Mindful Race Talk: Building Literacy, Fluency, and Agility

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Program Description:

This workshop will explore the inter-generational wounds of racial trauma, white body supremacy, and interlocking systems of oppression that shape our society and mental health field.  It will explore themes from Dr. Edmond's book Mindful Race Talk; to build mindfulness and somatic resources to address the polarizing topic of race and racism with more agility and fluency in order to meet clients and colleagues where they are in their racial identity development and antiracism journey.  Emphasis will be placed on cultural humility, making repairs when harm has happened, and approaching conversations about power and proximity to whiteness with compassion and embodiment from a trauma-informed perspective.

Level of Instruction: 

Introductory 

1. Describe different types of racial trauma, racial microaggressions, and associated symptoms.
2. List different types of rage, grief, and stress related to racial trauma.
3. Explain whiteness as a culture and a system that shows up in daily life and strategies to disrupt it.
4. Identify three strategies to address microaggressions and make repairs.
5. Identify different stages of antiracism identity development.
6. Articulate somatic language and three somatic resources to widen their window of tolerance for talking about racism and other forms of oppression.

About the Presenter:

Nathalie Edmond, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, mindfulness-based approaches, and antiracism. She graduated with her PsyD in 2003 and is also a 500-hour trained yoga teacher. Dr. Edmund was director of a women’s trauma program for 7 years, a staff psychologist at Princeton University, and is currently the director of counseling at Villanova University. Academically, Dr. Edmund has facilitated hundreds of hours of antiracism education, and has taught a graduate course on Multiculturalism and Feminism for many years. Clinically, she has been trained in a variety of evidence-based approaches such as DBT, EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Prolonged Exposure. She owns a group practice in New Jersey and has an antiracism-focused online membership community called Antiracism Revolution. In October, 2024, Dr. Edmund’s book Mindful Race Talk: Building Literacy, Fluency and Agility was published and hit number 1 in sociology of race relations.

Co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Psychological Association and the Vermont Psychological Association.