Justice-Doing in Therapy and Community Work
A two-day in-person workshop with Vikki Reynolds
Manchester and London, April/May 2022
Manchester: Thurs/Fri April 28/29
London: Tues/Wed May 3/4
£230 + VAT, 20% off for self-funders
This workshop is informed by a spirit of solidarity and social justice activism. Vikki will illuminate her stance for an ethic of Justice-Doing as a frame for community work and for therapy.
She will consider the intersections, tensions and affinities between community work practice and social justice activism that encompasses centering ethics, doing solidarity, addressing power, fostering collective sustainability, critically engaging with language and structuring safety.
We will engage with our own stances for ethical practice, and participate in a Solidarity Group with the intention of “walking our talk” and opening up our collective work to a hopeful skepticism that questions the ethics alive in our practice.
This workshop will help participants:
- Consider how to promote dignifying and generative supervision groups for therapy and community work.
- Deconstruct “case consultation” norms that don’t serve clients or practitioners, and consider what a “Culture of Critique” that is generative, expansive, connected and dignified might offer.
- Consider practices of structuring safety and creating relationships of respect and dignity which can promote a culture of accountability that generates useful and rich critique.
- Share some exercises for creating intentional supervisory relationships.
- Create cultures of accountability that invite critique that are a resistance against surveillance practices of supervision.
- Practice examples of “Living Supervision”, and creating “Solidarity Teams” to assist practitioners to work in alignment with our collective ethics
Justice Doing at the Intersections of Power: Responding to mean and hate-filled necropolitics in Community Work
Conference Session September 24 11:30 AM PDT
This work is informed by a spirit of solidarity and social justice activism. Vikki will illuminate her stance for a Supervision of Solidarity and an ethic of Justice Doing as a frame for community work and therapy. This work is informed by an intention for de-colonizing and justice-doing practice. Vikki will consider the intersections, tensions and affinities between community work practice and social justice activism while working in contexts of oppression and suffering, and weave our collective resistance to oppression and structural abandonment together with social movements. We will acknowledge the darkness of mean and hate-filled politics, and the suffering of “messed with human beings” alongside luminous stories of everyday resistance with threads of “immeasurable outcomes” of our work alongside persons struggling to keep a finger hold on dignity. We will be invited to reflect on our own stances for ethical practice, and puzzle our intentions of “walking our talk”, opening up our collective work to a hopeful skepticism that questions the ethics alive in our practice.
Courage to Act National Skill Share Series
Solidarity, Collective Care & Sustainability: Responding to Gender-Based Violence
August 18
Dulwich Centre ‘Meet the Author’ – Vikki Reynolds, Riel Dupuis-Rossi & Travis Heath
August 2, 2021 @ 5pm PDT
Adelaide – Tuesday 3 August, at 9:30 am
Singapore – Tuesday 3 August, at 8:00 am
Beijing – Tuesday 3 August, at 8:00 am
Hong Kong – Tuesday 3 August, 8:00 am
Auckland – Tuesday 3 August, at 12:00 pm
Vancouver – Monday 2 August, at 5:00 pm
Los Angeles – Monday 2 August, at 5:00 pm
Chicago – Monday 2 August, at 7:00 pm
Atlanta – Monday 2 August, at 8:00 pm
Toronto – Monday 2 August, at 8:00 pm
Santiago – Monday 2 August, at 8:00 pm
Rio de Janeiro – Monday 2 August, at 9:00 pm
This meeting will be facilitated by Tileah Drahm-Butler (of the Darumbal/Kulilli and Wanyurr Majay Yidinji Nations). Jill Freedman will be offering reflections.
Fostering believed-in-hope is hard, intentional work. Discerning believed-in-hope from optimism and positivity is important in order to maintain an ethical stance for justice-doing.
Vikki Reynolds is an activist/therapist from Vancouver, Canada, who works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism and therapy. Vikki is a white settler of Irish, Newfoundland and English folks, and a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege.
Riel Dupuis-Rossi is a Two Spirit therapist of Kanienʼkehá꞉ka, Algonquin and Italian descent. Riel grew up in their traditional territories, off reserve in Hamilton, ON and Montreal, QC. Riel has been providing decolonizing and culturally-centered Indigenous trauma therapy to Indigenous adults in the unceded Homelands of the Coast Salish
Complex Trauma Presentations and SADV Care- Navigating an Ethical
Framework and Vicarious Trauma
When: Workshop June 2nd 2021 at 1000-1700
Where: Via Zoom
Cost: $200/ participant (based on 10 participants)
The fee will be payable by cheque only.
Please RSVP to Jeannine.corbiere@bchsys.org by April 15th 2021
Suggested Audience: Frontline SADV clinicians who have hands on experience providing direct clinical
care to client’s presenting with complex trauma and secondary needs to SADV programs. Preferably,
the clinician will be in a role that facilitates bringing back this learning to their team. We are aiming to
have a small group of participants in order to facilitate in depth case discussions. As such, we are
initially offering 1 spot per regional SADV care team.
Afternoon Plenary with Vikki Reynolds (PhD RCC)
Keynote speaker Vikki Reynolds (PhD, RCC) will offer insights into how we can resist burnout with a sense of solidarity and collective care. As a social justice activist and therapist, Reynolds has worked with individuals responding to the opioid catastrophe, Indigenous people who have survived residential schools, mental health and substance misuse counsellors, housing and shelter workers and more, and will challenge RENT participants to consider how they can transform their workplaces into an environment of collective care.
5/20/2021 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
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‘Trauma’ and Resistance: ‘Hang Time’ & Other Innovative Responses to Oppression, Violence and Suffering
An online workshop with Vikki Reynolds
May 11th 3.00 – 6.00 GMT (UK time)
Apply by contacting: leahksalter@gmail.com Cost: £35
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
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Justice-Doing in Private/Alternative Practice
April 8-9, 2021
12 PM to 3 PM Eastern Time – Toronto & New York
9 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time – Vancouver & Los Angeles
This online community gathering will be relevant to…
Anyone in private or independent practice interested in exploring an ‘alternative’ practice
Those in private/independent practice seeking ways to sustain themselves by engaging with an ethic of Justice-Doing in their work with social injustice
Private therapists attempting to stay ethical within the context of privatization – especially in terms of who gets to access help and how their practices can be more just and available
This workshop facilitated over two days by Vikki Reynolds aims to build intentional community by holding space for a rigorous investigation into the ethics alive in practitioners’ alternative practice.
Vikki will address the binary of private practice versus public/social sector work, as there are possibilities for doing justice in each realm. It’s not where you work that makes you ethical, it’s your ethical stance, accountability practices and keeping persons at the centre. Many practitioners have sought private/alternative work to be more ethical than some agency/authority has allowed for. Vikki will explore these tensions in practice together with a spirit of solidarity.
The following ideas and practices related to sustaining ourselves and promoting ethical practice will also be explored:
An ethical stance for Justice-Doing and trying-to-be Decolonizing practice
Resisting isolation and building solidarity
Strategies for collective care and collective accountability
Inviting community accountability practices
Sustainability & ‘The Zone of Fabulousness’: Resisting Burnout, Disconnection, and Enmeshment
Collaborative Supervisory Frameworks: Living Supervision & Solidarity Groups
Space is limited to 50 seats for this online event
Early registration rate of $185 until March 8, 2021 – Regular registration $210 thereafter
10 % discount for students and groups of 3 or more. At checkout add discount code of either STUDENT10 or GROUP10
Register
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Solidarity, Collective Care & Mental Wellness in the time of Covid
An online workshop with Vikki Reynolds
February 25th 3.00 – 6.00 GMT (UK time)
Application forms
Cost: £35 + VAT
We are delighted to be hosting this workshop with Vikki Reynolds. Her face to face workshops in London, Manchester and Edinburgh in 2019 were hugely well received and this online workshop is sure to be oversubscribed.
Vikki writes: In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic frontline workers are responding to suffering, hardship and oppression in situations we couldn’t have imagined a year ago. The pandemic has disrupted much of our lives and ways of working bringing disconnection and fear. Resisting Burnout in this moment means we need to go deeper than the “self-care” we are normally prescribed and look at Community Collective Care and our Mental Wellness, considering cultural, spiritual, relational and community-based ways to collectively support ourselves and our communities. Workers will build Solidarity Teams and practices for collective care. The ambient/ever-present trauma we are swimming in can be crazy-making, and we resist with collective care as a sanity-making project.
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, Newfoundland and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with peers and other workers responding to the opioid 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.
Repeat workshop due to popular demand!
Solidarity, Collective Care & Mental Wellness in the time of Covid
An online workshop with Vikki Reynolds
April 14th 3.00 – 6.00 GMT (UK time)
Application forms
Cost: £35 + VAT
Due to significant overdemand for her workshop in March, we are delighted to be hosting this repeat online presentation with Vikki Reynolds
Vikki writes: In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic frontline workers are responding to suffering, hardship and oppression in situations we couldn’t have imagined a year ago. The pandemic has disrupted much of our lives and ways of working bringing disconnection and fear. Resisting Burnout in this moment means we need to go deeper than the “self-care” we are normally prescribed and look at Community Collective Care and our Mental Wellness, considering cultural, spiritual, relational and community-based ways to collectively support ourselves and our communities. Workers will build Solidarity Teams and practices for collective care. The ambient/ever-present trauma we are swimming in can be crazy-making, and we resist with collective care as a sanity-making project.
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, Newfoundland and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with peers and other workers responding to the opioid 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.
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