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SUMMARY:Liberation Psychology in Practice – Free Training with Dr. Thema Bryant
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Conscious Business Event\nChronic stress, collective trauma, intergenerational trauma, and systemic oppression can shape a client’s psychological experience in ways that individual trauma frameworks alone may not fully address. In Liberation Psychology in Practice with Dr. Thema Bryant, joy is explored not as an afterthought, but as a protective factor and resistance strategy that can support resilience, cultural identity, and wholeness.\nGrounded in liberation psychology, this free training offers practical, case-based ways to integrate joy into therapeutic work with marginalized clients. Dr. Thema Bryant introduces the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model, a framework outlining seven pathways for cultivating and sustaining joy.\nYou’ll explore how joy, spirituality, creativity, community support, rest, intimacy, embodiment, and honest reflection can become meaningful parts of culturally responsive care. The training also considers the practitioner’s inner life, including self-awareness, self-care, community care, and the responsibility to become an agent of change.\nThis is not a surface-level conversation about positive thinking. It is an invitation to examine how liberation psychology can help make room for joy alongside the realities of trauma, oppression, and cultural disconnection.\nRegister Here For Free\nCultivating joy with marginalized clients through liberation psychology.\n\n\n\nExplore This Free Event\nJump directly to the section that interests you.\n\n→Why Attend\n→Who Should Attend\n→What You’ll Learn\n→About Your Host\n→Frequently Asked Questions\n\nRegister Here For Free→\n\n\nJoy as a Clinical and Liberatory Practice\nWhy Attend “Liberation Psychology in Practice with Dr. Thema Bryant”\n\nFor clients carrying chronic stress, collective trauma, intergenerational trauma, and the effects of systemic oppression, joy can be treated as something secondary to the “real” work. Liberation psychology offers another perspective: joy can be part of the work itself.\nDr. Thema Bryant presents joy as a protective factor and resistance strategy that can help clinicians think more expansively about resilience, identity, agency, and wholeness. Rather than separating healing from culture and lived experience, the training places them in conversation with one another.\nThrough the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model, you’ll explore seven applied pathways for cultivating and sustaining joy with marginalized clients. The emphasis is practical and clinically relevant, with attention to truth, spirituality, restoration, connection, creativity, embodiment, and the practitioner’s own inner life.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nFor Professionals Supporting Marginalized Clients\nWho Should Attend\nThis training is especially relevant for mental health professionals whose clients are navigating more than individual trauma, including chronic stress, systemic oppression, intergenerational wounds, cultural disconnection, and the exhaustion of simply surviving.\nIt is designed for practitioners who want a more culturally responsive, identity-affirming framework for helping clients make room for joy, resilience, agency, belonging, and wholeness within the therapeutic process.\n\nCounselors\nSocial workers\nPsychologists\nCase managers\nTherapists\nMarriage and family therapists\nOther mental health professionals supporting marginalized clients\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nLiberation Psychology + the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. Model\nWhat You’ll Learn\nYou’ll begin by examining how oppression, systemic forces, and intergenerational trauma can shape psychological experience, along with the importance of affirming cultural identity and humanity in work with marginalized communities.\nFrom there, Dr. Bryant explores joy as an emotion with physical, psychological, and social benefits, and as a protective factor and resistance strategy within liberation psychology. The training connects joy with resilience, cultural identity, agency, and wholeness without reducing the realities of trauma or oppression to positive thinking.\nThe J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model provides a practical framework for exploring joy through multiple pathways, while also inviting practitioners to consider their own identity, experience, self-care, community care, and therapeutic influence.\nHere’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n\nHow oppression, systemic forces, and intergenerational trauma can shape psychological experience\nHow joy can function as a protective factor and resistance strategy in liberation psychology\nWays to support resilience while affirming cultural identity and humanity\nHow the Justice Pathway connects joy with agency, resilience, and identity\nHow the Unearth the Truth Pathway uses honest reflection around trauma, identity, and lived experience\nHow spirituality may contribute to joy and resilience for clients who draw on spiritual practices\nWhy rhythms of engagement and restoration can support presence, rest, and well-being\nHow connection, belonging, and supportive relationships contribute to mental health\nHow creativity can support joy, personal identity, cultural identity, resilience, and agency\nHow embodiment can reconnect joy with physical experience, vitality, and the body\nHow practitioner self-awareness, self-care, and community care shape therapeutic influence\n\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nMeet Your Presenter\nAbout Dr. Thema Bryant\nThema Bryant, PhD, is a psychologist, author, professor, sacred artist, and minister whose work brings together trauma healing, culture, identity, relationships, stress, oppression, and spirit.\nShe completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke University and post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center’s Victims of Violence Program. She has served as president of the American Psychological Association and is a tenured professor of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University.\nDr. Bryant is also an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, author of Matters of the Heart, and host of The Homecoming Podcast. Across her clinical work, teaching, ministry, and writing, she brings an integrated view of healing that places joy, culture, and identity within the work of trauma recovery.\nRegister Here For Free\n\n\nEverything You Need to Know\nFrequently Asked Questions\nSelect any question below to reveal the answer.\nEvent Details\n\nIs this event really free?\nYes. Registration for Liberation Psychology in Practice with Dr. Thema Bryant is free.\n\n\nWho is Dr. Thema Bryant?\nThema Bryant, PhD, is a psychologist, author, professor, sacred artist, and minister. She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke University, completed post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center’s Victims of Violence Program, has served as president of the American Psychological Association, and is a tenured professor at Pepperdine University.\n\n\nWho is this training for?\nThe training is especially relevant for counselors, social workers, psychologists, case managers, therapists, marriage and family therapists, and other mental health professionals who support marginalized clients.\n\n\nWhat will I learn?\nYou’ll explore how liberation psychology understands oppression, systemic forces, and intergenerational trauma, along with practical ways to work with joy as a protective factor and resistance strategy that can support resilience, identity, agency, connection, and wholeness.\n\nLiberation Psychology & Joy\n\nWhat is the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model?\nThe J.U.S.T.I.C.E. model is Dr. Thema Bryant’s framework outlining seven pathways for cultivating and sustaining joy among marginalized clients.\n\n\nHow does the training frame joy?\nThe training presents joy as more than a reward that comes after difficult therapeutic work. Within liberation psychology, joy can function as a protective factor and resistance strategy while supporting resilience, cultural identity, agency, and wholeness.\n\n\nDoes the training address spirituality, creativity, and community?\nYes. The training includes spirituality, creativity, intimacy, connection, belonging, and community support as meaningful pathways or practices related to joy, resilience, and identity.\n\n\nDoes the training address the practitioner’s inner life?\nYes. The material includes practitioner self-awareness around identity, experience, and therapeutic influence, along with self-care, community care, and becoming an agent of change.\n\n\n\n\n\nBusiness Education Disclosure\nThe contents of this website/e-mail and this event are for general informational and educational purposes only. They are not legal, tax, accounting, financial, employment, compliance, clinical, or other professional advice. Consult appropriately qualified professionals about decisions specific to your practice, jurisdiction, clients, and circumstances.\n\n\nRelationship Disclosure\nWe are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. In order to do this, please note that whenever you click the links and purchase items, in most (not all) cases we will receive a referral commission. We may receive a listing fee for publishing this event.\nYour support in purchasing through these links makes it possible for people in over 150 countries globally to attend these life-changing events for free. 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