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the empowered human quesT
OWN YOUR TRUTH & VIBRANTLY EXIST AS YOU ARE!
Designed for courageous, mixed identity professionals who want to unapologetically own their truth - without oppressing others.
Watch the video for more on this playfully progressive program.
— You Should Apply If —
You’re a mixed identity professional still hiding parts of who you are for someone else’s comfort - and you’re ready to unmask.
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You’re here because, like me, you’re a courageous, mixed identity professional who’s done with still feeling ‘less than’ after a cultural confrontation: moments in which you are left feeling disconnected, minimized, or even confrontational with yourself and others due to cultural differences in age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender… Despite all the cultural work you’ve done to this point, something still isn’t adding up, and whatever it is that’s not adding up is causing a lot of drama in your professional life — and likely in your personal life as well.
— In a Nutshell —
Our playfully progressive program shows that you are only one Empowered Human moment away from your most vibrant existence.
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No more stressing over how you “should” show up - you will know how YOU show up. The Quest is designed for completion in six months for meaningful change, and Members receive access to program & support for one full year to provide a truly life-changing experience.
— The Goal? —
Own your truth & confidently show up everywhere you go!
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No more energy spent covering up parts of you. In The Quest, you’ll invest energy in turning up the volume on YOU, so that your confidence & security ripple out into the world around you: the best friends of your life, the life partner of your dreams, the job offer of the century — or my personal favorite: the recognition that you now carry Home within you, everywhere you go. That, my friend, is freedom.
APPLY NOW FOR OUR 2024 COHORT
WELCOME TO THE EMPOWERED HUMAN QUEST
Watch the video below from our very first Quest (the “Own Your Individual Culture Challenge”), and hear why I initially developed the program - any of it sound familiar?
Now ask yourself…
✅ Are you someone whose identity doesn’t easily fit in a box?
✅ Do you want to ‘be yourself’ - but struggle to exist within the intersection of your mixed identity categories?
✅ Do you want to be your fullest, most authentic, most empowered human self - but insecurities or misunderstandings just keep getting in the way?
✅ Do you want to feel unapologetically yourself - without constantly feeling rejected by people who don’t understand uniquely diverse you?
✅ Are you ready to move beyond the misunderstandings and misrepresentative moments - to fully embrace & celebrate your personal truths?
✅ Are you beyond ready to stop minimizing, misrepresenting, and outright rejecting parts of yourself and others?
>>> Does any of this sound familiar?
If any (or all) of the above questions run through your head, disrupting your life day after day - I might be able to help.
Nina here. I’ll be your Lead Guide throughout the Empowered Human Quest.
And while I don’t claim to know it all, I have empowered hundreds of beautifully diverse souls to transform the way they exist in the world by creating a sustainable, step-by-step action plan based on their unique presentation.
This is the Empowered Human way: fueled by your unique vibrance.
Is this transformative quest for me?
This transformative journey is for courageous, mixed identity professionals who want to unapologetically own their truth without oppressing others.
If you just heard yourself think:
I’m not courageous enough…
I’m not mixed enough…
I’m not professional enough…
DISRUPT THE NOT ENOUGH PATTERN NOW.
These are oppressive shaming patterns that keep you from stepping outside of whatever box someone else wanted to keep you in.
If shaming yourself and others is how you’ve learned to exist in this world, we will be disrupting that dynamic - today.
As a Drama Therapist, Trauma Specialist, and Empowerment Coach living in the margins, I have developed a playful, humanistic, trauma informed way to engage with antioppression and transform the way you exist in the world - not according to how I exist in the world, but how you exist in the world. You matter ❤️
My own journey as a person of color - who is generally considered white presenting - has led me to become acutely aware of the cost of invalidation trauma. A type of trauma that any of us can experience when a part of our personhood experiences significant rejection. My intersection of identities combine a variety of cultural ideas that - in the beauty of their diversity - can and do lift each other up.
What I’m about to share with you is what I’ve distilled through my own personal experience with invalidation trauma, as well as professional training & experience helping clients 1:1 and in groups overcome their own identity invalidation. You deserve to own your truth & embody your brand of vibrant existence so you can confidently show up - everywhere you go.
Let’s get started.
Curious about the adventure-themed “destinations” you’ll be exploring?
Check out our roadmap video below!
You begin the Quest with an online group Enculturation Retreat that covers your first two destinations, officially immersing you in Empowerment culture!
Destination 1|📍The Drop-Off Point
Meet your Lead Guide & fellow Empowered Human Ambassadors;
Dive into your QUEST BACKPACK & get familiar with foundational survival tools to thrive along the journey ahead;
Come away with the specific Empowered Human identity you want to turn the volume up on so you can vibrantly exist!
Destination 2| 📍Home Base
Practice wielding and developing skill in each of the tools from your QUEST BACKPACK before you enter the woods of Courageous Existence;
Meet with the Fortune Teller & come away with your individualized ROADMAP, to gain
Clarity on the unique challenges that lie ahead for your personal journey!
From here, you will travel at your leisure through weekly group meetings, online curriculum, 1:1 support, and adventure challenges — all in three different terrains:
Destination 3| 📍Courageous Existence
Enter the woods to explore your Individual Culture;
Come away with heightened ability to lean in to your edge and courageously shine a light on the parts you’ve been hiding in the shadows!
Destination 4| 📍Healing Humanity
Explore the waters surrounding the pathways to healing from identity invalidation;
Come away with a series of adventure challenges within your real life to practice effortlessly owning your truth, and
Showing up confidently with the skills to heal the relationships in your life.
Destination 5| 📍Building Bridges
Enter the land of potential Bridges of Belonging between you & the world at large;
LEVEL UP by engaging in real life adventure challenges of your own design;
Come away with the skill to Boundary Set and confront rejection with Empowered Confrontation, and transform how you show up - everywhere you go!
Finally, you will arrive at:
Destination 6| 📍Quest’s End: Transformation Station
Commit to moving forward on your Empowered Human Quest with your transformation embodied;
Officially declare your ability and commitment to own your truth & confidently show up everywhere you go - because you now have the ability to carry Home within you.
Are you ready to join the Quest, Empowered Human?!
— MEET YOUR LEAD GUIDE —
NINA GARCIA, LPC, RDT, CCTP
I’ve Empowered hundreds of people to:
✅ HEAL from traumatic invalidation around one or more mixed identities.
✅ CHALLENGE oppressive parts in yourself and others.
✅ CREATIVELY and PLAYFULLY develop your most vibrant, authentic self.
✅ TRANSFORM from Disempowered to EMPOWERED HUMAN.
My humanity in a nutshell:
Energizing
Compassionate
Growth Oriented
Latina - “Mixed”
Outdoors Enthusiast
MAMASAURUS
Neurodivergent
Sober Pride
And more - just like you!
THE QUEST IS DEFINITELY ✅
An adventure themed wellness coaching program with online coursework, and live individual as well as group sessions;
Therapeutically addressing a variety of Identity wellness facets;
Designed for humanity: people existing all along the human spectrum;
Catering to humans who want to courageously exist as they are, heal their identity, and truly belong;
A playful way to heal individuality & Humanity: the one within your Self, Others, and the world at large!
THE QUEST IS NOT ❌
Solo therapy: each member is expected to participate in group sessions & complete the coursework at their own pace;
Randomized work: you are given a map & a step-by-step framework to explore Empowerment skill-building;
A space for “only certain kinds of people”: we have designed an intentionally diverse program to accommodate for reality;
For people seeking to just “think on it” or check that “DEI” box: Empowered Humans actively engage in “the work”, and we’re motivated to do so.
— THE EMPOWERED HUMAN QUEST —
Our next generation wellness program❣️
BEGIN HERE
Meet with Nina 1:1 to explore your present experience of Empowerment.
Receive personalized recommendations based on your unique lived experience, and discuss if joining Empowered Human QUEST is the next best step for you!
If you receive an invitation for Empowered Human QUEST >>>
Secure one of the spots with Nina.
Receive your on-boarding email.
Embrace your most vibrant, Empowered Human self!
—YOUR QUEST INCLUDES—
Around 120 days of adventure challenges you can complete daily or weekly!
When you join the Empowered Human Quest today, you get...
✅ The transformative 6 month Empowered Human Quest online curriculum, so that you can unapologetically own your truth without oppressing yourself and others.
👉The Quest follows the Empowered Human framework: a creative, psychologically effective way to achieve unapologetically owning your truth. The EH framework blends together trauma informed practices, an anti-oppression lens, and drama therapy informed interventions to co-create the world you intend to live in.
✅ BONUS 1: Embodied Multicultural Assessment to Actively Assess the Identity Landscape You’re Empowering
✅ BONUS 2: Bi-Weekly Group Coaching Call to Empower Owning Your Truth AND Bi-Weekly Group Processing Call for Emotional Healing
✅ BONUS 3: 1:1 Empowerment Sessions with Empowered Human Ambassadors
✅ BONUS 4: Empowered Human Accountability Group to Support You Staying Engaged Between Sessions
✅ BONUS 5: LIVE ADVENTURE CHALLENGES with the online community to help you commit to living an empowered lifestyle no matter where you are in the world❣️
✅ BONUS 6: Access to all of the above for 1 Full Year.
If you're ready to join us in the upcoming cohort, click the link below to APPLY TODAY ⏬
FAQ
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✅ STAY TUNED for our 2024 release date for the *next* cohort of Empowered Humans ready to unapologetically own their truth withOUT oppressing themselves or others.
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✅ The program is specifically designed for courageous, mixed identity professionals who are done with rejecting parts of who they are and are ready to OWN their truth.
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✅ An Embodied Multicultural Assessment; our adventure-themed wellness coaching program (with online curriculum); the Empowered Human Roadmap to plan & actively engage your new skills; alternating Weekly Group Coaching & Group Processing to empower owning your truth everywhere you go; 1:1 Private Sessions for deeper processing; an Empowered Human Accountability Group to support you moving forward; and Adventure Challenges individualized to YOUR journey so you can playfully progress through your REAL life challenges!
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✅ One hour for our weekly group session, and 5-20 min/day as you practice the skills you’re learning each week: this unique process will be enough to begin disrupting the unhelpful, oppressive patterns that have taken hold of parts of who you are. This is a lifestyle shift my friend!
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✅ I’d invite you to lean in and ask yourself instead why in-person coaching hasn’t empowered you to be the vibrant & expressive being you know yourself to be - then take a breath knowing it’s been my absolute passion to help others succeed in this arena. I LOVE what I do, and if you’re into that - let’s make something incredible happen for you❣️
CLIENTS LOVE OUR CO-CREATIVE PROCESS
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CLIENTS LOVE OUR CO-CREATIVE PROCESS 〰️
“OH MY GAH - I NEED TO PAY YOU [EXTRA - JUST FOR THAT]…IT’S LIKE AN ANVIL LIFTED OFF OF MY CHEST…WAS IT HARD YEAH THAT WASN’T EASY BUT SOMETIMES THAT’S WHAT’S NEEDED TO GET TO THE MOVING SANDS…BEFORE THE COURSE I WAS RUNNING FOR THE HELICOPTER - NOW I’M NOT AT ZERO ANYMORE.”
— EH IDENTITY: “The Silent Villain”
“I AM ACKNOWLEDGING THE PERFECTIONIST - AND SAYING ALOUD IT’S OKAY - I GOT THIS… I HEAR YOU - I WANT TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY…LET’S UNPACK THAT!”
— EH IDENTITY: “The Chingona”
“I’M LEARNING IT’S OKAY TO JUST TAKE THAT FIRST STEP…SOME PARTS WERE DEEP - SOME PARTS JUST DEEP ENOUGH…IT TOOK ME MOST OF THE WEEK FOR ME TO OPEN TO IT…AND 60 YEARS I’VE BEEN DEALING WITH IT!”
— EH IDENTITY: “The Hidden Selves” & “The Overweight Part”
“I REALLY LIKED LEANING INTO ADDRESSING IDENTITIES…I NEVER DOVE THAT FAR OR THAT DEEP BEFORE…I LIKE THAT.”
— EH IDENTITY: “The Bilingual Drama Therapist”
“If I can see it, I can change it.”
— Empowered Human
“I’m becoming me!”
— Empowered Human
“I didn’t realize how caged I was before we worked together.”
— Empowered Human
“I had no idea about the difference between Power and Empowerment - all the executive decisions my partner was making? Well intended - but all about Power.”
— Empowered Human
“My life has certainly changed for the better, and I’m incredibly grateful for the experience.”
— Empowered Human
“The techniques she used not only helped me identify where I had room for growth, but helped beyond the session...I have made conscious decisions about what we discussed and discovered...Thank you, Nina, for helping me embrace myself!”
— Empowered Human
“THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO PRACTICE SOME SCARY MOMENTS - WE’VE ALL BEEN CONDITIONED IN A CERTAIN WAY…A LOT OF POWERED INTERACTIONS, AND SEEING IT FROM THIS DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE OF EMPOWERED IS DIFFERENT. WE DON’T KNOW HOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO REACT…WITH POWERED YOU KNOW BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT.”
— EH IDENTITY: “The Latina”
“Going deeper into these subjects opened up conversations between all of us in attendance both during and after...Going deeper did bring out certain vulnerabilities which is a step towards embracing!”
— Empowered Human