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ATTENDANCE POLICY

Learners who complete this 1.5-hour course will receive a certificate of completion from the Academy.

This course is the third in a 3-part series.

DESCRIPTION

This 3-part series will allow participants to explore their grief and its possible constituent elements (fear, anxiety, outrage, apathy, hopelessness, despair, and more) as they are experienced in relation to the legacies of loss in many marginalized communities, including those associated with gentrification and the geo-socio-political realities of our time. Participants will gain experience with life-affirming contemplative practices that can be used toward ongoing personal, interpersonal, and communal insight, empowerment, and transformation.

Session III, Rewriting an Equitable Future of Human Service Provision, invites participants to deepen their relationship to the learning and contemplative practices that were introduced in Session I, Processing Sociopolitical Grief with Joyful Empowerment, and Session II, Moving with the Movements Towards More Just Behavioral Health.

This session will especially focus on writing exercises that invite participants to creatively envision ways in which contemplative practices can be used by community care providers to support ongoing personal, interpersonal, and communal insight, empowerment, and transformation. Through group discussion and continued contemplative practice, participants will strengthen skills to joyfully and justly navigate the challenges of care provision in the current geo-socio-political context.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will:

• Discuss barriers participants may have encountered to achieving goals set in the previous session
• Explore practices for developing resilient compassion and discomfort resilience to support our ability to “be” with challenges that arise in the work, and to respond with wisdom
• Practice recognizing common cognitive distortions that obstruct our best intentions
• Deepen our ability to work with grief, shame, and fear, to move beyond feelings of “stuckness” into empowered action
• Use creative writing to apply the insights and tools developed through this workshop series toward a professional practice that helps you as service providers and the communities you serve deal with displacement and community heritage loss in ways that support growth and empowered, just action

This course builds on Session I, Processing Sociopolitical Grief with Joyful Empowerment, and Session II, Moving with the Movements Toward More Just Behavioral Health. If you were unable to attend Session I or Session II, we invite you to view the recordings here before joining Session III so that you can fully engage with the course content.* 

*Recordings will be uploaded after each Session I and II.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This workshop combines teaching, reflection, discussion, and opportunities to experience a range of contemplative practices firsthand. Participants will be invited to contribute to this interactive workshop in different ways, including by joining on-camera wherever possible.

ELIGIBILITY

This course is open to staff of any non-profit social service or behavioral health care organization that delivers services in NYC, including community-based organizations, government agencies, mutual aid groups, and community gardens.

This course is part of a 3-part series. Participants are encouraged to attend all 3 sessions, which build on each other, but are welcome to attend any session.

Register for Session I, Processing Sociopolitical Grief with Joyful Empowerment. 

Register for Session II, Moving with the Movements Toward More Just Behavioral Health.