"Trauma": Witnessing Resistance & Justice Doing in Response to Violence Suffering and Oppression

ONLINE
March 2 & 3
Vancouver 2pm to 5pm PST

March 3 & 4
Sydney 9am to 12pm AEDT

$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