Online: Dec 5 & 6

9-12 PST  Vancouver (12-3 EST Toronto)

$220 Canadian includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees

Scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC, Indigenous people &
peers/people with lived & living experience contact organizer :
reynolds.vikki@gmail.com

Vikki will share stories of practice and acts of resistance that inspire hope, 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 medicalization 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 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

10% of proceeds to Tiny House Warriors