Equity & Inclusion Blast #1

August 17, 2023

Greetings from the SFCP Interim Equity & Inclusion (E&I) Steering Committee!

This is the first of what will be regular communications meant to keep the entire SFCP community informed of our committee’s work and the progress of SFCP’s Equity & Inclusion initiative in general.

Our committee exists because SFCP needs to do further work to process and integrate the changes in our Center following the work of the Anti-Racism Task Force, the Strategic Planning process, a series of community meetings, the acceptance of new training standards at SFCP to increase the accessibility of psychoanalytic training, and the reality that the work of dealing with issues of equity and inclusion on personal and group levels is very much an ongoing process, at times a contentious and painful process.

The members of our interim committee are Chuck Fisher, Debora Fletcher, Marcia Hodges, Clara Kwun, and Beth Steinberg. We are working with David Luna, the E&I consultant hired by SFCP after a lengthy and thorough search and selection process. David has decades of experience in E&I consulting, and he has served organizations of all sorts throughout the country. Our committee exists to provide initial guidance and oversight to the further work needing to be done.

In our first two meetings, we have laid groundwork for how we will work as a group, drafted a very preliminary E&I Vision Statement for SFCP (just enough to guide our work for the time being), and clarified the specific mission of our committee. In our next few meetings, we will be brainstorming how we might expand the committee to include more perspectives and voices so as to engage the broader organization. We also will begin to brainstorm the major pieces of E&I work that SFCP needs to do and a preliminary priority order for those pieces.

One of our committee’s key values and commitments is to be as transparent as possible as often as possible to the whole SFCP community. With this in mind, please expect to hear from us often.

Warm regards

Chuck Fisher, Debora Fletcher, Marcia Hodges, Clara Kwun, and Beth Steinberg

Stay tuned for the E&I Resources Webpage with resources and information about the history of E&I at SFCP and nationally! In the meantime, for more background on this initiative, please see Excerpts from the Proposal to the SFCP Board for Equity and Inclusion Consultant.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, October 18, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Creativity in the Clinical Setting: Case Discussions from Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspectives
Jan Ole Luuk, LLM (presenter); Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP; and Paul Watsky, PhD, ABPP (discussants)
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
Learning to Surf: Analyzing Adolescents
Mary Brady, PhD (presenter); Jill Sallberg, PhD, ABPP (discussant)
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Scientific Meetings
LEADERSHIP IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT
Harriet Wolfe, MD (presenter); Brett Penfil, LMFT, MPH (interviewer)
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Committee on Groups
Deepen the Dialogues: Conversations Across Difference
The Committee on Groups
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Child Colloquium Series
The Play of Eros: The Story of an Adolescent Boy, his Body and his Analyst’s Body
Bruce Reis, PhD, FIPA, BCPsa (presenter); Terrence Owens, PhD (discussant)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Psychoanalytic Education Division
Psychoanalytic Training Informational Evening
Please join SFCP Faculty and Candidates for Dinner, Drinks, and a Discussion of Psychoanalytic Training at SFCP.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience: Comparative Psychoanalytic Perspectives within the Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Traditions
John Beebe, PhD, ABPP; Diane Elise, PhD; Henry Markman, MD; and Paul Watsky, PhD, ABPP (presenters and panelists)
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Event title to be announced
Donald Moss, MD (presenter)
Wednesdays, January 7 to 28, 2026
Psychoanalytic Student Seminars
Becoming a Couple: An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapy
Dana Iscoff, MFT (instructor)
Thursdays, January 8 to February 12, 2026
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: THERAPEUTIC RELATEDNESS
Sandra Gaspar, LMFT (instructor)
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