Sharing Practice: Navigating Multiple Relationships - not Dual Relationships

Online

May 11
9am - 12pm PDT Vancouver
12pm - 3pm EDT Toronto
5pm - 8pm BST London

$110 Canadian per Participant includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees

The intention behind Sharing Practice sessions is to create spaces to share our practice in dialogues within community that holds a collective ethic of justice-doing in community work, counselling and therapy. Each session focuses on specific practice explored in an article, and will have provocations to foster emergent, meaningful dialogues and assist us to explore our practices and witness others in connected struggles.

This dialogue problematizes limitations of ‘dual relationships’, and embraces complexity around creating ethical relationships that might engage fluid boundaries that centre people and cultural connections of workers.

Workers from targeted communities are hired for cultural knowings and connections-then policed out of these connections with charges of being in dual relationships-silencing them from making explicit the ethical tensions that allow them to be accountable and protect people from transgressions. We will look at fluidity of existing in multiple relationships with practices of accountability and ‘making public’ that centre safety of people we work alongside.

This dialogue could be useful to workers from small/isolated, targeted and oppressed communities, and all workers struggling to centre accountable complexity in relationships.

Resources:

Everett, B., MacFarlane D., Reynolds, V., & Anderson, H. (2013). Not on our backs: Supporting counsellors in navigating the ethics of multiple relationships within queer, Two Spirit, and/or trans communities. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 47(1), 14-28.


Scholarships available: contact  reynolds.vikki@gmail.com

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 opioid 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

Moms Stop the Harm