Movie + Discussion NightMovie + Discussion Night was created and is facilitated by host Corky Becker, PhD. Movie night is an opportunity to learn from films that evocatively teach mental health professionals about critical issues relevant to their work with individuals, families and communities. Corky facilitates a learning discussion so that we can learn from her, the film and one another. We use ground rules in the tradition of the Public Conversations Project that enhance the ability of the group to be a safe place to listen and learn. These ground rules are also useful tools for participants to facilitate effective sessions with clients and other working groups. We encourage sharing of and learning from diverse experiences and perspectives in the films and in the learning group.
Join us to learn while connecting with a community of colleagues. Outline of Movie Night Learning Events:
After watching the film, guidelines for a learning conversation are shared, discussed as needed and agreed upon. Everyone is asked to respond to the first question. Then an open discussion format is used as people reflect on the rest of the questions. The facilitator makes sure that key lessons from the film are discussed. Content areas to be learned from each film are delineated in the description of each event. Sample discussion questions:
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These learning events are designed for helping professionals including, but not limited to, social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage & family therapists, and nurses. We choose films and design the learning methodology to further develop beginning, intermediate, and advanced helping professionals by expanding their knowledge base on important individual and societal issues for direct practice, supervision, and management positions.
Cost
$55 to participate in the learning discussion and receive 3 CEs. $20 for participation only
Clinician United Members: Contact us for discounted fee of $45
Please register in advance to save a seat. Our venue is limited to 15 participants.
Clinician United Members: Contact us for discounted fee of $45
Please register in advance to save a seat. Our venue is limited to 15 participants.
Movie Night CEs
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 3 CEs approved. CE certificates will be given at the end of the event after you are fully paid and have completed the evaluation form. Details for approved professions: 3 CEs have been approved for licensed Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology and Nursing professionals by Commonwealth Educational Seminars. Licensed Mental Health Counselors can earn 3 CEs as Therapy Training Boston has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. For more detailed information about CEs, read this.
Movie Night + Discussion Schedule, Content and Registration
THE COLOR PURPLE
Thursday, April 5, 2018 , 2018 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. This Oscar-nominated adaptation of the novel by Alice Walker is directed by Stephen Spielberg.
Learning Objective:
1. Participants will develop compassion for and deeper understanding of the experience of wanting to find one’s own way in the world while being Black in the South in America in order to increase their ability to work well with African Americans.
2. Participants will reflect on the impact of abuse on people to improve their perspective and skills in working with clients who have experienced abuse.
3. Participants will reflect on the impact of racism on their clients in order to be provide improved support.
4. Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these principles in their work.
Reviews:
“It is a great, warm, hard, unforgiving, triumphant movie, and there is not a scene that does not shine with the love of the people who made it…The world of Celie and the others is created so forcibly in this movie that their corner of the South becomes one of those movie places — like Oz, like Tara, like Casablanca — that lay claim to their own geography in our imaginations. The affirmation at the end of the film is so joyous that this is one of the few movies in a long time that inspires tears of happiness, and earns them. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“…the movie has emotional generosity to spare…Spielberg’s handling of Walker’s story is sober and impassioned” – Tim Robey, The Telegraph
Thursday, April 5, 2018 , 2018 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. This Oscar-nominated adaptation of the novel by Alice Walker is directed by Stephen Spielberg.
Learning Objective:
1. Participants will develop compassion for and deeper understanding of the experience of wanting to find one’s own way in the world while being Black in the South in America in order to increase their ability to work well with African Americans.
2. Participants will reflect on the impact of abuse on people to improve their perspective and skills in working with clients who have experienced abuse.
3. Participants will reflect on the impact of racism on their clients in order to be provide improved support.
4. Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these principles in their work.
Reviews:
“It is a great, warm, hard, unforgiving, triumphant movie, and there is not a scene that does not shine with the love of the people who made it…The world of Celie and the others is created so forcibly in this movie that their corner of the South becomes one of those movie places — like Oz, like Tara, like Casablanca — that lay claim to their own geography in our imaginations. The affirmation at the end of the film is so joyous that this is one of the few movies in a long time that inspires tears of happiness, and earns them. – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
“…the movie has emotional generosity to spare…Spielberg’s handling of Walker’s story is sober and impassioned” – Tim Robey, The Telegraph
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Policies:
Please arrive by 6:45 pm to park and get settled before the event starts at 7 pm.
For all event policies, including detailed CE information and special accommodations, read this.
Please arrive by 6:45 pm to park and get settled before the event starts at 7 pm.
For all event policies, including detailed CE information and special accommodations, read this.
LADY BIRD
Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
In her senior year of high school in Sacramento, teenage Lady Bird is set on making her way east to attend college in New York City. With help from her adopted brother, Miguel, she begins putting together a plan for her great escape. Her mom, a California nurse, works tirelessly to keep her family afloat after her husband loses his job. She also maintains a turbulent bond with a teenage daughter who is just like her - loving, strong-willed and deeply opinionated.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will better understand tensions between a mother and daughter as the daughter separates from her mother to develop her own sense of self.
2. Participants will use the film to reflect on ways to improve their treatment of adolescents daughters and their mothers.
3. Participants will use their reactions to the main characters as a way to think about their emotional reactions to client mothers and daughters in intense relationships and how to use themselves to facilitate change.
4. Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
“It's funny, lively, and then devastating when it needs to be, made with the kind of confidence even its heroine could only dream of.” – David Sims, The Atlantic
“If you pay the right kind of attention to Lady Bird - absorbing its riffs and digressions as well as its melodies, its choral passages along with its solos and duets - you will almost certainly love it. It's hard not to.” – A. O. Scott, New York Times
Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
In her senior year of high school in Sacramento, teenage Lady Bird is set on making her way east to attend college in New York City. With help from her adopted brother, Miguel, she begins putting together a plan for her great escape. Her mom, a California nurse, works tirelessly to keep her family afloat after her husband loses his job. She also maintains a turbulent bond with a teenage daughter who is just like her - loving, strong-willed and deeply opinionated.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will better understand tensions between a mother and daughter as the daughter separates from her mother to develop her own sense of self.
2. Participants will use the film to reflect on ways to improve their treatment of adolescents daughters and their mothers.
3. Participants will use their reactions to the main characters as a way to think about their emotional reactions to client mothers and daughters in intense relationships and how to use themselves to facilitate change.
4. Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
“It's funny, lively, and then devastating when it needs to be, made with the kind of confidence even its heroine could only dream of.” – David Sims, The Atlantic
“If you pay the right kind of attention to Lady Bird - absorbing its riffs and digressions as well as its melodies, its choral passages along with its solos and duets - you will almost certainly love it. It's hard not to.” – A. O. Scott, New York Times
Policies:
Please arrive by 6:45 pm to park and get settled before the event starts at 7 pm.
For all event policies, including detailed CE information and special accommodations, read this.
Please arrive by 6:45 pm to park and get settled before the event starts at 7 pm.
For all event policies, including detailed CE information and special accommodations, read this.
Past Movie Nights
THE BIG SICK
Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon becomes worried about what his traditional Muslim parents will think of her. When Emily suddenly comes down with an illness that leaves her in a coma, Kumail finds himself developing a bond with her deeply concerned mother and father.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn about tensions that develop between families who immigrate to America (from Pakistan) and the next generation who is born here, in relation to finding a romantic partner.
2. Participants will enhance their knowledge base of inter-generational dynamics in Pakistani families in the U.S. and cross cultural romantic relationships in ways that enhance their understanding when working with across cultures with sensitivity and humility.
3. Participants will contemplate ways to facilitate healing through improved family communication and interpersonal understanding when family history and family dynamics affect how people cope in crisis situations and relationships.
4. Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these principles in their work.
Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
Kumail is a Pakistani comic who meets an American graduate student named Emily at one of his stand-up shows. As their relationship blossoms, he soon becomes worried about what his traditional Muslim parents will think of her. When Emily suddenly comes down with an illness that leaves her in a coma, Kumail finds himself developing a bond with her deeply concerned mother and father.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn about tensions that develop between families who immigrate to America (from Pakistan) and the next generation who is born here, in relation to finding a romantic partner.
2. Participants will enhance their knowledge base of inter-generational dynamics in Pakistani families in the U.S. and cross cultural romantic relationships in ways that enhance their understanding when working with across cultures with sensitivity and humility.
3. Participants will contemplate ways to facilitate healing through improved family communication and interpersonal understanding when family history and family dynamics affect how people cope in crisis situations and relationships.
4. Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these principles in their work.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, this mesmerising Oscar-nominated film channels the impassioned words of writer James Baldwin, one of the most incisive commentators on race in America. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends-Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Learning Objectives:
Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, this mesmerising Oscar-nominated film channels the impassioned words of writer James Baldwin, one of the most incisive commentators on race in America. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends-Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Learning Objectives:
- This film will be used as a vehicle to increase awareness about current and historical effects of systemic racism in the U.S.
- Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation such that they can use these principles in their work.
- Participants will learn from the experiences and perspectives of people different from themselves, both as they are represented in the movie and in the dialogue with other participants.
SELMA
Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
About the film: Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Learning Objectives:
Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, 3 CEs
Location: 203 Arlington Street, Suite 4, Watertown MA
About the film: Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Learning Objectives:
- This film uses some important historical moments to learn about the context of current systemic racism and to inform current right action as helping professionals and citizens of the world.
- Participants will participate in a dialogue format in which they will become acquainted with a methodological approach to dialogue that includes all voices and invites people to share their experiences and perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” conversation.
- Participants will learn from the experiences and perspectives of people different from themselves, both as they are represented in the movie and in the dialogue with other participants.