With a focus on UNTOLD STORIES, I help people express the unspoken, unnoticed, or unheralded narratives of their lives.
I come to my work with graduate degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan, and over 30 years as a psychologist, therapist, writer, teacher, and consultant. A long career has meant many experiences:
- Researcher interviewing college students of color about their ethnic socialization
- Creator and Project Director, Stories For Hope, for the Republic of Rwanda
- Consulted, to the Kigali Parents' School, 2006-present
- Trained professionals and graduate students
- Co-Director, Narrative Family Therapy, Ann Arbor Center For the Family, 1996-2003
- Faculty in Psychology, Fielding Institute, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, 1995-1999
- Authoring, most recently:
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- Dr. Pasick is accepting new clients, after a leave of absence to work in Rwanda.
- Pat applies to deliver a workshop on Helping Parents Understand Ethnic Identity at the 2009 APA conference.
- Collaborators at Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Michigan, meet with Pat to apply for grants to help fund Stories For Hope (SFH).
- The Ministry of Sports and Culture (Rwanda) signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Stories For Hope, and agrees to fund start-up costs.
- Pat's new book project, Preparing the Way: Raising Strong Children in a Still-Racial World, is shopped among publishers.
- In NYC Pat meets with her new literary agent, Anna Ghosh, partner at Scovil, Gavil, and Ghosh.
- A column "Lessons from Rwanda" is published. click here
- Pat expands her professional network, joining the Asian-American Psychological Association, and the National Assoc. for Multicultural Educators.
- Stories For Hope-Rwanda (SFH)is certified by Rwanda, to be an International Non-governmental Organization (INGO).
- The New York Times publishes Pat's Letter to the Editor: click here
- SFH sets up an office in the Remera sector outside Kigali.
- SFH hires Evas Kyomugisha as in-country director, and John Bosco Bugingo, as attorney.
- On a fourth visit to Rwanda, Pat obtains a Letter of Agreement from the Ministry of Sports and Cultur, to conduct the pilot of Stories For Hope.
- An Emmy award-winning producer begins talks with Pat about a documentary of her work in Rwanda.
- Pat begins a writing collaboration with the brother of a Rwandan genocide victim.
- On a fifth trip to Rwanda, Pat obtains fund for the pilot of Stories For Hope.
- Pat meets Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, and makes her own tape with son Daniel, in Lower Manhattan.
- The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, receives Pat's draft of "The Origins of Leadership: Personal Stories from the Top 100 Leaders in Rwanda.
- "Re-Storying Rwanda" The Republic of Rwanda considers Patricia's proposal to bring a mobile storytelling unit around the country, to help Rwanda's first generation to be born after the genocide.
- Patricia makes a third visit to Rwanda, delivering over $4500 in donations to 15 school children needing tuition assistance, penpal letters from three Michigan schools, and a mental health proposal to the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture. Work on leadership stories continues.
- Presentation to Northville Public Schools on The College Transition
- Visit to StoryCorps headquarters in New York.
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