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SUMMARY:Policing in Black Communities:Making it Work for Us!
DESCRIPTION:#WeAreDoneDying \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an interdisciplinary panel addressing the history of policing in Black communities\, its psychological impact\, and systemic and community-based efforts towards reform and healing from racial trauma.\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of Kwanzaa and the principles of Umoja (Unity) and Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)\, we recognize that we MUST come together to problem-solve and take control over our collective future. \n\n\n\nClick here meet our panelists and moderators \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick to register and join us on Zoom! \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to public\, members and non-members. We hope you’ll join us!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe panel will be followed by a virtual Kwanzaa ceremony to reinforce traditional African values that can strengthen Black communities.
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/policing-in-black-communitiesmaking-it-work-for-us/
CATEGORIES:Harambee Initiative
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SUMMARY:Yes! YOU Can Go to Grad School!
DESCRIPTION:Got questions? Feeling unsure about applications? Need pro tips?\n\n\n\n\n\nOur esteemed panelists will provide advice\, tips\, tricks and wisdom from their own experiences as mentors\, graduates\, and applicants. You’ll hear what schools are looking for from panelists who are currently and formerly involved in the graduate school admissions processes. You don’t want to miss this! Join us for an hour of learning\, goal-setting\, and fun\, as we support our next generation of researchers\, academicians\, practitioners and clinicians in their quest to secure their futures. \n\n\n\nPanelists Include\n\n\n\nDana L. Collins\, PhD- NYABPsi PresidentRod Hurley – NYABPsi Graduate Student MemberMary Morris – NYABPsi Graduate Student MemberLiana Taylor- NYABPsi Undergraduate Student MemberLisa Whitten\, PhD- NYABPsi Past President\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register for this event on Zoom!\n\n\n\nWe hope you’ll join us! 
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/yes-you-can-go-to-grad-school/
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Part 2 - Empowering the Black Mind: A Conversation on How We Navigate White Fragility
DESCRIPTION:Due to the liveliness of the conversation and your requests to continue it\, NYABPsi will be holding space for Part 2 of Empowering the Black Mind: A Conversation on How We Navigate White Fragility! Past NYABPsi President Tanya White- Davis\, PsyD\, will return to facilitate our discussion\, and will be joined by co-facilitator licensed somatic psychotherapist and anti-racism educator Francesca Maximé. Our conversation will revisit ways we navigate and confront White fragility\, as well as more deeply explore other issues\, including emotional equity. \n\n\n\nClick here to register for this event on Zoom! \n\n\n\nWe hope you’ll join us! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to public\, members and non-members\n\n\n\nThe Harambee Initiative aims to inspire\, encourage and uplift Black individuals\, families\, and communities as we face the COVID-19 pandemic. Harambee\, Swahili for “Let’s pull together”\, is a reminder of our strength\, heritage\, and rootedness in community. NYABPsi believes that pulling together and relying on our communities’ strengths and gifts will help us to remain safe\, centered and grounded during this uncertain time. The Harambee Initiative uses virtual platforms to foster community support and will include knowledge-sharing\, community discussions\, and healing sessions\, and engagement in creative activities such as song and story-telling. There are opportunities for fellowship\, fun\, learning\, and healing.
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/empowering-the-black-mind-a-conversation-on-how-we-navigate-white-fragility-2/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Harambee Initiative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200711T190000
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SUMMARY:Empowering the Black Mind: A Conversation on How We Navigate White Fragility
DESCRIPTION:Join NYABPsi in a community conversation on White fragility\, how it impacts us\, and acknowledging and accepting our feelings and reactions as we face it. Our conversation\, facilitated by NYABPsi Past President Tanya White-Davis\, PsyD\, will allow us to come together to talk about ways to liberate ourselves towards emotional equity\, and to support\, encourage\, and Zola (love) up on each other. \n\n\n\nWe hope you’ll join us! \n\n\n\n\nClick to register for this event on Zoom! \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Tanya White- Davis\, PsyD \n\n\n\n\nDr. Tanya White-Davis is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the field of primary care psychology for over a decade. She is a current board member and past president of the New York Association of Black Psychologists. Dr. White-Davis earned her degree with a concentration in Health Psychology from Nova Southeastern University. She completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship in Primary Care Family Psychology with a Pediatric Psychology track at the University of Rochester. She also completed the Behavioral Science Family Educators Fellowship program within the national Society for Teachers of Family Medicine which has enhanced her work in graduate medical education. She is director of the Division of Primary Care Behavioral Health Education\, and a full-time faculty member in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. In this position\, Dr. White-Davis teaches and manages the behavioral health education within the Family Medicine\, Social Pediatric\, and Primary Care Social Internal Medicine Residency programs. Additionally\, she teaches and supervises primary care psychology trainees in the Advanced Primary Care Psychology Fellowship and Primary Care Psychology Externship programs. Dr. White-Davis has provided primary care psychotherapy services to children\, adolescents\, and families of the Bronx\, with professional interests in bullying\, race and racism\, family systems and empowerment\, primary care psychology\, and health disparities.\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to public\, members and non-members\n\n\n\nThe Harambee Initiative aims to inspire\, encourage and uplift Black individuals\, families\, and communities as we face the COVID-19 pandemic. Harambee\, Swahili for “Let’s pull together”\, is a reminder of our strength\, heritage\, and rootedness in community. NYABPsi believes that pulling together and relying on our communities’ strengths and gifts will help us to remain safe\, centered and grounded during this uncertain time. The Harambee Initiative uses virtual platforms to foster community support and will include knowledge-sharing\, community discussions\, and healing sessions\, and engagement in creative activities such as song and story-telling. There are opportunities for fellowship\, fun\, learning\, and healing.
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/empowering-the-black-mind-a-conversation-on-how-we-navigate-white-fragility/
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SUMMARY:Meditation and Movement
DESCRIPTION:Somatic experiencing practitioner and certified mindfulness meditation teacher Francesca Maximé will lead a 15-20 minute guided meditation. Then we’ll transition into chair dancing with a “back in the day” Zoom dance party and release some of our stress with some of the top tunes from the 80’s and 90’s!\n\n\n\n\nClick to register for this event on Zoom! \n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Maximé\, SEP\, CMT-P\, IFOT\, RLT \n\n\n\n\nFrancesca Maximé is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American IMTA-accredited certified mindfulness meditation teacher mentored by Jack Kornfield\, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Healing Practitioner\, Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy practitioner\, Relational Life Therapy couples coach\, Focusing Oriented Therapy practitioner\, and award-winning poet\, author\, and former television news anchor and reporter. Francesca is based in Brooklyn\, New York where she sees adults\, couples and groups in person and online\, and teaches therapists and other trauma specialists about mindfulness\, the nervous system\, attachment\, embodiment and racialized trauma. Francesca also hosts the  Francesca Maximé Archives – Be Here Now Network 2020  where she explores the intersection of psychology\, neuroscientce\, sprituality\, social justice\, and the creative arts. Francesca was also the recipient of the 2019 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Student Advocacy and Service award for her contributions in the field of advocacy\, clinical work and traumatic stress\, as well as the 2019 first prize winner of the   Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards  for her poem\, “Pleather\,” recently featured on PBS television. Last year\, she was also featured in the article\,  Spreading the Word about Racialized Trauma  by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Disassociation. More about Francesca can be found on her website  www.maximeclarity.com\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to public\, members and non-members\n\n\n\nThe Harambee Initiative aims to inspire\, encourage and uplift Black individuals\, families\, and communities as we face the COVID-19 pandemic. Harambee\, Swahili for “Let’s pull together”\, is a reminder of our strength\, heritage\, and rootedness in community. NYABPsi believes that pulling together and relying on our communities’ strengths and gifts will help us to remain safe\, centered and grounded during this uncertain time. The Harambee Initiative uses virtual platforms to foster community support and will include knowledge-sharing\, community discussions\, and healing sessions\, and engagement in creative activities such as song and story-telling. There are opportunities for fellowship\, fun\, learning\, and healing.  \n\n\n\nWe hope you’ll join us. Let’s pull together!
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/meditation-and-movement/
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SUMMARY:Healing Conversation: Coping with Racial Trauma and Channeling Black Rage & Pain
DESCRIPTION:As we continue to witness and experience anti-Black violence\, most notably with the recent murder of George Floyd\, and be disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic\, community support and dialogue are essential. \n\n\n\nJoin NYABPsi for a healing Conversation on addressing our racial trauma and channeling Black rage & pain.   \n\n\n\nThis workshop will explore the signs & symptoms of racial trauma\, the most effective healthy coping strategies to address trauma\, and ways to manage Black rage and pain.   \n\n\n\nTogether we’ll learn how to overcome barriers to healing from trauma and how to create a Healthy Coping Action Plan for sustained engagement and stress reduction. This healing conversation will be facilitated by NYABPsi past president Dr. Richard Orbe-Austin. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Richard Orbe-Austin\, PhD \n\n\n\n\nDr. Richard Orbé-Austin is an executive coach and a licensed psychologist. He is a co-founder and partner of Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting\, a career and executive coaching consultancy. Dr. Orbé-Austin is a Past President of the NY Association of Black Psychologists\, and a former executive board member. During his term as President\, he focused on increasing the awareness of mental wellness in the community\, and on addressing mental health disparities.Dr. Orbé-Austin’s opinions have appeared in a variety of publications\, including Forbes\, Fast Company\, Diversity Executive\, & ThriveGlobal. He earned his MSEd and his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and his BA in Psychology from NYU.\n\n\n\n\nClick to join us on Zoom! \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to public\, members and non-members\n\n\n\nThe Harambee Initiative is brought to you by the New York chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists\, and aims to inspire\, encourage and uplift Black individuals\, families\, and communities as we face the COVID-19 pandemic. Harambee\, Swahili for “Let’s pull together”\, is a reminder of our strength\, heritage\, and rootedness in community. NYABPsi believes that pulling together and relying on our communities’ strengths and gifts will help us to remain safe\, centered and grounded during this uncertain time. The Harambee Initiative uses virtual platforms to foster community support and will include knowledge-sharing\, community discussions\, and healing sessions\, and engagement in creative activities such as song and story-telling. There are opportunities for fellowship\, fun\, learning\, and healing.  \n\n\n\nWe hope you’ll join us. Let’s pull together!
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/healing-conversation-coping-with-racial-trauma-and-channeling-black-rage-pain/
CATEGORIES:Harambee Initiative
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200530T190000
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SUMMARY:A Community Healing Session  Integrating Spirit\, Mind & Body for Self-Care with Breathwork
DESCRIPTION:A free community healing session on how to integrate the human spirit\, mind\, and body for self-care through ancient African breathwork (conscious breathing) practices\, facilitated by Ma’at Erica Lewis\, Ph.D\n\n\n\nJoin us on Zoom\n\n\n\nRegister here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMa’at Erica Lewis\, Ph.D.\, earned a doctorate in Counseling Psychology and a master of arts in Organizational Psychology at Columbia University. She is Board Certified in African-Centered/Black Psychology\, initiated and certified in Ancient Egyptian Yoga Level 2\, and certified in Transpersonal Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. Dr. Lewis is a Past President of the New York Association of Black Psychologists and former board member of the National Association of Black Psychologists.  Dr. Lewis is currently an associate professor with the Department of Counseling and Human Services at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. 
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/a-community-healing-session-integrating-spirit-mind-body-for-self-care-with-breathwork/
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Harambee Initiative
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SUMMARY:Harambee Initiative Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:??????? ????????: ??? ???????? ?????????? ??? ?????-?? ?????? ??? ????????! ⁣⁣Our goal is to inspire\, encourage\, and uplift the Black community as we face this pandemic. Harambee\, Swahili\, for “???’? ???? ????????”\, is a reminder of our strength\, heritage\, and rootedness in community!⁣⁣????? ???? ????? ????? ??? ???????? ?????????? ?? ??????? ?? ??? ??? ?????? ?????! It will be ????? ??\, ???? ?? ?:????! The event will be free and open to all!
URL:https://nyabpsi.org/event/harambee-initiative-launch-event/
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