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: People-ing-the-room: Solidarity Teams
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 PDT Vancouver, Canada
11pm – 2pm EST Toronto, Canada
4pm – 7pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1997857
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
November 9
3pm – 6pm PDT 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 PDT Vancouver, Canada
11pm – 2pm EST Toronto, Canada
4pm – 7pm GMT London, England
Registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/1999157
Times for Australia, Aotearoa and Western Turtle Island
December 14
3pm – 6pm PDT Vancouver, Canada
December 15
9am – 12pm AEDT Sydney, Australia
Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC 