NARTIC Events

NARTIC is continuing our Open House events.

These events are designed to bring together the NARTIC community, offer presentations of the work being done, and host guest speakers on antiracism in counseling. Here are the planned dates in the coming months:

These NARTIC Open Houses are intended as a safe space for folks to come together on regular basis to foster community, share ideas, and grow together. Registration links will be posted as each date approaches.

NARTIC will be at ACES in Philadelphia.

If you will be in Philadelphia for the ACES conference, please join Dr. Kok-Mun Ng and other NARTIC colleagues on October 8th 5:30pm to 7:30pm for a discussion group on antiracism in CES.

This document explains the purpose of the discussion group and offers profiles of the panel participants.

NARTIC members are also doing these presentations:

Wed, October 8

  • 8:00 am - 12:00 pm: Jung (June) H. Hyun Pre-conference: Conducting Rigorous and Ethical Content Analysis in Counselor Education Research - Educational Presentation

  • 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Jung (June) H. Hyun Pre-Conference: Don't Panic, Organize: Advocacy Strategies for Counselor Educators' Navigating Exosystem Challenges

  • 3:00 pm - 3:25 pm: Dr. Caitlyn M. Ybarra Antiracism in Counselor Education: Destroying the Black Ceiling - Poster

  • 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Kok-Mun Ng Antiracist Teaching in Counselor Education Discussion Group

Thu, October 9

  • 11:00 am - 11:50 am: Dana Isawi, Kok-Mun Ng Antiracist Identity Development Journeys: Stories of 5 Foreign-Born Counselor Educators - Educational Presentation

  • 11:00 am: Jung (June) H. Hyun Filling the Gaps: A Supplemental Course for Antiracist Counselor Education - Educational Presentation

  • 12:00 pm: Jacob "JD" Dreiling Roll for Initiative: Dungeons & Dragons and Supervision - Round Table

  • 1:00 pm: John J. S. Harrichand Empowering future advocates: Integrating legislative advocacy into counselor training and supervision -Educational Presentation

  • 1:00 pm – 1:25 pm: Umut Arslan Building Bridges between Borders: Supporting International Counselor Educators in the United States - Poster

  • 2:00 pm – 2:25 pm: Simone Arnold Neurodivergent Affirming Supervisory Practices - Poster

  • 3:00 pm – 3:50 pm: Jorge Rosales Lopez “There’s so many moving pieces!”: Experiences of Online Practicum and Internship Coordinators - Educational Presentation

Fri, October 10

  • 10:00 am: John J. S. Harrichand Beyond boundaries: Empowering counselor educators to support and embrace international students - Educational Presentation

  • 11:00 am: Jocelyn Novella The State of Telemental Health Training and Education in CACREP-Accredited Counselor Education Master’s Programs - Educational Presentation

  • 12:30 pm - 12:55 pm: Keiko Sano Unlearning, relearning, and learning: Counselor Educators Advocating for Immigration and Racial Justice - Poster

  • 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm: Dana Isawi Cultural Humility Among Counselor Educators with Marginalized Identities - Educational Presentation

  • 1:30 pm - 2:20 pm: Keiko Sano Breaking the Glass Walls: Teaching and Facilitating a Multicultural Group Supervision - Educational Presentation

  • 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Sitara Marin Exploring Grief Beyond Death: Adapting the TEAR Model of Grief for Identity Construction -

    Poster (First time presenting this original model)

Sat, October 11

  • 10:30 am – 11:20 am: Jorge Rosales Lopez Let's Talk Policy: Mobilizing Counselor Activism in Counselor Education for Liberation - Educational Presentation

  • 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm: Umut Arslan Teaching and Learning Strengths-Based Suicide Assessment: Three Perspectives - Round Table

  • 2:30 pm- 3:20 pm: Kok-Mun Ng Filling the Gaps: A Supplemental Course for Antiracist Counselor Education - Educational Presentation

  • 2:30 pm: Jocelyn Novella Optimizing Fieldwork Placement Success: Best Practices for Collaboration Among Clinical Training Directors, Practicum Instructors, and Site Supervisors - Round Table

  • 3:30 pm – 4:20 pm: Colleen Lam Nguyen, PhD Advancing Antiracist Praxis: Insights and Applications from a Quantitative Research Study on Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Continuing Ed Online Antiracist Training for Counselors - Educational Presentation

We hope you will join us!

Oct
8

Panel Discussion on Antiracist Teaching in CES at ACES

This comprehensive course, “Breaking Chains: A Counselor’s Guide to Recognizing and Responding to S*x Trafficking,” equips counseling professionals with essential knowledge and skills to identify and support individuals who have survived sex trafficking. The curriculum covers the scope of this global issue, recognition of physical, behavioral, and environmental indicators, trauma responses in victims, and barriers preventing victims from seeking help. It emphasizes a trauma-informed approach to assessment and treatment, with specialized considerations for vulnerable populations such as children, international survivors, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

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Aug
25

Rooted and Rising: Cultivating an Anti-racist Identity as Korea-born Counselor Educator

This comprehensive course, “Breaking Chains: A Counselor’s Guide to Recognizing and Responding to S*x Trafficking,” equips counseling professionals with essential knowledge and skills to identify and support individuals who have survived sex trafficking. The curriculum covers the scope of this global issue, recognition of physical, behavioral, and environmental indicators, trauma responses in victims, and barriers preventing victims from seeking help. It emphasizes a trauma-informed approach to assessment and treatment, with specialized considerations for vulnerable populations such as children, international survivors, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

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Aug
15

Engaging Supervisees from Equity-deserving Communities with Histories of Trauma

This course addresses the critical gap in trauma-informed and culturally responsive supervision practices within mental health professions. It tackles the widespread challenge of providing effective supervision to clinicians from equity-deserving communities who may have experienced trauma or systemic oppression. In this course, we will confront the often-overlooked impact of trauma and cultural factors on the supervisory relationship, which can hinder our supervisees’ professional development and clinical effectiveness. Through case studies and experiential self-reflection activities, new and experienced supervisors will advance their ability to approach supervision with cultural humility and authentic engagement.

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Jul
18

Breaking Chains: A Counselor’s Guide to Recognizing and Responding to Sex Trafficking Part 2

Part 2 of this comprehensive course, “Breaking Chains: A Counselor’s Guide to Recognizing and Responding to S*x Trafficking,” continues the discussion of essential knowledge and skills to identify and support individuals who have survived sex trafficking. The curriculum covers the scope of this global issue, recognition of physical, behavioral, and environmental indicators, trauma responses in victims, and barriers preventing victims from seeking help. It emphasizes a trauma-informed approach to assessment and treatment, with specialized considerations for vulnerable populations such as children, international survivors, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

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Jun
20

Breaking Chains: A Counselor’s Guide to Recognizing and Responding to Sex Trafficking Part 1

This comprehensive course, “Breaking Chains: A Counselor’s Guide to Recognizing and Responding to S*x Trafficking,” equips counseling professionals with essential knowledge and skills to identify and support individuals who have survived sex trafficking. The curriculum covers the scope of this global issue, recognition of physical, behavioral, and environmental indicators, trauma responses in victims, and barriers preventing victims from seeking help. It emphasizes a trauma-informed approach to assessment and treatment, with specialized considerations for vulnerable populations such as children, international survivors, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

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Jun
16

Antiracist Identity Development Journeys of 5 Foreign-Born Counselor Educators

The counseling profession is increasingly recognizing the critical importance of antiracist practices in addressing the pervasive impact of personal and systemic racism on client well-being and counselor training. The five foreign-born counselor educators on this webinar panel will share their unique journeys of antiracist identity development, offering valuable insights into the complex processes of unlearning racist ideologies and embracing antiracism.

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Apr
25

Unconditional Positive Regard!? WTF?! Upholding Counselor Values in a Polarized World

Given the increased access to divisive conflicts worldwide that land personally and professionally on counselors, evaluating the roles and responsibilities that counselors might hold in and out of the office is crucial. Counselors might overidentify with conflicts or, conversely, become apathetic due to empathic distress. How can counselors relate to the core characteristics of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness when our personal values may be challenged and tested, particularly when engaged in anti-oppressive practice? In this workshop, we will discuss the connection between inward and outward polarization and how to prepare oneself as a counselor to respond with integrity. Mindfulness and compassion practices will be offered to help participants restore balanced empathy and bring more autonomy and choice in the roles and responsibilities that counselors hold as we continue to encounter divisive conflicts. 

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Apr
5

NARTIC 2025 Open House: 4/5/25

The April 5 NARTIC Open House will offer a facilitated “holding space” event. Please see the full event description for details.

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Apr
1

NARTIC 2025 Open House: 4/1/25

The April 1 NARTIC Open House will offer a facilitated discussion of antiracism for white counselors. Please see the full event description for details.

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Mar
22

NARTIC 2025 Open House: 3/22/25

The March 22 NARTIC Open House will offer space for members of the counseling community to come together with support and grounding. Please see the full event description for details.

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Mar
4

NARTIC 2025 Open House: 3/4/25

The March 4 NARTIC Open House will include guest speaker Dr. Zvi Bellin sharing about mindfulness and antiracism. Please see the full event description for details.

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Mar
1

NARTIC 2025 Open House: 3/1/25

The March 1 NARTIC Open House will offer a facilitated “holding space” event. Please see the full event description for details.

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Dec
6

MENA Identities and Experiences in Counseling and Counselor Education Spaces

The MENA project team is excited to invite you to its first webinar on Friday, December 6, 9:00 - 10:30 am PST. MENA became a new official race and ethnicity checkbox option in the U.S. government’s federal forms in 2024, and it represents people with cultural roots and immigration backgrounds from a large region with complex historical and cultural connections. Thus, besides the MENA, this project is expected to be relevant and helpful for understanding other cultural identity categories such as Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African (AMENA), South Asian and North African (SWANA), biracial, and multiracial, including those people who may be negotiating belonging ambiguity with intersectional identities. The webinar is for graduate students, practitioners, and educators working with MENA individuals and communities. We also welcome those from other mental health professional communities beyond counseling and counselor education. 

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Nov
12

NARTIC 2024 Open House #2

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Nov
9

NARTIC 2024 Open House #1

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

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Dec
28

Jewish Counselors/Counselor Educators Compassion Circle

December 28, 9am Pacific

As a community committed to antiracism, members of NARTIC are greatly saddened by the devastating loss of life, suffering, and humanitarian crisis resulting in the war between Israel and Hamas. In response to a significant rise in antisemitism related to the war, some of us at NARTIC felt the need to hold a space for our U.S.-based Jewish counselor educators, counselors, and counseling students who might need a supportive space to come alongside them in times like these.

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Dec
9

NARTIC Open House #3

December 9, 9am Pacific

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events in November and December to connect and collaborate.

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Dec
8

Supportive Space for Members of the CES Community Who are Experiencing Distress Related to Their Religious and Palestinian Cultural Backgrounds

December 8, 11am Pacific

As a community committed to antiracism, members of NARTIC are greatly saddened by the devastating loss of life, suffering, and humanitarian crisis resulting in the war between Israel and Hamas. Many U.S.-based counselor educators, counselors, and counseling students have been negatively impacted by the significant rise in Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian rhetoric in the wake of the current crisis in Gaza.

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Dec
4

Compassion Circle for Counselors/Counselor Educators Holding Jewish Identities (U.S.-Based)

December 4, 9am Pacific

As a community committed to antiracism, members of NARTIC are greatly saddened by the devastating loss of life, suffering, and humanitarian crisis resulting in the war between Israel and Hamas. In response to a significant rise in antisemitism related to the war, some of us at NARTIC felt the need to hold a space for our U.S.-based Jewish counselor educators, counselors, and counseling students who might need a supportive space to come alongside them in times like these.

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Nov
13

NARTIC Open House #2

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events in November and December to connect and collaborate.

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Nov
13

NARTIC Open House #1

Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events in November and December to connect and collaborate.

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