De’Andrea Breann Lottier
De’Andrea Breann Lottier is a Southern California native. She is an avid activist for social justice and human rights issues including racial inequality, youth & homelessness, immigration rights, and LGBTQ issues. She has recently been exploring healing practices and popular education tools to facilitate inclusive spaces for healing spiritual trauma and healing childhood trauma from poverty and homelessness. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and History/Political Science from Warren Wilson College in Western North Carolina. While an undergrad, she co-started a peer mentor program for students of color and international students at Warren Wilson College. It has been running successfully for nearly 5 years. De’Andrea is currently serving as an AmeriCorps member at a charter school in WNC. There she oversees a new Big Brothers Big Sisters student mentor program. She also works as a Team Leader-Direct Support Professional at a group home in WNC.
Sacred Wounds Panel
This panel will explore the experience of spiritual and religious trauma — when someone is negated by a faith tradition or community because of who they are, what they think or what they believe. We will explore how this kind of trauma creates the experiences of shame, guilt, unworthiness, hopelessness, grief/loss, and a feeling of conditional love which can impact not just a person’s faith experience but their experience of love, trust and relationship in life as a whole. We will explore ways to begin to heal from this specific kind of traum and find a path to healing and wholeness — mind, body and spirit. This panel will include a mix of those who have experienced religious trauma & those who work as therapists and healers with survivors.