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Part 1 : Awakening and Acceptance
Part 1 is an opportunity to explore your racial identity and build up skills to talk about and observe your own racist and anti-racists behaviors.
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About the event
Who is this training for?
Individuals or organization that have been struggling to adapt and implement anti-racist practices.
Individuals or organizations that are interested to recruit and serve more clients and clinicians of color.
*Scholarships are available. Please email v.arunagiri@lamaisondelesprit.com for more information
What does this training entail?
Each participant will complete a set of online questionnaires to assess their level of readiness to discuss and identify their racial identity, race, and racism.
Participants will then be assigned to a group in the training with individuals who are of a similar level.
For Part 1:
The first day will be split into a didactic half and experiential half to understand what is a race, racism and racial identities.
The second day will consist of exercises that smaller groups will participate in, with the guidance of the group leaders, that will help individuals explore their racial identities and how this effects their thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
What will this event help you achieve?
By the end of Part 1, your race goggles will be lifted and you should be able to identify and accept your own and your team’s racist and anti-racist behaviors. You will be assigned homework to keep a diary card of racist and anti-racist behaviors you notice in your ownself and your team. You will also receive weekly exercises for you or your team to help continue exploring your racial identity with.
What are the goals of the training?
To increase you and your team/organization’s awareness of your racial identity
To increase your own and your team/organization’s awareness of racist and anti-racist behaviors
To identify concrete, actionable changes for you and your team to implement so that you can:
o Work more effectively with clients of color
o Improve your trainings and environment for trainees of color
o Transform your DBT team into a courageous space for all identities
To create sustainable solutions that will be implemented and continued to be worked on after the training
About the trainers
Debra Bond is a clinical psychologist with expertise adapting DBT for use with the juvenile justice population. She served as an administrator/ manager/clinician treating adjudicated youth with the State of CT for almost 14 years. She recently co-authored a chapter “DBT in Juvenile Justice Programs” in the book “Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice: Second Edition”. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Yale University School Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychology Section and is currently serving as co-chair of the Clinical Subcommittee of the Anti-Racist Task Force (ARTF) of the Department of Psychiatry. Debra has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist serving a diverse population of marginalized individuals with chronic trauma, emotion dysregulation, depression, anxiety and a range of disorders for more than 30 years and has supervised and mentored psychiatry residents and psychology graduate students, practicum students, and fellows for over 20 years. She received the Distinguished Faculty Award (2020-2021) in recognition of her outstanding contributions in psychological training from the Psychology Section, Department of Psychiatry Yale University of School of Medicine.
Vinu Arunagiri is a clinical psychologist with expertise in adapting DBT for underserved populations, specifically women of color who have experienced intimate partner violence. She recently completed her post-doctoral training at the 3East Residential Program at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and her pre-doctoral internship at the DBT-IOP program at the Yale New Haven Hospital. She has served on multiple committees for anti-racism, authored papers, presented at conferences and provided consultation to teams to help them improve their anti-racist practices. She has received awards from the American Psychological Association and ISIT DBT for her student research projects that were focused on adapting DBT for people of color.