Name: EGPS WG4RE – “White Racial Identity Development and How Whiteness Harms White People”
Start: 2025-06-17T20:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-17T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Zoom

EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity

The EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity meets monthly to discuss relevant books, films, podcasts, and articles. Further information can be found on the EGPS website at www.egps.org.

Join us! We are a “drop in group.” You are invited to participate whenever you can. Connect via a Zoom link on the third Tuesday evening of the month. To receive the link to join the monthly meeting, each month you will need to click on the “registration link” listed below. Once you have “registered” the Zoom link will automatically be sent to you. (There is NO fee for attending these monthly Discussion Groups.)

EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity
Discussion GroupTUESDAY, June 17, 2025

8:30 – 9:45 PM
(eastern time)

On Zoom
(information to join the meeting is below)

White Racial Identity Development and How Whiteness Harms White People

Facilitated by Dr. Virginia Seewaldt

Since 2020, we have seen both a surge in anti-racism efforts and an intense backlash against them. As institutions retreat under political and cultural pressure, we’re called to reflect more deeply on whiteness, white racial identity, and the less visible ways white supremacy harms white people too.

This collection of readings and podcasts for this month’s discussion group explores how white identity develops, how white supremacy distorts white people’s sense of self and community, and how anti-racism work can lead to personal (and ultimately collective) liberation. While white people benefit materially from systemic racism, they also pay hidden emotional, relational, and moral costs. White supremacy isolates, numbs, and constrains. In contrast, anti-racism opens the door to empathy, clarity, connection, and integrity. Most white people don’t even know what they are missing in this regard, and how much more capacity for humanity is available to them.

Join us as we come together in community to discuss this topic with openness, humility, and a shared commitment to learning and growth.

10 ways white supremacy wounds white people: A tale of mutuality (article)

Teaching While White Podcast Interview with Dr. Janet Helms ( podcast: 31 minutes)

White Racial Identity and Anti-Racist Education: A Catalyst for Change (article)

Why talking about race is especially hard for White people (article)

Francesca Maxime Interview with Dr. Janet Helms (podcast: 1 hour 6 minutes)

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EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity (WG4RE) Mission Statement

The Work Group for Racial Equity of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society aims to initiate opportunities for members to examine how racism is embedded in individuals’ unconscious, in groups, and in our organization. Utilizing a collaborative process, the work group supports EGPS efforts to integrate awareness about race and racism in professional events and presentations.
The Work Group also seeks to enhance members’ understanding of the impact of institutional racism on their work, encourages members’ examination of internalized racial oppression, and works with the Board of Directors to strengthen our racial equity lens.
Healing from racial injustice is a result of learning and struggling together. We hope all members will join EGPS in this work.

Upcoming Discussion:
All upcoming discussions will be held on Zoom on
Tuesday evenings from 8:30 – 9:45 PM

Healing from racial injustice is a result of learning and struggling together. We hope you will join EGPS in this important work.

For more information, please contact the Co-Chairs of the Work Group For Racial Equity:
Chris Dolin, LCSW, chrisdolin21@gmail.com
or
April Harvin, LCSW, aprilharvin.lcsw@gmail.com