Date: October 17 & 18, 2024
 Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
 Location: St. Paul Event Center

Title: Going Deeper to Grow Stronger: Exploring the Racial and Cultural Impact on Identity

Join us as Kente Circles celebrates its 20th season of community service. Over the years, many of you have participated in our trainings, workshops, conferences, supervision, and therapy. Throughout this journey, we have observed a common desire among participants: the need to go deeper.

This two-day conference invites you to delve into your personal narratives, deepening your understanding of your racial and cultural identity. Our goal is to create a safe space where we can collectively explore and liberate ourselves from historical narratives that may have influenced our self-perception and our relationships with others. Drawing from the foundation we’ve built with past conference attendees, we aim to foster a deeper connection with your own identity.

Conference Highlights:

• Experiential Exercises: Engage in activities designed to prompt reflection and meaningful dialogue.
• Mind-Body Integration: Explore the connection between mind and body and its impact on self-understanding.
• Mindfulness Techniques: Learn methods to enhance self-awareness and promote inner peace.

Objectives:

• Explore Depth: Understand what going deeper looks like for each of us.
• Identity Liberation: Identify parts of your identity yearning to be freed.
• Breaking Free: Recognize your walls of protection and learn how to break through them.
• Power & Race: Evaluate how we relinquish power to race and racist practices.

We look forward to this powerful gathering of personal growth and collective healing. Save the date, and prepare to be both challenged and validated in a journey towards deeper self-awareness and liberation.

Speaker Bios

Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy is a Clinical and Organizational Consultant at the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York, NY where he also serves as Director. He provides Racially Focused Trauma Informed training, executive coaching, and consultation to a diverse network of individuals and organizations throughout the United States and abroad. He is a former Professor of Family Therapy at both Drexel University in Philadelphia, and Syracuse University in New York, and has also served as the Director of Children, Families, and Trauma at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York, NY. 

He is the author of:

Culturally Sensitive Supervision: Diverse Perspectives and Practical Applications

•   Promoting Culturally Sensitive Supervision: A Manual for Practitioners

•   Revisioning Family Therapy: Race, Class, and Gender

•   Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Strategies for Breaking the Cycle of Youth Violence.

In addition to his consultation work, Dr. Hardy is a frequent conference speaker and has also appeared on ABC’s 20/20, Dateline NBC, PBS, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Vanessa Jackson is a Soul Doula, writer, activist and social worker based in Atlanta. Her work focuses on power, social and economic liberation, African American psychiatric history and reclaiming traditional practices to support individual and community healing. Vanessa is the owner of Dudley’s Apothecary which offers healing sprays in the traditions of her root worker ancestors.

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