Sharing Practice

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: 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.