Speaking Engagements
Dr. Williams delivers impactful presentations in various formats including keynotes, workshops, panels, and training sessions.
Speaking Inquiries
To request Dr. Williams for your event, please complete our speaker request form.
Why These Conversations Matter
In our increasingly fragmented world, organizations and communities face challenges that extend beyond individual well-being. These presentations explore how historical patterns of disconnection impact today's social structures, organizational dynamics, and community cohesion.
Audience members learn how to foster resilience through ecological relationships, cultural wisdom, and collective healing practices—essential tools for creating thriving, sustainable systems in an era of rapid change and uncertainty.
Please see speaking highlights below.
Trauma-Responsive Community Practice Through an Indigenous Lens
This presentation explores trauma-responsive community practice through the intersection of Diné wisdom and modern psychology, offering practical approaches for creating culturally safe spaces that honor both Indigenous healing traditions and contemporary trauma care.
This perspective has been well-received at recent events, including the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) Practice Council's Community Conversations series.
Rooted in Resilience: Indigenous Connections to Ancestral Lands
Dr. Williams explores healing approaches for historical trauma through indigenous concepts of kinship and ecological belonging. This interactive session includes grounding practices and showcases effective community-based mental health interventions that restore wholeness through connection to place, people, and tradition.
Weaving Collective Strength: Resilience Through Indigenous Wisdom
This compelling presentation examines how traditional knowledge systems offer powerful models for community resilience in the face of modern challenges. Dr. Williams reveals how indigenous approaches to kinship, reciprocity, and place-based connection provide actionable frameworks for strengthening social bonds and adaptive capacity. Participants will explore practical strategies for cultivating resilience that honors both cultural wisdom and contemporary contexts, leaving with concrete tools to foster collective strength within their organizations and communities.
"Dr. Williams' training was exactly what I needed to deepen my practice. I work as a therapist with Indigenous Maya peoples. I learned long ago that my Euro-American training was not relevant (and sometimes harmful) to them. We white practitioners often receive very little training in how to support well-being for Indigenous communities. Dr. Williams taught me themes which resonate strongly with the Maya communities, in particular the importance of right relationship with the Earth. I was especially intrigued by Dr. Williams' practices for promoting identity in relationship with the land. I believe most practitioners would benefit from building such understanding!"
Attendee at Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) Practice Council's Community Conversations Series
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