Invite Gabes to speak or teach at your next event, project, class session, or podcast episode!
You may find her previous speaking and teaching engagements below.
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Previous speaking engagements:
2025
- Holistic Security: Emotional First Aid and Collective Wellbeing Workshop, Instructor and facilitator, Oxfam International
- “Oscillation, Interdependence, and the Search for Collective Liberation,” Guest speaker, Lumos Transforms.
- “Symbiotic Relationality, Quantum Listening, and A Therapy of Insurgency” Guest Instructor, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, Seattle, WA.
- “Decolonized Mental Health Strategies,” MEND Institute, Seattle WA.
- Eros Retreat, Facilitator, Collective Wellness Retreats, La Union, Philippines.
2024
- “Leaning Into Liberatory Practice” Speaker, Virtual Summit, Prospect Counselling and Training, British Columbia, Canada.
- “Topographies of {Dis}Connection: re-membering self, community, and land,” Core Faculty, Virtual Teaching, Institute for the Development of Healing Arts, New York City, New York
- “Contemporary Spirituality: Meaning and Mysticism in the Modern Age,” Core Faculty, Online Course, advaya.
- “Attachment Theory in Migratory Populations,” Guest Instructor, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, Seattle, WA.
- “Loneliness ⟺ Hyperconnectivity,” Panel speaker, International Think Big Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- ‘Where Streams Join,’ Panelist, Virtual Conference, The Pacific, Asian, and North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry, Atlanta, GA.
2023
- “Mental Health In Our Work and In Our Time,” Faculty, Collective Wellness Retreat hosted by Good Neighbors Solidarity Collective, Your Head Lah!, and Project Common Lounge. Lamphun, Thailand.
- “Mental Health Wellness & Social Change Movements,” Teacher, Virtual Webinar, Together for Future and 350.org
- “Conscious for Culture/Cultura,” Panel Speaker, Stranger Fruit Voices (A Spotify Original).
2022
- 6th Annual Social Justice Symposium, Keynote Speaker, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
- “Transnational Family Structures & Intergenerational Mental Health,” Teacher, Student-Directed Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
- “Exploring Healing in Our API Communities,” Panel Speaker, Asian-American Pacific Islander Women Lead Organization
- Anti-Asian Racism Panel Discussion (internal), Panel Speaker, SickKids Foundation, hosted by the SickKids Foundation Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Committee,
- “Healing in the In-Between: Exploring Migration and Vicarious Trauma,” Speaker. Community Mental Health Village: A Look Into Collective Healing Conference. Team CommUNITY (TCU).
- “American-Asian Pacific Islander Journeys Toward Community Healing”, Panel Speaker, Asian Pacific Islanders Social Work Coalition, University of Michigan.
- “Naaalala Mo Pa Ba?: Story Telling for Climate Change” Panel Speaker, Green Dreams of a Generation. Manila, Philippines.
2021
- Reclaim Mental Health Conference, Speaker, The Associated Students of the University of California, Irvine.
- “An Invitation to Creativity – A Virtual Expressive Event”, Speaker, The Creative Spark, Los Angeles, CA.
- “Diversity of Tactics and Care, ” Teacher, Virtual Teaching Series. Diverse and Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries. Boston, MA.
- “The Colonized (and Colonizing) Psyche,” Speaker, CYP Conference, Online Conference.
2020
- Enneagram Global Summit, Panel Speaker, Online Conference, The Shift Network.
- “Racial Trauma & Healing,” Teacher, Online Webinars, Check Your Privilege Summer Skool Program
- “Xenophobia & the Church: Decolonizing the ‘Stranger,’” Speaker, Coalition for Christian Outreach Jubilee Conference,The Westin and David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
- “Sexploration,” Panel Speaker. Hosted by Wesley Club at the University of Washington, Online Webinar.
- Beyond Shame by Matthias Roberts Book Launch, Panel Speaker. Quest Church, Seattle, WA
- “Race, Culture, & the Enneagram” Panel Speaker. The Art of Growth. International Enneagram Association Global Conference, Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, CA.
2019
- “Power and Authenticity” Panel Speaker. For Women Who Roar Magazine Launch. Seattle, WA.
- “Confronting Reality: Toward a De-Colonial Spirituality,” Speaker, Teaching series. Coastland Commons, Northminster Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA.
- “Decolonization as Spiritual Practice,” Teacher, WIDEN, 2019 (Private retreat) with Fr. Richard Rohr, Kaitlin Curtice, & Mirabai Starr, Santa Fe, NM.
- “Formidable and Loved: The Story of a Migrant,” Speaker and performer. The Ravenna Collaboratory, Seattle, WA.
- “Decolonization through Spirituality & Creativity,” Speaker and performer. Endings & New Beginnings, A Gathering for Thinkers & Creators, Seattle, WA.
- “Decolonization & Hospitality: God’s gift of welcome as an antidote to colonialism,” Speaker. Coalition for Christian Outreach Jubilee Conference, The Westin and David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
- “Undoing: Decolonizing our Bodies and Sexuality,” Panel Speaker with Annie Mesaros, MDiv & Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, Seattle, WA.
Radio and Podcast Interviews
2024 “Time is a Living Thing: Biomimicry, Home, and Healing,” Guest. Moonbeaming
2023 “Intergenerational Healing” Guest. Lovin Coven Podcast.
2023 “Journeying Together” Guest. For The Wild Podcast
2023 “Filipino spirituality, creativity, and mental health” Guest. Sikodiwa Project.
2023 “Philippines, Climate Justice, ‘Romanticization of Resilience,’” Guest. Filipina on
2022 “Re-rooting Therapy and Re-membering Community” Guest. Green Dreamer
2022 “Wellness Wednesdays,” Guest. All Sides From WOSU 89.7 NPR News (NPR).
2022 “Flexing our Emotional Muscles.” Guest. WORT 89.9FM Madison.
2021 “Decolonizing healing and mental health” Guest. To Write Love On Her Arms
2021 “Womanhood in Pre-Colonial Philippines,” Guest. Filipina on the Rise Podcast.

