Facilitation
Shenmiakhu Pernebsati is a strategist, consultant, executive coach, and educator dedicated to social justice and community empowerment. Raised in Oakland Raised in Oakland, Shenmiakhu was inspired by his parents' activism and public health work. His academic background includes degrees in Spanish, Public Policy, and TESOL, enhanced by international studies in Mexico, Spain, and Cuba. He authored key works on Community Conscious Policing and has developed programs supporting marginalized youth.
Shenmiakhu reclaimed his cultural identity and name by graduating from the oldest cultural rites of passage based in West Africa. He trains and coaches leaders in government, education, law enforcement, and nonprofits. He currently teaches as an Assistant Professor on the West Coast.
Introduction: An effective way to rebuild a shared vision of community is through our training workshops. They are multi-faceted and dynamic using diverse formats that maximize engagement, sharing and learning.
Our trainers are certified in conflict transformation, plurilingual, and have lived or worked internationally while maintaining roots locally. The purpose of our virtual workshops is to humanize our collective experiences and transform traumatic events into healing opportunities.
Virtual Workshops
- How to Survive a Police Stop
- Community Conscious Policing
- Black Founders of the United States of America
- Community Conscious Education
- Community Conscious Leadership
- Racism, Trauma & Healing Workshop
Racism, Trauma & Healing
REGISTER NOW
This workshop will support service providers in deepening their understanding of how racism creates trauma in individuals and society. Participants will leave recognizing the signs of trauma from racism and develop personal healing-centered strategies based on indigenous wisdom.
Length of Time
2-3 hours
How to survive a police stop
REGISTER NOW
George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor and the list goes on. Now more than ever, our friends, family, students, and colleagues need practical skills to simply live through a police stop. The purpose of this virtual workshop is to equip our communities with some tools, insights, and resources necessary to advocate for healing justice.
Participants will role-play real-life police stop scenarios, discover alternatives on how to navigate them, and integrate practical strategies to advocate for justice and repair if their civil rights are violated. Most importantly, we will share holistic ways to heal
from the trauma of police brutality based on indigenous wisdom.
Length of Time
2-3 hours
Community solutions to policing
REGISTER NOW
Bringing the history of our communities to the front and providing the voices of those injured by the laws and those who enforce it. We will be providing background as to the history of police violence within our BIPOC communities and the systemic racism buried in the laws and those meant to protect and enforce the law.
By bringing voices of our community that have been affected by the profiling and undue racism in our community, we put a face to a story, creating empathy and a visual persona to these stories. In doing so the lived experiences of our community are finally heard and the goal is to educate others and push the narrative to allow growth and redemption in our communities.
