Social Justice Speaker Series Presents
Mindful Race Talk: Building literacy, fluency and agility
Presenter: Nathalie Edmond, Psy.D.
Date & Time: Thursday July 10th, 2025 from 7:00PM – 8:00PM Eastern Daylight Time
Location: Live Via Zoom (Zoom Link: Emailed with ticket)
Zoom will require name and email address to enter the webinar.
Cost:
FREE to attend
FREE CE for CPA Members (Log into account to access discount!)
$15.00 CE Processing Fee for Non-members
Continuing Education: Eligible for 1 CE
Abstract:
This workshop will explore the intergenerational legacy of racism and white centered culture and how that lives in the body and shows up in relationships. The goal is to build racial literacy, fluency and agility as well as somatic resources for having conversations about race. We will explore dynamics of privilege and wounds of oppression. We will explore racial identity development and our racial socialization. Participants will identify skills to be developed to have compassionate race centered conversations with a variety of individuals (colleagues, clients, and supervisees). This anti-racism model will take a mindfulness based approach to invite in curiosity and an embodied dialogue rather than polarization. Themes are taken from the book by the speaker with the same title.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Assess at least three different stages of racial identity development.
2. Identify three strategies for applying antiracism in professional life to create more inclusive spaces.
3. Define intersectionality based on the wheel of power and privilege.
Research Citations
Anderson, R. E., & Stevenson, H. C. (2019). RECASTing racial stress and trauma: Theorizing the healing potential of racial socialization in families. American Psychologist, 74(1), 63.
Edmond, N. (2024). Mindful Race Talk: Building literacy, fluency and agility. Mindful and Multicultural Counseling.
Hardy, K. (Ed.). (2022). The enduring, invisible, and ubiquitous centrality of whiteness. Norton Professional Books.
Hardy, K. (2023). Racial Trauma. W.W. Norton & Company.
King, Ruth. (2018). Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. Colorado: Sounds True.
Langrehr, K.J. ., Watson, L.B., Keramidas, A., Middleton, S. (2021). The development and initial validation of the white fragility scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 68 (4), 404-417.
Liu, W. M., Liu, R. Z., Garrison, Y. L., Kim, J. Y. C., Chan, L., Ho, Y., & Yeung, C. W. (2019). Racial trauma, microaggressions, and becoming racially innocuous: The role of acculturation and White supremacist ideology. American Psychologist, 74(1), 143.
Menakem, R. (2017). My grandmother’s hands. Central Recovery Press.
Sibrava, N. J., Bjornsson, A. S., Pérez Benítez, A. C. I., Moitra, E., Weisberg, R. B., & Keller, M. B. (2019). Posttraumatic stress disorder in African American and Latinx adults: Clinical course and the role of racial and ethnic discrimination. American Psychologist, 74(1), 101.
Sue, D. W., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., Holder, A., Nadal, K. L., & Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: implications for clinical practice. American psychologist, 62(4), 271.
Williams, M.T., Osman, M., Gallo, J., Pereira, D.P., Gran-Ruaz, S., Strauss, D., Lester, L., George, J.R., Edelman, J., & Litman, L. (2022). A Clinical Scale for the Assessment of Racial Trauma. Practice Innovations. Advance online publication.
Presenter Biography
Dr. Nathalie Edmond is a licensed clinical psychologist, experienced yoga teacher and JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) practitioner who takes an integrative perspective to her consultations and trainings. She has a Psy.D. from Wright State University School of Professional Psychology. She believes that transformation happens when we integrate mind-body-spirit and have an embodied dialogue. She grounds herself in the idea that racial justice is a spiritual practice. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings as a clinician, administrator and adjunct faculty. She regularly leads antiracism, trauma informed and anti-oppression trainings. She is intensively trained in DBT, and various evidenced based approaches in the treatment of trauma such as Sensorimotor psychotherapy, exposure therapy, EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and trauma sensitive yoga. She is currently the director of the counseling center at Villanova University, owns a therapy practice called Mindful and Multicultural Counseling, leads an online membership community called Antiracism Revolution where people are exploring themselves as racial beings and infusing activism in their life. She is the bestselling author of “Mindful Race Talk: Building literacy, fluency and agility”.
Post-Webinar Evaluation Form:
Post-webinar evaluation form will be provided during the event and must be completed to receive a Continuing Education (CE) certificate.
Closed Captions: Live audio captions are accessible for this event. If you need additional disability-related accommodations, please contact us by email us at info@connpsych.org or by phone (860) 404-0333. Requests should be made at least two weeks in advance of workshop date.
Refund Policy: Participants may direct questions to CPA by email at info@connpsych.org or by phone at (860) 404-0333. Registrants may cancel and receive a full refund up to two-weeks in advance of workshop date. An administrative fee of $30 will be charged for cancellation of registration within two weeks of the workshop date (Social Justice events will not be charged an administrative fee). Please note, no refunds will be granted within 24 hours of workshop date.
Continuing Education Approval:
The Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for the program and its content. CPA will issue certificates of completion. APA CE rules require that we only issue credits to those who attend the entire workshop. Those logging into the Zoom webinar more than 15 minutes late or logging off before the entire workshop is completed will not receive CE credits (i.e., partial CE credit will not be issued).
CPA GRIEVANCE POLICY:
The Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists. The CPA will comply with all legal and ethical guidelines for non-discrimination in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of CE participants. While the CPA strives to assure fair treatment for all participants and to anticipate problems before they occur, occasionally grievances may be filed. In cases where a participant files a written or oral grievance, the following actions are taken:
If the grievance concerns the content of the workshop, a CPA representative will mediate and will be the final arbitrator. If the participant requests action, the CPA will either provide a credit for a subsequent CE offering or provide a partial or full refund of the CE fee already paid. Actions involving a credit or a refund will require a written note documenting the grievance for record-keeping purposes. The aggrieved individual need not sign the note. If the grievance specifically concerns the CPA, the CPA will attempt to arbitrate.
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