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

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:

• 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 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.