Please join us for an inaugural meeting of a multi-year project devoted to

BUILDING RACIAL EQUITY AT CCP

A Project of CCP's Diversity and Social Justice initiative

OCTOBER 18, 2024 on Zoom

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Presented by the CCP Steering Committee for Racial Equity:

Celia Brickman

Zak Mucha

Max Beshers

with the assistance of Libby Bachhuber

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The CCP Steering Committee for Racial Equity invites all CCP members to join us in launching a multi-year program for building racial equity at CCP. This program will provide a framework for us to grapple with the dynamics of racism embedded in our psychoanalytic practices, and to forge recommendations for a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive psychoanalysis. At this inaugural meeting on October 18, the steering committee will present a step-by-step proposal for how we can work together towards such changes, and CCP members will be invited to discuss their ideas, hopes and concerns related to these issues.

In the summer of 2020, APsaA convened The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality to investigate racism within American psychoanalysis. The resulting Holmes report, which appeared a year ago, offers a comprehensive view of and detailed recommendations for the many dimensions of psychoanalytic life that are impacted by racism. The publication of this report provides us with an historic opportunity to develop more equitable psychoanalytic practices. 

For the first year of our program, we will be inviting CCP members to read the Holmes report as a community and to join together in small reading groups that will meet monthly. The reading groups will discuss each chapter and will make suggestions based on their discussions.  There will be a sign-up page on the CCP website for everyone to join a group; and CEU’s will be available for each of these meetings. By the end of the year, we hope to constitute a variety of CCP committees to implement recommendations based on the suggestions resulting from these meetings.

Further instructions for the reading groups will be given at this meeting. If you would like to sign up for a reading group right now, please go to: https://ccpsa.org/Holmes-Commission-Reading-Grps

We believe that aligning our psychoanalytic commitments more clearly with our ideals of racial equity will be inspiring work that will deepen our shared sense of community. We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 18.