An Introduction to
Mindfulness and the Inner Work of Racial Justice
by Rhonda V. Magee, hosted by Julianna Raye
Saturday, February 15th, 2020
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern (10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific)
This 4 Hour Live Online Program Provides 4 CE credits
Program Description:
Mindfulness is rapidly being integrated into current psychological treatment protocols as a method of systematic training to stabilize attention, improve self-awareness, and reduce perseverative forms of emotional reactivity. It is also being introduced in educational settings and workplaces as a support for self-regulation and self-mastery, in addition to enhancing our ways of knowing and deepening what we know.
In this introductory webinar, we will explore means of engaging in mindfulness as a research-grounded support for deepening the work of diversity, equity and inclusion. The program is appropriate for mindfulness facilitators, mental health providers, educators and others who wish to develop skills that support racial justice.
Course Outline:
- What is race and the racialized self?
- The role of mindfulness in understanding our experiences around race and identity
- Factors that contribute to the difficulties in addressing issues of race in mindfulness communities
- How mindfulness contributes to the attitudes and supports the actions necessary for racial justice work
- Colorinsight as a set of skills that allow us to turn toward racism and its role in our own lives
- How mindfulness allows us to hold the complexity and paradoxes of race in mind and at the same time, access a ground of inner psychological support
- How schemas create implicit bias that serve to keep racist stereotypes in place and the role of mindfulness in bringing greater awareness to these processes and supporting their deconstruction
- The practice of R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-Identify) as a method of mindful inquiry into the subtle dynamics of race, racism, and other identity-based barriers to mental flexibility, interpersonal connection and growth at the personal, interpersonal and collective levels
Learning Objectives:
Participants in this program will be able to:
- Explain race as a social construction
- Define racial justice
- Describe how colorinsight differs from color-blindness and why this is important in offering mindfulness programs in the community
- Define the seven foundational attitudes/traits for racial justice work
- Explain the role of implicit bias in racism
- Describe the four dimensions of the practice of R.A.I.N
Course Details:
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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: 4 CE credits are available to psychologists and other mental health professionals. We suggest checking with your state licensing board to confirm they will accept credits from APA approved sponsors before taking the program.
About the Instructor:
Rhonda V. Magee (M.A. Sociology, J.D.) is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and an internationally-recognized thought and practice leader focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social change work. A prolific author, she draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act and live better together in a rapidly changing world.
She has served as a guest teacher in a variety of mindfulness teacher training programs, including those sponsored by the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, and the Center for Mindfulness. She serves as daylong or retreat co-leader and solo teacher at centers including Spirit Rock Meditation Center, the Garrison Institute, the Shambhala Mountain Center, the Omega Institute, Esalen and New York Insight Meditation Center.
Rhonda is the author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness (Penguin RandomHouse 2019).
She has published numerous articles and book chapters on mindfulness in legal education, and on teaching about race using mindfulness, including “Educating Lawyers to Meditate?” 79 UMKC L. Rev. 535 (2011), “The Way of ColorInsight: Understanding Race and Law Effectively Using Mindfulness-Based ColorInsight Practices”, 8 Georgetown J. of Mod. Crit. Race Perspectives 251 (2016), “Teaching Mindfulness with Mindfulness of Diversity,” in McCown et al, Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook (Springer, 2017), and “Community Engaged Mindfulness and Social Justice: An Inquiry and Call to Action”, in Purser et al., Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement (2017).
Professor Magee has no conflict of interest concerning Unified Mindfulness (UM-UM/HUB) and receives no commercial support for this program beyond a presenter’s stipend.
Unified Mindfulness makes all of our programs accessible to individuals with disabilities, according to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For information on accommodations please contact us here:
Register Here for this Live Event!
and also get the home-study version of this training with permanent access to the event recordings...FREE!
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS: 4 CE credits are available to psychologists and other mental health professionals. We suggest checking with your state licensing board to confirm they will accept credits from APA approved sponsors before taking the program.
About Unified Mindfulness:
Unified Mindfulness (UM-HUB LLC) is an educational organization created to offer professional support for the practice and delivery of mindfulness training. Partnering with professionals in mental health, education, human services, and business, Unified Mindfulness offers programs and courses that teach and train those who ameliorate human suffering and adversity, by increasing their knowledge and skills to improve individual functioning, enhance relational skills, and increase psychological and physical well-being in the populations we serve.
Unified Mindfulness (UM-HUB LLC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Unified Mindfulness (UM-HUB LLC) maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
For more information, please visit the American Psychological Association Website here (search UM-Hub LLC).
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