October 7 & 8 9-12 PDT (12-3 EDT)
$220 Canadian includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees
10% proceeds to Tiny House Warriors
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’, oppression, violence and suffering. It will address:
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 www.vikkireynolds.ca
Riel Dupuis-Rossi, an Indigenous ‘trauma’ therapist/trainer, will present their work on the connective power of politicizing ‘trauma’ specifically alongside other Indigenous people.
Charlene Hellson, an Indigenous therapist/trainer will be welcoming us to create an intentional community that structures enough-safety, dignity and respect.