
36th Annual Convention
American Indian Psychologists and Psychology Graduate Students
Monday – Tuesday, June 26 – 27, 2023
Agenda
All times listed are in Mountain Time.
All events will take place over Zoom.
Retreat Agenda
Friday, June 24 | |
5:30-6:30pm | Opening Social |
Saturday, June 25 | |
12:00-2:00pm | Group Smudging and Healing Circle |
2:30-4:00pm | Beading Circle Hosted by the Mentorship Committee - All are Welcome |
4:00-5:30pm | Invited Elder Dr. Henrietta Mann |
Sunday, June 26 | |
12:00-2:00pm | APA Indigenous Apology Workgroup Listening Session |
2:30-3:30pm | SIP Student Gathering |
3:45-4:00pm | Welcome Song |
4:00-5:30pm | SIP Business Meeting & Awards Ceremony |
6:30-8:00pm | Internal Family Systems (IFS) Implementation in Indian Country led by Dan Foster, Melinda Garcia, & Susan Mcvicker |
Convention Agenda
Monday, June 27 | ||
Title | Presenter(s) | |
9:30am Opening & SIP Presidential Remarks | ||
10:00-11:15am Keynote | Keynote | Megan Bang |
11:15am-12:05pm | Clinical Considerations (3 talks listed below) | |
A Quality Improvement Study of The Beauty Way Program for Indigenous Children | Sheena Greenstone & Chesleigh Keene | |
AI/AN Mental Health Practitioners on Psychological Distress, Social Support & Wellness | M. Standing Eagle Baez | |
Alaska Native Elders' Cultural Views of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia | Maria Christina Crouch | |
12:15-1:00pm | Honoring our Two Spirit, Trans, and Nonbinary Relatives (panel) | Mark Daniels & Guests |
1:00-1:30pm Lunch | ||
1:30-2:30pm | Poster Session | |
2:30-3:30pm | Building Sacred Spaces: Centering Indigenous Peoples in Couseling Psychology | Jillian Fish, Amy L. Reynolds, Laurie "Lali" D. McCubbin, & Anita L. Mihecoby |
3:30-4:30pm | Current Practices in Telepsychology (panel) | B. J. Boyd, Sarah A. Rhoades-Kerswill, & Evan J. White |
4:30pm Closing Prayer | ||
Tuesday, June 28 | ||
Title | Presenter(s) | |
9:45am Opening Prayer | ||
10:00-11:15am Keynote | Keynote: Omission as the Modern Form of Bias Against Indigenous Peoples | Stephanie Fryberg |
11:15am-12pm | Conversation about an Apology to First Peoples and Nations | Linda M. Woolf, Linda Forrest, Sandra L. Shullman, & Janet T. Thomas |
12:10-1:00pm | Voices of the Ancestors and Elders | Stephanie Wescoup, Lahoma Schultz, & Royleen J. Ross |
1:00-2:00pm Lunch | ||
2:00-3:00pm | Indigenizing Graduate Course Curriculum: Strategies and Mechanisms of Action | Cerynn Desjarlais, Gayle Morse, & Joesph Trimble |
3:00-3:50pm | Mentorship Considerations (3 talks listed below) | |
Faculty's Values and Motivations for Mentoring Native Students | Racheal Killgore & Melissa Leilani Devencenzi | |
All You Have to Do is "ASK": An Indigenous Approach to Holistic Wellness in Academia | Devon Isaacs, Sallie Mack, & Erica Ficklin | |
Indigenous Mentorship Approaches and Outcomes on Indigenous Mentees | Elaine Atay | |
4:00-4:30pm | SIP Native-to-Native Mentorship | SIP Mentorship Committee |
4:30-5:00pm Convention Closing: Talking Circle | ||
5:00pm Closing Prayer |