Counseling and Behavioral Health programs within K-12 schools offer essential services that address the needs of our socially and culturally diverse students. To help equip therapists in school settings, we have designed a series of workshops and consultation groups that empower these clinicians to engage in effective and culturally responsive interactions.
Our Culturally Responsive Counseling Series provides the foundational knowledge, tools, and practices for culturally responsive counseling. These workshops build personal cultural awareness for participants, a crucial first step in working effectively with socially and culturally diverse clients. Participants explore their cultural identities, biases, and experiences as racialized beings. They also learn more about the process of racialization and how racial structures impact groups and individuals. Considering the anxiety that issues of race arouse, these workshops also incorporate mindfulness practices and tools for managing intense emotions and challenging discussions.
Our Mindfulness, Meditation, and Somatic Healing series explores how clinicians can use mindfulness to transform their capacity for engaging race and racism in their clinical practice. In this series, participants (1) explore how race and racism currently manifest and impact individuals (2) discover how mindfulness can help therapists work more effectively with issues related to race and racism, and (3) identify and practice specific mindfulness tools to manage the intensity and difficulty of working with race.
After each workshop, participants are asked to intentionally explore how they can incorporate these ideas and tools into their current practice. Participants then engage in an Antiracism Consultation Group. During the group, select participants present cases to explore how these concepts play out in their current caseload. These groups have a dual focus: (1) personal self-exploration and development regarding issues related to race and racism and (2) professional development of culturally responsive counseling skills to effectively and ethically address race and racism in one’s clinical practice. These groups are open to clinicians of all races and ethnicities. This space is intended to be gracious, not condemning. It will entail uncomfortable learning, with the ultimate goal of supportive and constructive interactions.
Up to 50 participants
50+ Participants
Up to 50 participants
50+ Participants
Up to 50 participants
50+ Participants
includes unlimited participants and structured case presentations
for unlimited participants and structured case presentations
A 30% deposit for the total cost of an individual workshop, workshop package, or consultation group is due at the time of booking. This deposit is non-refundable. The remaining balance is due 48 hrs before the date of the service.
This beginner-level workshop begins with an informative overview of key concepts in antiracist clinical practice, including definitions of race, prejudice, discrimination, racism, and antiracism. It also explores the similarities and differences between (1) Cultural Competence, (2) Cultural Humility and (3) Culturally Responsive.
Additionally, this workshop assists clinicians in identifying vocabulary for their approach to working with socially and culturally diverse clients. In addition, participants consider the ethical responsibilities of therapists concerning race, racism, and social justice. Clinicians engage in critical self-exploration, in which they explore their own biases as therapists. Finally, participants identify the racial issues they are most comfortable addressing as therapists and the topics about which they remain silent.
This introductory-level workshop builds cultural awareness, one of the core competencies of culturally responsive counseling. This workshop defines key concepts related to cultural awareness including, intersectionality, privilege, marginalization, social identity, and power. This interactive workshop invites participants to explore their intersecting identities utilizing Pamela Hays’ ADDRESSING model and then map their shifting locations as part of marginalized and privileged communities. The workshop then considers the practice of personal disclosure of identity as part of psychological practice, and ethical considerations. Finally, tangible ways to establish and maintain professional practices that build their cultural awareness are offered for life-long learning and professional development.