Heirloom Summit

February 26th, 27th & 28th

Transforming Legacy Burdens to Legacy Gifts

An intensive learning and healing experience to explore and broaden our cultural awareness of systemic racism. Together in solidarity we will examine the historical wounds and underpinnings of the many fear based behaviors we see today. By centering blackness we counter anti-black beliefs and move toward healing of internalized oppression, which move reaching far beyond outcomes of conventional dialogic approaches.

Join us for this exclusive 3 day conference Presented by trauma research foundation, with Black Therapists Rock & IFS

The communal healing agent of collective “Self” will be invoked to unveil and explore legacy burdens of anti-black racism in America.

IFS teaches us that , we all carry deeply wounded inner children who carry significant amounts of pain,fear, and shamee , but these vulnerable buts are covertly hidden underneath our defensive and reactive protectors. To become skilled in navigating conversations regarding systemic oppression and/or racism, we need an open hearted, reparative, and deeply transformative experience to counter the distorted messages broadcasted in media, institutions and our personal histories (ie family of origin, upbring, etc). By connecting the most wounded and sensitive parts of us with our higher Self, fear and shame is replaced by courage and curiosity, especially during difficult conversations such as the topic of anti-black racism. Through the lense of “all parts are welcome” we will empower one another to bind together to embrace connectedness and compassion, rather than drive each other away in fear and shame.

The overall objective of this program is that participants will walk away no longer feel trapped and confused by their trauma responses. They will be less likely to feel compelled to to avoid or distract themselves from overwhelming emotional reactions to triggering situations, instead they will be able to utilize their newly gained skills and strategies to move toward self compassion, self reflection and continued unburdening.

Individuals will learn to build an internal safe haven on the foundation of relationship-building with their own inner wounded child “parts”. Doing so in a communal setting will help cultivate a sense of safety, peace, and hope throughout this deep healing process.

In addition to over 6 hours of didactic teaching regarding how and why IFS works to heal parts influenced by racism, there will be an opportunity to witness a step-by-step demonstration of the therapeutic model being used to heal a collective legacy burden such as anti- black racism. As attendees follow along, they will be encouraged to identify their own managers, firefighters, exiles and trailheads to progress confidently in their unique healing journey towards cross cultural compassion and self-led activism.

If you are passionate about radical self awareness and the journey through healing from racism, marginalization and racial trauma, this is for you.

If you are a therapist working with clients who deal with trauma, this is for you

If you have experienced systemic oppression based on your race, class, size, gender/gender expression, abilities, sexual orientation/identities, nationality or ethnicity, and are looking for a new way to continue your healing journey, this is for you.

Online - worldwide

Experience from the comfort of your own home

February 26^th-28^th

From 08:15am Eastern Time (ET) - recordings available until March 30th

Join us with...

Deran Young

Co-host – Deran Young is the founder of Black Therapists Rock, an organization that includes over 24,000 professionals committed to reducing racial trauma and the long lasting, intergenerational social and emotional impact of systemic oppression.

Deran is a highly sought after teacher/speaker, focusing on legacy burdens, systems thinking, and collective healing to uncover legacy gifts. She works with organizations such as Facebook, Psychotherapy Networker, and Field Trip Health to create more inclusive working and healing environments.

She is an established author/writer of several articles and books, with an upcoming chapter contribution in an Anthology project led by Brene Brown and Tarana Burke, that explores vulnerability, shame resilience, and the black experience.

Richard Schwartz, PhD

Co-Host – Richard Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with.

Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) focusing on the relationships clients held among their various ‘parts’, noticing that there were systemic patterns to the way they were organized.

A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz serves on editorial boards of four professional journals, he has published numerous books and over fifty articles about IFS. IFS trainings and workshops are also being held in several European countries.

Hope Giselle - Emcee/Mistress of Ceremonies

Hope got her start in activism and facilitation while in College at Alabama State University. Helping to found and govern the conservative schools FIRST LGBT organization. Giselle graduated with a BFA, and Masters in Fine Arts as the first openly trans woman to do so at her Alma Matter Alabama State University and hit the ground running with her modern social take on trans and black bodies in public spaces. The author (Becoming Hope:Removing the Disguise) and activist has now founded her own non profit organization (AllowMe) and works with organizations like HRC, freedom for all Americans, and LGBT University to help ensure that the voices of the communities she’s apart of are heard and valued.

Plus special lectures and practices with...

Resmaa Menakem

Resmaa Menakem is a therapist, trauma specialist, and the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions, a leadership consultancy firm. Resmaa Menakem dedicates his expertise to coaching leaders through civil unrest, organizational change, and community building. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.

He helps “Justice Leaders realize their potential in the areas of Equity and Race. Resmaa’s embodied approach which he calls Somatic Abolitionism is a living, embodied philosophy that requires endurance, stamina, and discernment.

Resmaa is a highly sought after keynote and public speaker, radio, television, and social media personality, author, international trainer and effective communicator among diverse ethnic populations. He has hosted his own radio talk show as well as appeared on programs ranging from The Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil shows as an expert on conflict mediation, self-care and healing to Minnesota Public Radio as an expert on racialized trauma during civil unrest.

Resmaa has instructed and trained personnel extensively in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) police departments, as well as provided years of experience as a trauma counselor and trainer to military and US contractors in Afghanistan.

Shawnaa Murray-Browne, LCSW-C

Shawnaa Murray-Browne, LCSW-C is an award-winning community healer, national speaker, and Liberation-focused, Mind-body Medicine Practitioner. She aims to “decolonize therapy” by equipping mental health professionals with the skills to provide “therapy that liberates”. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Kindred Community Healing and the Principal Consultant at Kindred Wellness LLC.

Trained as an integrative psychotherapist, Shawna has created community-based sacred spaces. These honor culture and equip Black women, youth, and change-makers with the tools to heal themselves.

Shawna is a certified QiGong Instructor and is fully certified in Mind-Body Medicine. She is a CSWE Minority Fellow. A fierce advocate for racial equity in mental health care, Shawna consults professionals and organizations in how to nourish a culture of mindfulness, anti-racism and impact

Chris Burris

Chris is a senior lead IFS trainer who has taught hundreds of therapists, community leaders, lawyers and others how to develop “self to part relationships”, with a key passion and focus on social justice, equitable relationships and anti-oppressive practices. He is the only IFS trainer to successfully lead the Black Therapists Rock IFS level one training, two years in a row. Additionally, Chris has conducted workshops and trainings in many countries around the world. In addition to learning and teaching IFS for over 20 years, he has continued to provide counseling services for individuals, families, and couples since 1990.

Chris describes IFS therapy as “a process of discovering hidden resources and Self-leadership”. He believes that through trying to protect our Self, we cover up our core Self and ultimately lead smaller lives than we were destined to. Chris states that “we were all born with a purpose and the world needs each of us to find our significant place in it”.

Virginia Seewaldt

Virginia is a Clinical Psychologist and Certified IFS Therapist. She is a two-time IFS Conference presenter on the topic of “White Fragility”, which inspired her to create and facilitate a six week experiential workshop called “Breaking the Silence: White People Building Racial Resilience.” This learning and process group was designed for white people, led by two white-identified group facilitators in consultation with a black woman for accountability.

Readings relating to racism and white supremacy are discussed with particular attention paid to the thoughts and feelings evoked. Participants gain increased awareness about what it means – historically and in the present moment – to be white in America; are encouraged to identify internalized white superiority; and to make racial biases more conscious. These thoughts and feelings are held collectively as a group with the goal of mitigating shame that can cause fragility, paralysis, withdrawal, and silence.

Dr. Darleana McHenry

Darlena is a highly trained Educational/Developmental Psychologist who has traveled worldwide to countries like Cuba, Kenya, Brazil, and Benin to provide insight regarding gender and economic gaps within educational systems for vulnerable children.

She now uses her global expertise to increase financial literacy resources to individuals throughout the African Diaspora. She is fluent in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Dr. Velma E. Love

Dr. Love is a scholar of African and African American religions and spiritual practices. She researches the Ifá/Orisha traditions and translates ancient spiritual practices for contemporary applications.

She is a highly trained practitioner of Ancestral Medicine and is the author of Divining the Self: a Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness.

Formerly an Associate Professor of Religion at Florida A&M University, Dr. Love received the Masters of Divinity. from Union Theological Seminary and Ph.D from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Love’s primary research interests include Africana spiritual narratives and Ancestral Memories.

A native South Carolinian, Dr. Love grew up in the segregated south. She reports a vivid memory of “colored” and “white” drinking fountains and waiting rooms. The Freedom Riders and Civil Rights workers were her heroes as she developed a social consciousness at a very young age. The social ecology of her childhood was rich with grandparents, extended family, and caring community. She didn’t know that people like her were considered “underprivileged” until she studied sociology in college.

Francesca Maximé

Francesca is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, indigenous focusing practitioner, Somatic Experiencing practitioner/therapist, Anti-racism Educator, and Relational Life Couples Coach in Brooklyn New York & Online Worldwide.

She uses mindfulness principles to embody methods that reduce the likelihood of falling into a shame spiral or defensiveness when discussing issues around race.

In Francesca’s teachings, she also focuses on Social Location and positionality. She encourages people to question where they are in “the system of white privilege?” She facilitates discussions that increase awareness, consciousness, and perspective. She aims to shift individual mindsets from “me” to “we” to counter the illusion of separateness.

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Friday 26th February

8:15-8:30 am: Introduction
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Saturday 27th February

8:15-8:30 am: Introduction
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Sunday 28th February

8:15-8:30 am: Introduction
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Sessions will also be recorded and the videos made available for all attendees for 30 days

Presentations

Day 1. Introduction

Laying the groundwork: Understanding the Wounds of Systemic Racism
Intergenerational Wounds- How they were and continue to be passed down

Understanding the foundations of Self-led healing
Introduction to the IFS System of Self and Parts
What is Self? Parts- Protectors-Fire Fighters, Managers, Exiles

What is a Legacy Burden? Hurt passed down generation to generation- culture, legal, family…
What is an Heirloom? Something valuable passed down from generation to generation.

Systemic racism is a toxic legacy burden that can be found anywhere but, because of its history of genocide and slavery, it is particularly intense and ubiquitous in the United States. American people of color, especially black and indigenous people, have been and continue to be deeply stigmatized and hurt economically, physically, and psychologically by systemic racism, and white Americans continue to be consciously or unconsciously organized by it. The Internal Family Systems model (IFS) offers a potential framework and language for identifying and conversing about the impact of racism and methodical approach for healing that impact. In this workshop we will explore this potential.

“We will not end white-body supremacy -- or any form of human evil --by trying to tear it to pieces. Instead, we can offer people better ways to belong and better things to belong to.”

Resmaa Menakem

All parts are welcome and valuable.

Richard Schwartz

Day 2. Finding our own parts- Internalized Oppression in Parts

Unburdening Firefighters, Managers, Exiles within the specter of Systemic Racism
What do my parts believe/fear/wish?
How do my parts act on those beliefs/fears/wishes?

Perpetrators- internal and external reactors
Managers – restrictive and dissociative parts,
Deep wounds of Exiles
Holding compassion, calm, curiosity, the courage to unburden our parts that were and are wounded by racism

Day 3. Standing in Self- break-out sessions to practice the work

Small groups, pairs, and large group sharing and processing

Take-Aways and Closing

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

Scholarships Scheme

We are proud to offer scholarships to certain individuals and organizations.

Understanding Legacy Burdens

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Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Case Managers, Nurses, Physicians, Other Mental Health Professionals