"Trauma": Witnessing Resistance & Justice Doing in Response to Violence Suffering and Oppression
"Trauma": Witnessing Resistance & Justice Doing in Response to Violence Suffering and Oppression
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Online: November 25 & 26, 2024
9am - 12 pm Vancouver PST
12 pm - 3pm Toronto EST
$220 Canadian per Participant includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees
Vikki will share stories of practice and acts of resistance that inspire hope, bringing us to “Hang Time”, describing activist-informed ways of responding to suffering in persons who have been oppressed and harmed. This approach centres on witnessing folks’ wise and creative acts of resistance. Justice-doing and a decolonising stance for the work is required to resist psychology’s neutrality and objectivity that often blames people for their own suffering from oppression. A witnessing approach requires that we situate personal suffering in its sociopolitical context and resist the individualisation and medicalisation of suffering as ‘trauma’ and other mental illnesses.
This online workshop offers a justice-doing response to ‘trauma’. It will address:
- A decolonizing & justice-doing ethical stance
- Resist individualization, objectivity & neutrality of trauma Industry
- Witnessing stance informed by direct action activism
- Understandings of Acts of resistance
- Stories from practice
10% of proceeds will be donated to
