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:

  • Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision: Theory and Praxis, June 1, 2026, 6-8pm EDT/3-5pm PDT
    Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BXt6VFiTQH-JNvI04LzegA

    We invite you to join us for an engaging and thought-provoking webinar, Anti-Oppressive Clinical Supervision: Theory and Praxis, featuring Dr. Harvey Charles Peters and Dr. Melissa Luke. This presentation will explore the urgent need for anti-oppressive approaches within clinical supervision and examine how supervisors, educators, and clinicians can move from theory into meaningful practice. Through discussion of foundational principles, supervision processes, and applied models, participants will be invited to critically reflect on current supervision practices while considering more equitable, inclusive, and culturally sustaining approaches to clinical training and mentorship.

    This webinar will review key constructs of anti-oppressive supervision, explore practical applications of anti-oppressive frameworks, and engage participants in imagining the future of anti-oppressive clinical supervision research, training, and praxis. Attendees can expect a dynamic conversation grounded in scholarship, clinical experience, and collaborative dialogue aimed at strengthening supervision practices across counseling and mental health professions.

    Presentation Focus:
    • Review the existing gaps and need for anti-oppressive clinical supervision
    • Discuss the foundation of anti-oppressive clinical supervision and principles of anti-oppression
    • Examine the key constructs of anti-oppressive supervision
    • Discuss anti-oppressive clinical supervision processes and practices
    • Review the anti-oppressive supervision model
    • Apply the principles of anti-oppression and anti-oppressive supervision model
    • Discuss and co-construct the future of anti-oppressive clinical supervision research, training, and praxis

    Speakers
    Harvey Charles Peters, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling at Montclair State University. Prior to his position at Montclair State University, he was the co-coordinator of the counseling doctoral program at The George Washington University. Dr. Peters has served in a variety of leadership positions across professional organizations, including the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ), and the North Atlantic Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (NARACES). Dr. Peters has published more than 45 publications and delivered over 70 presentations across interdisciplinary and international contexts. He also teaches the doctoral clinical supervision course and supervises doctoral supervisors-in-training at his university. Dr. Peters’ scholarship and clinical practices center on expanding culturally sustaining, critical, and anti-oppressive identity development and practices across counseling, leadership and advocacy, scholarship, supervision, and teaching across mental health professions.

    Melissa Luke, PhD, LMHC, NCC, ACS is a Dean’s professor in the unit of Counseling & Human Services at Syracuse University. She is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), and both a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and certified School Counselor in the state of New York. Dr. Luke is an international leader in counselor education with over 200 publications and having delivered presentations and workshops in seven countries to date. Dr. Luke is the 2024 recipient of the American Counseling Association’s Extended Research Award. In addition, Dr. Luke currently serves as the Associate Editor of Counselor Education and Supervision and previously served as the Editor of the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy. Dr. Luke has held numerous servant leadership positions in the American Counseling Association’s divisions and sister organizations, including the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ), the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE), and Chi Sigma Iota (CSI). She also teaches the doctoral clinical supervision course as well as provides supervision to doctoral supervisors-in-training at her university. Dr. Luke’s scholarship and clinical practices focus on effective and anti-oppressive practices to increase equity, inclusion, and accessibility in counseling, clinical supervision, and faculty professional development, in addition to incorporating critical qualitative and quantitative methodologies and andragogies.

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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