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 a regular basis to foster community, share ideas, and grow together. Registration links will be posted as each date approaches.

NARTIC is hosting upcoming webinars.

These free webinars are sponsored by NARTIC and led by guest speakers for the community to come together and learn more about anti-oppression in counseling. Here is what is scheduled for this spring:

  • Resist, Persist, and Thrive: Counselor Educator Tactics in Responding to Backlash to Critically Conscious Work

    • Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2026; ​2pm-3:30pm EDT/11am-1:30pm PDT

    • Register here

    • Overview: Efforts to advance justice, human rights, and equity have always faced backlash, including within academia and specific to counselor education. However, in the United States over the recent years, there has been an intensification of such backlash within an increasingly polarized society. Despite the enduring presence of backlash, resistance too has always existed—including within the field of counselor education. Join us as we share the lived experiences of 10 counselor educators from across the nation who have persisted in their critically conscious work despite the current sociopolitical environment. A consensual qualitative method was applied to explore ways these educators are navigating the current systems around them, sharing ways that they cope and persist via myriad tactics, framings, and resources. We offer hope and courage in the form of concrete resistance tactics and through the wellness (hopefully) gained from coming together and connecting, as a community committed to student and client liberation and dignity.

    • Learning outcomes:

      • To increase understanding of the definition and nature of backlash responses in Counselor Education in the current sociopolitical environment.

      • To increase knowledge of tactics Counselor Educators are using to resist, persist, and thrive in the face of backlash.

      • To enhance personal wellness through community connectedness, as one form of persistence and thriving in difficult times.

    • Speakers:

      • Tina Paone, LPC, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Educational Counseling & Leadership at Monmouth University. She teaches Advanced Topics in Race & Racism and Introduction to Professional Counseling. Her research areas include race, racism, Whiteness, multicultural counseling, and social justice in which she has numerous publications in peer reviewed academic journals. During her career, she has presented consistently at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels on topics related to multicultural counseling, race, racial identity development, and racism.

      • Krista M. Malott (she/her/hers), LPC, PhD is a professor in the Department of Education and Counseling at Villanova University. Throughout her career, she has worked with myriad persons in a counseling capacity, including K-16 students, returning citizens, domestic violence survivors, and individuals experiencing substance abuse. Contributor to over 80 publications, her teaching and research emphasizes critical consciousness with decolonial and antiracism lenses.

Other webinars coming soon:

  • Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision: Theory and Praxis, June 1, 2026, 6-8pm EDT/3-5pm PDT
    This webinar explores the need to re-envision clinical supervision through an anti-oppressive lens. It begins by identifying persistent gaps in traditional supervision models, particularly their limited attention to power, privilege, and systemic inequities. The presentation then introduces the foundational principles of anti-oppression, framing supervision as a relational and socially situated process that requires critical awareness of identity, context, and structural forces. Participants are guided through key constructs that shape anti-oppressive supervision, including reflexivity, cultural humility, and attention to power dynamics within the supervisory relationship.

    Building on this foundation, the webinar explores concrete processes and practices that operationalize anti-oppressive supervision, including a structured supervision model designed to integrate these principles into everyday clinical work. Emphasis is placed on application, encouraging participants to actively engage with and adapt the model in their own supervisory contexts. The session concludes with a collaborative discussion on the future of anti-oppressive clinical supervision, inviting participants to contribute to ongoing development in research, training, and practice, and to envision more equitable and responsive approaches to supporting clinicians and clients alike.

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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