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

Wondering how to infuse a more anti-racist lens to your therapy practice or local community? Especially given all that has been revealed about the anti-blackness culture and history of white supremacy in this country? Let's get started.  I work from a Diversity~`Equity~Inclusion~Justice lens.

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

• ​all-white practices
• "diverse" practices
• practices treating BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) clients
• lack of awareness of the intersectionality of identities
• those in affluent areas
• primarily self pay practices
• primarily insurance based practices
• practices that don't have clinicians that represent their local community
• practices that don't talk about race and privilege
• tendency to be white saviors
• challenges around hiring BIPOC clinicians
• limited exploration of one's racial identity
• practices based on feminist theory

• practices that are afraid to say Black Lives Matter
• clinicians who don't know how to answer the comment "All lives matter"
• practices based on psychodynamic or psychoanalytic theory
• practices based on CBT or DBT
• lack of awareness of how the model minority myth is hurting asian people and is based on anti-black culture
• tend to take a neutral stance towards the everyday expressions of oppression
• 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

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:

• onboarding clinicians
• institutionalizing an anti-racist lens so it is part of your organization
• holistic self care for BIPOC clinicians
• racism on a continuum
• white supremacy system that creates white privilege
• history of black lives matter movement
• anti-blackness culture
• racial trauma
• white fragility
• microaggressions

• barriers to racial discussions
• internalized racism
• white body supremacy and how that legacy lives in the body
• embodied discussions about race
• mindfulness based approaches to tolerating distress
• compassion based approaches to race dialogues
• creating an anti-racist workplace that has a social justice lens
• attracting and retaining more clinicians of color

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self-assessment around anti-racism for individuals and organizations

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Where do you fall on the continuum? Picture Credit to Sherryl N Weston

Healing from the Trauma of Racism

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

• One, two, or three hour intro workshop: $275 to $400 per hour (typically $350 per hour for group practices)
• Three to Four part series that is 90-180 minutes depending on size of team: $350 per hour
• Consultation about specific issues occurring in your practice or organization: $250 to $350 per hour
• Individual supervision/coaching: $200 per hour
• Workshops for small groups, libraries, churches, small yoga communities: $200-$300 per hour
• Purchase recorded webinars (3 hours of content over two videos) to watch on your own or with your team that includes self-reflection questions and meditation ($250 for both)
• Group Supervision: pricing depends on size of group
• Ongoing community workshops (virtually)- see upcoming list

Pricing is tiered 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

Email Dr. Edmond to see what training can look like for your team

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

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Sample Intro Workshop (90 minutes-2 hours)

• introduction to social justice element of antiracism work with some beginning self-inquiry through mindfulness exercise
• centering race in our discussion 
• ​critical race theory overview
  
• provide some historical context for racism in U.S. 
• explore stories of immigration and concept of othering
• white supremacy as a system rather than individuals
• white privilege and proximity to whiteness as a privileged status 
• normalizing everyone can hold racist ideas
• barriers to having dialogues about race and white people seeing themselves as a group/culture/race that has an oppressive history in this country on BIPOC individuals
• duality of black lives matter vs all lives matter
• concept that we are always either dismantling white supremacy or being complicit given the anti-blackness culture
• different ways to be an ally or accomplice in one's everyday life; different ways to be an activist and include social justice in one's life
• interactive workshop with time for Q & A

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We review power and privilege wheel in our first session

Sample 3-4 part Series (typically 90-180 minutes; option to be full day seminar but not recommended in order to have the body and mind process the content over time)

• 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.  Mindful tone to all dialogues and embodied experience where thoughts, feelings, and sensations are integrated creating a paradigm shift that leads to institutional and community changes.  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.​
• intro and guidelines for being together (creating a brave space)
• mindfulness exercises
• exploring white supremacy, white body supremacy and white privilege
• discerning whites as a group, rather than individuals with a history of oppression
• ​looking at white supremacy culture and our indoctrination into it
• racial trauma and its legacy
• critical race theory more in depth
• exploring model minority in predominantly white spaces
• looking at racism as a continuum that everyone is impacted by
• what does it mean to be an anti-racist
• what are stages of becoming an anti-racist
• self-inquiry work about where one is individually
• black lives matter vs all lives matter
• implicit bias
• microaggressions
• anti-blackness culture
• ​anti-asian culture
• intersection of race and class
• intersectionality of identities
• what are our biases 
• cultural genograms (therapists)
• what is relationship to conflict
• how does race show up in your daily life
• disrupting white supremacy and anti-black culture in everyday life
• doing a power analysis
• decentering whiteness
• creating more inclusive spaces
• how are white people losing out by racism and segregation persisting
• looking at equity and reparations
• calling people into conversations about race rather than calling them out
• increasing skill set for having dialogues and tolerating intensity and complexity
• welcoming humility, imperfection, taking risk
• recognizing the difference between intent and impact
• understanding history and how it leads to accumulation of harm leading to rage, despair, trauma, etc. in communities of color
• ​holding space for rage and grief
• learning to use privilege to lift up voices of BIPOC individuals and community
• learning to follow the lead of BIPOC individuals rather than being white saviors
• breakout groups to dive deeper
• pre-work (reading and short videos) for each session
• includes pre-recorded intro workshop video

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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. 

Want something you can do on your own? Purchase a 2 part video collection (3 hours of content!) created by Dr. Nathalie Edmond and posted on vimeo you can watch on your own or with your community. Stored on vimeo.  Cost is $225 and you can access it as much as you want.

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