What if Black excellence begins with taking excellent care of yourself?

Workshops/Speaking & Media Appearnces

Collaborative Workshops/Speaking & Media Appearnces

We offer flexible and custom-designed experiences that will meet the unique needs or gaps within your organization or community. This can include small group or cohort based coaching sessions, workshops, mind-body recconection sessions, speaking engagements, or other activities grounded in evidence based, strengths-based, anti-oppressive, and afro-centric frameworks.

Healthy Habits Workshop

Facilitated an interactive parent and teen workshop at the Center for Leadership Development (Indianapolis, IN) on April 22, 2026. The session explored redefining Black Excellence as prioritizing self-care while navigating stressful school environments, alongside Kandace’s personal reflections on attending predominantly White institutions.

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How to Build Confidence & Self-Esteem while Pursuing Your Dreams or Something You’ve Never Done Before!

Presented at the Young Achievers Academy Summer Camp on June 26, 2025 on the campus of the University of Indianapolis in partnership with the MICI-AHEC (Metropolitan Indianapolis-Central Indiana Area Health Education Center).

The Hidden Costs of Black Excellence: Navigating PWI's while living in a Black Body.

Presented on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis Indiana on October 10, 2024. In partnership with the Efroymson Diversity Center, The Black Student Union, and the Hub for Black Affairs & Community Engagement.

What if Black Excellence was really about taking excellent care of yourself? In this interactive community session students learned ways to come home to their body, mind, spirit and soul. Staying connected to oneself in a society & educational structure meant to disconnect you from you, is an act of radical self- love.

DJ Center for Youth: 2023 Youth Health Summit

(A Mental Pathway to a Healthier Lifestyle)

Presented on April 28, 2023.

45 minute keynote presentation:"Navigating Stress & Improving Wellbeing Using the 8 Dimensions of Wellness"

MSDWT School Counselor & School Social Work Retreat

Presented on April 19, 2023.

Session Topic: "'But they have all A’s and come to school everyday': What are the hidden costs of high achievement in Black Indigenous, and Students of Color?"

Black Mental Health: A Conversation @ University of Evansville- Black Student Union.

Held on February 22, 2023

Participated as a virtual panelist via Black Student Union at University of Evansville in Indiana.

Speaker: LaunchPad Teen Summer Program

Held on June 14, 2022.

Virutal Workshop Topic: "Teen Mental Health & Navigating Stressors."

Panelist: Black Parenting in the Age of COVID-19

Held on February 28, 2021.

Virtual event hosted by Joseph Taylor Branch of ASALH: Association for the Study of African American Life and History.