Rupture & Repair: Sustaining Ethical Relationships & Collective Accountability

Online Vancouver Canada April 11 & 12, 2024 9am-12 PST
Toronto 12pm-3pm EST

Cost: $220 per Participant including Paypal and Ticket Tailor processing fees

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

In this workshop we will address Justice-Doing with each other. How can we hold onto respect and dignity for each other when we're struggling in contexts that are under attack from mean spirited and cruel politics? How can we 'Lean In' to each other and hold onto our fabulous and painful histories of joint struggle against multiple oppressions including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, poverty, transphobia, homophobia and gender-based violence? How do we stay in dialogue, with respect across time, without getting caught up in using power-over or re-enacting the abuses of power we are fighting against? We don't stop oppression with oppression- how do we resist carceral logics of crime/punishment? How do we address repair while holding critiques of forgiveness as obligatory, simplistic and coercive? Visioning and world building requires us to enact the kind of politics and justice-doing we want to create more of. We will work towards co-creating 'Cultures of Accountability' that invite an alongside solidarity and enact the ethics that can sustain and transform our relationships.

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 drug poisoning 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 will be donated to

Joint Effort Collective
In Solidarity With Prisoners & People Coming Out Into Community