Are you helping your clients heal or are you teaching them tools to cope with oppression?
Leading a private practice or behavioral health agency doesn't mean you have to forgo your values in client care.
Get ready for the Therapy That Liberates™ Immersion.
Therapy That Liberates™ Immersion is a collaborative, holistic coaching program for mental health leaders who are ready to reclaim their wellness and learn what it takes to transform the way their organization offers mental health services in the next 10 months, through the use of a comprehensive, time-tested framework for radical change.
STOP EXPECTING BOOKS AND LOW-COST TRAINING ON DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH TO GIVE YOU THE TOOLS TO COMBAT A BROKEN, INSIDIOUS SYSTEM.
The U.S. Mental Health care system outcomes are intentional and have been strategically designed to keep people sick and keep those in power with money in their pockets.
Your organization invested thousands in that training, how many of your team members, APPLIED what they learned? You bought that new book, did you finish it? If you did, how many of those insights have you APPLIED? -- Be honest, not many!!
Listen... your strategy for transforming your organization has to be just as (if not more) intentional than the very structures that put us in this situation in the first place.
It's not your fault though... Most mental health leaders and providers are burnt out and disillusioned. To embed your values in the way you work, you have to be locked in, arm to arm, with folks walking the same path-- you need community.
TOGETHER, WE CAN CURATE A PLAN FOR SHIFTING THE MODALITIES AND POLICIES IN YOUR ORGANIZATION SO THAT THE TEAM COMMITS TO PROVIDING A THERAPY THAT LIBERATES.
Every day we help private practice owners, and non-profit leaders in behavioral health, like you, transform their team into a HEALING-FOCUSED collaborative so you have the energy to show up, serve your clients, and live your values.
"To say that training with Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne was amazing does not do her life's work justice. Her framing of colonization—its deep historical roots in the behavioral health field and how its insidious tentacles have wrapped themselves around us in present day—gave us so much to ponder and act on. The journey with Dr. Shawna helped us not only examine external systems of marginalization, but how we, as practitioners, show up in ways that either uphold oppression as the status quo or interrupt it. And to the latter, she did just that! She left us with practical tools to hold healing spaces that are culturally relevant and trauma-informed. If you are ready to decolonize your practice in service to others, I’d highly recommend Dr. Shawna as a sage guide in that process."
Lawanda Williams, MPH, LCSW-C
Health Care for the Homeless, Chief Behavioral Health Officer
The 4 Objectives Embedded in the Therapy That Liberates™ Immersion.
You will...
- Learn anti-colonial theory, movement history, and strategies to shift the modalities used and expectations upheld by you and your team when providing psychotherapy
- Identify and reject status-quo leadership while cultivating the practices and policies to embody liberatory leadership.
- Develop a multi-year plan for healing-oriented, change-making inside your organization that is realistic, collaborative, and strategic.
- Build communal relationships that help you re-imagine your relationship to your body, the land, your spirituality, and the work
Qualification Criteria for Each Therapy That Liberates™ Immersion Member
There is a qualification process for every mental health leader. We can only work with a select group of qualified, committed leaders who want to do the work to achieve the above objectives. This program is for the most committed mental health leaders in the sector. It's deep work that's not for everyone.
"But is it safe for me to speak my truth in an organization that has historically overlooked Black voices?"
Tiffany was able to fortify her voice in leadership, command equitable shifts in organizational outcomes, and correct imbalanced relationship dynamics.
**The immersion format is what sets Therapy That Liberates™ apart. When we get to speak (after you apply), I’ll give you the exact format and we’ll see if it works for you.**
What you can expect in The Therapy That Liberates™ Immersion
- Two Monthly Group Coaching Calls (Over 8 Months Beginning Fall 2024) with Dr. Shawna and the team to explore the critical application of the Liberation-focused healing framework in your life and work. We will discuss strategies for combatting real-life challenges, peer mastermind and gain individualized insight as you strengthen your liberatory leadership skills.
- Growth Assessment Scoring and Feedback. After you complete (or review) the immersion curricula, the team will review your application of the concepts in clinical and administrative circumstances. You will get actionable, expert guidance on possible next steps in multi-year planning, grassroots alignment, supervisory skill and more
- Private Member Only Online Platform. Be intentional about building authentic relationships with the most real mental health leaders across the country. Share insights, build alliances, and hive-mind together.
- Healing Work & Nature Communion. Throughout our time together, we will engage in healing praxis and nature communion activities (initiated virtually). Sometimes this means you will be able to share your musings around your healing journey other times opportunities will be provided for meditation and embodiment practice, together.
- 12 Months Access to Therapy That Liberates™ Curricula
To support deeper study and aligned practice members gain on-demand access to Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk (16 hours) and the advanced course, Demystifying the Liberation-Focused Healing Framework (see details below). Access to the Therapy That Liberates Library Archive is also included (36 hours of liberatory learning content). Yes, CEs are available for licensed members. - Two 1-1 Coaching Sessions w/ Dr. Shawna. At the beginning, and in the middle of your journey you will engage in a laser coaching strategy session to outline your goals, needs, and greatest personal hurdles.
Demystifying the Liberation-Focused Healing Framework
In Module 1, Identity Reclamation, theories of identity development, the impact of colonization on self-concept and methods for centering radical imagination in safe spaces as your client reclaims and redefines the self.
In Module 2, Embodied Healing of Modern and Historic Trauma, the importance of differentiating between the types of generational trauma, methods for affirming original healing ways and insight to interrogate mainstream protocols.
In Module 3, Intentional Worldview Reorientation, the insight, practices and critique of Black healing trailblazers on decolonizing worldview.
In Module 4, Critical Consciousness Raising, the stages of critical consciousness, cognitive limitations and ways to authentically weave this into care plans with those you serve for the ultimate purpose of fortifying collective self-determination outside colonial systems.
In Module 5, Authentic Beingness, how to conduct power analyses as a mental health provider and ways to utilize this to reflect and actualize a practice in right relationship with land and life.
In Module 6, Rooted Village Cultivation, ways to center grassroots, abolitionist and mutual aid for the optimal mental wellness of Black folk.
"As people of European descent in nonprofit work, we sometimes unintentionally allow our emotional attachment to whiteness and white privilege lead our actions professionally, which can cause harm. Dr. Shawna's expert guidance and expertise in decolonizing nonprofit professional practice gave me the confidence to make the leap from being a solo, white Executive Director to proposing to my board that we transition to a shared co-leadership model with a person of color as co-Director. Instead of doing what might have been the simpler step of stepping away from the organization altogether, with Dr. Shawna's coaching, I was able to manage my own emotions and see clearly that a transition into shared leadership was the thing that would be best for the organization. Dr. Shawna's ability to both create a safe and healing environment for nonprofit leaders to express and manage their emotions, as well as her skill in challenging us to maintain accountability for our actions and behavior, is unmatched in my experience. She is an asset and a true changemaker."
Mariya Strauss
"My time with Dr. Shawna was phenomenal and completely unexpected. As a Black woman in America, I have never sat with how my thinking and work often perpetuated racism in the affordable housing and local government space. Work with Dr. Shawna forced me to understand that, I too, as a Black person, have to be intentionally anti-racist or I am just a tool of a system that was not created with my wellness and economic mobility in mind. Our sessions often felt like group therapy in that we laughed and cried, but when they were done, we always were clear on what work was left to do. Time with Dr. Shawna truly changed my life. If I could bottle her accountability partnering up, I would take it with me everywhere I go. Thanks, Dr. Shawna for pouring into our cohort; I am so much more intentional in life because of it"
Ashley Johnson-Hare
"Dr. Shawna is an authentic coach who meets you where you are. She listens and gets to the core of your challenge. Her historical knowledge goes deep and wide and it was an honor to learn from her. Her areas of feedback and insight have propelled me to grow and make important changes within our organization. "
Lisette Morris
About Your Instructor
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C is an organizational strategist and healer, cultural historian, womanist scholar, transformational speaker, and keeper of sacred space for leaders, globally. She is the Principal Consultant at Kindred Wellness LLC and trained as an integrative psychotherapist.
Dr. Shawna works at the intersection of grassroot movement, institutional change, and embodied ancestral wisdom. Intuitive, authentic, and high energy, she pulls from over 14 years of experience in mind-body medicine and mental health care to accompany executives in transcending historic and modern-day trauma. She guides organizations in creating affirming practices, policies and environments for Black, Brown and Indigenous people everywhere.
Dr. Shawna was named by The Huffington Post as one of the “Ten Black Female Therapists You Should Know,” featured on the PBS special Mysteries of Mental Illness, and was a two-time guest on the popular, Therapy for Black Girls podcast. She completed her doctorate at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work where she gained her Master of Social Work. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Family Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.
