Events
April 22, 2025 12-1pm
Women’s Fund Educational Event: How the Hell Do I Get Through This
REGISTER NOW for this special Spring event brought to you by Community Foundation’s Women’s Fund
How the Hell Do I Get Through This
Let’s be honest, life feels overwhelming right now. When stress and uncertainty become constants, how do we keep ourselves healthy, centered, and resilient?
Join us for an engaging, down-to-earth conversation on how prioritizing rest and self-care isn’t selfish—it’s essential. Facilitated by leadership coach Kim Wunner, this zoom chat will provide practical guidance and authentic insights for navigating challenging times.
What you’ll experience:
• Guided Meditation: Kim will start us off with an accessible mindfulness practice to ground our conversation.
• Expert Panel: Short, impactful conversations with three Ithaca-area experts on how rest and self-care can transform our ability to cope and thrive.
• Interactive Audience Q&A: Your chance to ask questions and explore personal and professional approaches to rest and resilience.
You’re not alone—let’s get through this together.
Meet the Panelists & Facilitator of “How the Hell Do I Get Through This?”
Shasta Savage, MSW, CPC, RYT-200
• Director of Leadership Development & Consulting Services, Human Services Coalition (nonprofit capacity building)
• Owner/Instructor, Cascadilla Wellness (well-being and yoga/mindfulness instruction & coaching)
Shasta Savage is a trainer, speaker, consultant, leadership coach and yoga/mindfulness instructor. With a background in the trauma-informed lens and human rights perspective, she provides support on topics such as DEIJA, leadership development, organizational development, employee well-being, self- and community-care. She integrates data-driven and leading/promising practices with an intersectional approach to support the greatest outcomes.
Dalya Tamir, LCSW
• Ithaca-based Psychotherapist
• Group facilitator
• Author
Ithaca-based psychotherapist specializing in working with women and couples. In her work as a therapist Dalya draws on mindfulness and compassionate practices to help individuals turn back from self-abandonment and return to their wise, creative, and vibrant self. With years of experience in community mental health and private practice, she empowers people to embrace themselves with kindness especially when facing challenging situations.She will share therapeutic insights and practical tools that will support us in staying connected to our innate goodness and act from wisdom during these intense times. Dalya is the author of “Turning Back to Ourselves: A Women’s Guide to Healing Self-Abandonment and Loving who We Are.”
Yasmin Rashid
• Vice President of the Unbroken Promise Initiative (UPI)
• Community Relations & Workforce Development Specialist
• Financial Services Professional
Yasmin Rashid is the UPI Vice President and Community Relations Specialist, while also working in the financial services industry. She enjoys speaking life, compassion, growth, and understanding into the hearts of those she encounters. Yamin’s gift of expression through words has paved the way for her to be a talented writer, public speaker, and community mediator. Her ability to captivate those her words touch allows her activism to reach new heights with each and every conversation. Yasmin’s enthusiasm for healing the traumas faced by her community perfectly aligns her in all she does.
Kim Wunner (Facilitator), ACC, RYT-200
• Executive Coach and Yoga Teacher
• Reiki Practitioner
• Ithaca College Staff Member
Kim Wunner is an executive and leadership coach, partnering with individuals and organizations who want to do leadership differently. She supports her clients to get clear on their vision and values, so they can take action as their authentic selves. Kim has devoted herself to studying the intersectionalities of socio-economic structures and its demands on gender identities and the inequities it has produced. This took her on a decade-long path understanding how to tune into our greatest assets.
Prior to becoming a coach, Kim lived in Philadelphia working in corporate and nonprofit marketing. She is an accredited coach via the International Coaching Federation having trained in Presence Based Coaching. She is a Reiki Practitioner and Yoga Teacher and on staff at Ithaca College. She is a mother, partner, CrossFitter and avid gardener.