO?

The group is open to BIPOC folks in California. This group can be for those who experience emotional flooding or dissociation, or have difficulty validating your own pain or experiences.

WHAT?

Lets be real. Life can feel painful for a lot of us BIPOC folks for a lot of different reasons. In our DBT skills group, you’ll learn skills to manage difficult emotions, to engage in problem solving, and nurture empathy for ourselves and others to get us closer to a thriving life as we see it. We balance building skills to manage painful emotions and moments, while also recognizing how the systems we live in contribute to our psychic wounds. In group, you can do this amongst community with shared/similar experiences. Our facilitators also prioritize creating a safer space for LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent participants.

DBT group is split up into three 8-week "modules", which include: distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness strategies. In these modules, participants will learn to survive and get through crises, develop skills to build emotional resilience, to make and maintain relationships that align with our values, and to use mindfulness to stay in the present moment.

WHERE?

Online - link will be shared after sign-up.

WHEN?

Thursdays 5-6:30pm PST

WHY?

DBT has been revealed to be an incredibly effective therapy intervention, but it is an expensive resource, and predominated by white practitioners. Nokdu Therapy hopes to offer valuable skills and information for BIPOC folks by BIPOC folks in a more accessible manner, and actively integrates the reality of living within multiple systems of oppression as BIPOC people with intersecting identities.

COST?

$100/session, limited sliding scale spots available. Attendance in all 8 sessions are mandatory, as the group is learning-based and each week builds upon one another.