Interrupting Racism through Confronting White Fragility (Ticket Required) (NY-MC2240)
Workshops (Requires a Ticket and Separate Registration)
Lauren Leone, DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC
Lauren Leone, DAT, ATR-BC, LMHC works with art therapy participants in private and community-based practice and is a faculty member at Lesley University. She received a doctorate in art therapy from Mount Mary University where her research investigated how craft activism can support art therapy clients in being agents of social change.
Karen Estrella, PhD, ATR-BC, LMHC, REAT
Karen Estrella, ATR-BC, REAT, LMHC, coordinates the Expressive Arts Therapy specialization track at Lesley University. She has worked for over thirty years in community mental health as an Expressive Arts Therapist, Supervisor and Consultant and as a Mental Health Counselor. She has an interest in critical pedagogy and multicultural issues.
This workshop explores the concept of white fragility and provides a space for white-presenting art therapists to use art to work individually and together on the ethical responsibility of recognizing privilege, confronting internalized racism, and identifying how this manifests on individual and structural levels in the field of art therapy.