Xinachtli is a gender-responsive, culturally-based rites of passage philosophy, process and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience and leadership capacity of Indigenous, Chicanx, and Latinx girls and gender expansive youth. This curriculum is being implemented in schools, juvenile detention facilities, community based organizations, and youth programs.

The Xinachtli curriculum provides a dialectic process of: 

Reflexión (reflection) 
Concientización (critical consciousness)
Creación (creation)
Acción (action)

Facilitators and youth participants of Xinachtli Youth Rites of Passage make up the Xinachtli Comadres National Colectiva (XCNC). XCNC is an extended kinship network centering girls, Fem(mes), and non-binary youth of color, vitalizing deep and lasting connections between Indigenous/Chicana/Latinx girls and their communities, to cultivate intergenerational, healing-informed leadership for community health and systems transformation.

What You’ll Learn:
Participants will gain the skills, confidence, and cultural grounding to:
    •    Facilitate Xinachtli circles with integrity and care
    •    Support youth through identity development and life transitions
    •    Integrate culturally rooted, healing-centered practices into group spaces
    •    Join a national collective of comadres committed to community-based healing and leadership
    •    A deeper relationship to ceremony, community, and collective healing

Testimonies for Xinachtli Comadres: “The Xinachtli Course is very powerful and moving and allows femme identifying people to get to know themselves, while creating community. Making this curriculum available to young girls is extremely important and necessary. It helps women and young girls build identity, develop a spine, and cultivate meaningful relationships with other girls, women leaders, and most of all their culture.”— Trainee

“This training was more than a preparation to facilitate, it was an opportunity for us to deepen our self-trust, self-confidence, and self-care so that we can serve from a more rooted place.”— Trainee

Registration includes:

• 21 hours of Training
• Curriculum Manual
• Program Handouts
• (Hardcopy/ Electronic)
• Pre and Post Evaluations
• Post-Training Technical Assistance
• Comadre Care Package
• XCNC Swag