Description: The racial healing workshop is designed to be an open and expansive experience with heart, body, and mind. Participants will engage in self-discovery, collective and community healing, and work to challenge racial narratives that have been created since the founding of the United States. They will also examine how racism has been transmitted generationally. The racial healing workshop is designed to create healing through a safe space, connection, and community.

Learning Objectives:

• Increase one's awareness of identity of self and others, and make connections/create space for healing wounds of trauma, both individually and collectively
• Increase one's understanding of the history of racism and how its current impact challenges our lives and community
• Challenge the narrative that silences racism and those disproportionately impacted by racism, as well as the narrative that impacts our own biases, beliefs, and behaviors.
• Understand how historical, systemic, and trans-generational racism is transmitted by our own beliefs, behaviors, and policies, and societal systems
• Create operational goals to continue learning and to take action.

Dr. Maime Butler (they/them) currently works at Purdue University's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) as a staff psychologist and Liaison to the Black Student Community. Originally from Oakland, California, they graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans. Maime also graduated from Western Michigan University with a masters and doctorate in Counseling Psychology. Maime's clinical orientation includes treatment from a social justice/equity/multicultural lens, relational cultural theory, acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion. Clinical interest areas include race-based trauma and stress, racial, gender, and sexual identity, LGBTQ+ issues, trauma, mood-related and anxiety disorders, holistic practices, spirituality, first-generation college students, training, outreach, and workshop facilitation. Maime has been engaged in racial equity, racial healing, and anti-racism/anti-bias work, and has been a therapist serving underrepresented communities for 10 years.