Sharing Practice: A Justice-doing approach to work with Men who use violence
Sharing Practice: A Justice-doing approach to work with Men who use violence
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December 14
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.
While Gender Based Violence involves all genders this session centres on work with men who have used violence in relationship. This writing is framed on intersectional analysis leaning heavily on feminist bell hooks teachings that ‘Feminism is for everybody’.
This writing offers an approach that is overtly political and resists carceral logics and individuating violence, and moves towards not only personal accountability but actually transforming rape culture-which exists within a wider culture of violence. It addresses the tension of holding dignity and safety for women, transwomen and children at the centre while working to hold men responsible for their violence- while also maintaining the dignity and humanity of these men.
We will reflect on our own ethical stands for this work and illuminate our practices of holding these tensions centered on accountability. This session will be useful for everyone working to resist carceral logics in our work while centering people who are harmed and holding multiple centres that refuse to abandon people who have used violence.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2014) Resisting and transforming rape culture: An activist stance for therapeutic work with men who have used violence. The No To Violence Journal. Spring, 29-49.
Reynolds, Vikki & Natasha Sanders-Kay (2023).The F Word: Vikki Reynolds on the Politics of Forgiveness. Interview conducted by Natasha Sanders-Kay, SubTerrain #92. p. 44-47.
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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