Sharing Practice: Vicarious Resistance & Believed-in-hope

Online

January 11, 2027
3pm - 6pm PDT Vancouver

January 12, 2027
9am - 12pm AEDT Sydney

$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 session is a resistance to ideas that blame clients/participants for harms workers experience. My participants/clients have not hurt me of burnt me out: they have inspired transformed and laterally mentored me. I experience vicarious resistance witnessing people’s struggles for dignity and liberation against oppression. I work hard to find authentic acts of believed-in-hope which are not optimism or positivism, but real moments of the social divine.

I invited Riel Dupuis-Rossi and Travis Heath to offer reflections alongside my writing, and their spirited critical voices reached out in solidarity to make space for my voice in accompanied ways.

We will have dialogues about our relationships and practices of both vicarious resistance and believed-in-hope. This work is useful for all practitioners to foment sustainability when working alongside people at the intersections of power.

Resources:

Reynolds, V., Riel Dupuis-Rossi, R & Heath, T. (2021).Inspiring Believed-in-Hope as an Ethical Position : Vicarious Resistance & Justice-Doing. Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, 2021, Release 1, p. 2-18.

Scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC, Indigenous people &  peers/people with lived & living experience contact organizer :  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