✨Diverse-OT National is excited to welcome back, Rise O. (@riotous_roots) as a guest speaker for our donation-based CE course, "Interrupting Internalized and Institutional Anti-Blackness in OT." ✨About the Course✨ In this workshop participants will be grounded collectively in the definition and meanings, and impacts of internalized and institutional antiBlackness in the OT field. Participants will be grounded in the antiBlack history of the medical field and how that has shaped what it looks like now. Participants will be led through discussions on the intersections of anti-Blackness, ableism and classism with the healthcare system, examining the ways we contribute to antiBlackness as practitioners and how we can disrupt ableism both internally and amongst each other. Lastly participants will: 1. Discuss ways that power dynamics, and unacknowledged supremacy thinking can contribute negatively to an OT clients wellbeing. 2. Examine how fear of peer and institutional retaliation keeps those who DO see antiBlackness happen, from interrupting it; and how to use community building as (one of many) pathways to shifting this dynamic Participants will leave with tools to begin both unlearning and learning ways to notice, reflect, interrupt and ultimately change their antiBlack beliefs, assumptions and behaviors so as to be better OTs and human beings.