Gail Parker – Compassionate Self-Study: A Mindfulness Based Approach to Addressing Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma

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Compassionate Self-Study: A Mindfulness Based Approach to Addressing Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Speaker: Gail Parker, PhD, C-IAYT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Format: Audio and Video

Description

Ethnic and race-based traumatic stress is a worldwide phenomenon. Regardless of race and ethnicity, from those who are harmed to those who intentionally or unwittingly do harm, we are all impacted by its damaging effects. No one is immune. To remain relevant the therapeutic community needs to be prepared to address this form of stress and trauma. Therapists who lack critical awareness of race and racism, who have not lived the experience of being directly impacted, have not adequately dealt with their own racial hang-ups, and who are uncomfortable dealing with issues of race and ethnicity, become part of the problem. Unexamined racialized attitudes, and adherence to racial stereotypes within the clinical setting have the potential to negatively impact the quality of the experience of those seeking help. Compassionate self-study, a mindfulness based practice, is a necessary first step in preparing to deal effectively with clients experiencing ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. This session invites clinicians interested in doing this work to begin preparing themselves emotionally by exploring their relationship to their own racial and ethnic orientation.

Speaker

Gail Parker, PhD, C-IAYT
Gail Parker, PhD, C-IAYT, is an author, psychologist and a yoga therapist educator.

She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma (2020) and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga (2021) and is currently the president of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) Board of Directors. Dr. Parker is a faculty member in the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. Her broad expertise in behavioral health and wellness includes forty years as a practicing psychologist. She is a lifelong practitioner of yoga and is well known for her pioneering efforts to blend psychology, yoga, and meditation as effective self-care strategies that can enhance emotional balance and contribute to the overall health and wellbeing of practitioners. She teaches yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and health care professionals how to utilize Restorative Yoga to support stress reduction and resilience in the face of ethnic and race-based traumatic stress.

Dr. Parker has appeared as a psychologist expert on local and nationally syndicated talk shows, including numerous appearances on the Oprah Show.

She was a faculty member in the Beaumont School of Yoga Therapy in the department of Integrative Medicine at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Michigan. She was also a faculty member in the groundbreaking Co-Curricular Yoga Therapy Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, teaching Yoga Therapy to first- and second-year medical students as part of their academic curriculum. She was an adjunct faculty member in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

She is married and the mother of one son.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Gail Parker has employment relationships with Conscious Living, LLC. and Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. She receives royalties as a published author and receives compensation as a media psychologist. Gail Parker receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Gail Parker is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Michigan Psychological Association, Association of Black Psychologists, Imago Relationships International, Yoga Alliance, International Association of Yoga Therapists, and Black Yoga Teachers Alliance.

Objectives

1. Practice mindfulness while exploring and acknowledging your personal, professional, societal, and cultural beliefs regarding race and ethnicity.
2. Integrate ethnic and racial inquiry into the therapeutic encounter.
3. Develop clarity, empathy and compassion for racial stress and trauma.
4. Invite client engagement in your therapeutic approach to racial stress and trauma.

Outline

Mindfulness

• Compassionate self-study – First, look within
• Unconscious bias
• Cultural blind spots
• Othering
• Attunement

Race-Based Traumatic Stress

• Definition
• High effort coping an adaptive response – video
• Body awareness
• External threats/Internal trigger

The mindful therapist

• Therapeutic relationship
• Mindfulness practices
• Presence
• Emotional safety
• Inviting client engagement

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Educators
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professions

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