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Digital Seminar

Regulating Racial Reactivity and Defensiveness


Speaker:
Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Mar 21, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096468
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Many cross-racial interactions, inside and outside the therapy room, lead to reactivity and defensiveness that manifest in a number of ways, such as explosiveness, distancing, disengagement, and self-righteousness. But no matter what form reactivity takes, it gets in the way of meaningful and constructive conversations. These kinds of toxic interactions can ruin a friendship, work relationship, and even therapeutic relationship, leaving both parties feeling disillusioned, frustrated, and hopeless about not just current but future cross-racial encounters. In this workshop, we’ll explore:  

  • The anatomy of racial reactivity in order to help enhance race-related conversations and avoid inflicting racial harm 
  • How racial defensiveness can affect cross-racial engagement in the short and long-term  
  • Strategies for addressing, overcoming, and regulating racial reactivity inside and outside of therapy 
  • Effective ways to work with defensiveness to achieve honest and productive interactions 

Credit

Program Information

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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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This self-study course offers 2.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.



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Speaker

Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD's Profile

Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD Related seminars and products


From early in his storied career in the therapy world, Ken Hardy, PhD, has confronted ignorance of the BIPOC experience and maintained a decades-long, unwavering focus on training and challenging practitioners on issues of oppression, diversity, whiteness, and trauma. His voice has attracted consistent media attention, and his many appearances include the Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, and 20/20. As much an activist and bridge builder as a practitioner and healer, he continues to shape our pivotal dialogues as president of the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice and director of its Institute for Relationships in New York City. His latest book, The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness, is being called “the book we’ve been needing to cultivate a society where multiple ideologies can coexist without domination, marginalization, or indoctrination."  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kenneth Hardy receives compensation as a Clinical and Organizational Consultant . He receives royalties as a published author. Kenneth Hardy receives a speaking honorarium and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kenneth Hardy has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

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Objectives

  1. Identify common signs of racial reactivity and defensiveness in therapy.
  2. Utilise strategies for effectively addressing and dismantling racial defensiveness as it appears in session. 
  3. Implement techniques for fostering meaningful and substantive race-related conversations with clients and colleagues.  

Outline

The Anatomy of Racial Reactivity  

  • Causes and Contributing Factors 
  • Signs and Symptoms 
  • Relational Consequences  

The Anatomy of Racial Defensiveness  

  • Causes and Contributing Factors 
  • Signs and Symptoms 
  • Relational Consequences  

Strategies and Techniques for Overcoming Racial Reactivity and Defensiveness 

  • Tactics and Techniques to Foster Emotional-Regulation 
  • The Validate-Challenge-Request Method 
  • Practice Empathic Accountability 

Summary and Closure 

  • Current risks and limitations of the literature 
  • Closing thoughts, feeling, and reflections 

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists

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