Difficult Dialogues: Experiences in Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston

BGSP Antiracism Committee Community Event

Saturday, March 27, 2021 1:00 to 2:30 PM

Details

Reflective Spaces/Material Places - Boston is a group of mental healthcare providers working to create spaces where community mental health, social justice, and psychodynamic theory intersect. The Steering Committee of Reflective Spaces/Material Places - Boston will join the BGSP community to talk about their experiences engaging in conversations about Whiteness, racialization, and racism over the past four years. They will speak to how they navigated difficult conversations, how power and authority have operated in their meetings, their evolving efforts to create safe spaces for all members, and the kinds of difficulties that arose in early meetings devoted to raising consciousness about race and class (for White and for BIPoC members). We hope that speaking to some highlights of their history and experiences can be helpful for ongoing work at BGSP.

Connection Information:

The event will be held over Zoom videoconferencing software.  Connection information will be sent via Eventzilla the morning before the event to all event registrants. If you do not receive your connection information, please email fraleym@bgsp.edu. 

Panel:

Deborah Choate, M.D. is a a child and adult psychiatrist and an adult psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge. She is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where she teaches a course on race, class, and ethnicity, and is co-chair of the Social Awareness Committee there, and is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts medical school, where she supervises residents. For fifteen years she worked in a women’s shelter in Boston with Health Care Without Walls.

Ksera Dyette, Psy.D. (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical, Forensic and Health Psychologist and works in the Juvenile Court system completing Forensic Mental Health evaluations and she maintains a part-time private practice, Cup of Tea Counselling, LLC. Dr. Dyette works across the lifespan, engaged with children as young as 4 to older adults providing child and adolescent, family, and individual services. Dr. Dyette also provides parent coaching and DEI coaching services. Dr. Dyette is experienced in Psychological Assessment and is on the Program Committee and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at the Society for Personality Assessment. Dr. Dyette is also a member of the Association for Family and Conciliation Courts and Inclusive therapists, with the mission of training to provide culturally responsive and identity-affirming care. Dr. Dyette has been a Steering Committee member of Reflective Spaces/Material Places - Boston, for approximately a year and a half.

Natasha Holmes, Psy.D. (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist, consultant, and life coach. She is also the founder and CEO of And Still We Rise, LLC, a group mental health practice in Boston with the mission to create healing spaces for marginalized people by centering the values of community, critical consciousness, and decolonizing mental healthcare. Dr. Holmes serves on the steering committee for the Boston chapter of Reflective Spaces/Material Places. She has published and presented on the topics of race, class, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, intergenerational trauma, and engaging in difficult dialogues.

Lynne Layton is a member of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign organizing committee and on the steering committee of Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston. She is a psychoanalyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and part-time faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She teaches Social Psychoanalysis in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-Psychologies specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is Past-President of Section IX, Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, and the author of Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (Routledge, 2020, with Marianna Leavy-Sperounis).

Sarah H. Moon, PsyD, (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist, DEI consultant, supervisor, and writer. She currently facilitates BIPOC groups at the Danielsen Institute/Boston University, and Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School training programs, serves on the Reflective Spaces/Material Places - Boston steering committee, and contributes as a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology at Boston University. Dr. Moon has formerly served as the Assistant Training Director at the Danielsen Institute/Boston University, and training committee for the Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy. Her publications include topics in the area of cultural humility, intercultural competence, couples and group therapy, and spirituality. 

Fee:  Free for members of the BGSP community.
CE’s/Clock Hours not available for this event.