IRANIA MACIAS

Your lesson yesterday was so awesome!!! I think it was one of the best sessions I have experienced anytime, anywhere, with anyone. It was like the session continued last night and I woke up that way this morning. It was so reflective, inspiring, uplifting..... words are escaping me but my heart keeps getting new feelings and my mind keeps getting new thoughts & ideas. It was as if I had been on a retreat.

THANK YOU for sharing your spirit and your skills.

Adrienne Dohn
2018

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Irania’s unique way to connect with our clients and get them to work through their feelings amazes me. Although we meet very frequently with our participants, the setting of our group does not give them the space to talk about personal problems. Hearing them, during Irania’s sessions, help me understand them and serve them better. For them, it is a liberating process that gives them the opportunity to leave the classroom a lot lighter.

Another thing I love about Irania’s sessions is that she shows our participants simple tools that they can use at home to cope with their life struggles. Start a journal, write a letter, draw a picture are strategies our clients can use when they are dealing with difficult feelings. Irania explains that writing things out can clear up our thought process and help identify solutions to some situations in life.
I have also enjoyed the passion Irania shares throughout this process. She has offered to follow up with groups when the dynamic of the class has been so intense or deep that additional sessions may be necessary. Throughout her groups, she has made individuals equally passionate about the power in speaking things out and using writing and art to express feelings that otherwise can remain suppressed.

 

Carolina Bonilla M. Carolina Bonilla
Healthy Community Specialist
Cabarrus Health Alliance