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Your team/community needs anti-racism training and diversity education. But, where do you start?

Wondering how to infuse a more anti-racist perspective to your therapy practice or local community?  My general approach to trainings is grounded in mindfulness, mind-body-spirit connection and the idea that we have to build comfort within ourselves to talk with others about being racial beings and truly co-create inclusive spaces.  
​ Scroll to the bottom for prices and sample outline for one time workshop or series.

Who needs this kind of anti-racism training and diversity education consultation? It's simple. Everyone.

  • ​all-white practices, communities and organizations
  • "diverse" practices and organizations
  • practices treating BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) clients and communities
  • lack of awareness of the intersectionality of identities
  • tend to take a neutral stance towards the everyday expressions of oppression
  • communities struggling with talking about critical race theory
  • practices that don't have clinicians or staff that represent their local community
  • organizations that don't talk about race and privilege
  • tendency to be white saviors
  • challenges around hiring BIPOC staff
  • limited exploration of one's racial identity
  • progressive, liberal communities
  • organizations that are afraid to say Black Lives Matter
  • individuals who don't know how to answer the comment "All lives matter"
  • not sure what diversity, equity, and inclusion means
  • lack of awareness of how the model minority myth is hurting asian people and is based on anti-black culture
  • grew up thinking colorblindness was not harmful
  • those wanting to decenter whiteness and explore white supremacy culture in their spaces
  • honoring multiple truths in the therapy room and doing power analysis
  • challenges partnering with diverse groups in your area
  • practices with difficulty retaining BIPOC clinicians and/or clients
  • people interested in decolonizing their therapy
  • those interested in working towards collective liberation

Visit our anti-racism resources page for videos from Dr. Edmond about Moving from Cultural Competence to Cultural Humility to Anti-Racism

TOPICS COVERED IN ANTI-RACISM TRAININGS FOR CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN COUNSELING FOR PRIVATE PRACTICE THERAPY OWNERS:

  • institutionalizing an anti-racist perspective so it is part of your organization
  • difference between diversity, equity, inclusion and justice
  • racism on a continuum
  • white supremacy culture that creates white privilege
  • what is lost with assimilation and colorblindness
  • anti-blackness culture
  • racial disparities
  • racial trauma through the generations
  • white fragility and white comfort
  • microaggressions
  • decentering whiteness, decolonizing
  • barriers to racial discussions
  • critical race theory
  • internalized racism
  • embodied discussions about race
  • building resilience around having uncomfortable conversations
  • compassion based approaches to race dialogues
  • strategies for healing, being ally, co-conspirator, accomplice
  • creating more inclusive environment for staff and members of your community that tend to be oppressed
  • abolitionist thinking

What one group practice owner has to say about doing coaching and team training with NAthalie

self-assessment around anti-racism for individuals and organizations

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Healing Racial Trauma & Working Towards Collective Liberation

picture credit by Anneliese Singh, PhD
This is a journey of racial healing. Even though we start in different places we all have healing to do.  

PACKAGES AVAILABLE FOR ANTI-RACISM TRAINING & DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION CONSULTATION

  • Workshops, Trainings, Series, Seminars: $700 to $2000 per hour (typically starts at $700 per hour for small/medium group practices via zoom).  Pricing is based on social justice model which factors in equity concepts. Some factors considered in determining price:  size of organization, type of organization, type of event, annual budgets, in person vs virtual, demographics of organization and relationship to privilege and power. 
  • Individual supervision/coaching: $250 per hour
  • Small group consultation/coaching: starts at $400 per hour
  • Purchase recorded webinars bundle for your team ~ check out Antiracism Revolution membership community for individual or team options
  • Group Supervision: pricing depends on size of group
  • Ongoing community workshops (virtually)- see upcoming list

Pricing is tiered from a social justice perspective to recognize size of groups, lay groups vs professional groups, how long groups have been operating, marginalized status, geographical location, and available resources for each group

What to Expect in Mindful Anti-Racism Education and Trauma Trainings

The below agendas are samples of what might be covered in a workshop or series. I tend to modify based on my observations of the team dynamics, demographics, and racial literacy and fluency.
Workshops and series tend to be a blend of didactic, multimedia, large group and small group discussions focused on exploring one's own identity and the way that shows up in spaces.  There is a mindful tone to all dialogues and encouragement of embodied experience where thoughts, feelings, and sensations are integrated.

Sample objectives:
  • Foundations of antiracism
  • Understanding legacy and manifestations of white body supremacy/white settler colonialism
  • Racial trauma and wounds of oppression
  • Tasks of the privileged and tasks of the marginalized in anti-oppression work
  • Exploring wheel of power and privilege and doing a power analysis that looks at complexity of intersecting identities
  • Polyvagal theory and ways to increase one's window of tolerance and capacity to have intersectional racial dialogues
  • Polarity between white body supremacy and anti-blackness
  • Exploring antisemitism, particularly in liberal spaces and importance of including diversity of Jewish identity in antiracism 
  • Exploring islamophobia, anti-Arab racism and anti-Palestinian racism
  • Decolonizing and liberatory practices
  • Holding space for range and the ways it can mobilize into action
  • Tailoring dialogues and strategies to meet people where they are in their racial identity development
  • Balancing compassion and accountability 
  • Unpacking modernity (intersecting forces of oppression) and importance of cross issue and multiracial solidarity
  • Difference between soft reform, radical reform, and abolitionist perspectives related to liberation​
  • Building literacy, fluency and agility
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My approach tends to focus on:
  • Overall building literacy, fluency and agility to be able to have dialogues across differing identities and viewpoints
  • Mindfulness of our social conditioning, thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, action urges and vibe of our environment
  • Honoring different ways of learning and different capacities for dialogues
  • Bringing curiosity into the room and the relationship
  • Holding space for intersectionality and multiple truths
  • Identifying different conflict resolution approaches
  • Identifying where people may be on their racial identity development or antiracism journey and making adjustments accordingly to bring people along in the work
  • Building capacity for having embodied dialogues that can be emotional, exploring relationship to privilege and power
  • Increasing one's window of tolerance around racial dialogues and being mindful of fight, flight, freeze, fawn, fix, annihilate responses
  • Focus on addressing system and structural inequities along with individual responsibility in creating change or disrupting inequitable policies
  • Balancing compassion and accountability. Not engaging in cancel culture or dehumanizing others.
Note that these trainings can be emotional as we uncover the legacy of racism and work to integrate our emotional, somatic and cognitive understanding of the below topics.  This might factor into what time of day you schedule the trainings.
Picture credit below to SHERRYL N WESTON
​We will explore where people are on the journey
Starting point of intersectionality with antiracism as the foundation

Book Your Team's Anti-Racism Training

Your private practice therapy team, yoga studio, educational team or healthcare group can get help with these topics and more. Now that you know what to expect in anti-racism training, and consultation for cultural competence in counseling, you can reach out. Getting started is easy, just follow these simple steps:
  1. E-mail Dr. Edmond to discuss group training options
  2. Schedule your team's anti-racism, cultural humility or intergenerational trauma training
  3. Begin to feel more confident and capable in anti-racism conversations with your clients and team

More Ways to Engage with Mindfulness in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Work

You can have more mindfully centered cultural conversations  in the workplace, with your clients, and in your personal life. Visit our anti-racism resources page for more tools for your team. Learn about Dr. Edmond, your diversity consultant and owner of Mindful and Multicultural Counseling in New Jersey. You can also visit our blog and learn about our upcoming public anti-racism training opportunities. If you want more individual support on your anti-racism journey, visit the anti-racism resources page on the Mindful and Multicultural Counseling Center's website. 

Join the Antiracism Revolution membership site where the focus is monthly workshops and weekly content exploring one's self as a racial being to build skills for action in our circle of influence.  Learn more here. 
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Ewing, NJ 08628
​(609) 403-6359

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