Melody Li is a wonderful professional to work with! They shared their professionalism, wisdom, authenticity and kindness during their training titled “Tending to Anti-Asian Racialized Trauma Through Decolonial, Collective Healing” for the Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health housed at UT Austin.

Not only the participants shared great feedback and were truly excited to be part of the training, but our staff team was so pleased to be part of the planning process. They’re a joy to work with and an incredible educator to learn from/with. Thank you Melody for all you do!

That was amazing, above and beyond anything I could have imagined. I am so grateful for you and the wonderful work that you do!

I’m still getting people emailing me with such positive feedback. No less than 6 people have told me, “It’s the best training you’ve ever brought to Lines for Life”.

What you taught so well was that trauma lives in the body, and we can’t just talk about it in intellectual terms. We have to be with our bodies and heal ourselves so that we can do the important healing work with others.

Tending to Racialized Trauma & Rupture Workshop

Melody partnered with Ryan Dillon and Prism, our LBGTQIA+ Employee Resource Group to create and facilitate an incredibly in-depth, educational, and empathetic webinar, “Uplifting LGBTQIA+ Mental Health,” as part of our company’s Pride celebrations.

Prism members were proud that the webinar truly centered them and took an intersectional approach when this is so often not the case.

Employees outside of the LGBTQIA+ community have shared that this webinar gave them the tools, understanding, and even the bravery to have conversations, make mistakes, and take action toward allyship.

We were so thrilled to work with Melody and so proud to present their teaching to our global workforce.

It was a pleasure to bring Mel to work with our leaders (“Decolonizing Mental Health for Leaders” Keynote). Their commitment to truth and care was uplifting and impactful to our leaders as they navigate such an extraordinary time. Mel helped us create the space for people to remember that they are humans, not human resources. This is something we hold dear as we move through the world.

I am still smiling – what an amazing exploration of gender and identity!!

We cannot thank you enough for your willingness to approach these topics, particularly in a way that was honest and did not diminish the content in order to make it more palatable for the cisheteronormative perspective.

Uplifting LGBTQIA+ Mental Health: Celebrating Gender Expansiveness & Creating Affirming Community Workshop

This webinar was one of the best I have ever seen. Melody was well informed, trauma-focused, and genuine. I felt heard and comfortable the whole time.

On top of that, I learned so much about racial trauma and rupture – I plan to use information from the webinar in my personal and professional life.

Melody honored the experience that Asian communities have endured in this country historically and presently. But more importantly, they contextualized the impacts, the intersections, and the methods of providing comprehensive mental health services to those effected by a wide array of racial traumas.

Their presentation style was fluid. Her macro and micro level analysis of the Asian experience, and their grounding techniques, blew me away.