Talks, Trainings and Workshops

I offer talks, trainings and workshops for groups of all sizes on topics including the Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, family diversity and self-determination, transition to parenthood, infant mental health, organizational change towards social justice, and reflective supervision.  One-time events and on-going training formats are available.

For Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families workshops, schedule via the Tenets website: https://diversityinformedtenets.org/

For all other booking inquiries email me at MariaStJohnPhDMFT@gmail.com.

Select Talks, Trainings and Workshops:

  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña), First Five Alabama, Birmingham, AL (remote) 2/9/2023
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), The Children’s Trust, Boston, MA (remote) 12/7/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), The Children’s Trust, Boston, MA (remote) 11/30/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Tonia Spence), Cooperative Association for Special Education, Glen Ellyn, IL (remote) 11/29/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Nucha Isarowong), University of Washington Barnard Center, Advanced Clinical Training, Seattle, WA (remote) 7/29/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña), The Children’s Trust, Boston, MA (remote) 7/20/2022
  • Equity begins with me: Expanding our commitment to infants, children & families (w Kandace Thomas & Carmen Rosa Noroña),  Developmental Sciences Diversity Discussion Series, Northwestern U, Chicago IL (remote) 5/19/2022
  • The Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Behavioral Health Services Department, Santa Clara County, CA (remote) 3/9/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Nucha Isarowong), Navos Mental Health and Wellness, King County, WA (remote) 2/9/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Nucha Isarowong & Kadija Johnston), Illinois Mental Health Consultation Initiative, Chicago IL (remote) 12/10/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Tonia Spence), Cooperative Association for Special Education, Glen Ellyn, IL (remote) 11/10/21
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), Another Road to Safety, Oakland, CA (remote) 11/5/2021
  • Dyadic Interventions (with Gloria Castro and Lauren Perez, Maternal Outreach Mood Services Symposium, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA (remote) 10/8/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña), United Hospital Fund, New York, NY (remote) 9/23/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo & Joaniko Kohchi) Community Action Pioneer Valley, Greenfield, MA (remote) 9/20/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), Community Action Pioneer Valley, Greenfield, MA (remote) 9/13/2021
  • Dyadic Interventions, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA (remote) 7/28/2021
  • Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Mountain Home Montana, Missoula, MT (remote) 7/1/2022
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), MA Association of Infant Mental Health, Boston MA (remote) 6/14/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), Boston Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Boston, MA (remote) 6/11/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña & Lynette Aytch), UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA (remote) 5/14/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Kandace Thomas), Boston Medical Center Department of Pediatrics, Boston, MA (remote) 5/12/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña & Cecilia Reus), MA Association of Infant Mental Health, MA (remote) 5/7/2021
  • The Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Behavioral Health Services Department, Santa Clara County, CA (remote) 4/28/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families, Behavioral Health Services Department, Santa Clara County, CA (remote) 4/22/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Nucha Isarowong), University of Washington Barnard Center, Advanced Clinical Training, Seattle, WA (remote) 4/9/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), Lourie Center Parent-Child Clinic Services, Rockville, Maryland (remote) 3/31/2021
  • Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Center for the Vulnerable Child, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA (remote) 3/5/2021 
  • Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center Dept. of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Oakland, CA (remote) 3/1/2021 
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña), Society for the Protection and Care of Children, Rochester, NY (remote) 2/10/2021
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), Community Connections, Washington, DC (remote) 11/16/2020
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña), CO Association of Infant Mental Health, Denver, CO (remote) 11/14/2020
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), The Perigee Fund, Seattle, WA (remote) 7/1/2020
  • Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern CA “Focus On” Series, San Francisco, CA (remote) April-May 2020
  • Parent-Child Relationship Competencies, Cal State East Bay IECMH Program, Oakland, CA (remote) 3/25/2020
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Ayannakai Nalo), Kindering, Seattle, Washington 12/6/2019
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with Carmen Rosa Noroña), First Five Alabama. Birmingham, Alabama 11/27/19
  • Reflective Supervision: A Diversity-Informed Tenets Approach (with Ayannakai Nalo).  UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.  Alameda, CA, 7/26/19
  • Reflective Supervision (with Lea Brown and Andrea Scott). San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services. San Francisco, CA, 3/6/19
  • Deepening our Community’s Commitment to Diversity-Informed Practice: Introduction to the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families (with Ana Arbel and Carmen Rosa Noroña).  Taos, NM 11/14/18
  • Bringing it Home: Uniting Personal and Practice Experience via the Diversity-Informed Tenets (with Ayannakai Nalo), First Five Alameda.  Alameda, CA 11/9/18
  • Using the Parent-Child Relationship Competencies in Treatment Planning and Documentation.  Early Childhood Mental Health Program.  Richmond, CA 10/19 & 10/26/18
  • Reflect on This! Reflective Supervision via the Diversity-Informed Tenets (with Ayannakai Nalo and Carmen Rosa Noroña). Zero to Three National Conference, Denver, CO 10/4/18
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with  Carmen Rosa Noroña and Tonia Spence). Boston, MA 9/21/18
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with  Carmen Rosa Noroña and Tonia Spence). Springfield, MA 9/20/18
  • Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, & Families (with  Carmen Rosa Noroña and Tonia Spence). Worcester, MA 9/19/18
  • Reflective Supervision: Healing Relationships.  Edgewood Center for Children and Families.  San Francisco, CA 3/19/18
  • Reflective Supervision (with Lea Brown and Kadija Johnston). San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services. San Francisco, CA, 11/15/17
  • Reflective Supervision: Supervisory Matrix as Facilitating Environment. San Mateo County Family Health Services. San Mateo, CA, 4/26/17
  • Social-Emotional Development and the Meanings of Behavior. Early Childhood Mental Health Program, Richmond, CA, 3/6/17
  • Bringing it Home: Uniting Personal and Practice Experience via the Diversity-Informed Infant Mental Health Tenets (with Ayannakai Nalo), First Five Alameda, San Leandro, 1/20/17 & 1/27/17
  • The Parent-Child Relationship Competencies © St. John. Santa Clara County IFECMH Training Academy. San Jose, CA 1/18/17
  • Diversity-Informed Infant Mental Health Tenets: Deepening Self-Awareness to Create Organizational Change (with Kandace Thomas, Karen Frankel, & Carmen Rosa Noroña) Zero to Three National Conference, New Orleans, LA 12/8/16
  • Multicultural Issues in Clinical Supervision. ZSFG Department of Psychiatry, Division of Infants, Children, & Adolescents. San Francisco, 8/3/16
  • Trauma-Informed Developmental Psychopathology and Intervention: Infancy. ZSFG Department of Psychiatry, Division of Infants, Children, & Adolescents, San Francisco, 11/23/16 & 12/21/16
  • Written on the Walls: Intergenerational Transmissions of Trauma, Hope, and Healing as Represented in the Murals of the San Francisco Mission District. ZSFG Department of Psychiatry, Division of Infants, Children, & Adolescents, San Francisco 9/9/16
  • Infant Mental Health: A Lens for Psychologists Working with any Population. Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. San Francisco 6/6/16
  • Unconscious Bias: Using Racial Literacy to Address the Elephant in the Room (with Howard Stevenson and Tonia M. Spence). Harris Early Childhood Speaker Series. Chicago, IL 3/17/16
  • Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Parents & their Children: Experiences and Outcomes in New Family Structures (with Gary Gates, Charlotte Patterson, & Andrew Burwick), Zero to Three National Conference. Seattle, WA 12/4/15
  • Walking the Walk: Implementing Diversity, Inclusion, & Equity Principles into Early Childhood Programs (with Kandace Thomas, Karen Frankel, & Carmen Rosa Noroña) Zero to Three National Conference. Seattle, WA 12/3/15
  • Supervisory Matrix as Facilitating Environment, San Mateo County Department of Mental Health, 6/5/15
  • Expulsion Prevention: The Diversity-Informed Tenets. Webinar series on Expulsion & Prevention – Session on Program Quality and Professional Development.  S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, 2/25/15