Join us Friday, August 14 from 12-1:30pm EST.

Fred Hanna will be conducting a webinar, Oppression and Liberation: Reframing the Counseling the Counseling Enterprise with Added Techniques

Workshop Description: Beware. This workshop threatens our basic education on the theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. As you know, classical counseling theories were conceived and developed by privileged white males who generally did not consider addressing the global phenomenon of oppression. As a result classical counseling theories glibly assume that EuroAmerican culture is basically sane and sound. This caused a blind spot in the practice of both counseling and diagnosis that ignores phenomena such as systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and oppression in general. Multicultural counseling could be seen as an admirable fix to this problem, but largely functions as an add-on to compensate for the shortcomings of the classical theories—just another chapter in the theories textbook. This workshop provides a humanistic, integrative, global reframe of the counseling endeavor that places the focus on the liberation and freedom from oppression for clients. Most importantly, many techniques for freedom are provided.

Bio:  Fred J. Hanna, Ph.D., is a Professor and co-designer of the PhD Program in Counselor Education at Adler University, in Chicago. He is also a Senior Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University where he taught graduate counseling courses for 22 years, including 11 years full time, leaving as a Full Professor. Fred has authored or co-authored over 70 peer reviewed and professional publications, including a book, Therapy with Difficult Clients, and a clinical video published by the APA. An award-winning teacher, he has also delivered over 480 conference presentations, seminars, trainings, and workshops, across America. Fred has served as a consultant and trainer to the medical, mental health, corrections, business, and education communities, including such places as the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, the Fort Peck Sioux Reservation in Montana, the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, and a variety of school systems, community agencies, prisons, and criminal justice settings. He formally studied existential and phenomenological philosophy under a student of Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink and he has been studying and practicing various meditation and mindfulness techniques for over 50 years, including in Asia.