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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? 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 perspective. My general approach to trainings is grounded in the idea that we have to build comfort within ourselves as racial beings to be able to talk with others about being racial beings.  That would translate to recognizing our positionality in relationship to privilege and power along many different identities.
​ 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 lens 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 from the Trauma of Racism
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: $300 to $1000 per hour (typically $500 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, demographics of organization and relationship to privilege and power. 
  • Consultation about specific issues occurring in your practice or organization: $300 to $500 per hour
  • Individual supervision/coaching: $200 per hour
  • Small group consultation/coaching: $300 per hour
  • Purchase recorded webinars bundle for $599 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 lens 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.
Sample Intro Workshop (90 minutes-2 hours)- Exploring yourself as a racial being
  • how have you been conditioned to be a racial being
  • centering race in our discussion while honoring intersection of identities 
  • ​concept of othering and wounds of oppression
  • violence of acculturation
  • white supremacy as a system rather than individuals
  • white privilege and proximity to whiteness as a privileged status 
  • normalizing everyone can hold racist ideas
  • ​moving from "not racist" to "antiracist"
  • 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
  • building muscle and resiliency for talking about race and working to reduce racial harm
  • ​decentering whiteness
  • 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

Description: We are living in a time that is inviting us to move away from colorblindness to seeing everyone as a racial being and work towards antiracism as individuals and institutions.  Mindfulness can be a path to exploring our stories through the lens of race, learning our biases, and becoming allies in the quest to have freedom and equity for all.  Concepts such as white body supremacy, internalized racism, antiblackness, and tendency to other will be explored as well as actions people can take to become an anti-racist and call people into conversations in a compassionate way. 
Picture credit below to SHERRYL N WESTON
​We will explore where people are on the journey
Sample 3-4 part Series (6-8 hours of content spread out; 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.​

  • Session 1: Becoming an anti-racist person: understanding legacy of white supremacy
  • Creating a brave container. Orientation to mindfulness and including somatic words in dialogue as trauma lives in our body.  Developing somatic resources to regulate emotions related to racial discussions.
  • Grounding the work in historical context
  • Participants will be able to identify overt and implicit forms of racism.
  • Participants will be able to name three ways white body supremacy culture shows up in daily life and can present in the therapy room
  • Will explore how those of marginalized identities can feel othered
  • Begin to discuss importance of power analysis in cultural humility as well as in intersectional perspective

  • Session 2: Becoming an anti-racist person: understanding racial trauma and antiblackness racism
  • Participants will be able to describe different types of racial trauma and associated symptoms. Explore how antiblackness plays a role in this.
  • Participants will be able to define microaggressions and its relationship to implicit bias.
  • Explore countertransference and how trauma lives in our bodies
  •  Foundations of critical race theory
     
    Session 3:  Becoming an anti-racist person: holding space for rage and creating more inclusive spaces
  • Participants will identify different types of rage, grief and stress related to racial trauma.
  • Explore model minority stressors.
  • Participants will identify five strategies for taking an anti-racist stance to create more inclusive spaces.
  • Components of white supremacy culture
  • Exploring common dynamics that occur in predominantly white spaces
  • Role of white person and role of BIPOC person in these dialogues
We review power and privilege wheel in our first session

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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20 Scotch Road, First Floor Suite E
Ewing, NJ 08628
​(609) 403-6359

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