Connected by Culture
A closed support group for Hispanic adults exploring identity, belonging and community.
Facilitated by Miranda Ordoñez, APCC · Bilingual (Spanish/Spanglish) · Latinx therapis
You've carried your culture your whole
life.
The language, the expectations, the resilience, the weight of it all. This four-week group is a space to reflect on what your Hispanic culture has given you, what it has asked of you, and what you choose to carry forward, alongside people who understand.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, Connected by Culture is facilitated by Miranda Ordoñez, APCC, a bilingual (Spanish/Spanglish), Latinx therapist. The group blends modern therapeutic tools with ancestral connection and community-based support, grounded in the SHAKTI framework: Safety, Healing, Acknowledgement, Kindred Connection, Transformation, and Integration.
Format
Closed group, virtual on Zoom
Length
4 weekly 60-minute sessions
Capacity
Limited to 10 participants
Before you join
Complete a brief assessment to make sure this closed group is the right fit for you and for the group as a whole
When
Wednesdays, 6:00–7:00 PM PT (9/16, 9/23, 9/30, 10/7)
Led by
Miranda Ordoñez, APCC — bilingual, trauma-informed, Latinx therapist
Who this is for
Hispanic adults seeking community and space to process, honor, and explore their identity without having to translate it first.
Investment
$150 for the full series
Why this group exists for you
Rooted in Shakti’s SHAKTI framework, this group isn’t a workshop and it isn’t a lecture. It’s four weeks of somatic tools, open processing, breathwork, psychoeducation, and collective healing, facilitated by a therapist who understands the culture firsthand.
What you'll work on
- Explore the experiences that shape our cultural identity and sense of belonging
- Reflect on family, traditions, values, and community connections
- Identify the cultural strengths and personal values that support your well-being
- Build real connection through storytelling and shared experience with people who get it
Miranda Ordoñez, APCC
Bilingual (Spanish/Spanglish) · Trauma-informed · Latinx therapist
Miranda is a Spanish-speaking Latinx therapist specializing in trauma, identity, and first-generation experience. Sessions can move fluidly between English, Spanish, or Spanglish, whatever lets you say what you actually mean.
She holds this group with the same standard she brings to her individual work: compassion paired with accountability, and cultural understanding that doesn’t require you to explain yourself first.
$150 / 4-week series
For context: individual sessions at Shakti start at $199. This group gives you four weeks of therapist-led community support for less than a single hour of 1:1 care. Payment is collected securely through Stripe when you reserve your spot.
- Full payment secures your spot; space is limited to 10 to protect the closed-group format
- No refunds available
- Missed individual sessions are not refunded, but session materials, reflection prompts, and a video will be shared with the group
Four weeks, one story at a time
SESSION ONE -
Our identities and major influences
Our identities and major influences
GOAL
- Introduce Hispanic Heritage Month, what it means and how it’s relevant for this group
- Explore the different components that make up our identities
- Reflect on how culture, family, and experiences shape our sense of self
- Build connection through shared stories
SOMATIC ACTIVITY
- Grounding breath and body scan: a guided 5-minute practice to arrive in the body before opening into story-sharing
PROCESS PROMPTS
- What parts of your identity feel most important to you? When do you feel most like yourself?
- Are there parts of yourself you’ve had to hide, minimize, or adapt to move through the world more smoothly?
- What is something you wish others in your life understood about your Hispanic heritage or experience?
- What does belonging mean to you?
CLOSING REFLECTION
- What’s one part of your Hispanic identity that you can intentionally honor this week?
CHECK-IN
- What’s one emotion and one physical sensation you’re noticing right now?
- What is one thing that makes you feel connected to your culture, community, or home?
PSYCHOEDUCATION
- How stigma, microaggressions, and immigrant/minority stress impact mental health
SESSION TWO -
Our families and stories we carry
Our families and stories we carry
GOAL
- Explore how family and culture influence relationships
- Identify traditions and cultural values we feel aligned with
- Reflect on which values and narratives we want to redefine
SOMATIC ACTIVITY
- Hand-on-heart, hand-on-belly regulation practice, paired with a short reflection on where family stress lives in the body
PROCESS PROMPTS
- How do you define family?
- What’s something your family or community gave you that shaped you?
- What messages did you receive growing up about who and how to be?
- What expectations were placed on you growing up? How have those manifested in your adult life?
CLOSING REFLECTION
- What’s one thing you can do to lean into a narrative that serves you, or redefine one that doesn’t?
CHECK-IN
- What’s one emotion and one physical sensation you’re noticing right now?
- What’s one story from your family you’ve never said out loud in a room like this?
PSYCHOEDUCATION
- Values
- Boundary setting
SESSION THREE -
How we build trust and community
How we build trust and community
GOAL
- Explore how we create or find safety and connection
- Reflect on relationships and belonging
- Build connection and practice vulnerability
SOMATIC ACTIVITY
- 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
- Guided body scan
PROCESS PROMPTS
- What makes it difficult for you to connect or be vulnerable with others?
CLOSING REFLECTION
- What helps you feel connected to someone? How can you tell when you’ve built trust?
- Where do you experience the greatest sense of belonging?
- What’s your most influential relationship? Why?
- What’s your biggest takeaway from today’s session?
CHECK-IN
- What’s one emotion and one physical sensation you’re noticing right now?
- Who is someone who has made you feel truly understood, and what did they do?
PSYCHOEDUCATION
- Nervous system basics
- Trauma responses
- People-pleasing
SESSION FOUR -
Honoring our culture, creating our future
Honoring our culture, creating our future
GOAL
- Reflect on what honoring the past and future looks like
- Strengthen resilience and connection to self and community
- Consolidate what’s shifted over the four weeks and name what comes next
SOMATIC ACTIVITY
- Closing ritual: a brief guided visualization connecting participants to ancestors and community, paired with grounding breath
PROCESS PROMPTS
- What is one strength you see in our culture/community?
- What’s something you wish you could tell your younger self?
- What do you want your legacy to be?
- How can you lean on your community for support as you build that legacy?
CLOSING REFLECTION
- How has this session or group strengthened your sense of self?
CHECK-IN
- What’s one emotion and one physical sensation you’re noticing right now?
- What’s one thing that feels different in you since Session One?
PSYCHOEDUCATION
- The 7 C’s of resilience
