This series was developed to support Mental Health Professionals & Trainees in gaining deeper awareness, skills, knowledge, and relational capacity
It took place between March 2nd and May 17th, 2021 via Zoom. You can find recordings of all the presentations below.
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Start from Yesterday: Healing and Serving as Clinicians and Supervisors – Dr. Brandi Pritchett-Johnson
March 2nd, 2021
“Why are we here, why am I here?…
Be an honorable recipient of our power”
-Dr. Brandi Pritchett-Johnson
Empathizing with Lived Experiences: A Pathway to Healing – Natalya Bannister
March 8th, 2021
“What Grace meant to me… persevere, in spite of all this… with my head up, and to take other people along with me… Trauma can be turned into Triumph.”
-Soon-to-be-Dr. Natalya Bannister-Roby
The Only Way Out Is Through: How To Navigate Becoming Painfully Conscious of Unconscious Whiteness – Sandra Kim
March 16th, 2021
“Fear, anxiety, anger taking up all the oxygen …… I need a certain degree of spaciousness to be curious, if I am activated in some way…. I first notice how my body is feeling in that moment”
– Sandra Kim
Mental Health Care is Intersectionality-Oriented Care – Dr. Kimberly Hart
March 22nd, 2021
“At a training with Lee Mun Wah from the The Quan Yin Center for Compassionate Learning, I was asked, “When did you first notice you were different?”
-Dr. Kimberly A. Hart
Multicultural Mistakes: Racial Trauma and Healing – Dr. Victoria McNeil-Young
March 30th, 2021
“….giving the rupture the time and space that it deserves”
– Dr. McNeil-Young
All (Helping) Hands on Deck:
Oppression and (Self-)Love towards Liberation – Dr. Reuben Faloughi
April 13th, 2021
“Liberation in action includes personal transformation and institutional transformation… safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, & empowerment”
– Dr. Reuben Faloughi
Mindful Creativity to Embody Anti-Racism: a Lifelong Journey – Dr. Ana Puig
April 19th, 2021
A Strategy for addressing Racial Trauma: “Write a poem about healing and transformation”
– Dr. Ana Puig
Life at the intersections: Centering Multiple Margins – Dr. Tameeka Hunter
May 17th, 2021
“I am a human being, Do you see me? Do you see the pain that we are experiencing as a community?”
– Dr. Tameeka Hunter
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