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Embodied Code-Switching® with Marcia Bonato Warren

Embodied Code-Switching® therapy uses a practice and skill set created by Marcia Bonato Warren, MA MA LPC (formerly Marcia Warren Edelman) that takes code-switching from a reactive, unconscious behavior to a proactive, embodied skill that enables multicultural individuals to choose how, when, and to what degree, they respond and adapt to different cultures.

Embodied Code-Switching® therapy integrates somatic awareness and cultural embodiment practices into the present research on code-switching, providing new ways to identify and express multiple identities in various cultural environments. For many, this practice can provide the means to empower themselves to move from a dysregulated state of having to “manage” competing identities towards expressing multiple identities in a conscious, congruent, and fluid way.

Publications

The body as cultural home: exploring, embodying, and navigating the complexities of multiple identities

Laia Jorba Galdos, Marcia Warren

Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy 17 (1), 81-97, 2022

The increasing number of clients with multicultural backgrounds pose a challenge for a mental health field that has mostly addressed the psychological needs of culturally diverse clients in a monolithic and linear fashion...

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Moving between identities: Embodied code-switching

Marcia Warren Edelman

Oppression and the body: Roots, resistance, and resolutions, 141-155, 2018

A thoughtful exploration of Embodied Code-Switching® therapy, which integrates somatic awareness to support the healthy expression of multicultural identities.

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Upcoming Events

Coming in 2025!

Marcia will be offering her first ever three-day immersive Embodied Code-Switching® training program! This training will bring together all the learning and experience Marcia has offered through her one-day workshops and shorter trainings with current research and practice gathered for her upcoming book (to be published in 2025). Continue to visit this site, as well as social media outlets for more information and registration.

Past Activities

What is Embodied Code-Switching®?

What is Embodied Code-Switching®?

Interview with Marcia Bonato Warren

Host Melissa Gonzales sits down with Marcia Bonato Warren, who comes from a mixed-race family with a father who is indigenous from Santa Clara Pueblo and a mother who immigrated from Brazil.

Together, they explore the concept of Embodied Code-Switching® therapy and training, discussing the challenges of shifting between cultural identities and how it can be turned into a strength. Marcia shares her personal experiences of navigating different between her two cultures from visiting Brazil and the Pueblo as a child, and how it has impacted her sense of self.
Culture Internalized, Culture Embodied: What We Rarely Talk About When We Talk About Culture

Culture Internalized, Culture Embodied: What We Rarely Talk About When We Talk About Culture

(co-facilitator/trainer)

Jemez Institute

Santa Fe, NM - Mar 10-18 2016
Uncovering our Intercultural “Superpower:” Embodied Multicultural Identity as a Source of Resilience in a Polarized World

Uncovering our Intercultural “Superpower:” Embodied Multicultural Identity as a Source of Resilience in a Polarized World

Winter Institute for Intercultural Communication (WIIC)

Santa Fe, NM - Mar 15 2018
Somatic & Trauma-Informed Cultural Awareness Fellowship Program Trainer & Consultant

Somatic & Trauma-Informed Cultural Awareness Fellowship Program Trainer & Consultant

WholeConnection Boulder - Bounder, CO - 2018-2019
Guest Speaker on Embodied Code-Switching® & Multicultural Identity

Guest Speaker on Embodied Code-Switching® & Multicultural Identity

Somatic Counseling Program

Naropa University

Bounder, CO - 2017 & 2018
Bridging the Four I’s of Oppression with the I’s of Identity & Intersectionality: Counseling Skills for the Multiculturally-Minded Counselor

Bridging the Four I’s of Oppression with the I’s of Identity & Intersectionality: Counseling Skills for the Multiculturally-Minded Counselor

WholeConnection Therapy Boulder, CO - Nov 15, 2017
From Division to Connection: Using Neuroscience & Somatic Awareness to Bridge Difference

From Division to Connection: Using Neuroscience & Somatic Awareness to Bridge Difference

(co-facilitator/trainer)

SIETAR-USA 2017 Conference San Francisco, CA - Oct 20, 2017
Reaching Across the Racial Divide: It Begins with Me, It Ends with Us

Reaching Across the Racial Divide: It Begins with Me, It Ends with Us

(educational process group co-facilitator)

Lakewood, CO - Sept 30 - Oct 1 2017
Talking Race, Culture, & Connection: Reaching Across the Divide of Difference

Talking Race, Culture, & Connection: Reaching Across the Divide of Difference

(60 minute webinar, co-presenter with Phillip Horner, LCSW, WholeConnection Therapy, available on YouTube)
Embodied Code-Switching®: Moving Between Cultural Environments as a Multicultural Person

Embodied Code-Switching®: Moving Between Cultural Environments as a Multicultural Person

Evening Session, Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC)

Portland, OR - July 13, 2017
Embodied Code-Switching®: Moving Between Cultural Environments as a Multicultural Person

Embodied Code-Switching®: Moving Between Cultural Environments as a Multicultural Person

SIETAR- USA 2016 Conference

Tulsa, OK - Nov 10, 2016
Utilizing Culture as Prevention and a Pathway Towards Holistic Community Health

Utilizing Culture as Prevention and a Pathway Towards Holistic Community Health

Fertile Ground II: Growing the Seeds of Native Health Conference

Minneapolis, MN - May 2-4, 2016
Culture Internalized, Culture Embodied: What We Rarely Talk About When We Talk About Culture

Culture Internalized, Culture Embodied: What We Rarely Talk About When We Talk About Culture

(co-facilitator/trainer)

Jemez Institute

Santa Fe, NM - Mar 10-18 2016
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