OSRP members have been working around the clock to prepare for this meeting of the minds tomorrow at 11 am to 1 pm to discuss “Cultural Competency: What Is It? An Introduction.” Over 70 have signed up, with almost 140 engaged with the PS: Protect Seminar series. It’s not too late to register here - you won’t want to miss it.

“We’re creating a space of respectful openness, where we can all feel comfortable enough to learn together,” says Protect SubCommittee Chair Alethia Cadore, RP.  “We’ve shaped this seminar to allow enough time for questions and contributions from the room and from Zoom, to foster inclusion and true listening of each other.”

In prep meetings, all three speakers have emphasized that culture is vital to our work as therapists; but that none of us can ever become “experts” or truly “competent.” That’s why we are borrowing a page from Dr. Chase McMurren’s wisdom around “cultural humility,” as he described it in this podcast interview.

Happy Pride Month, Happy Indigenous History Month, and Happy Juneteenth to all!

AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL COMPETENCY: WHAT IS IT?

The CRPO has clearly mandated all Registrants to continue developing Cultural Competencies. This roundtable event discusses what this actually means in practice.

Time: 11 AM to 1 PM ET
Location: Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor St, Toronto (Grosvenor Room) and online via Zoom

Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023

Shanique Victoria Edwards, B.Sc., M.Div.(c), a member of Black Mental Health Canada’s Circle of Leaders and Founder and CEO of the Eden Legacy Foundation, works as knowledge translation coordinator for the Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

Dr. Oren Gozlan, Psy.D., ABPP, FIPA, is a clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst in Toronto. He is Chair of the scientific committee at the Toronto Institute for Psychoanalysis and a member of the Committee for Gender and Sexuality of the IPA. He is faculty at the University of Toronto (Applied Psychology and Human Development).

Dr. Chase McMurren (Spirit name: Water Song Medicine Keeper) is Michif/Metis (Turtle Clan) from Lethbridge, AB, located on traditional Siksikaitsitapi, Blackfoot Confederacy Territory and covered by Treaty 7. He currently lives and works in Tkarón:to |GichiKiiwenging and serves as the Indigenous Health Theme Lead in the MD Program and the Indigenous Practitioner Liaison within the Office of Indigenous Health in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

THANK YOU to the 140 registered members - your support makes it possible to continue offering these programs.

To attend/receive materials for all five PS: protect yourself Protect Seminars, if you would appreciate financial support and identify as BIPOC, please email edi@psychotherapyontario.org

We can’t wait to see you in the room or on Zoom.