Deepening Racial Equity within our Clinical Practice

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• Have you taken Bryn Mawr’s Clinical Responsibility in Racial Equity and Cultural Inclusivity with Laura Hinds and Alison Gerig?
• Are you feeling like you have become complacent or stumped in your growth and development as anti-racist therapist?
• Are you wanting a safe space to explore how body-based/embodiment work and anti-racism work can support each other?
• Would you like more space and community to explore ethical/clinical struggles around race and social location in clinical work?

Then this advanced immersion 3 day workshop on being an embodied anti-racist therapist is for you!

Deepening Racial Equity within our Clinical Practice

Pre- Requisite

Bryn Mawr is inviting anyone who has taken the Bryn Mawr Clinical Responsibility in Racial Equity and Cultural Inclusivity (CRRECI) series with Laura Hinds and Alison Gerig to join this event.   Others are welcomed but must have a working knowledge of how race and white supremacy operate within the clinical space and be open to clarifying this prior to joining.  Please reach out to the facilitators to explore further.

Building on the CRRECI series, this immersion program will invite deeper self and clinical reflection in service of bringing race and social location more skillfully and ethically into the clinical space. 

The goal of this series will be to review the principles and practices of decolonizing our clinical spaces and ourselves as clinicians and to practice deeper application and self-awareness through experiential and body-based experiences. 

Becoming an embodied anti-racist therapist is a lifelong journey. Come deepen this work with us and build a community to support you.

Schedule

Day 1- Tune up our clinical awareness around issues of race, white supremacy, and the client relationship. 

Day 2 - Embodiment and somatic work deepens our ability to work with race, white supremacy, and power in the therapy relationship; heighten our awareness of our own biases and colonized places in ourselves and in our work.

Day 3- Skills building and applying this work to yourself and your own clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify 5 areas where race and issues of white supremacy exist in clinical work.
2. Understand and dismantle personal biases around learned racism, advantage, and marginalization (unconscious and conscious).
3. Apply 4 liberatory practices of anti-racism with clients regardless of social location of their client load.
4. Understand the tasks of the privileged and marginalized and how this applies to clinical practice.
5. Apply an ethical lens and process to working with racial trauma reactivity in our clients and ourselves.

Cost | CEUs

Program Cost: $510

*Discount rate: $450 (Discount rate only available when payment in full is provided at initial registration.)

Payment plan option is available on the registration form. Payment plan session rate is $170

CEUs: 13.5 (includes 1 hour of ethics credit)

Instructors

Laura Hinds, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., (she/her/we) is Principal Partner of Hindsight Consulting Group, which provides training and small group interventions for non-profits of diverse foci, and is an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. An alum of Penn's SP2, Laura began her career as a direct practitioner with children, adolescents, and families at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, developing skills in HIV/AIDS specific care needs, case management, and high acuity hospital based social work practice, as well as psychotherapy. Laura is also the Chairperson Emeritus of the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors, and a current Board Member of The Therapy Center of Philadelphia.

Alison Gerig, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., (she/her/hers) - With her roots coming out of the south by way of NYC for graduate school, Alison Gerig has worked in the field of mental health and social justice for over 20 years. She loves working in partnership with other therapists around ideas of social location, privilege/subjugated identities, and how they show up in the therapy field. Using her Gestalt therapy and social justice backgrounds, Alison has spent years providing workshops on how to strengthen therapy healing work through exploring the therapeutic relationship. She was the executive director of Therapy Center of Philadelphia for eleven years where she worked with a Change Team to provide the vision and structure to expand their feminist clinical lens to center transgender- affirming and racially equitable therapy. Building on this ethical imperative, Alison currently supports other executive directors/CEOs, organizations, schools, and foundations around similar culture change work and maintains a private practice.