Webinar: Oppression and Liberation: Reframing the Counseling
Join us August 14, 2020 at 12-1:30pm EST for a webinar. 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.