IMILOA PRESENTS

A 6-day intensive retreat to help you manage your painful experiences, and lay the foundation for your path towards freedom and ultimate fulfillment. Create lifelong connections through this powerful healing experience and community.

February 29 – March 5, 2024

What You Will Learn

What You Will Gain

Your Host

Dr. Cathia Walters

Dr. Cathia Walters is an Educator, with a degree in clinical psychology, and founder of the Walters Wellness Group. Her identity is shaped by her heritage as a Black Jamaican woman who migrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. As a Black, Jamaican woman who views self-care as a radical act with great social impact, she created, hosts, and manages annual retreats for Black women in Runaway Bay, Jamaica and a bi-annual Black Couples Retreat in Lake Tahoe, California. She teaches classes focused on the use of Compassion in healing and incorporating movement as a part of healing. Dr. Walters has provided training, and hosted webinars and workshops focused on various aspects of healing. She has presented (2020), and served as a keynote panelist for the 2021 California Partnership to End Domestic Violence focusing on “Healing Trauma: From then to Now.” She was also the Keynote speaker for New Bethel Tabernacle’s “Unwavering Faith” Women’s 2022 Conference speaking on the topic of Trauma and Grief. Additionally, she has written and collaborated published articles in the former APA Journal PsycCritiques.

Miguel Angel

Miguel is a facilitator, a community organizer, and an aspiring healer-in-training. After losing a friend to suicide in 2018 amid an already tumultuous year, he was forced to confront his own mental health struggles. Out of that tragedy, his deep desire to truly heal and live intentionally was reawakened. Since then he has manifested loving relationships, experiences, communities, mentors, and habits through mindfulness practices, deep intentionality, vulnerability, and the courage to speak with his wounds. His background in community organizing naturally moves him to share what he is learning and his lived experiences as a first-generation Mexican Immigrant have steered him to center Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color in his work.

Yvette G. Flores

A Community-Clinical psychologist, Dr. Flores has done postdoctoral work in health psychology. Her research focus in the past has been substance abuse treatment outcomes, women’s mental health, and intimate partner violence. She was co-investigator of a National Science Foundation Institutional Transformation grant to increase the numbers of Latinas in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine [STEMM] careers. A Professor of Psychology in Chicana/o Studies at U.C. Davis for the past 33 years, Dr. Flores’ current research promotes family well being in rural California communities and examines the mental health impact of migration on Mexican men. Her publications reflect her life’s work of bridging psychology and Chicano/Latino studies, as she foregrounds gender, ethnicity and sexualities in her clinical, teaching and research practice. She has published four books, Chicana and Chicano Mental Health: Alma, Mente y Corazon, Psychological Perspectives for Chicano/Latino Families, Latinx Children and Adolescents, Cultura y Corazon: Decolonial Research Methods and an e-book: Decolonial Psychology Approaches with Latinx. Dr. Flores is a national and international consultant on cultural humility, prevention and treatment of trauma, and gender, migration and mental health. Most recently she served as a coach for the Women’s Addiction Services Leadership Institute [WASLI], a project funded by SAMHSA. She is the current president of division 27 – Society for Community Research and Action – of the American Psychological Association [APA], and is past president of section 3 – Psychology of Latinas, of Division 35, Psychology of women of APA. Dr. Flores was recently promoted to Distinguished Professor at UC Davis.

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