Members' Events

Unless noted otherwise below, all meetings will be held at the Wainwright House in Rye, NY. Meetings are open to WCSPP members only and are free of charge.

 

 

 

Saturday November 19, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm - Fall conference: "Race Matters...Or Does It?

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Location: Renaissance Westchester Hotel 80 Red Oak Lane White Plains, NY.

The Conference Committee of the Westchester Center is proud to announce our Annual Conference. The conference is entitled, How Race Matters. It will engage our community in active exploration of the presence and significance of race in clinical work and everyday life. We will take up questions including: What is meant when we speak of race? Of racism? How does racial identification come to matter, and what functions does it serve within the individual and society? What needs are implicated in the construction of racial identity? And how do race matters inform clinical work, even when race does not emerge as an explicit topic of exploration?

Our principal speakers will be Dr. Farhad Dalal and Dr. Melanie Suchet. Both are gifted teachers and dynamic speakers who are strongly committed to fostering open dialogue. Both have written extensively and influentially about race and otherness in clinical work. Our respondent will be Dr. Annabella Bushra, a respected senior member of our faculty who writes and teaches about diversity and otherness.

 

November 14, 7 pm Film Night

The Film Committee Invites you as our guests to our fall event. With discussion led by Debra Lilienfeld and Jane Bloomgarden (Wine and cheese will be served) Friday, November 4, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. WCSPP at The Wainwright House 260 Stuyvesant Avenue Rye, N.Y. 10580

" IN A BETTER WORLD" This is a superb Danish movie, winner of both an Oscar and Golden Globe award for best foreign film, that beautifully dramatizes the complexities of personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical events, riddled with the best and worst of human behavior. In its subtle weaving together of three cultures and two families, parents and children both explore complicated moral terrain as they experience bullying, prejudice, perversions of power, death, marital transgression, and more. The effort to raise and answer questions takes the plot through twists and turns that ultimately and intelligently resists moral simplicity by examining the consciences of each of the characters, their many layers, and their development (or lack thereof) through experience.

Please join us. RSVP to Jane Bloomgarden at 914-472-8180 or jwillbloom@gmail.com. The Committee: Ken Barish Jane Bloomgarden Debra Lilienfeld Kate Washton

March 30 - April 1 - Retreat 2012 - Theme and registration details to be announced.