Our Research

Race and Intergroup Dynamics Lab

Our Research

Collective Healing x Black Healer’s Collective

The RID Lab conducts community based participatory research with the Black Healer's Collective, a St. Louis nonprofit organization. BHC is a “community of change agents working to advance the healing and wholeness of African diaspora” in St. Louis by sponsoring...

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention for Appropriated Racism

The ACT study is an examination of an ACT based clinical intervention that teaches strategies and supports people of color coping with racism in a 6-week group and 3-week setting . The protocol also helps participants identify how racism has...

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Witnessing Whiteness

Witnessing Whiteness is 10-week course where White people meet to learn about and discuss the history of racism in America, institutional racism, and other race-related topics. The RID Lab conducts program evaluation of the program to determine it's efficacy.

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Collective Healing x The Giver’s Revival

The Giver’s Revival is a weekend retreat that utilizes African-diasporic, Indigenous, and Eastern spiritual healing methods that provide rest and recovery for “Givers” (activists, mental health clinicians, social workers, nonprofit leaders, etc.) who are involved in social justice and liberation...

Institute for Black Liberation

The Institute for Black Liberation is a community training and healing program sponsored by the Deaconess Foundation. “Participants of the Institute develop a liberatory consciousness through healing the hurts of internalized racism” in Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. The Deaconess...