MAGPS Anti-Racism White Affinity Group

Sunday December 22, 2024
3:00-5:00 PM

Please join us online for the MAGPS White Affinity Group on Sunday, December, 22nd, from 3:00-5:00pm  ET. This Anti-Racism Group is for white participants and is co-convened by Barbara Cristy and Jill Penaloza.

This group meets the fourth Sunday of every month from 3-5pm ET. Please mark your calendar for our next meeting, January 26, 2025. 

This is a virtual meeting. You will receive the Zoom meeting link after you have registered.  

In this meeting we will discuss our own experiences of identity, race and racism, and how white supremacy culture and consciousness affects us, our practices, and MAGPS. 

Although these groups are not traditional interpersonal process groups, we do expect to be attuned to what comes up in the here and now. The purpose is not to enhance clinical group skills but to use group process to deepen our awareness of how we can become anti-racists in an anti-racist organization.

The MAGPS BIPOC Consultation Group meets on the 3rd Sunday of each month. You will receive an email to register for these meetings or you can register by going to the MAGPS website and clicking on Events. For more information about affinity groups and other anti-racism programming at MAGPS, please reach out to ARC@magps.org. 

All registrants will get the Zoom Meeting Link emailed to them. 

Affinity group events are free for MAGPS Members.
Click here to renew or join MAGPS for 2024.

If you have any questions about this event, please email our JEDI Chairs at ARC@magps.org. 

MAGPS Roundtable Presentation

Illuminating Possibilities: Liberation-Oriented Group Psychotherapy with Laura Bruco, MSW, LICSW

Sunday January 12, 2025
3:00-5:00 PM

Please join us online for the first MAGPS Roundtable of 2025! In this 2-hour presentation we'll explore group work through a liberation lens, using concepts from diverse ways of knowing, from fiber arts to quantum mechanics, to spark expansive thinking about the potential of group therapy and to rethink traditional ideas of diversity, inclusion, safety and group norms.  The aim is not to prescribe, but to illuminate possibilities for growth and transformation in ourselves and in our clients.   

Laura Bruco, MSW, LICSW is a self-described liberation-oriented group psychotherapist practicing in Washington State via telehealth from their home in South Dakota in the ancestral lands of the Oceti Sakowin, also known as the Seven Council Fires, a confederation of Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota Sioux tribes.  Laura received a BA in Sociology from George Washington University with a concentration in race and race relations. They received  an MSW from Smith College for Social Work. Laura is neurospicy, disabled, and queer.      

This is a virtual roundtable. You will receive the Zoom link after you have registered.  

This event is sponsored by the MAGPS JEDI Committee. For more information about affinity groups and other anti-racism programming at MAGPS, please reach out to ARC@magps.org. 

All registrants will get the Zoom Meeting Link emailed to them. 

This event is free for all MAGPS Members.
Click here to renew or join MAGPS.

If you have any questions about this event, please email our JEDI Chairs at ARC@magps.org.