Day 1: Compassion in Therapy

Tara Brach, PhD, Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher Germer, PhD: Opening Keynote: Fresh Insights and Practices to Support You in Bringing Compassion Into Therapy

Christopher Germer, PhD: Looking at Shame Through the Eyes of Self-Compassion

Richard J. Davidson, PhD: The Neuroscience of Compassion

Richard Schwartz, PhD and Deran Young, LCSW: Healing the “Legacy Burdens” of Racism with IFS

Thupten Jinpa, PhD: Embracing the Power of Compassion

Christopher Germer, PhD: Day 1 Practice: The Self-Compassion Break

Day 2: The Compassionate Therapist

Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD and Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD: G.R.A.C.E.: A Revolutionary Method for Benefiting Others without Burning Out

Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP and Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD: Live Keynote: The Quaking of America: An Embodied Approach to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

Kristin Neff, PhD: Tender and Fierce: Self-Compassion in Therapy

Deb Dana, LCSW: Polyvagal Theory for Therapist Self-Regulation

Gaylon Ferguson, PhD: The Practice of “Sending and Taking”

Kristin Neff, PhD: Day 2 Practice: A ‘Fierce Self-Compassion’ Break

Galia Tyano Ronen: Day 2: Practice Through Poetry: Connecting to Nature

Day 3: Compassion in the Therapeutic Relationship

Dan Siegel, MD: The Power of Healing Presence

Eduardo Duran, PhD: Bringing Indigenous Wisdom into Psychotherapy

Shari Geller, PhD: Cultivating Therapeutic Presence and Overcoming Common Obstacles

Russell Razzaque, MD: “Open Dialogue”: A Compassion-based Holistic Approach to Working with Mental Health Crises

Rhonda V. Magee, MA, JD: Mindfulness as a Support for Healing, Compassion, and Social Justice

Dennis Tirch, PhD and Laura Silberstein-Tirch, Psy.D: Integrating Compassion into Your Current Evidenced-Based Therapy Practice

Christopher Germer, PhD: Day 3 Practice: Loving Kindness for a Loved One

Galia Tyano Ronen: Day 3: Practice Through Poetry: Deep Listening

Day 4: Clinical Applications of Compassion

David Treleaven, PhD: Trauma-Informed Practice in Challenging Times

Rick Hanson, PhD: Learning to Learn from Positive Experiences: Helping Clients Get the Most out of Therapy

Norma Day-Vines, PhD: Strategies for Broaching Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Culture

Les Greenberg, PhD: Changing Emotion with Emotion: A Transtheoretical and Transdiagnostic Approach to Psychological Healing

Lorraine Hobbs, MA and Lisa Shetler: Mindful Self-Compassion with Teens in Psychotherapy

Kristin Neff, PhD: Day 4 Practice: Soles of the Feet

Galia Tyano Ronen: Day 4: Practice Through Poetry: Love and Acceptance

Day 5: More Clinical Applications of Compassion

Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Licia Sky and Christopher Germer, PhD: Live Keynote: New Embodied Approaches to Healing Trauma

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE: Working with Fears, Blocks, and Resistance to Compassion in Clients

Ron Siegel, PsyD: Mindfulness and Compassion in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety

Sue Johnson, PhD: The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

Dr. g (Claudelle R. Glasgow), PsyD: The Shaman Therapist: A Fresh Perspective on Psychotherapy and Healing

Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD: Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Compassion in Addiction Treatment

Christopher Germer, PhD: Day 5 Practice: Chris Germer – The Compassionate U-Turn

Netanel Goldberg and Galia Tyano Ronen: A Musical Journey to Cultivate Inner and Outer Compassion

Post-Event

Kristin Neff, PhD: Tender and Fierce: Self-Compassion in Therapy

Eduardo Duran, PhD: Bringing Indigenous Wisdom into Psychotherapy

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Healing the “Legacy Burdens” of Racism with IFS

with Richard Schwartz, PhD and Deran Young, LCSW

What you'll learn

Understand “legacy burdens” and how centuries old systems of oppression live within all of us and manifest as “parts” of ourselves that we can work with and heal
Discover how Internal Family Systems can be used to heal the “legacy burdens” that cause unconcious bias, as well as the “parts” of ourselves that have experienced oppression
Watch Dr. Schwartz and Deran Young share a powerful, intimate and poignant demonstration of this approach

About the speakers

Richard Schwartz, PhD

Richard Schwartz, PhD, began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From his explorations of the internal lives of his clients, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s. IFS is now evidence-based and has become a widely-used form of psychotherapy, particularly with trauma. It provides a non-pathologizing, optimistic, and empowering perspective and a practical and effective set of techniques for working with individuals, couples, families, and more recently, corporations and classrooms. In 2013, Dr. Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Deran Young, LCSW

Deran Young, LCSW, is a therapist, co-author of the New York Times best-seller You Are Your Best Thing, a retired military officer, and the founder of Black Therapists Rock — a nonprofit organization of over 30,000 mental health professionals committed to reducing the psychological impact of systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma. During her graduate program, she studied abroad in Ghana, West Africa exploring the link between historical trauma and collective mental health. Deran describes herself as someone who loves to learn from various cultures and she has visited over 37 countries. Her clinical experience spans across four different continents. Find her book, Black Therapists Rock, here.

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD

Pamela Ayo Yetunde, ThD, is a pastoral counselor, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) instructor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, and the author of books and articles on pastoral care and chaplaincy. She is the author of Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology; Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care; and co-editor of Black and Buddhist. Her new book, Casting Indra’s Net: Wisdom for Fostering Spiritual Kinship, Respecting Difference, and Moving toward Wholeness Together will be released by Shambhala Publications in 2023.

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