Join AAMFT as we honor Black History Month!
AAMFT and Margins to Center: Cultural Connections Among C/MFTs are proud to honor Black History Month through a new free series focusing on The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.
Compassionate Love practice offers a shift in our systemic interventions and support to black children and adolescents at this time of mass trauma and healing. The transmission of mass trauma effects through generations, communities, and time affects evolutionary and transitional pathways (link between past and present) of the oppressed (Landau, Mittal, & Wieling, 2008). In the world of black children and adolescents, the physical, emotional, and loving dimensions of play are integrated through relationships. MFT practitioners can play hard with openness, vulnerability, and creativity by bringing out their humanity for true healing connections. Focusing on the positive core of their clients help them link their ancestral past of resilience to their current and future hopes, while expanding both their consciousness and the one of the healers.
I will share key strategies to facilitate practitioners compassionate love practice including:
- Strategic Appreciative interventions to integrate compassionate love practice into racial trauma work.
- Integration of the 5 elements of Appreciative Inquiry and compassionate love
- Best practices to introduce compassionate love practice to your clients
About the Presenter:
Dr. Josiane Bonté Apollon
Born and raised in Paris, France, Dr. Josiane Bonté Apollon or Dr. Josiane is a Relationship researcher and a 2015 Fellow of the American Association for Marriage (AAMFT Foundation) Research and Education Foundation Minority Fellowship Program, funded partly by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration. Formally trained in family therapy, she earned her Bachelor in Motion Pictures and her Master in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Miami, and her PhD in Marriage and family therapy from Nova Southeastern University. She holds a license in mental health counseling, and certifications in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), clinical hypnosis, Integrative Coaching, Strategic interventions, and play therapy.
At the start of her immersion in systems thinking, she was mentored by the family Strategic therapy pioneer Cloe Madanes and trained in couples intensives by Master Relationship Builder Hedy Schleifer. She uses her family systemic framework in national and international speaking engagements on local radios, TV stations, churches, schools, and universities to health and mental health professionals in the US and in China, Malaysia, Cambodia, and the Republic Democratic of Congo. While she maintains a private practice as a licensed psychotherapist, life strategist coach, and couple therapist in Coconut Grove, FL, Dr. Josiane helps a diverse ethnic, sexual, and economic population, passionate for domestic and global mental health and racial equity. Believing that the world can be transformed with compassionate love she volunteers with Results Educational fund, committed to influence Congress people and their political decisions to allocate funds to domestic and global issues. She is also involved in bringing MFTs and her Compassionate Love approach to science and the world, at the service of children, families, and humanity.
With over 20 years of professional experience, Dr. Josiane believes that compassionate love or unconditional love is the antidote to heal humanity from systemic racism and sexual, physical, and emotional mass trauma. Dr. Josiane utilizes love as a force and skill to invite individuals, couples, and families to shift their relationships with a total immersion in the art and science of compassionate love. She currently lives in Palmetto Bay FL with her husband of 35 years and have three successful professional adult sons.
Continuing Education:
CE Available: 1 hour
Online continuing education hours are approved by many state regulatory boards. Please check with your board for specifics on regulations and number of hours that can be earned through online courses. Contact information for the MFT state licensure and certification boards can be found at our
AAMFT State/Provincial Resources page.
Continuing Education
CE credits available: 1 Hour Session code will be given at the end of the live webinar. CE credit can only be obtained by attending the live session. Registration will be cut off on February 18th at 11:59pm EST.