Sharing Practice: ‘To Be of Use’. Selected Papers
Online
February 8, 2027
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 explore the themes of the book ‘To Be Of Use’ and respond in group dialogues about our relationships to these themes and how they are alive in our practice. We will reflect on: Solidarity in Action; Addressing Complexity and Holding Tensions; and Solidarity, Collective Care & Sustainability.
We will respond to provocations and reflexive questions to illuminate ‘the best use of you’. For folx who have participated in Sharing Practice sessions we will reflect on transformations and next moves in response to these ongoing dialogues.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2025) To Be of Use. Selected Papers
(published by Everything is Connected Press)
(you don’t need to buy- or read- this book, all articles & chapters free at: https://vikkireynolds.ca/)
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
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