UKAGP presents two workshops for trainers on antiracist practice, with psychologist, consultant and Gestalt practitioner Deborah Plummer, Ph.D
The seminars are for experienced and less experienced trainers of Gestalt therapy, counselling or coaching as well as those who want to train to become trainers.
We’re offering a £50 discount on combined attendance at both workshops, 7 hours of CPD for £100 UKAGP members / £120 non-members.
Dr. Deborah Plummer, Ph.D
Unravelling Race and Racial Identity in the Training of Clinicians
Thursday 12th September
Online, 1 – 4.30pm
Dr. Plummer will also be giving the workshop “Training Clinicians to Become Better Antiracists” on Saturday 14th September. You can attend both workshops a discounted price – saving £50! Click here for the joint ticket.
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Racial identity is the psychological connection we have with our race; its resolution process occurs for everyone, regardless of one’s identified race. In our race-conscious society, racial identity is experienced as a multifaceted and important aspect of our identity that may or may not be aligned with other aspects of how we manifest ourselves in the world.
To that end, this workshop explores the racial identity development process from a Gestalt perspective. We’ll explore how it shows up in our lived experience and its implication for bringing our full and authentic selves to environments. We’ll discuss tools for navigating belonging, managing racial stress, and individuating in a racially complex society with implications for therapy practice.
Participants are encouraged to take the Racial Identity Status Self-Assessment (RISSA). Please note that this assessment tool is U.S. based, and questions or statement that refer to America or American identity can be replaced with U.K.
We will learn and grow together as we discern similarities and differences in race expression and racial identity.
Workshop Objectives:
Understand race from a Gestalt relational framework and its manifestations in therapy practice.
Explain how our brains form prejudices and processes differences.
Explain racial identity resolution process and its developmental statuses from a Gestalt perspective
Analyze the interplay of multiple and intersecting identities at various levels of human system: intrapsychic, interpersonal, group, organization, and society.
Dr. Deborah Plummer, Ph.D
Training Clinicians to Become Better Antiracists
Friday 13th September
Online, 1 – 4.30pm
Dr. Plummer will also be giving the workshop “Unravelling Race and Racial Identity in the Training of Clinicians” on Friday 13th September. You can attend both workshops for a discounted price – saving £50! Click here for the joint ticket.
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There’s more to being an antiracist than aligning yourself with its value and endorsing its principles. As clinicians and trainers, it’s hard work that requires:
recognizing, understanding, and working to dismantle the structures that shape and maintain racism and that result in racial trauma,
a life-long commitment to healthy racial identity resolution for ourselves and others
engaging in multiracial living patterns and identifying these patterns in therapy practice,
embracing cultural humility; and
practicing radical respect.
This workshop explores how we can become effective antiracists using a relational model for managing the dynamics of racism and how doing so can achieve desired outcomes.
Participants are encouraged to take the Antiracist Style Indicator prior to the workshop. Please note that this assessment tool is U.S. based, and questions or statement that refer to America or American identity can be replaced with U.K. We will learn and grow together as we discern similarities and differences in antiracism expression in the U.S. and U.K.
Workshop Objectives:
Understand antiracism from a Gestalt relational framework
Understand the characteristics of an effective antiracist and its relationship to advocacy, racial justice, and therapy practice
Explain three antiracist styles and know how each style shows up in personal and therapy interactions
Assess your own antiracist style and learn practical ways to become better antiracists.
Deborah L. Plummer, PhD is Founder/Executive Director of Getting to We, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to helping people understand their shared, core identity as humans and relate to each other without fear. Through her non-profit, she creates DEIB Edutainment, competency-building learning experiences, and research-backed resources that create a better society for everyone.
As a psychologist, university professor, author, and international leader in the field of diversity and inclusion, Debbie brings her deeply humanist and Gestalt-trained skills to audiences and readers to examine themselves as social beings in relation to our programmed fear of “otherness.” Her work and writings introduce a relational model for managing differences that support the development of the competencies necessary to live authentically out of one’s core identity as a human being and master the challenges of diversity dynamics.
Debbie has held past roles as staff psychologist at Oberlin College, Professor of Psychology at Cleveland State University, Chief Diversity Officer at Cleveland Clinic, Vice Chancellor/Chief Diversity Officer at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Chief Diversity Officer, UMass Memorial Health Care System. She was the founding director of the master’s degree program in diversity management at Cleveland State University and had a clinical private practice for over 20 years. She was named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the Top 15 Chief Diversity Officers to Know and remains an adjunct professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School.
As principal consultant for D.L. Plummer & Associates (DLPA), she has supported over 100 organizations in the U.S., Canada, U.K, and India. Throughout her career, she has developed several widely-used assessment tools: Diversity Inclusion Belonging Survey (DIBS), Diversity Engagement Survey (DES), Racial Identity Status Self-Assessment (RISSA) and Antiracist Style Indicator (ASI).
Her book, Some of My Friends Are...The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships (Beacon Press) presents an insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society. Debbie is also the editor of the Handbook of Diversity Management (Rowman and Littlefield; Half Dozen Publications) and author of Racing Across the Lines: Changing Race Relations through Friendships (Pilgrim Press) which received the publisher’s Mayflower Award for best publication in the category of Church and Society. She has authored several book chapters and published numerous journal articles to the professional community on racial identity development, diversity metrics, and managing diverse work environments. She has published articles in Diversity Executive and the Boston Globe Magazine. Other publications include Advancing Inclusion: A Guide for Effective Diversity Council and Employee Resource Group Membership (Half Dozen Publications) and her essay, “The Girl from the Ghetto” was published in the anthology All the Women in My Family Sing (NBTT Publications). She currently writes essays for Medium publications, An Injustice! and Age of Awareness. Her play, To My White Friends Who Know Me, now on national tour, debuted at the historic Karamu House Theater to sold out audiences and rave reviews.
Debbie has served on numerous non-profit boards and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Facing History and Ourselves and Reflection Point. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband, Michael Bussey. In her next life, she plans to come back as either a master chef (think Ina Garten) or a singer, dancer, and entertainer (think Beyonce).