DSPP Meeting: Beyond Our Circles — Field Report & Next Steps for Community Engagement
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About this event
How do psychotherapists build real relationships with communities we rarely meet as patients or colleagues? In this 90-minute workshop, the DPC Committee on Diversity & Inclusion (CODI) reports on our “step-outside” efforts—hosting monthly, on-site conversations with Dallas community groups—and translates what we learned into concrete next steps. We’ll spotlight collaborations with Dallas Police Department Community Outreach, El Movimiento’s Proactive Patrols (community safety & ICE-alerts), LGBTQ liaison work around hate incident response, and multicultural initiatives (anti-hate forums, Unity Walk on Oct 11, 2025). Come hear what’s working, where we’ve stumbled, and how you can join by attending and amplifying neighborhood events, offering skills workshops, and forming durable, ethical partnerships.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Recognize the dynamic nature of community disturbance and needs.
2. Create psychoanalytically informed interventions that serve communities in distress.
3. Describe a community psychoanalytic model and its value for trust-building and bidirectional learning.
4. Identify community-level roles for psychoanalysts (education, containment, linkage) that are feasible and ethical—distinct from large-scale low-fee treatment.
Date: Wednesday, March, 4th, 2026 7:30pm-9pm
Credits: 1.5 CE
Speaker: Lorie Ammon, LPC-S & Radhi Dani, MD
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209