SIETAR USA upcoming events

The Spirit of Minnesota: Intercultural Lessons in Community-Building and Mutual Aid from the Frontlines (July 22, 2026)

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:30:00 GMT

The Spirit of Minnesota: Intercultural Lessons in Community-Building and Mutual Aid from the Frontlines

Your Presenters:
Basma Ibrahim DeVreis and Jon DeVries

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 @ 11:30 AM EDT

A panel discussion from interculturalists who experienced and lived through the 2025-26 operation Metro Surge activities in Minnesota.

Registration = FREE for current SIETAR USA Members
in good standing

(Must be logged in to see the member pricing, SIETAR International members must contact SIETAR USA office for discount code and verify that you are a current member.)

Registration = $25 for Non Members

About Your Presenters:

Basma Ibrahim DeVries (Ph. D.) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and conducts intercultural training workshops for educational and community groups.

Jon DeVries is a trainer and consultant specializing in Intercultural Competence, Team Building and Leadership Development.

Touching into Somatic Awareness: Tools for Building Cultural Empathy and Connection (September 09, 2026)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:30:00 GMT

Touching into Somatic Awareness:
Tools for Building Cultural Empathy and Connection

Your Presenter:
Marcia Bonato Warren, MA, MA, LPC

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 @ 11:30 AM EDT

Registration = FREE for current SIETAR USA Members
in good standing

(Must be logged in to see the member pricing, SIETAR International members must contact SIETAR USA office for discount code and verify that you are a current member.)

Registration = $25 for Non Members

About Your Presenter:

Marcia Bonato Warren, MA, MA, LPC (she/her) is a trauma-informed Somatic Counselor/Body Psychotherapist, Interculturalist and author with over 30 years of cross-cultural experience in the fields of somatic counseling and education, international educational exchange and Native American policy and advocacy. In 2015, Marcia developed her own therapy practice called Embodied Code-Switching®, which focuses on developing the resilience and unique expression of multicultural identities through somatic awareness. She works with individuals and groups in the areas of cultural awareness, social justice, and intercultural communication through a trauma-informed lens, and is passionate about developing the potential in human beings to embrace diversity through cultural embodiment and the sharing of stories and creativity. Marcia is proud of her heritage and the gifts of her ancestors and identifies as an enrolled member of the Santa Clara Pueblo of New Mexico and as Brazilian-Italian.

Currently, Marcia holds a faculty position at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, in both the Somatic Counseling and Buddhist-Inspired Contemplative Counseling Graduate Programs and provides clinical supervision to pre-licensed counselors.

SIETAR USA 2026 Virtual Conference (November 05, 2026)

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

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ROOT & REACH: Grounding Intercultural Practice While Stretching Into What’s Next What does it mean to be both anchored and in motion — to draw from the deep wells of cultural wisdom, lived experience, and hard-won practice, while remaining genuinely open to transformation, challenge, and growth? ROOT & REACH: Grounding Intercultural Practice While Stretching Into What's Next invites practitioners, educators, researchers, and community leaders to gather in a spirit of both reflection and possibility. This conference is a space to honor what sustains us — our values, our communities, our foundational frameworks — and to ask, with curiosity rather than anxiety, where our field must stretch to meet the complexity of this moment. We welcome proposals that take seriously both the stability of roots and the risk of reaching: work that is theoretically grounded and practically alive, culturally honest and forward-looking, personally meaningful and collectively relevant.