Tending the Soil for California Youth

 Each Full Circle workshop is a 60–90 minute experience designed to engage youth through hands-on activities, real-life conversation, and impactful reflection. These aren’t just lectures, workshops are interactive, trauma-informed, and rooted in lived experience. 

Each workshop Full Circle provides food, snacks and refreshments to youth 

Youth also get a Tiney Coping Skillz box.

 A four phase workshop model that builds trust, skills, and measurable outcomes overtime. There are a total of 13 workshops in this pathway, each phase has 3 workshops with one workshop being Phase 0 for youth buy in. Can be requested by phase options as well.

Best for: Group homes, probation programs, foster youth services and long-term prevention-intervention efforts to deter gang-affiliation or further system involvement.

The Tending the Soil Series  is where the journey begins. This powerful 5 workshop series is designed to meet youth where they are, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Through engaging activities, real conversations, and hands-on tools, students begin to explore their identity, understand the choices in front of them, and prepare the foundation for the seeds of success that will be planted later. 

• This Is Me: Exploring who I am beyond my labels
   
• Piece of Me: Healing through creative self-expression
   
• Who Am I Without the Mask?: Self-image vs. true self

• Mi Vida Loca: Understanding chaos and the patterns we repeat
   
• Breaking the Cycle: Generational trauma and accountability
   
• The Ripple Effect: Every choice creates a wave

• My Circle: Healthy friendships, red flags, and loyalty
   
• Love or Control?: Understanding toxic vs. healthy love
   
• Real Talk: Communication and boundaries in tough situations

• Online & On Point: Digital safety, social media pressure, and self-respect
   
• My Reputation, My Rules: Owning your online and offline image

• Overcoming Pain: Navigating hurt, loss, and betrayal
   
• What’s Behind My Anger?: Breaking down emotional walls
   
• From Hurt to Healer: Turning pain into purpose

• Plant & Grow: Visualizing goals and planting seeds of change
   
• Your Full-Circle Art Showcase: Celebrating growth and storytelling through art
   
• The Power of Yet: Growth mindset and redefining failure

• Understanding the Life: Realities of gang culture, clout chasing, and street life
   
• Substance Use & Survival: Why we escape, and how to cope differently
   
• Locked Up, Looking Back: Letters from incarcerated individual

• Still I Rise: A message of strength and survival for foster youth navigating instability and identity.
   
• Justice Touched: For youth with probation or juvenile justice involvement.
   
• Dear System, You Don’t Own Me
  Helping youth separate their worth from their file.
   
• Behind My Eyes: Coping with the incarceration of a loved one.
   
• Labels Lie:  troubled,” “at-risk,” or “delinquent” and helping youth reclaim their own truth. 
•  Check the Box: How to break through those systemic barriers unapologetically. 

• Foolish or Fed Up?: A deep dive into why we act out
   
• You Think You Know, Huh?: A wake-up call before it’s too late.
   
• Clout or Consequences: How chasing attention or status can cost more than it’s worth.
   
• Flexin’ Pain: Acting “hard” can be a front for real hurt underneath.
   
• You Playin’ Yourself: calling out the cycle before it becomes permanent.
   
• Wake Yo Game Up
  Reframes what “game” really is—emotional intelligence, hustle with purpose, and moves that build legacy, not loss.

A powerful keynote sharing Founders personal journey through foster care, gang involvement, incarceration, and redemption and how lived experience can be used as a tool for prevention, mentorship, and systemic change. 

An impactful look at how consistent mentorship and real relationships can disrupt generational trauma, reduce youth recidivism, and keep students connected to school and community. Breaking cycles of generational system involvement.

 Helps staff identify silent warning signs, understand trauma responses, and shift from punitive discipline to trauma-informed intervention. 

  An honest, raw session for professionals on the realities of gang culture and how children are exploited into criminality. Participants are educated on survival behaviors, and the unspoken codes youth live by in order to survive street life. Participants are also given tools and techniques on how to connect without judgment. 

 Challenges the system to rethink who’s considered a “qualified” expert, advocating for the inclusion of credible messengers in schools, courts, and youth services.