Annual Membership Meeting
2026-05-28 20:00 - 21:15 (America/New_York) | Zoom
For all EGPS Members:
Please join us for our 2026 Annual Membership Meeting.
Thursday, May 28, 8:00-9:15pm on Zoom
All EGPS members are welcome!
We’ll review our last year and look forward to the next, introducing the newly elected Board members, and also offering opportunities for conversation amongst members and leaders of EGPS.

Not yet a member? Join us!

Group Journal Fireside Chat: "The Forgotten Only Child in Interpersonal Therapy Groups" with Christina Dixon
2026-05-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
A conversation with GROUP author Christina Dixon, LCSW, CGP
Free ZOOM event
Hosted by the GROUP Journal Committee
Focusing on her article in GROUP:
The Forgotten Only Child in Interpersonal Therapy Groups
Article Abstract:
Rates of only children are rising in many countries throughout the world, including the United States. The experience of an only child needs to be better understood to support these clients in group therapy and to help them integrate into a world they have never personally experienced—that of interacting with siblings. By examining unique aspects of the only-child experience, I hope to aid group leaders in becoming culturally competent with this growing population.
This is a free event open to all EGPS members and non-members.

Deadline: Workshop Proposals for the Annual Conference
2026-06-05 18:00
Groups have long been understood as circles—spaces of gathering, reflection, desire, and shared meaning-making. Yet circles are rarely calm or stable for long. At times, they hold heat: conflict, urgency, fear, and the intensity of difference. In the current moment, many groups find themselves organized around these very forces, as polarization, mistrust, and social fracture permeate clinical, organizational, and public life.
What does it mean to lead when the circle is on fire?
This conference explores the challenges of leadership in groups charged with anxiety, division, and moral tension. Leaders today are called not only to facilitate dialogue, but to withstand and work within powerful affective currents. These dynamics often contribute to harm and defensive processes such as splitting, scapegoating, withdrawal, and the hardening of positions that foreclose curiosity and mutual recognition.
At the same time, difference—of identity, experience, power, and perspective—remains both a source of vitality and a site of profound strain within groups. How do leaders engage difference without either collapsing it into false consensus or amplifying it into irreparable rupture? How can conflict be worked with rather than extinguished or inflamed? What capacities are required to remain present, thoughtful, and ethically grounded when the group itself feels volatile or combustible?
We invite workshop proposals that take up these questions across psychotherapy, organizational, and community settings. Submissions might explore: leadership under conditions of fear and uncertainty; the management of conflict and aggression in groups; the role of identity, power, and historical trauma in shaping oppressive group dynamics; the leader’s use of self in high-intensity settings; and practices that support resilience, repair, and the possibility of dialogue across difference. We are interested in proposals that promote leadership practices that are affirming and inclusive of diverse identities, and that attend to the social unconscious as it permeates and shapes group life.
We particularly encourage proposals that integrate theory with lived and clinical experience, and that engage participants in experiential, reflective, or process-oriented learning. As groups become increasingly charged spaces, this conference seeks to illuminate how leaders can embrace the fire but not be consumed by it—and instead learn to work with it in ways that sustain connection, complexity, and growth.
We invite proposals to align with our organizational Mission and Vision.

Seminar Series: Taking Up Role: The Multiple Dimensions of Person-in-Role, Authority, and Social Identity in Groups - Mary McRae & Kelley Hershman
2026-06-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Location: Virtually on Zoom
Description: Roles in groups and organizations operate across multiple dimensions: the role assigned by the organization, how the individual takes up that role (person-in-role), and how the role is perceived by others. These dimensions are often misaligned, particularly in the context of social identity, where assumptions and projections shape how authority is granted, resisted, or undermined. This workshop focuses on making these dynamics visible. Using brief video vignettes and live group process, participants will examine how identity influences role and authority in real time, and how to intervene when gaps emerge between role, behavior, and perception.
Presenter Bios:
Mary B. McRae, Ed.D, is a counseling psychologist in private practice. She also does coaching and group facilitation to enhance more effective and productive functioning. She is the President of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. Dr. McRae is the author of a book, an educational video and several articles and book chapters.
Kelley Hershman, B.S., M.A., M.S., LMHC-D, is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Clinical Director and Co-Founder of The Soho Center for Mental Health and Clinical Learning in New York City. She received both her B.S. in Applied Psychology, and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from New York University. She received her M.S. in Counseling, Clinical & School Psychology at The University of California in Santa Barbara. Her research interests include the study of adult attachment in marriage, family and organizational behavior. She also researches race, interracial marital stress, authority, gender and status as they relate to power and leadership within human systems and cultures. She has been practicing the Group Relations Consultation since 2008.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact the Seminar Series Co-Chairs, Nardia Brooks and Jacqueline Ambrosini.

WG4RE June Discussion Group: How do we greet the 250th anniversary of our country's Declaration of Independence?
2026-06-16 20:30 - 21:45 | Zoom
Work Group for Racial Equity June Discussion Group: How do we greet the 250th anniversary of our country’s Declaration of Independence?
Not just within the Trumpist moment, but in the long sweep of our history that has bent occasionally toward and frequently away from justice for the generations of Black people descended from those who were enslaved and for Native Americans and other immigrant people of color.
What is the meaning of patriotism or love of country for people of color and allies?
In our next Discussion Group, we will address these questions through the lens of Eddie Glaude Jr’s recent book, America, USA: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries.
We certainly don’t expect participants to have read the book. Here are a few resources that give the flavor and some context. Please join us! All are welcome.
Hosts: Chris Dolin and Virginia Seewaldt
Resources
Articles

NY Times Book Review: It’s America’s Birthday, and He’ll Be Mad if He Wants To
A Nation’s Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
New Yorker: How Problematic is Patriotism?

Video

No fee to attend. All are welcome.

EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity Studio Museum Visit & Social Event
2026-07-24 17:30, 2026-09-18 17:30 | Studio Museum, 144 W 125th Street New York, NY 10027, New York, New York, 10027
The EGPS Work Group for Racial Equity (WG4RE) invites you to join us for a year-end social evening on Friday, July 24 and a kickoff social evening on Friday, September 18.
Both evenings, we will meet in the lobby of the Studio Museum in Harlem (144 West 125th St between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox Avenues) at 5:30pm. We will walk through the recently, beautifully renovated exhibit spaces and then continue the party at a nearby restaurant.
All are welcome! No prior participation in WG4RE events necessary. In fact, please invite your non-EGPS friends. We don’t have a budget for this, so museum admission (pay what you can) and food/drink are on you.
Please RSVP to WG4RE co-chairs April Harvin (aprilharvin.lcsw@gmail.com; (917) 498-5898) or Chris Dolin (chrisdolin21@gmail.com; (917) 363-4398) so we know to look out for you and can let you know where we’ve reserved space for dinner.

Deadline: Training Program Applications Due
2026-08-31

Save the Date: Annual Conference Plenary (Virtual)
2026-11-12 18:30 - 21:30 | Zoom
Join us for the 2026 Annual Conference, Fire in the Circle: Leading through Fear, Desire, Turbulence, and Division.
Registration will open by early fall.

Save the Date: Annual Conference (Live Online Day)
2026-11-13 08:30 - 18:45 | Zoom

Save the Date: Annual Conference (In Person)
2026-11-14 08:15 - 19:30 | The Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue, New York City, NY, 10027, United States
