Wisdom through Community Connections.
Did you know that a group of owls is called a “wisdom”?
When we engage with our community, we can tap into a collective consciousness to learn from one another’s wisdom. It is through these community connections that we recognize that our lived experiences are often shared, and that we are not alone.
Taking an Intergenerational Approach to Healing
In this presentation targeted for clinicians of all levels, Dr. Mollie explores tools to enhance the proficiency of mental health professionals in culturally sensitive and trauma-informed care. This presentation provides comprehensive instruction on conducting thorough assessments that capture clients' cultural, spiritual, and social identities. It also covers the application of narrative therapy interventions to identify and build upon generational strengths and resilience. Additionally, participants will learn to implement trauma-informed approaches that validate intergenerational wounds and identify effective interventions for healing. This program equips professionals with essential techniques to support clients from diverse backgrounds more effectively.
Taking an Intergenerational Approach to Healing
This training aims to enhance the healing of the BIPOC community by better understanding and assessing for the clients' sense of self through their family history. Many BIPOC individuals experience chronic marginalization in society, which directly impacts their mental and emotional well-being. Through thorough assessments, a culturally humble approache and a trauma-informed focus, therapists can help break generational pains while empowering clients to live more authentic and fulfilling lives.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a short-term, goal-focused, and evidence-based therapeutic approach. It incorporates positive psychology principles and practices and helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems.
Decolonizing Mental Health (Training)
This training, designed for therapists is meant to confront and challenged the way in which we approach mental health treatment. Decolonization acknowledges that our globally accepted ways of being, believing, knowing, and doing are stem from Eurocentric standards as a result of colonization and aims to challenge that notion.
Narratives of the Black Diaspora
For many individuals, their ethnicity colors the way they view themselves, and in turn interact with the world. It also colors the way in which they interact with the mental health world: from a lens of stigma, a spiritual lens and/or a medicalization of the human experience.
Through this discussion, providers will better understand the protective factors and resilience that is possible as we utilize a narrative approach to help support healing.