Equity & Inclusion Blast #1

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, June 14, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Listening Into Being: An Actor’s Invitation
Robin Weigert in Conversation with Kristin Fiorella
Fridays, September 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 East Bay Yearlong Program: Tuning into the Unspoken: Navigating the Landmarks of Unconscious Experience
Eric Miller, PhD; Elizabeth Stuart, MD; Graeme Daniels, LMFT; Marty Mulkey, LMFT; Chandra Rai, LMFT; and Luciane De Mello, LCSW
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Event title to be announced
Hannah Zeavin (presenter)
Fridays, September 26, 2025 to May 8, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 San Francisco Yearlong Program: Continuous Case Conference
J. Marc Wallis, LCSW; Paul Alexander, PhD; Genie Dvorak, PsyD; Bronwen Lemmon, LMFT; and Walt Beckman, PhD (case conference group leaders)
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Transformation, Creativity, and the Aesthetic Experience
Notions of Psychoanalytic Transformation in the Clinical Setting: Case Presentations from a Jungian and Contemporary Object Relations Perspective
Henry Markman, MD; and Sandy Pepper, MD (speakers)
Mondays, September 29 to October 20, 2025
Coalition for Clinical Social Work
CCSW mini-Module: Working with Parents: A Complex and Essential Component of Child Psychotherapy
Lea Brown, LCSW, and Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW (instructors)
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Scientific Meetings
THE RADICAL OTHERNESS OF MASUD KHAN
Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD (presenter); Charles Fisher, MD (moderator)
Wednesdays, October 15, 2025 to May 27, 2026
Extension Education Programs
2025-2026 Seasoned Clinicians Program
 Jeffrey Sandler, MD; Clara Kwun, LCSW; Mark Swoiskin, MD; Jeanne Harasemovitch, LCSW; Michael Wagner, PhD, MFT; Joanna Wise-Bradman, LCSW, Dorian Newton, PhD; and Catherine Mallouh (leaders)
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)