Regulating Racial Reactivity and Defensiveness

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Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD Related seminars and products

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From early in his storied career in the therapy world, Ken Hardy, PhD, has confronted ignorance of the BIPOC experience and maintained a decades-long, unwavering focus on training and challenging practitioners on issues of oppression, diversity, whiteness, and trauma. His voice has attracted consistent media attention, and his many appearances include the Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, and 20/20. As much an activist and bridge builder as a practitioner and healer, he continues to shape our pivotal dialogues as president of the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice and director of its Institute for Relationships in New York City. His latest book, The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness, is being called “the book we’ve been needing to cultivate a society where multiple ideologies can coexist without domination, marginalization, or indoctrination."  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kenneth Hardy receives compensation as a Clinical and Organizational Consultant . He receives royalties as a published author. Kenneth Hardy receives a speaking honorarium and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kenneth Hardy has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Identify common signs of racial reactivity and defensiveness in therapy.
2. Utilise strategies for effectively addressing and dismantling racial defensiveness as it appears in session. 
3. Implement techniques for fostering meaningful and substantive race-related conversations with clients and colleagues.  

Outline

The Anatomy of Racial Reactivity  

• Causes and Contributing Factors 
• Signs and Symptoms 
• Relational Consequences  

The Anatomy of Racial Defensiveness  

• Causes and Contributing Factors 
• Signs and Symptoms 
• Relational Consequences  

Strategies and Techniques for Overcoming Racial Reactivity and Defensiveness 

• Tactics and Techniques to Foster Emotional-Regulation 
• The Validate-Challenge-Request Method 
• Practice Empathic Accountability 

Summary and Closure 

• Current risks and limitations of the literature 
• Closing thoughts, feeling, and reflections 

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Social Workers
• Physicians 
• Psychologists

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