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[Free Webinar] Waking Up to Racial Trauma with Janina Fisher, Debra Chatman, & Gliceria Pérez

News Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 - 09:00

This webinar is offered by the Academy of Therapy Wisdom. If you have questions about this webinar or the Academy of Therapy Wisdom, please email: support@therapywisdom.com
Hello,

As a healing profession, we believe that it is time to wake up to the mental health impact of racial trauma so that we can be a positive influence with our clients, our families, and the global community.
 
With this inspiration, we invite you to a free live webinar training sponsored by the Academy of Therapy Wisdom called Waking Up To Racial Trauma with Janina Fisher, Ph.D., Debra Chatman-Finley, LPC, NCC, and Gliceria Pérez, LCSW, on Tuesday, September 8th at 12 pm ET/9 am PT.

Reserve your spot now:
On this free live webinar, Janina, Debra, and Gliceria will discuss:
  • Why racial trauma has gone unrecognized for centuries
  • Understanding the physical and psychological effects of chronic multi-generational threat
  • Recognizing the signs of racial traumatization in psychotherapy
  • Acknowledging implicit bias: making the unconscious conscious
  • Creating a safe place for clients of color to share their experiences of racial trauma

If you aren’t familiar with the presenters, all three are esteemed therapists who specialize in trauma and racial trauma:
 
Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a trauma expert, a faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation.
 
Debra Chatman-Finley, LPCNCC has 20 years of clinical experience and an Adjunct Professor at New York University teaching on Racial and Social Micro-Aggressions. She has also facilitated numerous workshops, including Making the Invisible Visible and Unmasking Race With Interracial Couples.
 
Gliceria Pérez, LCSW, is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 17 years of experience in mental health, trauma, domestic violence, and child abuse/neglect. She has provided short-term therapy to traumatized immigrant children/adolescents and their families since 2006.  She is also an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Silver School of Social Work.

This webinar, will help us all wake up to the reality that while some of us human beings may be safe in this world, some of us are not...because of the daily threat of racial trauma.
 
Even if you can’t make the live call, make sure you sign up so that you can get the replay.
 

Register Now: Waking Up to Racial Trauma
We hope to see you on the call on Tuesday!

P.S. Since the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many more, the world has started to see more clearly the effect of racial trauma on people of color. Learn more about what’s happening and what you can do to help when you register for the webinar.