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Event Description:  Culture and worldview are important variables to consider when conceptualizing mental health treatment modalities. Most of the models currently used contemporarily, worldwide are based on a linear framework that emphasizes individuality, materialism, and control as tenants for industrialization, the movement of a society away from agrarian lifestyles toward consumer-oriented priorities. This industrialization creates social, emotional, and spiritual blockages that impacts peoples’ intrinsic tendencies towards holistic wellness.

Working effectively with Black families requires culturally competent interventions that honor and build upon their strengths and give attention to the intricate dynamics of relationships. Such interventions strengthen the practitioner or healer with increased self – awareness and a motivation to join on an energic level with the client system, to foster a healing environment in which the system can actualize on its needs.

This program introduces practitioners to modalities for family interventions that are rooted in African Psychology and ancient, Ayurvedic principles for healthy and sustainable living. Together, these philosophies lay the foundation for the self – actualization of healers and the healing capacity of individuals and families, of the Diaspora.

Presenter: Maisha Davis, LCSW – C / Rafiki Consortium, LLC; Diaspora Healing and Wellness, LLC