Ken Hardy: Crash: Race, Religion, and The Quest For Cultural Competence

Two-Day Workshop

Cost:
$200 (Space strictly limited)

Dates:
October 12th and 13th, 2006

Training:
12 hours

Location:
Middlesex Fire AcademyDirections

We live in difficult times. While our ideals and rhetoric preach “tolerance and inclusion,” the gulf that divides us has never been wider. In our desperate attempt to find our way we continue to hold on to longstanding belief systems, which clash with our desire for cultural competence. We are on a collision course--an impending crash between our ideals, the organizing principles that define our core being, and our desire to create a just society. This workshop will explore the dynamics that often place race and religion at odds with each other. A model for engaging in difficult dialogues across differences will be presented. Topics will include pitfalls, dilemmas, strategies and techniques.

Conference Schedule / Details


Thursday, October 12

9:00 - 10:30 Introduction and Overview
10:45 - 12:00 Dynamics of Religion: Issues and Challenges
1:00 - 2:15 My Religion, Myself, and My Work
2:30 - 4:00 The Subtleties of Religion in Clinical Practice

Friday, October 13

9:30 - 10:30 Religion Meets Race
10:45 - 12:00 Steps Toward Developing Cultural Competence
1:00 - 2:15 Tasks of the Privileged and Tasks of the Subjugated
2:30 - 3:50 Race and Religion: Crash or Constructive Engagement
3:50 - 4:00 Evaluation

Participating Faculty

Kenneth Hardy, PhD

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Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City. Professor of Family Therapy at Syracuse University. Former Director of the Center for Children, Families, & Trauma at the Ackerman Institute. Private practice specializing in work with traumatized and oppressed populations. Author of many family therapy articles on trauma, oppression, and racism, of a new book: Teens who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence.