MAKING SOUL

THE CONOCIMIENTO COACHING PROGRAM

Program Begins Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Empowering change-makers and transformational leaders to (re)connect to their inner truth and joy in living their path and purpose.

A 6-Week Journey of Self-Care and Soul-Care for Change-Makers.

* Learn more about this signature Making Soul offering HERE.

Making Soul Community COMING SOON!

“You are the shaper of your flesh as well as of your soul. According to the ancient nauhas, one was put on earth to create one’s “face” (body) and “heart” (soul). To them, the soul was a speaker of words and the body a doer of deeds.”

- Gloria Anzaldúa, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras

For 20 years, I have taught, written about, and spoken on spirituality and social change. Today, I live out my purpose by creating spaces and experiences for change-makers from systemically marginalized groups to integrate self-care and soul-care into their community care and social change work. I support my clients by helping them craft and live out a path that reflects their light, purpose, values, and  commitments to community-rooted work. Learn more about me and my why.

BRENDA SENDEJO

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Workshops, Talks, & Professional Development

for professionals, in higher ed, community groups, schools, and organizations.

“Unsilencing the Past: Inspiring Belonging Through History and Memory”

Workshop

*This workshop is based on my recent publication in Somos Tejanas! Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas (UT Press 2025). It can be tailored to educators and other various groups and settings.

Available for Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month 2025 Presentations & Workshops

Please contact me for more information on speaking engagements.

“Cultivating Belonging Through “inner work": Insights from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands” Trinity University, November 2024 (top).

Higher Ed Offerings

A holistic approach to supporting communities within higher education through coaching, workshops, and consulting.

~ COACHING ~

Personalized, Holistic Coaching

Serving academics and others navigating higher education.

* Please reach out to discuss your goals and charting your path.

1:1 Support Sessions

Leading in the Borderlands: Inclusivity in Practice” School Directors and Chairs workshop, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas, August 2024

~ WORKSHOPS ~

  • The Holistic Academic

  • Cultivating Belonging through ‘inner work’: Insights from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands

  • Leading in the Borderlands: Inclusivity in Practice (geared towards those in leadership positions)

  • Mentoring Latinx Students in Higher Ed

  • Caring for Ourselves as Self-Preservation

  • Navigating Academia As Faculty and Staff of Color

*Customizable offerings available. Workshops can be tailored to serve undergraduate, graduate, staff, or faculty groups. Please reach out for further information.

Ethnographic & Cultural Consulting


  • Ethnographic and archival research and analyses.

  • Creating inclusive spaces and pedagogies in higher ed, K-12, and community settings through story.

  • Exhibit, television, and film consultation on Chicana/o/x and Tejana/o/x history, culture, and social justice causes.

  • Recent project: UTSA Democratizing Racial Justice Project/birthing justice initiative, a university-community partnership supported by the Mellon Foundation.

Headshot of Dr. Brenda Sendejo

Brenda Sendejo is an author, coach, and speaker who empowers change-makers to integrate self- and soul-care into their community care.

A former tenured faculty in the Liberal Arts context and leader in a national organization in my field, I experienced burnout. I learned the hard way that prioritizing students, institutions, community, and caregiving over my own well-being was not sustainable. I learned that I had to take my well-being into my own hands. No one else would do it for me. It wasn’t until I left academia that I was able to understand the fracturing of the mind, body, and spirit I experienced. Today, my purpose is to support change-makers, especially those from historically marginalized groups, to integrate connecting to their truth as an essential part of community care, caregiving, and social change work.

As I discuss in my forthcoming book on Chicana spiritual activism, learning the stories of women in the Chicana movement in Texas and the histories they uncovered transformed me. They led me to earn a PhD in cultural anthropology and to my work as a storyteller, facilitator, and coach today. These encuentros/ encounters with the women led me to a new way of seeing the world and coming home to myself, stages of transformation that inform my Conocimiento Coaching Framework, inspired by the work of Gloria Anzaldúa.

As a published author, award-winning educator, former faculty member and department chair, mentor, and chair of a national professional organization, I continually return to the power of story. Stories can silence, damage, and deter—but they also empower, heal, and allow us a deeper connection to ourselves and others.

I am guided by the wisdom of my own teachers and continually reminded that aligning with and operating from our truth, as in (re)writing our own stories and charting our own paths, inspires self-empowerment and healing for ourselves and the world. In the worlds of Gloria Anzaldúa, “I change myself, I change the world.”

Please reach out to discuss how I can support you and your community!

brenda@brendasendejoconsulting.com | 512.791.9808

brenda sendejo, phd

author | speaker | coach & guide