‘Hang Time’ + Other Innovative Responses to Oppression, Violence and Suffering
Vikki will share stories of practice and acts of resistance that inspire hope, bringing
us to “Hang Time”, 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 medicalisation of suffering as ‘trauma’
and other mental illnesses.
‘TRAUMA’ + RESISTANCE
$220 CAD
includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees
OCTOBER 7 + 8
9am – 12pm PST 12pm – 3pm EST
RIEL DUPUIS-ROSSI
an Indigenous ‘trauma’
therapist/trainer,
will present their work
on the connective
power of politicizing
‘trauma’ specifically
alongside other
Indigenous people.
CHARLENE HELLSON
an Indigenous
therapist/trainer,
will be welcoming us
to create an intentional
community that
structures enoughsafety,
dignity
and respect.
10% proceeds to
Tiny House Warriors
This online workshop offers a justice-doing response to ‘trauma.’ 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 + a white settler on the unceded
territories of the xwm θkw y m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and S lílw taʔ/
Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Vikki’s articles & speaks free at http://www.vikkireynolds.ca.