THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND COMBINED WITH THE CAN YOU SEE ME? WORKSHOP TAKING PLACE ON SEPT. 26. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
Can You See Me?
Anti-Racism and Providing Mental Health Services to Immigrants
A day full of experiential exercises and
didactic learning
By: Jila Behnad, MFT, Certified EFT therapist and supervisor
Date & Time:
August 22, 2020 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location:
Online! All that is required is to download the free zoom application onto your computer and to click on a zoom invitation sent to your email to join the workshop.
*Please fill out the registration form found near the bottom of this page.*
This course offers 6 CE Credits that can be applied toward your Law and Ethics requirement.
Objectives:
- Become familiar with mental health challenges unique to immigrants.
- Gain a better understanding of the trauma and loss in this population.
- Understand cultural expectations of therapy.
- How to notice what comes up in the presence of differenceswith clients.
- Explore biases and stereotypes in a supportive and safe environment.
- Learn how to deal with our struggle with uncomfortable feelings of unfamiliarity.
Who will benefit most from this course?
- Mental health professionals who work with immigrant clients.
- Those who support immigrants and are striving to build an understanding multi-cultural community.
To register, please fill out the form below:
Jila Behnad is the creator and main instructor of this unique course, and has held multiple Can You See Me workshops since 2016. Here is the story behind the creation of the workshop, in her own words:
“I am an Iranian American therapist and I came to the US more than twenty years ago. The first few years I struggled a lot, but that pain motivated me to become a therapist.
After I got my MFT license, I started a non-profit mental health organization in Northern California for Iranian-Americans (Raha). We help clients and providers find each other, we have public seminars and workshops about parenting, relationship, anxiety, … and we also have workshops for providers.
I noticed that I am always faced with the same question: Can you see me? Can you see Jila, outside of labels like Iranian, middle eastern, minority, foreigner, Muslim, terrorist, third world country, … Can you see myself?
So, I started to talk about it and eventually created a course I called, Can You See Me?”
All the proceeds from this course are donated to Raha Foundation.