Topic: Microaggressions Series #3: Focus on Class Identity
Location Moved: Campbell Room, St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Ave., Berkeley (get map and directions)
Date:Friday, May 4th, from 4 pm to 6 pm
Facilitators: Nicholas DiCarlo, LCSW and Noreen O'Brien, LMFT
This series of Dialogues on Difference (DOD) is part of the rollout of institute wide efforts to better understand and respond to microaggressions that happen in our community. We endeavor to make these Microaggression dialogues an exploratory and non-judgmental space for folks to bring questions, concerns, and an attitude of openness and not knowing.
In this DOD, we will identify the many ways that class difference is articulated and reified through microaggressions and social exclusion. Ultimately, we will encourage participants to deepen their understanding of their own class identity (and the contradictory positions they inhabit), as well as reflecting on the ways in which they contribute to class stratification and oppression through privilege they hold in exclusive manners.
The dialogue will begin with some didactic material and concepts to help people ground theoretically around this topic. We will then open space to explore questions and think psychodynamically about some of the dynamics of shame and othering that can occur with these topics. We will conclude with some ideas of how to intervene in a microaggression that you are directly part of or a witness to.
Nicholas DiCarlo, LCSW, has a private practice in Oakland where they see individuals, couples, and facilitate small groups. They graduated from TPI's PGTP and specialize in working with older adults. Their other focuses include attachment trauma, adult children of divorce, and marginalization of identity via race/class/gender. They also write about aging and social policy, motivated by the belief that the psychic and social are invariably bound.
Noreen O’Brien, LMFT, is a member of the Diversity Committee and a graduate of the SSP at TPI. She has a private practice in Berkeley and supervises at TPI and The Wright Institute and is associated with chaplaincy training at UCSF. Drawn to the work of justice in community and ever curious about how psychoanalytic insights influence approaches to healing among culturally different groups, she has recently been moving away from a reconciliation paradigm toward embracing a reparations paradigm. Part of her practice has been in restorative justice and she has worked with asylum seekers.
Dialogues on Difference are a free benefit to all TPI members.
Admission is free. RSVP is required to attend as space is limited. RSVP by clicking here.