Anti-Racist Personal and Professional Development

Individual Services Series

Structured Dialogues

Structured Dialogues offers two types of groups:

  • Mental Health Professionals Group: Designed for clinicians, counselors, and therapists who want to deepen their anti-racist practices in clinical work, build cultural competence, and develop the skills to navigate race-based conversations with clients and colleagues.

  • General Group: Open to individuals from any profession who are committed to advancing their DEI journey and fostering anti-racist practices in their personal and professional lives.

While the groups differ in focus, neither is exclusionary, ensuring all participants benefit from transformative dialogue and connection. There are no prerequisites for participation.

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Spring 2025 groups are now closed.

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  • Structured Dialogues are a transformative anti-racism program designed to support mental health professionals in clinical practice who are committed to fostering equity and inclusion. Through facilitated small-group conversations, participants explore their racial identity, reflect on societal inequities, and develop actionable anti-racist practices.

    Grounded in a racial identity framework, the program uses curated content from books, articles, and media to promote deep internal reflection and critical analysis. These dialogues create a psychologically safe environment that encourages trust, vulnerability, and authentic connection, equipping participants with the confidence and tools to navigate difficult race-based conversations with clients, colleagues, and within their organizations.

    By fostering both personal and professional growth, Structured Dialogues empowers mental health professionals to take meaningful steps toward sustainable, system-wide anti-racist change—all while earning CE credits.

  • This training is ideal for individuals who want to …

    • Build confidence in engaging in race-based conversations with clients and colleagues

    • Foster anti-racist practices within mental health settings

    • Earn CE credits while advancing both personal and professional growth

    • Willingly examine the role White supremacy plays in their professional lives

    • Evaluate internalized superiority and internalized inferiority

    • Open to critical self-reflection

    • Go beyond a workshop or presentation

    • 90-minute meetings

    • 8-week course, meeting weekly via Zoom

    • Approximately 8 – 10 people per group

    • 60 minutes of reading/content engagement (e.g., book chapters, videos, podcasts, etc.) and 10-15 minutes of reflective journaling designed to deepen one’s thinking on the text between meetings

    • Dates: March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, and May 1

    • Times: 4:00 - 5:30p est/ 1:00 - 2:30p pst

    • Week 1: Acknowledgement of One’s Race

    • Week 2: Understanding America’s Relationship with Race I

    • Week 3: Understanding Psychotherapy’s Relationship with Race

    • Week 4: Deconstructing Internalized Racism and the Internalized Oppressor

    • Week 5: Exploring Our Reaction to Current Racial Unrest

    • Week 6: Shame and Accountability in the Clinical Space

    • Week 7: Reducing Harm From Racial Trauma

    • Week 8: Challenging White Supremacy within Me

  • This program has been approved for 12 Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program, Authorization Number D 91956.

    This program has been approved for 12 Continuing Education credits for Psychologists. MPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Deconstructing Whiteness:

Anti-Racist Growth & Accountability for White Therapists

Are you a White clinician ready to engage in meaningful anti-racist growth? Our group provides a supportive space to explore racial identity, deconstruct Whiteness, and examine how racism shapes both personal and professional life. Through honest dialogue and relational processing, you'll move beyond shame and guilt, developing the confidence to address race and privilege with clarity and accountability.

Join a community committed to deep reflection, courageous conversations, and tangible action—because anti-racism isn’t a solo journey.

Start building the skills to foster authentic, anti-racist change in your clinical practice and beyond.

Registration is now open!

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  • An affinity group that aims to support anti-racist growth and accountability amongst White mental health professionals through developing their racial identity, deconstructing Whiteness, and recognizing how racism shapes their personal and professional lives. Participants will explore how White shame and guilt can create barriers to anti-racist growth and learn strategies to move through these emotions in ways that fosters accountability and authentic connection rather than avoidance. Through honest vulnerable dialogue and relational processing, members will use relationships as a space for vulnerability, reflection, accountability, and skill-building, rather than engaging in anti-racism work in isolation. Ultimately, this group will support clinicians in developing greater self-awareness and confidence in addressing Whiteness and race within their clinical practice, professional relationships, and daily interactions.  

  • This training is ideal for White identified individuals who want to …

    • Build confidence in engaging in race-based conversations with clients and colleagues

    • Foster anti-racist practices within mental health settings

    • Willingly examine the role White supremacy plays in their professional lives

    • Evaluate internalized superiority and internalized inferiority

    • Open to critical self-reflection

    • Go beyond a workshop or presentation

    This training is designed for:

    • Mental Health Professionals

    • Clinicians

    • Counselors

    • Therapists

    • 90-minute meetings

    • 8 meetings, held weekly on Tuesdays via Zoom

    • Approximately 8 – 10 people per group

    • Dates: June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22 (possible make-up session - 29th)

    • Times: 4:00 - 5:30p est/ 1:00 - 2:30p pst

Participants’ reflections on their experiences…

  • “To date, this course was the best anti racist training I have participated in. The looking inward piece and starting there is so important and often not done in my experience. It’s like we dance around it and make assumptions about people’s beliefs and experiences but don’t actually look inward. Reminds me of your tagline quote, “Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin. You created a safe space for me to reflect, grow and be curious. Your techniques definitely impacted me. You also reminded me that our work is never done and it’s a lifelong commitment.”

    Anne Quinn

  • “I can’t thank you enough, not only for the wisdom you bestowed upon me, but for allowing me to be uncomfortable in my own discomfort. I have a ways to go, but feel more empowered than ever to speak of antiracism and the damage that white supremacy has done, and continues to do, on all of us. You are both an incredible asset to the human race.”

    Belinda Bachand

  • “Structured Dialogues deepened my language and context for how to talk and engage on ways to be evolving at antiracism. I’ll keep practicing my new skills and thought patterns.”

    Tanuja Arany

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