Speaking/Training


“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.” Woodrow Wilson

Robin is a well-versed national public speaker, educator, workshop facilitator, and published author featured in University, corporate, non-profit, government, local school district, and online forums.  Her voice is an eclectic expression of her expertise in Mind-Body Psychology, holistic wellness, Trauma-Informed Care,  victim advocacy, community resiliency, environmental activism, and conscious leadership.

Robin provides organizations with the best integrative practices and strategies for maintaining healthy individuals in safe, equitable, productive, and sustainable workplaces.

Robin will cater her creative pallet of Professional Development programs toward the unique needs of each organization.  Training Topics include, but are not limited to:

    • Trauma-Informed Care:
    • Adverse Childhood Experiences Toxic Stress
    • Trauma-Informed Policies and Procedures
    • Best practices and victim advocacy
    • Best practices for public safety
    • Best practices for education
    • Best practices for a trauma-informed continuum of care
    • Restorative Justice and Mediation
    • Racial Healing and Equity (systemic oppression and colonialization, multi-cultural sensitivity)
    • Designing a Trauma-sensitive work culture
    • De-escalation and Self-Regulation
    • Crisis Stabilization, Intervention, and Treatment
    • Climate Crisis and Mental Health
    • Professional Resiliency and Self-Care
    • Holistic Care, Resilience and Salutogenesis
    • Public Health
    • Integrative Nutrition and Wellness
  • Mindfulness training:
    • Stress Reduction
    • Conscious Communication
    • Implicit/Explicit Communication and Bias
    • Compassionate Conflict Resolution
    • Conscious Leadership and Progressive Ethics (emerging from new industry standards
  • Holistic, evidence-based assessment of individual and organizational health
  • Development of Peer Support Programs
  • Team Building Support
  • Professional Empowerment Model
  • Performance Psychology
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Past lectures/Publications

  • Cultivating Community Wellbeing: Guiding Principles for Research and Practice.  International Journal of Community Wellbeing.
  • TheDonorGroup.com The Medicine Wheel/Holistic Approach to Personal Developmental
  • Healing the Healers: Integrative Therapeutic Interventions for Open Hearts Family Trauma Care
  • Psycho-Education Somatic Interventions for Trauma Resolution, Care 7 Crisis and Victim Advocacy, AZ
  • Curriculum Development on the psychology of cancer for YMEDICA
  • Curriculum Development on the psychology of aging for YMEDICA
  • Arizona State University, Local to Global Justice Race: Yoga and Meditation to Unite Humanity/ Empowerment through Body Language
  • Somatic Psychology and Holistic practices at Sci-Ranch retreat forum for Arizona State University scientists and engineers
  • Somatic Psychology and embodiment movement Arizona State University Dance/Theater
  • Benefits of mindfulness, meditation, and restorative yoga to Marine Veterans and Therapists (Phoenix, VA)
  • Flow:  Energy Awareness and Mindfulness promoting sustainable practices (Arizona State University, Local to Global Justice Water Conservation)
  • Eco-Therapy and Feminism (Arizona State University, Local to Global Justice, Sustainability)
  • Strengths-Based Approach to Overcoming Trauma (Take Back the Night)
  • Mind-Body Health (ASU School of Education)
  • Mindfulness and Nature (ASU School of Education)

Published work:

Robin’s writing is not only educational in her field, but inspirational across the spectrum focusing on existential contemplation, meaning-making, and sharing in the lost art of story-telling and wisdom keeping.  Robin conveys the beauty of the mysteriously unseen and the beauty held within life’s grace as well as the darker edges of the sphere.  Here are a few pieces that have sparked a dedicated listening ear.

Featured in:

Trauma-Informed Care Support YouTube

Yoga Wisdom: Tales from a Traveling Yogi 

Shout Out Arizona

Rewind Yoga:  Aging, illness, death and mental health

Truce Talks with Diann Peart, Ph.D

Trauma-Informed Care Support YouTube

Contact: 480-861-4424 or robinafinowich@gmail.com