Facilitator: Cheryl-Ann Weekes
Culturally Responsive Counseling in the International School
Online: 23 March - 18 May 2024
Email: crweekes7@gmail.com
Cheryl-Ann Weekes, M.Ed. was born in Barbados and immigrated to Boston at the age of 11. She is proud of her Bajan heritage and loves Caribbean food, rum punch and black cake. Cheryl-Ann's favorite things are chocolate, coconut and mango ice cream, the beach, traveling, listening to music especially soca, and reading. Cheryl-Ann has been a Counselor working with the teen population since 1997 in the United States. She began working internationally in 2010 and has lived in many countries.
Cheryl-Ann created Weekes Enterprise, LLC because she is passionate about the need to normalize going to therapy and discussing mental health, boundaries, consent, and accountability with her students and community. Cheryl-Ann Weekes is an expert in social emotional counseling, mental health and university counseling. Her purpose is to support young people and encourage them to express their emotions and opinions in a safe space. What she loves most about her work is the opportunity to have individual conversations with her students about developing coping strategies. She uses positive self-talk and quotes from her favorite authors to teach lessons to her students. Cheryl-Ann believes that when adults apologize and admit they have made a mistake, it creates safe spaces for students to try new experiences and make their own mistakes.
Cheryl-Ann's favorite authors are Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. Living abroad has given her more insight into the cultures of the world and the beauty of travel. She loves to travel, has been to 45 countries; visiting 30 of them as a solo traveler. Her favorite countries are France, Ghana, South Africa, Zanzibar, Seychelles and the Maldives.
