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Make quality connections with people who understand the personal and professional journey you’re on.
Joining the HmntyCntrd community connects you with like-minded individuals as committed to investing in themselves as you are. Investing in ourselves can feel lonely and confusing — but it doesn't have to be when you're with folks who get you and see you.
It's the most encouraging personal & professional growth community to support your pursuit of something better through monthly live community workshops and discussion sessions, mini-courses, and more.
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What's Inside the Community:
Bi-Monthly Practical Ethics Working Group
These workshops with Alba give participants an opportunity to learn new approaches to ethics using real life case studies & scenarios.
Monthly Restoring Care Support Group
These discussion sessions with Vivianne (and occasional guests!) give participants space to learn from and support one another in their journey towards workplace healing.
Mini-Courses and Additional Resources
We have new short recorded courses, past webinars and discussions, and more in order to provide community members digestible insights into ethical practices, culture and management, and wellbeing.
Monthly Book Club, Community Discussions, & More
These are sessions organized and hosted by community members, and cover a range of topics.
Bi-Monthly Practical Ethics Working Group
These workshops with Alba give participants an opportunity to learn new approaches to ethics using real life case studies & scenarios.
Monthly Restoring Care Support Group
These discussion sessions with Vivianne (and occasional guests!) give participants space to learn from and support one another in their journey towards workplace healing.
Mini-Courses and Additional Resources
We have new short recorded courses, past webinars and discussions, and more in order to provide community members digestible insights into ethical practices, culture and management, and wellbeing.
Monthly Book Club, Community Discussions, & More
These are sessions organized and hosted by community members, and cover a range of topics.
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My hope for this experience is to bring together UX and Tech professionals who want to move beyond the jargon and cliches of our industry so that we can create an equitable, inclusive and more humanity-centered future.
This work is hard…
And we’re all a work in progress. Whether you’re working on prioritizing self-care or have a desire to unlearn racism, ableism, and more in design…the community is for you.
Embarking on a personal growth journey can be overwhelming and frightening at times, especially when you are trying to challenge outdated mindsets. Join a judgment-free space where we will help you grow into a more human-centered, trauma-informed version of yourself.
… and you deserve better.
You deserve to have a place where you can be unapologetically you. You deserve a place where you can feel safe and valued. You deserve a community outside of the workplace to support you in ways your employer can’t. You deserve to be seen and acknowledged for more than what you can produce. Invest in yourself and take back what you deserve.
Our Approach Is Holistic
Vivianne Castillo, Alba Villamil, and other guest facilitators leverage their intersectional expertise across counseling, sociology, and UX to create unique tools and training experiences that support all the aspects of your personal and professional development.
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Vivianne Castillo is the Founder of HmntyCntrd and brings 8+ years of psychology and research experience spanning multiple contexts, cultures, and industries and her work and opinions have been written about in Slate, Fortune, Huffington Post, Fast Company, ELLE Magazine. She has a strong track record influencing executives, educating others on trauma-informed care, & empowering others to challenge the status quo at Fortune 500 companies. She credits her previous experience as a human services professional, her multi-cultural upbringing, and her love for cognitive behavioral psychology as major influences on her approach to entrepreneurship, organizational design, and innovation.
Alba is one of our Facilitators and spearheads research initiatives that help us better serve the community. She is an independent User Experience Researcher who specializes in designing for the social sector. Her projects focus on underserved populations such as refugees, low-income parents, and formerly incarcerated youth. In addition to working with community organizations, she has also worked on projects with the Harvard Kennedy School and Rochester City School District.
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Let's Choose Courage Over Comfort — Together.
We offer scholarships for students, laid off workers, anyone who doesn't have access to a
professional development budget or if your currency exchange rate is at an extreme difference with the
US dollar (e.g. Brazil, India, etc). Apply for a scholarship here.
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