Spiritual Abuse and Racial Trauma: A workshop for mental health providers

Presented by Dr. Jordan Shannon, NCC, LMHCA

Join Unity Collective's team online for an insightful workshop exploring the deep impact of spiritual abuse and racial trauma in the United States, specifically in the historical context of slavery and white American Christianity.

This workshop is designed especially for mental health providers looking to expand their knowledge, understanding and skills in these important topics. Those in helping professions adjacent to mental health providers are also welcome to participate.

Connect, learn, and grow with peers in a supportive virtual environment.

Suggested donation: $22

This 2-part workshop will help you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US we create space to engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies — regardless of religious or non-religious status. You will learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.

Together we will work with the ways supremacy culture shows up somatically, relationally, and structurally in helping professions. We will examine how dissociation, fragmentation, and inherited oppression narratives shape our work, and develop practices to interrupt these patterns.

This workshop addresses diversity and cultural competence by:

• Examining how supremacy culture impacts Black, Indigenous, and People of Color differently than white-bodied practitioners.

• Naming cultural, historical, and intergenerational forces that shape power dynamics in clinical and community settings.

• Offering embodied, relational, and trauma-informed tools to practitioners working across racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences.

• Developing the capacity to recognize and intervene in oppression harm while maintaining therapeutic integrity and accountability.

• Participants will engage in reflective dialogue, somatic exercises, case-based examples, and guided exploration of their own positionality. 

The intent is not perfection but deepening collective responsibility and expanding our capacity to resist supremacy culture inside our practice and in ourselves.

This experience will be virtual only. Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice will take place on two consecutive Fridays: January 23rd and January 30th. You have the option to sign up for one or both!

This workshop mets the Washington Department of Health requirement for two hours of health equity continuing education (WAC 246-12-820).

General Registration

• $60 per session / $100 for both with CEUs

• $45 per session / $80 for both without CEUs

Member Registration

• $50 per session / $80 for both with CEUs

• $35 per session / $60 for both without CEUs

This event is held in partnership with Shelterwood Collective.

This 2-part workshop will help you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US we create space to engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies — regardless of religious or non-religious status. You will learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm.

Together we will work with the ways supremacy culture shows up somatically, relationally, and structurally in helping professions. We will examine how dissociation, fragmentation, and inherited oppression narratives shape our work, and develop practices to interrupt these patterns.

This workshop addresses diversity and cultural competence by:

• Examining how supremacy culture impacts Black, Indigenous, and People of Color differently than white-bodied practitioners.

• Naming cultural, historical, and intergenerational forces that shape power dynamics in clinical and community settings.

• Offering embodied, relational, and trauma-informed tools to practitioners working across racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences.

• Developing the capacity to recognize and intervene in oppression harm while maintaining therapeutic integrity and accountability.

• Participants will engage in reflective dialogue, somatic exercises, case-based examples, and guided exploration of their own positionality. 

The intent is not perfection but deepening collective responsibility and expanding our capacity to resist supremacy culture inside our practice and in ourselves.

This experience will be virtual only. Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice will take place on two consecutive Fridays: January 23rd and January 30th. You have the option to sign up for one or both!

This workshop mets the Washington Department of Health requirement for two hours of health equity continuing education (WAC 246-12-820).

General Registration

• $60 per session / $100 for both with CEUs

• $45 per session / $80 for both without CEUs

Member Registration

• $50 per session / $80 for both with CEUs

• $35 per session / $60 for both without CEUs

This event is held in partnership with Shelterwood Collective.