Embodied Anti-Racism: A Mindfulness Way for Therapists and Helping Professionals
Francesca Maximé
Approved for 10 CEs
CE CERTIFICATES NO LONGER AVAILABLE EFFECTIVE JULY 27TH, 2021
Effective July 27th, 2021, our CE co-sponsor Commonwealth Educational Seminars has lost its APA co-sponsorship.
- If you downloaded your certificate prior to July 27th, 2021, your certificate is still a viable indication of CEs for the course.
- If you downloaded your certificate on or after July 27th, 2021, your certificate is null and void.
- If you have not downloaded your certificate for the course, you will no longer be able to obtain a certificate for CEs.
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October 21st – November 18th, 2020
For Beginning Level Mental Health Professionals
Please note that CEs are an additional cost of $47 and can be purchased at the beginning or end of the program.
It is the participant’s responsibility to check if their state is approved for CEs through the link below. No refunds will be given on CE purchases for failure to check state approval.
Course Details
Francesca Marguerite Maximé is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American poet/author in Brooklyn, New York. Maximé offers services to help address trauma, process grief, reduce stress, and more, including working with organizations and communities on addressing structural, organization and social/cultural trauma. She is the 2019 recipient of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Outstanding Student Advocacy & Service Award. She has been mentored in mindfulness meditation practices by celebrated author and clinical psychologist Jack Kornfield, Ph.D and has also been a mindfulness student of clinical psychologist and internationally known teacher Tara Brach, Ph.D. Maximé’s work emphasizes issues pertaining to organizational, social and cultural trauma as well as gender and racial equity and equality.
Many structures in our culture have been systemized for decades and have racism cooked into them. If we want to help our clients create change, we first have to invite them to look inward at themselves. Using the tool mindfulness we will demonstrate how to teach a client to examine different parts of themselves, their bodily reactions, and any trauma that lies in their past.
Many clients associate racism with an individual bad actor. As long as they don’t see themselves as racist, then they get to be the ‘good’ people. This belief prevents our clients from actually seeing the systems in our culture that have influenced their brains and patterns. In reality, our clients are inheritors of systems created long before birth. In this module, we will learn how to use mindfulness to help our clients cultivate an awareness of these deeply ingrained systems and recognize the effects on their everyday lives.
As clinicians, we are all familiar with various models of human development such as those formulated by famous psychologists Freud, Erikson, and Piaget. In this module, we will turn our attention to the Summary Stages of Racial Identity Development created by Dr. Janet Helms. We will discuss all six stages through the framework of what a white person would experience so that we can better understand where our client’s are in their racial identity development.
Allies are necessary in the fight against racism. In the past, many allies had good intentions but were not able to effectively help the black community. The important question here is, who were they trying to help? In this module, we will examine how to teach our client’s to be present and attuned to their own impulses to help. This approach is important because it can lead them to more appropriate and effective directions of service, as well as allow them to be more compassionate toward others.
Grief is often seen as somber, but there are ways that we can support our clients that are also celebratory. As we use mindfulness to shift our client’s perspective, we can show them how to utilize grief as a way to create something new in their life and local community.
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Identify the difference in client behavior between ‘antiracist’ and ‘non-racist’
- Explain the effects of teaching mindfulness to our clients
- Analyze your client’s Social location and positionality to whiteness
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Discuss how belonging and interdependence sustain our communities and identify the interdependence and communities our client’s belong to
- Describe Polyvagal Theory and the nervous system in relation to mindfulness used with clients
- List Cultural Somatics that can exist in our client’s daily life
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Explain each stage of the White Racial Identity Model: Contact, Disintegration, Reintegration, Pseudo Independence, Immersion/Emersion, Autonomy
- Identify what stage of the White Racial Identity Model your client is in
- Discuss with your clients how individuals can be both white and antiracist at the same time
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Explain to our client’s what it means to be ‘for’ and ‘with’ in anti-racism and what it means to be a white savior
- Explain the core mindfulness principle that will create a more collaborative partnership between you and your client
- Discuss how to bring up race in session in a way that maintains a sense of safety for your clients
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Differentiate between the indicators of grief and shame in your client sessions
- Discuss how a client can share their grief work with others
- Explain the idea of ‘Spiritual Bypassing’ and how to identify it with your client
If you for some reason are not satisfied with the course you have 14 days to request a cancellation and a refund. Please refer to the policy section for details on how to cancel.
Additional Policies
This program is provided solely by the Academy of Therapy Wisdom and it’s teachers. There is no conflict of interest for this program.
Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
Please submit a written grievance to support@therapywisdom.com.
There is a 14-day refund policy for the course. Please contact support@therapywisdom.com if you wish to cancel your purchase.
After 14 days, you will no longer be eligible for a refund and will be responsible for the payment in full.
At this time, we can provide a refund for the CE amount only to those who purchased CEs for their course and were unable to download their certificate before July 27th, 2021.
To request a refund for CEs, please email support@therapywisdom.com with the program name and ‘ce refund’ in the subject line so we can process your request quickly.
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Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) awards Social Work CEs in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NM, NY, NC, ND, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the licensee to check with their individual state board to verify CE requirements for their state.
Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers#SW-0444.
All Social Workers attending programs that have been awarded Social Work Continuing Education from CES will receive a Certificate upon completion.
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