NARTIC Events

Just announced: Unconditional Positive Regard!? WTF?! Upholding Counselor Values in a Polarized World

Date: April 25, 2025, 3-5pm PST

Presenters: Shawan Worsley, PhD. & Zvi Bellin, PhD.

Learn more and register here!

In addition: NARTIC is continuing our Open House events, 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 regular basis to foster community, share ideas, and grow together. Registration links will be posted as each date approaches.

We hope you will join us!

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
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
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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Dec
8

Supportive Space for Members of the CES Community Who are Experiencing Distress Related to Their Religious and Palestinian Cultural Backgrounds

December 8, 11am 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. Many U.S.-based counselor educators, counselors, and counseling students have been negatively impacted by the significant rise in Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian rhetoric in the wake of the current crisis in Gaza.

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Dec
4

Compassion Circle for Counselors/Counselor Educators Holding Jewish Identities (U.S.-Based)

December 4, 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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Nov
13

NARTIC 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 in November and December to connect and collaborate.

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Nov
13

NARTIC 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 in November and December to connect and collaborate.

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