


Since 1980 she has successfully brought her skills to higher education and other learning communities (including three decades teaching in a graduate program in counseling), to service providers in helping agencies, to workplace teams, and to many community groups.ĭr. Nieto brings an enlivening approach to coaching, training and facilitation, drawing on expressive techniques and embodied practices to involve participants deeply and create opportunities for insight and change. Nieto is internationally recognized for her expertise addressing social justice concerns from a developmental ecological perspective including orienting to systemic transformation, survivance, song and poetry, relational repair, joy, radical rest, intersectional coalition, and reparative and restorative justice.

Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice.ĭr.

Log in with your PUNetID to watch the videos.Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP is a leadership coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation and equity, cultural responsiveness, motivational patterning, and evolutionary creativity. The Rising from the Margins video series is available to Pacific University students and employees. Leticia Nieto: Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment:A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone Do they have the skills to understand more about my marginalized experience? Or is this person just going to dismiss, defend,minimize, and critique?.Is this person ready to receive what I have to say that is will they change their mind?.Will this person be receptive to what I have to say?.Leticia Nieto, author of Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, below are some questions that people of Color can consider when deciding on how to respond to a microaggression: Today’s conversation centers on microaggressions and how making an intentional choice to not immediately confront one’s oppressor is a commendable, self-preserving survival strategy for people of color.
