Many people have come to my training sessions and workshops to co -create knowledge, skills, and analysis for this work and our communities. This is something new.
The intention behind Sharing Practice sessions is to create spaces to share our practice in dialogues within community that holds a collective ethic of justice-doing in community work, counselling and therapy. Each session focuses on specific practice explored in an article, and will have provocations to foster emergent, meaningful dialogues and assist us to explore our practices and witness others in connected struggles.
You are invited to deepen and explore your practice by attending some of the sessions most relevant to your work, or all of the sessions to foster practices that deepen our usefulness across time and communities.
Online Zoom
Cost $110 + tax for each 3-hour session
*There are 2 sessions each day. Check your time zone for best fit and register for the correct time. One will be Vancouver am, good for UK evening. The second will be Sydney Australia in am, Vancouver afternoon/evening. Australia is a day ahead of Canada & UK.
Sharing Practice sessions focus on a specific practice explored in an article or book chapter. It’s useful to have read the articles, and they are available free on vikkireynolds.ca. There will be several break-out groups framed by provocations to foster emergent, meaningful dialogues and assist us to explore our practices and witness others in connected struggles.
Sharing Practice: Structuring Safety with people who have experienced oppression, violence and exploitation
This writing outlines practices of structuring safety that were co-created alongside people who had survived political violence and torture.
This dialogue has applications for any worker with an ethical stance for justice-doing to structure safety with people in contexts of violence, necropolitics and oppression. The original intent of this writing was to be useful to workers alongside Indigenous Survivors of residential schools who were giving testimony, and Cathy Richardson writes eloquently about that genocidal colonial context
Resources:
Richardson, C., & Reynolds, V. (2014). Structuring Safety in Therapeutic Work alongside Indigenous Survivors of Residential Schools. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, XXXIV (2), 147-164.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
March 9, 2026
9am – 12pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EDT Toronto, Canada
4pm – 7pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1986046
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
March 9, 2026
3pm – 6pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
Mar 10, 2026
9am – 12pm AEDT Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1986026
Sharing Practice: Hate Kills: A justice-doing response to ‘suicide’
The language of suicide is unjust, abusive and inaccurate language. People don’t kill themselves in isolation: Hate kills. From a perspective of justice-doing the language of suicide is psychological language that blames people for their own suffering and deaths, when we have collectively failed to join them to the human community with an ethic of belonging. ‘Suicide’, in all contexts of people’s struggles, obscures the person’s many acts of resistance to stay on the planet.
We will also take a critical look at diverse perspectives of MAID Medical Assistance in Dying/VAD- Voluntary Assisted Dying and consider our cultural, spiritual, practical responses. We will dialogue about your practice connections to these ideas of what gets called ‘suicide’, inviting us to engage an ethic of tenderness.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2016). Hate Kills: A social justice response to “suicide”. In White, J., Marsh, J., Kral, M., & Morris, J. (Eds.) Critical Suicidology: Towards creative alternatives. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
April 13, 2026
9am – 12pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EDT Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm BST London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1986101
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
April 13
4pm – 7pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
April 14
9am – 12pm AEST Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1986108
Sharing Practice: Navigating Multiple Relationships – not Dual Relationships
This dialogue problematizes limitations of ‘dual relationships’, and embraces complexity around creating ethical relationships that might engage fluid boundaries that centre people and cultural connections of workers.
Workers from targeted communities are hired for cultural knowings and connections-then policed out of these connections with charges of being in dual relationships-silencing them from making explicit the ethical tensions that allow them to be accountable and protect people from transgressions. We will look at fluidity of existing in multiple relationships with practices of accountability and ‘making public’ that centre safety of people we work alongside.
This dialogue could be useful to workers from small/isolated, targeted and oppressed communities, and all workers struggling to centre accountable complexity in relationships.
Resources:
Everett, B., MacFarlane D., Reynolds, V., & Anderson, H. (2013). Not on our backs: Supporting counsellors in navigating the ethics of multiple relationships within queer, Two Spirit, and/or trans communities. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 47(1), 14-28.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
May 11
9am – 12pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EDT Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm BST London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1993997
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
May 11
4pm – 7pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
May 12
9am – 12pm AEST Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1986423
Sharing Practice: A Solidarity Approach: working towards ethical and accountable ‘Research’, Publishing, Dissertations & Thesis Writing
A Solidarity Approach to writing/inquiry could be useful to students and practitioners struggling, as I did, to be both ethical and accountable in writing. I lay out my strategy to hold all of my ‘research’ and writing accountable to the ethical stance of justice-doing I have for my activism and therapeutic work.
This solidarity approach included solidarity teams and community accountability practices as I didn’t want to replicate any oppression my work was striving to resist. We will connect on your relationship to writing/research and your ethical and practice frame for your work.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2014). A solidarity approach: The rhizome & messy inquiry. In Simon, G. & Chard, A. (Eds.) Systemic Inquiry: Innovations in Reflexive Practice Research. London, UK: Everything Is Connected Books.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
June 23
9am – 12pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EDT Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm BST London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1994004
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
June 23
4pm – 7pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
June 24
9am – 12pm AEST Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1994006
Sharing Practice: People-ing-the-room: Solidarity Practices
A Justice-doing approach situates supervision as community organizing. “Supervision of Solidarity practices: Solidarity teams and people-ing-the-room”, explores practices that move the ethics of solidarity into action. The article includes an expansive set of questions framing the practice.
People-ing-the-room is a strategy co-created alongside refugees and asylum seekers who had no one from their community and former life available to them in person to bear witness to the meaning of their acts of resistance.
These practices are useful to resist isolation of all people who are targeted and oppressed.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2011). Supervision of solidarity practices: Solidarity teams and people-ing-the-room. Context. August 2011. Association for Family and Systemic Therapy, UK, 4-7.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
August 17
9am – 12pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EDT Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm BST London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997837
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
August 17
4pm – 7pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
August 18
9am – 12pm AEST Sydney, Australia
Registration:https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997840
Sharing Practice: A Solidarity Interview: A Solidarity Group practice-based session
In this session we will collectively engage in an emergent practice of the “Solidarity Interview”. I will lay out the frame of the Solidarity Interview and the ethics of Justice-doing that inform the dialogue. We will all engage in the practice., where I interview one practitioner around their ethical engagement with the work.
Everyone will be invited to engage in solidarity practices to look for sites of connection and important differences. The aim is to foster solidarity, and collective sustainability. You don’t need to be the person speaking in a group for it to be useful. This practice engages one person in dialogue, but the ethic is to connect everyone in solidarity around our collective ethics of justice-doing,
We will break out to critique the interview and to illuminate the guiding intentions in practice. We will imagine further uses of this practice in our own contexts and as sites of resistance.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2010). Doing Justice as a Path to Sustainability in Community Work. (Full PDF) Pages 109-176 Solidarity Group Practice
Reynolds, V. (2010). A Supervision of Solidarity. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 44(3), 24
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
November 9
9am – 12pm PST Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EST Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997857
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
November 9
2pm – 5pm PST Vancouver, Canada
November 10
9am – 12pm AEDT Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997842
Sharing Practice: A Justice-doing approach to work with Men who use violence
While Gender Based Violence involves all genders this session centres on work with men who have used violence in relationship. This writing is framed on intersectional analysis leaning heavily on feminist bell hooks teachings that ‘Feminism is for everybody’.
This writing offers an approach that is overtly political and resists carceral logics and individuating violence, and moves towards not only personal accountability but actually transforming rape culture-which exists within a wider culture of violence. It addresses the tension of holding dignity and safety for women, transwomen and children at the centre while working to hold men responsible for their violence- while also maintaining the dignity and humanity of these men.
We will reflect on our own ethical stands for this work and illuminate our practices of holding these tensions centered on accountability. This session will be useful for everyone working to resist carceral logics in our work while centering people who are harmed and holding multiple centres that refuse to abandon people who have used violence.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2014) Resisting and transforming rape culture: An activist stance for therapeutic work with men who have used violence. The No To Violence Journal. Spring, 29-49.
Reynolds, Vikki & Natasha Sanders-Kay (2023).The F Word: Vikki Reynolds on the Politics of Forgiveness. Interview conducted by Natasha Sanders-Kay, SubTerrain #92. p. 44-47.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
December 14
9am – 12pm PST Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EST Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1999157
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
December 14
2pm – 5pm PST Vancouver, Canada
December 15
9am – 12pm AEDT Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997868
Sharing Practice: Vicarious Resistance & Believed-in-hope
This session is a resistance to ideas that blame clients/participants for harms workers experience. My participants/clients have not hurt me of burnt me out: they have inspired transformed and laterally mentored me. I experience vicarious resistance witnessing people’s struggles for dignity and liberation against oppression. I work hard to find authentic acts of believed-in-hope which are not optimism or positivism, but real moments of the social divine.
I invited Riel Dupuis-Rossi and Travis Heath to offer reflections alongside my writing, and their spirited critical voices reached out in solidarity to make space for my voice in accompanied ways.
We will have dialogues about our relationships and practices of both vicarious resistance and believed-in-hope. This work is useful for all practitioners to foment sustainability when working alongside people at the intersections of power.
Resources:
Reynolds, V., Riel Dupuis-Rossi, R & Heath, T. (2021).Inspiring Believed-in-Hope as an Ethical Position : Vicarious Resistance & Justice-Doing. Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, 2021, Release 1, p. 2-18.
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
January 11, 2027
9am – 12pm PST Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EST Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997865
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
January 11, 2027
2pm – 5pm PST Vancouver, Canada
January 12, 2027
9am – 12pm AEDT Sydney, Australia
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997886
Sharing Practice: ‘To Be of Use’. Selected Papers
In this session we will explore the themes of the book ‘To Be Of Use’ and respond in group dialogues about our relationships to these themes and how they are alive in our practice. We will reflect on: Solidarity in Action; Addressing Complexity and Holding Tensions; and Solidarity, Collective Care & Sustainability.
We will respond to provocations and reflexive questions to illuminate ‘the best use of you’. For folx who have participated in Sharing Practice sessions we will reflect on transformations and next moves in response to these ongoing dialogues.
Resources:
Reynolds, V. (2025) To Be of Use. Selected Papers
(published by Everything is Connected Press)
(you don’t need to buy- or read- this book, all articles & chapters free at: https://vikkireynolds.ca/)
Times for Turtle Island and Europe
February 8, 2027
9am – 12pm PST Vancouver, Canada
12pm – 3pm EST Toronto, Canada
5pm – 8pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997902
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
February 8, 2027
2pm – 5pm PST Vancouver, Canada
February 9, 2027
9am – 12pm AEDT Sydney, Australia
Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC 