EFT and Our Self of Human Work. At the bottom of this page, please find a piece from the ICEEFT Fall 2020 newsletter by Jay M. Seiff-Haron and Nalini Calamur that explains, among other concepts, how culture and systemic oppression relate to couple distress via our metaphor of "the cats on the dock."
Trainer Paul Guillory’s new book on EFT with African-Americans, including contributions by Denise Jones-Kazan, LCSW, Yamonte Cooper, EdD, and Ayanna Abrams, PsyD
https://www.amazon.com/Emotionally-Focused-Therapy-African-American-dp-0367375737/dp/0367375737/
Context, Culture and Community: Conversations on Race, Culture, Gender, Sexuality, and Power
9/14/21, 10/7/21, 11/10/21, 12/8/21, 1/12/22 and 2/9/22
The Portland EFT community would like to invite you to join us for Context, Culture, and Community: a conversation about culture, context, race, gender, sexuality, and everything else that makes us! Attachment and culture are mutually shaping forces that affect everything we do and how we engage with each other in relationships. How do we stay grounded in our EFT attachment model and do effective tangos with our couples, while also acknowledging and working with the impact of systems of power and oppression…
Live Consultation with Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy
https://www.drsilvinairwin.com/drhardy-consultation
Friday, September 10, 2021, 10:00 AM 12:30 PM
In this very special workshop, participants will join Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy and Dr. Silvina Irwin in a live supervision session as he reviews Silvina’s work with an interracial couple in a Stage 1 live session.
Talking about Race with Dr. Bukky Kolawole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc8b0I36WeQ
Dr. Bukky Kolawole from Relationship HQ in NYC joins us to share her perspective on racial injustice and the need to look within to help bring more humanity to others.
Working Effectively with Black Couples with Marjorie Nightingale, JD, LMFT
This talk was hosted by The Couple & Family Institute of New England's as part of the 2021 Spring Symposium "Emotionally Focused Therapy in a Time of Racial Reckoning: Centering Race in Couple & Family Therapy." This talk is being offered on a sliding scale as a fundraiser for Black therapists to attend the Externship and Core Skills programs in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Interviews about Diversity with EFT Folk
https://vimeo.com/430793752
Jilla Berhad interviewed some of our bi-cultural members last year about their experience of being in a minority as a client or as a therapist. I would like to share a video compilation of these interviews. Thank you so much to our dear Kathryn de Bruin, Lindsey Brooks, Sam Jinich, Paul Guillory, Zoya Simakhodskaya and Peggy Wu for their time and valuable insights.
Join Dr. Yamonte Cooper engages in a candid conversation about the history of racism in America, and how our own ideas of race were constructed.
https://thecouchwithdebandnaomi.libsyn.com/-racism-in-america-leaning-in-to-the-truth
It's never easy to hold ourselves accountable--yet we ask this of our clients every day. Deb & Nao welcome Certified EFT therapist, author and Fulbright scholar Dr. Yamonte Cooper for a candid conversation about the history of racism in America, and how our own ideas of race were constructed.
A list of micro and meso -aggressions found by Meg Lyons from Alberta
Coming home while Black
Audio presentation from Dr. Yamonte Cooper
https://www.audible.com/pd/3-Racial-Trauma-with-Dr-Yamonte-Cooper-Podcast/B08KWWTW1C
When White Women Aren’t Allies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryannreid/2019/08/15/when-white-women-are-not-allies/
White Flammability
https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/its-not-white-fragility-it-s-white-flammability-1b1b5f520e1c
Great description of white supremacy culture
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html (edited)
Sterling Brown’s comments on the anniversary of Ahmed Arbery’s murder
https://www.upworthy.com/sterling-k-kbrown-ahmaud-arbery
On a shift away from diversity inclusion and towards anti-oppression
https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/03/politics-pervades-practice-therapy/
On whiteness
Subtle acts of Exclusion (book)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y3TYRB6/
Some thoughts on exceptionalism in 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/auschwitz-not-long-ago-not-far-away/591082/
Whiteness as a cultural complex trauma
https://tadahozumi.com/whiteness-as-cultural-complex-trauma/
Brene Brown on Race
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-dr-yaba-blay-on-one-drop-shifting-the-lens-on-race/
Navigating white spaces (tongue in cheek)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDpcYEdiOg
America is neither unique, nor exceptional. People are people
Going to the dentist while Black
How racist is America
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/opinion/how-racist-is-america.html
European racism
Some wisdom from Alicia Garza
Some tea from Ta Nahisi Coates, served piping hot.
The power of staying engaged and not tuning out
https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description
Join Dr. Yamonte Cooper for a candid conversation about the history of racism in America, and how our own ideas of race were constructed.
https://thecouchwithdebandnaomi.libsyn.com/-racism-in-america-leaning-in-to-the-truth
Talking about Race with Dr. Bukky Kolawole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc8b0I36WeQ
Working Effectively with Black Couples with Marjorie Nightingale, JD, LMFT
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