‘Trauma’ and Resistance: ‘Hang Time’ & Other Innovative Responses to Oppression, Violence and Suffering

An online workshop with Vikki Reynolds

Oct 5 & 6 11 am-2pm Aotearoa/New Zealand ; 9am—12pm Sydney Australia  (Oct 4 & 5th 3-6pm PDT Vancouver)

$220 Canadian includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees

Vikki will share stories of practice and acts of resistance that inspire hope, bringing us to “Hang Time”, describing activist-informed ways of responding to suffering in persons who have been oppressed and harmed. This approach centres on witnessing folks’ wise and creative acts of resistance. Justice-doing and a decolonising stance for the work is required to resist psychology’s neutrality and objectivity that often blames people for their own suffering from oppression. A witnessing approach requires that we situate personal suffering in its sociopolitical context and resist the individualisation and medicalisation of suffering as ‘trauma’ and other mental illnesses.

This online workshop offers a justice-doing response to ‘trauma’. It will address:

•  A decolonizing & justice-doing ethical stance
• Resist individualization, objectivity & neutrality of trauma Industry
• Witnessing stance informed by direct action activism
• Understandings of Acts of resistance
• Stories from practice

Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC

Is an activist/therapist & a white settler on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Vikki’s articles & speaks free at vikkireynolds.ca

Fabulously supported by Donny Riki Ngāpuhi / Ngāti Paoa Māori warrior