Healing the Divide: How Diversity & Energy Psychology Are Better Together (No CE)

Victor Lee Lewis, MA

The Western world is experiencing increasing strife around social differences. Diversity and inclusion education suffers from a limited understanding of how to heal stress and trauma. Energy psychology suffers from narrow demographics and cultural assumptions. A real conversation about diversity issues often brings up unregulated affect for each party. We need to acknowledge these issues before having the conversation. Integrating energy psychology with a “Name it to tame it” strategy can open the door to hard conversations that are generative and productive. This session will begin a conversation on how to heal the traumas we all have around these issues.

Objectives

Name the 3 most important things to do to frame a “Hard but Good” conversation about diversity, race, class, gender, etc.

Describe at least 1 way to use EFT or other energy psychology method to reduce emotional reactivity to conversations about race, gender, class, and difference.