Authentic Conversations: Inclusion, Power, and the Practice of Belonging is a USABP community outreach dialogue series for practitioners committed to meaningful inclusion within our field.
This community has been meeting to explore a practical and clinically relevant question:
What does it take to create a professional culture where historically marginalized voices are not only welcomed, but centered and supported?
Each gathering features a guest presenter whose lens and lived experience shape that session’s inquiry.
This series engages the lived and embodied realities of exclusion, marginalization, and systemic inequity within professional and community spaces, including our own.
We examine how power operates in systems: interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally. We look at how belonging is either fostered or undermined through policies, language, leadership, and relational habits.
Participants are invited to:
• Identify how systems of power shape clinical and professional environments
• Recognize ways inclusion efforts can unintentionally reproduce exclusion
• Build the capacity to stay engaged when accountability feels uncomfortable
• Practice shared responsibility in embodied and relational ways
Who Should Attend
This series is for practitioners and supervisors who want their commitment to inclusion to be embodied, not only theoretical. It is a space to examine how we contribute to cultures of belonging or cultures of harm.
Upcoming Events
March 6, 10 am PST
How are we in this together? Relationscapes for healing our social nervous system
Presented by Ishita Sharma
Details and Registration
March 25, 10 am PST
Jia-Ba-Bue Somatic Leadership Beyond the Binary
Presented by Yi-Li Godfrey
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April 24 - Time & Details TBA
May 22, 10 am PST - Details TBA
June Panel Discussion - Details TBA
