Workshops and Public Speaking

3 years experience curating and hosting workshops and presentations on topics such as: peer support, burnout treatment, and neurodivergent empowerment. Speaking engagements with MBRLC, NAMI Massachussetts, Mad Pride, and Massachussetts Department of Mental Health.

Community Organizing and Co-operative Living Consultation

Over 8 years of experience co-managing 3 separate communal living spaces as well as organizing countless community fundraisers, accessibility focused events

Management and Training Experience

3 years of experience in: program management, specialized staff training plans, supervision, and administrative leadership. Specialization in creating accessible spaces and team dynamics.

Peer Support

5+ years of experience in lived expertise centered mental health support: 1-on-1, groups, and mutual aid formats. Over 1500 hours experience facilitating in a variety of settings including groups, meetings, mediations, and 1-on-1.

Organizing and Peer Support

Zines

Creative and Design Experience

Procreate

Canva

Web Design

Graphics and Logo Design

Published Poetry and Op-Eds

Social Media Outreach

House Of Infinity

Program Experience and Affiliations

A Peer Approach

Mutual Care

Connection that values each person's lived experience and wisdom. Encouraging as equal a power dynamic as possible, and moving beyond the standard idea of fixer versus person to be fixed. Returning to community based knowledge sharing and healing models.

Questioning Power Systems

Acknowledging societal violence and integrating liberation with our own individual healing needs. Honoring and mourning the harm that clinical settings and primarily white institutions have enacted. Subverting models of clinical therapy and academia together.

Lived Expertise

Stepping into my own wisdom regarding my experiences from a variety of locations of oppression and privilege, using my experience as a bridge to meet community and share growth and ideas.

Practical Approaches

Encouraging the ideas that work, over what society deems valuable or respectable; creating trauma informed and harm reduction focused spaces that encouraging relearning our truest selves at whatever ability level or cultural placement.

About MJ

MJ Griego(they/them) has a bachelor's degree from Tufts University. They majored in Social justice oriented Sociology and minored in Chinese studies. They have also studied in ShangHai's DaTong International Academy and in ChangChun at NSLIY's summer intensive.

They are called to working in peer support and mutual aid: Lived experience based community support, alternative crisis care, accessible mental health support, and using trauma healing for social change and equality.

MJ has extensive experience in 1-on-1 peer support, co-operative living management, program management, staff mentorship and team management, peer group and meeting facilitation, and workshop development and facilitation.

Art has always been integral to MJ's worldview. A self-taught artist putting in thousands of work hours over the past 22 years, MJ has used art as a therapeutic tool, advocacy tool, and a way to share their perspective as well as find joy in this world. MJ's work focuses on channelling the challenges of life into empowerment and using art to foster resilience.

Their passion for art has led to experience in building and designing websites such as this one, mutual aid posters, peer support graphics, and logo design. They also have writing experience in genres such as political essay, poetry, and memoir.

See MJ's Portfolio