Supervision at the Intersections of Power in Community Work & Therapy
Tue 28 Jan 2025 9:00 AM - Wed 29 Jan 2025 12:00 PM PST
Online, Zoom
Description
Online with Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC
Jan 28 & 29 9am-12 PST Vancouver: 12-3 EST Toronto
$220 Canadian per Participant includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees
A Supervision of Solidarity is informed by an ethics of justice-doing & solidarity, encompassing: resisting settler colonialism, centering ethics, doing solidarity, addressing power, fostering collective sustainability, critically engaging with language, and structuring safety.
In the workshop we will:
• consider how to promote dignifying and generative supervision groups for therapy and community work
• deconstruct “case consultation” norms that don’t serve clients or practitioners, and consider what a “Culture of Critique” that is generative, expansive, connected and dignified might offer.
• consider practices of structuring safety and creating relationships of respect and dignity which can promote a culture of accountability that generates useful and rich critique.
• share some practices for creating intentional supervisory relationships.
• create cultures of accountability that invite critique that are a resistance against surveillance practices of supervision
• practice examples of “Living Supervision”, and creating “Solidarity Teams” to assist practitioners to work in alignment with our collective ethic
Vikki Reynolds (PhD RCC) is an activist/ therapist who
works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community
work and therapy. Vikki is a white settler on the territories of the
Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations. Vikki's people are Irish
and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender
privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with
people-with-lived/living-experience and other workers responding to the
drug poisoning catastrophe, refugees and survivors of torture - including
Indigenous people who have survived residential schools and other state
violence, sexualized violence counsellors, mental health and substance
misuse counsellors, housing and shelter workers, activists and working
alongside gender and sexually diverse communities. Vikki is an Adjunct
Professor and has written and presented internationally. Articles & speaks free at: www.vikkireynolds.ca
10% of proceeds will be donated to
Joint Effort: Mutual Solidarity and Mutual Aid within the prisoner and ex-prisoner community