In this webinar, we will further explore how the NeuroAffective Relational Model or (NARM) can provide appropriate language and clinical skills for working with clients who are directly impacted by historic and systemic oppression in American culture. Specifically, this webinar focuses on minority groups, for example, people of color and the LGBTQ community. Cultural trauma, a significant yet under-recognized aspect of Complex Trauma, can contribute to misattunement in therapeutic relationships due to lack of diversity in the mental health field, the legacy of systemic oppression in American institutions, implicit bias, and other countertransference reactions within clinicians. This webinar will define the corrective action of cultural attunement and provide specific examples, through the therapeutic relationship, of how authentic attunement can begin to heal cultural wounds.

We will continue the conversation about the impact of cultural trauma through intergenerational trauma, in order to increase cultural competency in working with people of color as well as other minority communities. We will discuss the impact of intergenerational trauma, the symptoms of objectification, and the need to embody anti-racism and anti-oppression of all kinds, instead of a shallow understanding. The webinar will conclude by exploring actions clinicians can take holistically for themselves and their clients in resolving the impact of systemic trauma in their individual experience. Using more advanced principles of NARM, we will continue the important discussion facing all clinicians in the current American culture in how to most optimally create the therapeutic conditions for addressing the complexities of historical and cultural trauma.