MnABPsi President, Dr. Willie Garrett (center) and Dr. Willie Winston attending a workshop lead by Dr. Wade Nobles (standing at Left of picture) during the 2015 ABPsi National Convention.
MnABPsi Officers Dr. Willie Garrett, and Dr. Willie Winston both attended the National ABPsi convention recently in Las Vegas Nevada. Also in attendance were Dr. Pearl Barner, our MnABPsi National Liaison and Co-Chair of the ABPsi Ethics Committee, and Dr. Harvey Linder, who also recently joined the Ethics Committee. A prospective new member, Mr. Kenneth King, also attended.
One of the foci of this convention was a training for all Chapter leaders on moving toward establishing each chapter as a 501c(3) organization, a process that the Mn Chapter has already been pursuing. There was also a training on how to conduct Emotional Emancipation Circles, a collaborative venture between ABPsi and the Community Healing Network aimed at creating a cadre of facilitators who can lead community dialogues that lead to a much needed re-building of personal, family and community relational ties to effect a stronger and healthier community. The long term aim is to have Emotional Emancipation Circles in every state and community across the country, beginning with each ABPsi chapter. If you think you might have an interest in receiving this training, finding out more, or becoming a facilitator contact Harvey Linder or the ABPsi National Office for more detail.
Attending an ABPsi National Convention is a special experience and, if you
New President, Dr. Mwata Kevin Washington being ceremonially dragged by children (our future) to take on his responsibilities to lead the community.
haven’t done so, I would strongly recommend that you plans to make it a part of your future agenda. Particularly moving is the Enstoolment Ceremony when new officers are installed and the torch is passed to a new generation. Its not like any swearing in ceremony you have ever attending.
Students play a prominent part in ABPsi conventions, volunteering en masse to fill many vital support roles, as well as making presentations with their professional mentors and discussing their work in poster sessions.
This year, the passing on of responsibility was doubly important and even more appropriately symbolic in that both the National Board and the Student Circle leadership were installed in one ceremony.
The Outgoing and (followed by) Incoming Student Circle Chairs
You can read more about past national conventions (and this year’s eventually) in the ABPsi newsletter, Psych Discourse, now available online (psychdiscourse.com)
With the weight of the organization having been placed on the new president, signified by the placing of the ABPsi stool and the Student Circle stool on top of the new president’s stool, the outgoing president, Dr. Taasogle Daryl Rowe is allowed to take his presidential stool and depart.
