Sharing Practice: A Solidarity Interview: A Solidarity Group practice-based session.

Online

November 9
9am - 12pm PDT Vancouver
11pm - 2pm EST Toronto
4pm - 7pm GMT 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.

In this session we will collectively engage in an emergent practice of the “Solidarity Interview”. I will lay out the frame of the Solidarity Interview and the ethics of Justice-doing that inform the dialogue. We will all engage in the practice., where I interview one practitioner around their ethical engagement with the work.

Everyone will be invited to engage in solidarity practices to look for sites of connection and important differences. The aim is to foster solidarity, and collective sustainability. You don’t need to be the person speaking in a group for it to be useful. This practice engages one person in dialogue, but the ethic is to connect everyone in solidarity around our collective ethics of justice-doing,

We will break out to critique the interview and to illuminate the guiding intentions in practice. We will imagine further uses of this practice in our own contexts and as sites of resistance.

Resources:

Reynolds, V. (2010). Doing Justice as a Path to Sustainability in Community Work. (Full PDF) Pages 109-176 Solidarity Group Practice

Reynolds, V. (2010). A Supervision of Solidarity. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 44(3), 246-257.

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