Conversation Hour: Exploring Privilege
Friday, August 5, 4-6 pm

Hospitality Space - UMC Fellowship Hall, Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, Massachusetts Avenue at 9th St. NW

A conversation hour is scheduled for the Hospitality Space as an opportunity for people to gather to explore privilege in a facilitated discussion about exploring privilege personally and professionally.

Symposium/Workshop Exploring Privilege: A Didactic-Experiential Approach
Saturday, August 6, 10am-12pm

Convention Center Room 158

A symposium to be held at the 2011 APA Convention aims to assist counseling psychology students and professionals with exploring their own privilege through a mixture of didactic and experiential activities. Participants will be challenged to reflect specifically on the specific ways in which they experience privilege culminating in developing developing strategies for exploring privilege beyond the convention. The purpose of this session is to assist counseling psychology students and professionals with exploring their own privilege through a mixture of didactic and experiential activities. Although most participants will likely identify with multiple groups – some of whom are oppressed as well as some who are privileged – throughout the session, participants will be challenged to reflect specifically on the specific ways in which they experience privilege.
The presentation will be divided into three main sections. Initially, members of the presentation team will provide didactic instruction on the different facets of privilege. This includes privilege based on race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, social class, and ability status. For the second part of the presentation, three different breakout groups will engage in experiential activities related to exploring their own privilege and understanding how privilege operates across three domains – training, practice, and advocacy. During the third and final part of the session, these three breakout groups will engage in a brain storming activity with the goal of developing strategies for exploring privilege in their specific content area (i.e., training, practice, or advocacy). We will end the session by having the breakout groups come back to a large group for processing and sharing of ideas.

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