Safe Love, Fierce Compassion: Guiding Black Couples Toward Emotional Well-Being (Recorded)
3 Hours, 0 Minutes
Previously Recorded
Linnea Willis, LPCC-S, LCPC, LPC
3 CE Credits
Price
Paid
$59.99
Yahoo!
Description
Black couples face unique relational challenges influenced by cultural narratives, systemic inequities, and intergenerational trauma. For licensed therapists and psychologists, understanding these dynamics is crucial to providing competent and affirming care. This 3.5-hour workshop equips professionals with tools to foster emotional safety, cultivate fierce self-compassion, and support Black couples in building resilient, emotionally healthy relationships.
Through guided learning, reflective discussion, and interactive activities, participants will:
- Examine the cultural and social factors that influence the relational well-being of Black couples.
- Acquire strategies for helping couples overcome biases, engage in fair conflict resolution, and express emotions effectively.
- Discover how to break the cycles of past relational trauma that manifest in present conflicts.
- Strengthen clinical skills to help Black couples build emotionally safe, compassionate, and thriving partnerships.
This workshop blends clinical frameworks with culturally responsive care, ensuring professionals leave with practical, immediately applicable tools to support Black couples on their journey to relational healing.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Linnéa Parsons-Willis is a clinical behavioral health supervisor and doctoral candidate in General Psychology with a focus on Instruction and Cognition. She specializes in emotional intelligence, relationship wellness, and helping individuals heal from relational hurt. With extensive experience training and supervising clinicians, she blends clinical expertise with practical strategies for growth. Her mission is to make emotional health accessible, inclusive, and transformative for both professionals and the clients they serve.
Learning Objectives:
- 1. Define and apply the concepts of fierce self-compassion, emotional safety, and emotional wellness when working with Black couples. 2. Identify biases and systemic influences that affect relational
- 2. Identify biases and systemic influences that affect relational health in Black couples and integrate culturally competent practices into clinical work.
- 3. Support couples in recognizing and labeling emotions, linking them to past relational trauma, and breaking cycles that repeat in current conflicts.
- 4. Equip couples with tools to manage triggers and engage in fair, constructive conflict resolution strategies.
- 5. Facilitate the development of insightful selves in couples by fostering self-awareness, compassion, and resilience within the relationship.
Agenda:
0:00 – 0:15 | Welcome & Introduction
- Facilitator welcome
- Icebreaker: “One word that describes how you show up in your most authentic relationships.”
- Overview of workshop goals and structure
0:15 – 0:45 | Session 1: Understanding Social & Cultural Contexts
- Mini-lecture: Systemic influences on Black couples (racism, stereotypes, historical trauma, gendered expectations)
- Activity: Video for Cultural Lens Reflection – Participants may also journal how their own biases or cultural backgrounds shape their work with Black couples.
- Guided discussion: Sharing insights in small groups
0:45 – 1:15 | Session 2: Emotional Safety & Fierce Self-Compassion
- Define emotional safety in relationships
- Introduce “fierce self-compassion” (protective self-compassion in setting boundaries, fighting fairly, and addressing conflict)
- Activity: Case vignette analysis – Identify barriers to emotional safety in sample scenarios
- Group discussion: Strategies for helping couples create safe emotional spaces
1:15 – 1:25 | Break
1:25 – 1:55 | Session 3: Facing Biases & Identifying Triggers
- Teaching: Common relational triggers rooted in cultural and historical contexts
- Guided Activity: Trigger Mapping – Participants practice guiding a couple through identifying triggers and linking them to past relational trauma
- Discussion: How trauma cycles repeat in relationships and ways to interrupt them
1:55 – 2:25 | Session 4: Helping Couples Fight Fairly & Label Emotions
- Teaching: Tools for fair conflict resolution and emotional labeling
2:25 – 2:45 | Session 5: Building Insightful Selves & Emotional Wellness
- Explore concept of “insightful selves” – cultivating self-awareness and compassionate accountability in couples
- Guided Activity: Emotion → Belief → Behavior Chain (help partners map emotional triggers to underlying beliefs and repeated patterns)
- Discussion: How therapists can integrate this tool into sessions with Black couples
2:45 – 3:00 | Closing & Integration
- Large group reflection: “One shift I’ll make in my practice to support Black couples more effectively.”
- Q&A
- Wrap-up and resources provided (reading list, worksheets, reflection prompts for couples)
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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