Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams – Liberating Ourselves from Suffering: Justice, Spirituality & Belonging in Your Clinical Practice – PESI

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Speakers: Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams | Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD
Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description
In the last few years, most clinicians have felt a shift not only in the larger culture but the therapy room as well. With so much suffering and isolation surfaced by the pandemic and other large-scale injustices, the idea of healing in therapy has moved beyond a focus on the individual and, in many ways, beyond traditional clinical practice. How can we promote a sense of belonging and address core issues of loneliness outside of a individualized, pathologized approach? How can we think about bringing “spirituality,” however we conceive of it, into ethical clinical practice as a means of connection? And how can we begin to respond to the rippling effects of collective trauma? This panel recording will explore:

• How prosocial affects like love and compassion can expand our capacity for social openness and connection, and what this means for clinical practice
• What kinds of training can help clinicians unlearn implicit biases that may get in the way of accurate empathy for the lived experience of others
• The ways in which our estrangement from nature affects our sense of belonging and contributes to environmental stress
• How inequity undermines well-being no matter which side of the inequity people are on

Speakers

Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Called “the most intriguing African American Buddhist,” Rev. angel Kyodo williams is an author, activist, master trainer, and founder of The Center of Transformative Change. Her acclaimed first book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, was hailed by Alice Walker as “an act of love.” Her newest work, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love & Liberation, is igniting long-overdue conversations about waking up to what hinders the liberation of self and society.

In a country like the US, where people have wildly different backgrounds, our human need to be with one another and in community is tested again and again. Over the centuries, the idea of who among us truly belongs, and, by extension, who we can be, who we can love – even who we can agree with – has been painfully communicated through our laws, culture and politics. The result? Separation reigns, conflicting with our innate sense of connection and compassion, and corrupting the essence of true belonging we all yearn for in this life.

Joseph (Joe) Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices on healing, learning and development. He is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches contemplative self-healing and optimal health. He has taught the philosophy of science and religion, the scientific study of contemplative states, and the Indo-Tibetan mind and health sciences at Columbia University, where he is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Joseph Loizzo is the director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. He has employment relationships with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Loizzo receives royalties as a published author, and he receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Joseph Loizzo serves on the advisor board for Tibet House New York and is the member of the boards for the International Tibetan Medical Association and the New York University Holistic Nursing Program. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.

Objectives

1. Investigate how prosocial affects like love and compassion can expand our capacity for social openness and connection, and what this means for clinical practice.
2. Categorize what kinds of training can help clinicians unlearn implicit biases that may get in the way of accurate empathy for the lived experience of others.
3. Assess the ways in which our estrangement from nature affects our sense of belonging and contributes to environmental stress.
4. Theorize how inequity undermines well-being no matter which side of the inequity people are on.
5. Build a model of psychological wellness in mental health treatment that incorporates the real suffering caused by societal inequity and social isolation.

Outline

• How to create dialogue across differences
• Becoming conscious of and unlearning implicit biases
• The factors that impede social connectedness among clients and ourselves
• A re-framing of the concept of inequity for today

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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