Dr. Eva Marie Shivers will be one of the morning breakout presenters at the 2026 Birth of Brilliance (BoB) virtual conference on February 26, 2026. Dr. Shivers' presentation, titled Our Village - Our Medicine: Reclaiming 'Community' in IECMH, will help to reemerge the community medicine we have in all of us and those we serve. The 2026 conference's theme is Disrupting Burnout Culture: From Self-Care to Community Care. BoB is for the folks doing the deep work in complicated systems who need...

🎉 Excitement is in the air! Get ready to be part of Indigo Cultural Center's premiere of the Sankofa Infant Mental Health History Project, PART ONE: Land, Root, Seed, Culture, Community . This is the unveiling of a multi-year and ongoing love letter to our field, and we want you to be there! 🎉 The Sankofa Infant Mental Health History Project (Sankofa Project) is an ongoing effort led by Indigo Cultural Center and co-held, co-dreamt, and co-created with the Steering Collective for the...

Across the country, thought leaders, reflective supervisors, researchers, and mental health consultants, themselves, are noticing they are increasingly holding consultees’ personal stress and trauma alongside their traditional child-, classroom-, and program-focused consultation. Indigo Cultural Center is leading a national study to understand how these changes are shaping consultants’ practice and identify the supports needed to sustain them in this vital work. In March 2026, we will hold a...