Transforming Race Relations in the U.S.

Posted by Real Talk on February 8, 2016

Transforming Race Relations in the U.S.: Building Trust, Forming Relationships and Solving Problems through Transformational Social Therapy

Interactive Lecture:
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 6PM to 7:30PM

Workshop:
Friday, March 11 8:30AM to 4:30PM

Charles Rojzman, the founder of Transformational Social Therapy (TST), will be sharing his work as part of the Transformational Social Therapy Symposium at Drexel University March 9 and 11, 2016. The lecture is free but there is a fee to participate in the workshop.

Over the past 25 years, Rojzman and his team in the Charles Rojzman Institute, have utilized TST to mediate racial, ethnic and intercultural conflicts in extremely difficult settings, such as post-civil war Rwanda, Chechnya, Palestine and France. For 5 years, CRI shared their approach with professionals in the U.S. through Temple University’s Graduate Certificate in Diversity Leadership.

The TST Symposium is titled Transforming Race Relations in the U.S.: Building Trust, Forming Relationships and Solving Problems through Transformational Social Therapy. The interactive lecture will provide an overview of the theory and practice of Transformational Social Therapy and its application to race relations in the United States.

The workshop will demonstrate and enable participants to experience the TST approach for overcoming the intractable social issues that prevent cooperation and promote mistrust among and within groups. It will help participants develop their capacity to improve race relations in their professional and personal lives.

For additional information on the Symposium and to register for both programs, please visit the website.

http://realtalkdialogues.blogspot.com/p/transformational-social-therapy_15.html

CHARLES ROJZMAN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Rojzman’s work spans the worlds of education, practical interventions, and writing. Through the educational branch of CRI, he and his team provide a rigorous three-year program of professional education leading to certification as a TST practitioner. CRI provides cohort-based educational activities in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Russia. His method is the foundation of the Real Talk/Transformational Intergroup Dialogue program utilized by several institutions and organizations in the U.S., as well as community engagement work utilized in Chester through the TEA Group.

He is the author and co-author of some twelve books (several translated into other languages), plus chapters in several edited books, and some 40 articles. Two co-authored books were published in 2015, Savoir Aimer en des Temps Difficiles (Learning to Love in Difficult Times, with Nicole Rothenbühler) and La Thérapie Sociale (with Igor and Nicole Rothenbühler). Other well-known books are Bien Vivre Avec les Autres (Living in Harmony with Others), which was commissioned by the leading French publisher, Editions Larousse, and Sortir de la Violence par le Conflict (Breaking Out of Violence through Conflict), which was selected by the French journal Psychologie as one of 60 perennial books for an ideal library. Two of Rojzman’s books have been translated into English: How to Live Together: New Ways of Confronting Racism and Violence; and Freud the Humanist.

To register, please visit the website.

http://realtalkdialogues.blogspot.com/p/transformational-social-therapy_15.html