Resilience for Liberation w/ Desiree Mogsombol of Lumos Transforms

This highly foundational session explores the intersection of personal

healing and collective change through the Resilience Toolkit framework.

Participants map embodied self-awareness, discernment of adaptive utility

of stress responses, and the capacity to implement mind-body regulation

skills on a blueprint that fosters resilience as a foundation for trauma

healing and liberatory social change. Teaching methods include lecture,

individual reflection and visioning, and facilitated participant sharing

Outcomes Participants will:

1. Interrogate the individualized, punitive definition of resilience

through a liberatory framework

2. Acknowledge the value of adaptive stress responses to increase

self-compassion and build resilience

3. Understand how self-awareness and self/co-regulation of stress

responses increase self-trust and create the ability to make resilient

moves and set supportive boundaries

4. Describe the key signs, needs, and actions to move through the

stages on the path to individual and collective healing and liberation

Presenter Spotlight: Desiree Magsombol 

Desiree Magsombol JD, is a Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit Facilitator. Working with, living in, and being a part of communities with high levels of trauma and limited access to mainstream tools, she is committed to making multi-modality tools of resilience accessible to all communities.

At  lumos transforms she program manages and facilitates programming for community members and professional organizations about resilience building, stress and burnout management, and embodied trauma-informed resilience-oriented (eTIRO) approaches. She has worked as an advocate for foster youth, LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence, and survivors of sexual violence in prisons and jails.

In her free time, she provides program support to the Birthworkers of Color Collective Mentorship Program and Masjid Al Shareef of Long Beach’s Board of Directors. She lives in a bustling intergenerational multicultural household on Tongva lands and is a mama to a happy threenager.

We're excited to have Desiree share on building resilience for Birthworkers! She’s also a collective member—cohort 5 representing!!

About Lumos Transforms 

Lumos Transforms is a social enterprise founded in 2015 to shepherd individuals, communities, and organizations through positive change. Whether people are dealing with unpleasant symptoms, overwhelming stress, difficult past experiences, or unjust circumstances, we meet clients exactly where they are– providing responsive solutions that help people feel better, prepare for change, and unlock their inner potential. By empowering individuals to access wellness, grow resilience, and cultivate beneficial behaviors, we initiate a transformation process that ripples outward. The ultimate goal? Creating socio-cultural systems that are healthy, balanced, interdependent, sustainable, and equitable.