From Race to Culture...in the Supervision of Therapeutic Practice (Winter 2025)

This winter, Change Inc. and the Cultural Wellness Center will be providing a 15 CEU course in supervision focused on culture and race.

From Race to Culture in the Supervision of Therapeutic Practice engages participants in a process of cultural self-discovery in service to their ability to mentor and support their future supervisees in a similar process. This workshop will address contextual factors of race, ethnicity, and culture and will consider dynamics of power and privilege that impact the therapeutic and supervisory relationship. The workshop will be both didactic and interactional in nature. We expect there will be lively and informative discussions.

Dates:

• Virtually (Zoom): Mondays from 1pm-4pm: January 6, 13, 27 and February 3, 2025 (*no class January 20)
• In-person (1209 Tyler St. NE, Suite 170, Minneapolis, MN 55413): February 10, 2025

Cost: $300 (including all materials)

Class Instructors:

Minkara Tezet, Griot of Psychology and Psychiatry of the Cultural Wellness Center
Minkara Tezet is currently a Fellow at Cultural Wellness Center in Minneapolis as a Community Fellow. The aim of the fellowship is to assist fellows in understanding their cultural calling (work/vocation). He was named the griot of psychology and psychiatry. The focus of his fellowship has been to understand the intra-cultural relationship and dynamics between Africans, African Americans and Blacks within the United States. 

(Michele) Semerit Strachan, MD, Griot of the Medicine of Reconciliation of the Cultural Wellness Center
(Michele) Semerit Strachan, MD, is a student and faculty member at the Cultural Wellness Center in South Minneapolis, MN. She has been the Director of Medicine at the Center since its beginning in 1996. She particularly helps community members reconcile parts of themselves that have previously been exiled from their sense of self. She is masterful at understanding and teaching the symbolic language of the Body through its symptoms of disease and discomfort, leading people to inquire “what is my body really trying to tell me?” 

Jody Nelson, Ed. D., LMFT - MN-BMFT Approved Supervisor
Dr. Jo Nelson is Executive Director of Change Inc., a community-based social service agency providing educational and mental health services primarily in partnership with schools. 

If you have any questions about this course, please contact David Hesse at dhesse@thechangeinc.org.