Learning Objectives & Agenda: Courageous and Restorative Conversations Series: CHANGE for the better Learning

• Explain how racialized trauma and manifestations of racialized trauma manifests in society and the therapy room and
• identify methods to decolonize therapy when working with BIPOC populations.
• Analyze the importance of therapeutic interventions to mitigate and alleviate the harm of systemic racism and oppression
  in micro therapeutic practice.
• Apply skills to lower defenses when discussing racialized trauma with BIPOC populations.
• Demonstrate 2 ways to develop a safe and supportive environment when engaging in conversations about race.
• Demonstrate skills to modify distorted thought patterns related to systemic racism/oppression and racialized trauma.
• Cultivate emotion regulation skills to manage intense emotions that may arise during therapy sessions when addressing racial trauma.
• Apply AEDP interventions, including integration, right-brain-to-right-brain communication, somatic tracking, and dyadic regulation, to cultivate culturally attuned therapeutic relationships.
• Demonstrate and practice allyship between BIPOC and non-BIPOC therapists.
• Cultivate and increase cultural sensitivity when facilitating therapy with BIPOC patients.
• Foster empathic confrontation to validate feelings while gently challenging defensive behaviors associated with racial trauma.
• Provide psychoeducation regarding the effects of racialized trauma and the importance of cultural sensitivity regarding racial trauma.
• Promote self-compassion to foster a kind and understanding attitude towards oneself and others.
• Demonstrate 2 ways to apply ‘change-for-the-better’ with cultural responsiveness.

February 20, 2026: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST 

11:00 AM – 11:30 PM

A. Seminar Overview
Presenter Introductions (all members of the Spirituality Group)

• Overview of Agenda and Learning Objectives
• Meditation Exercise

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
II. Session I: Didactic  | Sonya Parker and Heloise Ridley

Othering: Sonya Parker

11:30 AM – 12:05 PM

• Oppressive Othering
• Boundary Maintenance
• Emotion Management

12:05 PM – 12:40 PM
Cultural Attunement: Heloise Ridley 

• Right-Brain Communication and Cross-Cultural Relationships
• Nervous System Functioning and Dyadic Regulation 
• BIPOC Clients’ Recovery and Empowerment

1. Large Group Community Agreements: Marsha Elliot (12:40 PM – 12:45 PM)

III. 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Break

IV. Session II: Small Group Restorative Practice Experiential Exercise:   

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Nicky Cameron, Tabitha Azor, Marsha Elliot, Sonya Parker, Heloise Ridley, Connie Rhodes, Sobeyda Valle-Ellis, Steve Carroll, and James Santos

• Individual Groups and Group Introductions
• Instructions for Afternoon Restorative Experiential Exercise
• Healing Circle Instructions
• Small Group Practice

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
V. Session III: Large Group Discussion and Q & A

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April 10, 2026: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST 

 11:00 AM – 11:30 PM

A.  Seminar Overview
Reflections from Previous Module

• Overview of Agenda and Learning Objectives
• Meditation Exercise

II. 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Didactic  | James Santos and Sonya Parker

11:30 AM – 12:05 PM
A.  Invisible Wounds: James Santos

• What are Spiritual Wounds?
• Undoing Aloneness, Spiritual Bypassing, Transformation, &      Flourishing

12:05 PM   – 12:40 PM
Somatic Manifestations of Racialized Trauma: Sonya Parker

• Allostasis and Allostatic Load 
• Identifying Somatic Markers of Allostatic Load 

1. Video Presentation 
2. Large Group Community Agreement Reminder: Marsha Elliot (

12:40 PM – 12:45 PM

III. 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Break

IV.  Session II: Small Group Restorative Practice Experiential Exercise: 
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Nicky Cameron, Tabitha Azor, Marsha Elliot, Sonya Parker, Heloise Ridley, Connie Rhodes, Sobeyda Valle-Ellis, Steve Carroll, and James Santos

• Individual Groups and Group Introductions
• Instructions for Afternoon Restorative Experiential Exercise
• Healing Circle Instructions
• Small Group Practice

V. : 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Session III: Large Group Discussion and Q & A

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June 5, 2026: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST 

11:00 AM – 11:30 PM
A. Seminar Overview

• Reflections from Previous Module
• Overview of Agenda and Learning Objectives
• Meditation Exercise

II. 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Nicky Cameron and Marsha  Elliot    

11:30 AM – 12:05 PM Shame, Moral Injury and Oppression: Nicky Cameron

• Moral Injury and Oppression as Roots of Pathogenic Shame and Disconnection
• Tracking Shame through AEDP’s Affective and Attachment Lens
• Transforming Shame into Adaptive Emotion and Self-Compassion
• Cultural and Systemic Awareness for Inclusive, Safe Healing

12:05 PM – 12:40 PM
Spiritual Transcendence and Embodied Wholeness: Marsha Elliot 
Spiritual Transcendence as a Pathway to Meaning and Post-Traumatic Growth

• Embodied Presence as Access to Transcendent and Integrative Experience
• Spiritually-Informed Principles Integrated with AEDP for Relational Repair
• Guiding Movement from Wounding towards Sacred Wholeness and Connection

Video Presentation

12:40 PM – 12:45 PM
Large Group Community Agreement Reminder: Connie Rhodes

III. 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM Break

IV. Session II: Small Group Restorative Practice Experiential Exercise:   

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM 

Nicky Cameron, Tabitha Azor. Marsha Elliot, Sonya Parker, Heloise Ridley, Connie Rhodes, Sobeyda Valle-Ellis, Steve Carroll, and James Santos

• Individual Groups and Group Introductions
• Instructions for afternoon restorative experiential exercise
• Healing circle instructions
• Small Group Practice

V. 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Session III: Large Group Discussion and Q & A

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September 18, 2026: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST 

11:00 AM – 11:30 PM
A. Seminar Overview
Reflections from Previous Module

• Overview of Agenda and Learning Objectives
• Meditation Exercise

II. 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
Session I: Didactic | Tabitha Azor and Steve Carroll

11:30 AM – 12:05 PM
A.  Transformance Strivings within Racialized Trauma: Steve Carroll 

• Transformance Strivings Accessed through Grief
• Accessing and Cultivating Loving Justice
• Harnessing Love as a Spiritual Force that Transforms

12:05 PM – 12:40 PM
B. Transformational Affects of the Spirit in AEDP: Tabitha Azor

• Intersection of Spirit & Transformance in AEDP
• Integrating Spiritual Experience in AEDP Practice
• Deepen Therapist Presence as a Healing Resource

C. Video Presentation

12:40 PM – 12:45 PM
D. Large Group Community Agreement Reminder: Connie Rhodes

III. Break: 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM

IV. Session II: Small Group Restorative Practice Experiential Exercise:   

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Nicky Cameron, Tabitha Azor, Marsha Elliot, Sonya Parker, Heloise Ridley, Connie Rhodes, Sobeyda Valle-Ellis, Steve Carroll, and James Santos

• Individual Groups and Group Introductions
• Instructions for Afternoon Restorative Experiential Exercise
• Healing Circle Instructions
• Small Group Practice

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

V. Session III: Large Group Discussion and Q & A