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Institute of Family Therapy

Practices of Solidarity Sessions

Session 1: Justice-doing as an ethical stance for therapy & community work

Date: 15 March, 2023
Venue: IFT Zoom
Time: 4pm – 6pm
CPD: 2 hours
Cost: £50.00

Session 2: Resisting Burnout & Vicarious Trauma & the Zone of Fabulousness

Date: 20 April, 2023
Venue: IFT Zoom
Time: 4pm – 6pm
CPD: 2 hours
Cost: £50.00

Justice-doing as an ethical stance for therapy & community work

This work is informed by a spirit of solidarity and direct-action activism. Vikki will illuminate her stance on 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.

Resisting Burnout & Vicarious Trauma & the Zone of Fabulousness

Vikki will differentiate Vicarious Trauma & Burnout from the spiritual and ethical pain that our work engenders when we are unable to provide dignity and social justice with the people we want to be useful to. We’ll explore our relationship to a believed-in hope, and resisting patronizing self-care prescriptions to workers. We will also consider a frame for Resisting Burn out that holds clients at the centre, based on how we treat people, and resist pathologizing ourselves and other workers as mentally ill and deficient…and that’s going to bring us to The Zone of Fabulousness…Where we resist enmeshment and disconnection, and hold connection, collective ethics and the person at the centre of our work.

workshop full☀ Resisting Burnout SOLIDARITY, COLLECTIVE CARE & JUSTICE-DOING: Register → buytickets.at/vikkireynolds/837749 an online workshop Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC is an activist/therapist and a white settler on the unceded territories of the xwmǝƟkwǝỳǝm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Seĺílwǝta?/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Articles & speaks free at www.vikkireynolds.ca 〰〰 VANCOUVER, CANADA April 25 - 26, 2023 4pm - 7pm PDT SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA April 26 - 27, 2023 9am - 12pm AEST $ 220 CAD includes Ticket Tailor + PayPal fees Reduced fees & scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC & peers / people with living experience. 10% of proceeds will be donated to Joint Effort Online workshop for workers/practitioners. We will foster Solidarity and Justice-Doing as central to our collective care and resistance against what the trauma industry calls “Vicarious Trauma” & ”Burnout” and: • Enact Collective Ethics for Justice-Doing • Put work in Context of Necropolitics & Structural Abandonment • Resist Enmeshment & Disconnection, centering Connection • Resist patronizing ‘self-care’ & diagnosis of workers as broken & deficient • Build Solidarity & Collective Care/Mutual Aid Projects • Co-create Believed-In-Hope New dates added due to demand!

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Creating Structures of Accountability, Structuring Safety & Justice-Doing in Community Work New dates added due to demand! JOINT EFFORT 10% of proceeds will be donated to VIKKI REYNOLDS PhD RCC 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. Articles & speaks free at www.vikkireynolds.ca. This workshop is for team leads and supervisors who are committed to fostering and shouldering up collaborative teams that hold participants at the centre, and engage with collective ethics and collective accountability. - Working towards an ethical stance for justice-doing & decolonizing practice - Lateral mentoring & leadership qualities - Promoting relationships of respect & dignity in team building - Structuring safety, upholding dignity & relational safety - Creating cultures of accountability - Collective ethics & collective accountability - Power & responsibility - Making repair of transgressions - Centring participants: “client-centred teams,” not “staff-centred teams” - Collaborative leadership frameworks: living supervision & solidarity groups Collaborative Teams 2-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP May 9 & 10, 2023 9am - 12pm PDT / 12pm - 3pm EDT $220 Scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC and peers/people with lived & living experience. Contact the organizer reynolds.vikki@gmail.com. Register at www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/848331

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A Supervision of Solidarity An Ethics of Justice-Doing in Community Work Online with Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC and Sekneh Hammoud-Beckett Purchase tickets at https://www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/769651 $220 CAD per Participant includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees 10% of proceeds to SisterSpace A Supervision of Solidarity is informed by an ethics of justicedoing & solidarity, encompassing: resisting settler colonialism, centering ethics, doing solidarity, addressing power, fostering collective sustainability, critically engaging with language, and structuring safety. In the workshop we will: • 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 ethic Sydney, Australia June 20 & 21 9am-12pm AEST Vancouver, Canada June 19 & 20 4-7pm PDT

SAVE THE DATE Annual International F/ACT Conference August 14 16, 2023 Vancouver, BC Canada with keynote speaker Dr. Vikki Reynolds, RCC, PhD. Affordable accommodation available in University of British Columbia residences. Registration and cost details to be announced separately

Solidarity Teams Workshop for Managers with Vikki Reynolds Solidarity Teams : Collective Care & Collective Responsibility In this workshop we are going to address these questions: How can we build Solidarity Teams for our collective care and sustainability? How can we hold onto our solidarity and our fabulous and painful histories of joint struggle against multiple oppressions including Necropolitics & structural abandonment? How do we stay in dialogue, with respect, across time, without getting caught up in using power-over practices or re-enacting the abuses of power we are fighting against? How do we enact the analysis and justice-doing we want to create more of? How can we nurture ‘Cultures of Critique’, embrace hopeful skepticism and enact our collective ethics as social justice movements? When resisting powers that work to divide us, how do we enact collective accountability, embrace groundless solidarity and infinite responsibility, and co-create an ethical stance of believed-in hope? This is a workshop for Executive Directors, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leads. There are two offerings of this 3 hour workshop: One in the morning of the 24th, and one in the afternoon of the 24th. March 24 Morning session 9:00am – 12:00pm March 24 Afternoon Session 1:00pm – 4:00pm

INTERESTED IN SPONSORING THIS CONFERENCE? For more information, please contact our operations manager - jagvirs@leadpda.org.au Full 2 days (Members Price) $145 + GST Full 2 days (Non- Members Price) $235 + GST Early bird offer Early bird Offer Full 2 days (Members Price) $170+GST Full 2 days (Non- Members Price) $285+GST Day 1 or Day 2 only (Member Price) $90 + GST Day 1 or Day 2 only (Non-Member Price) $150 + GST MEET OUR CURRENTLY CONFIRMED SPEAKERS 02 9620 6172 info@leadpda.org.au LUCY BLOOM MARY JO MCVEIGH VIKKI REYNOLDS Day 1 of the conference, will focus on current and emerging sector issues and trends, building practice capacity of Community Sector practitioners by empowering personal and professional growth. What kind of shifted perspectives do WE need: as a Sector, as a Service Provider, as a Practitioner? www.leadpda.org.au DR. LANA LESLIE A local place-based RAP Conference unpacking the challenges and experiences of developing and implementing a RAP in a small to medium NFP organisation. Commit to actions for reconciliation by building genuine and trusting relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Build connections and learnings between RAP organisations to develop a peer support group. Day 2 of the Conference, will focus on capacity development of Community Sector organisations in Western Sydney Nepean Blue Mountains to develop and implement their organisational Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Register Now Full conference price

the MSW program School of Social Work @ Renison University College (uWaterloo) is celebrating the 10th anniversary! We will mark this year by inspiring ongoing critical reflection about the next 10 years for Social Work education and wellbeing. Virtual Speaker’s Series Join these leading voices in their reflections: FEB Elder Myeengun Henry Environmental Justice MAR Vikki Reynolds Collective Care, Solidarity & Justice Doing APR Craig Fortier Abolition: Re-thinking Anti- Oppressive Engagement JUN Kelly Laurila All Our Relations JUL Ruth Wilson Arts-Based Activism AUG Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani Social Justice and Nature-based Wellness *details about time, date, and Zoom link to follow Elder Myeengun Henry Vikki Reynolds Craig Fortier Kelly Laurila Ruth Wilson Chizuru Nobe- Ghelani Naila Keleta-Mae Join our May event (in person or livestreamed) for a presentation, picnic lunch & live music: 12:30-2:00 PM EST May 26, 2023 Naila Keleta-Mae Music by Tea for Three Band Location: Renison University College, East Wing Courtyard

Resisting Burnout & Vicarious Trauma & the Zone of Fabulousness Start 17 Mar 2023 End 18 Mar 2023 Schedule 2 sessions Location Online via Zoom Resisting Burnout & Vicarious Trauma & the Zone of Fabulousness 2 half-day online workshop Date: 17 & 18 March 2023 (Fri & Sat) Time: 0930-1230 for each day Mode: Online via Zoom Fee: Regular -$550 , HKMFTA Members -$400 Application Link: https://hkmfta.wildapricot.org/event-5154140 Speaker: Vikki Reynolds (PhD RCC)

workshop fullCollaborative Teams: Creating Structures of Accountability, Structuring Safety & Justice-Doing in Community Work Online March 9 & 10, 2023 Times: PST Vancouver 9am-12pm EST Toronto 12pm -3pm $220 Canadian includes Ticket Tailor & PayPal fees Scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC, Indigenous people & peers/people with lived & living experience contact organizer : reynolds.vikki@gmail.com This workshop is for Team Leads and Supervisors who are committed to fostering and shouldering up collaborative teams that hold participants at the centre, and engage with collective ethics and collective accountability: • Working towards an ethical stance for Justice -Doing and Decolonizing practice • Lateral Mentoring & Leadership qualities • Promoting Relationships of Respect & Dignity in Team Building • Structuring Safety, upholding Dignity & Relational Safety • Creating Cultures of Accountability • Collective Ethics & Collective Accountability • Power & Responsibility • Making Repair of Transgressions • Centering participants: “Client centered teams” not “Staff centered teams”. • Collaborative Leadership Frameworks: Living Supervision & Solidarity Groups 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 and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with people-with-lived/living-experience 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. Articles & speaks free at: www.vikkireynolds.ca 10% of proceeds will be donated to Unist'ot'en Land DefendersYWCA Canada is thrilled to offer a special workshop with activist/therapist Vicki Reynolds to launch education ands training sessions for the year. Join Vicki as she guides us to the Zone of Fabulousness, where we resist enmeshment and disconnection and hold connection, collective ethics, and the person at the centre of our work. In this session she also gets real about believed-in hope and resisting patronizing self-care prescriptions and creating a frame for resisting burnout and centering clients. Together we will consider a frame for resisting burn out that holds clients at the centre, based on how we treat people and resist pathologizing ourselves and other workers as mentally ill and deficient. Join us live for a chance to win books and other professional development resources . Date: Friday, February 3, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET Click the following link to register: https://bit.ly/3Wg6k7x THE ZONE OF FABULOUSNESS Resisting Burnout & Vicarious Trauma Vikki Reynolds bridges 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 and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with People with Lived/Living Experience 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. Free articles & speaks free at: www.vikkireynolds.ca. Vikki Reynolds (Ph.D. RCC)

workshop full☀Online workshop for workers/practitioners. We will foster Solidarity and Justice-Doing as central to our collective care and resistance against what the trauma industry calls “Vicarious Trauma” & ”Burnout” and: • Enact Collective Ethics for Justice-Doing • Put work in Context of Necropolitics & Structural Abandonment • Resist Enmeshment & Disconnection, centering Connection • Resist patronizing ‘self-care’ & diagnosis of workers as broken & deficient • Build Solidarity & Collective Care/Mutual Aid Projects • Co-create Believed-In-Hope $ 220 CAD includes Ticket Tailor + PayPal fees Reduced fees & scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC & peers / people with living experience. 10% of proceeds will be donated to Moms Stop the Harm January 16 - 17, 2023 9am - 12pm PST ・ 12pm - 3pm EST Resisting Burnout SOLIDARITY, COLLECTIVE CARE & JUSTICE-DOING: Register → www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/764400 Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC is an activist/therapist and a white settler on the unceded territories of the xwmǝƟkwǝỳǝm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Seĺílwǝta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Articles & speaks free at www.vikkireynolds.ca an online workshop

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workshop full☀Online workshop for workers/practitioners. We will foster Solidarity and Justice-Doing as central to our collective care and resistance against what the trauma industry calls “Vicarious Trauma” & ”Burnout” and: • Enact Collective Ethics for Justice-Doing • Put work in Context of Necropolitics & Structural Abandonment • Resist Enmeshment & Disconnection, centering Connection • Resist patronizing ‘self-care’ & diagnosis of workers as broken & deficient • Build Solidarity & Collective Care/Mutual Aid Projects • Co-create Believed-In-Hope $ 220 CAD includes Ticket Tailor + PayPal fees Reduced fees & scholarships available. Priority to BIPOC & peers / people with living experience. 10% of proceeds will be donated to Moms Stop the Harm January 16 - 17, 2023 9am - 12pm PST ・ 12pm - 3pm EST Resisting Burnout SOLIDARITY, COLLECTIVE CARE & JUSTICE-DOING: Register → www.tickettailor.com/events/vikkireynolds/764400 Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC is an activist/therapist and a white settler on the unceded territories of the xwmǝƟkwǝỳǝm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Seĺílwǝta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Articles & speaks free at www.vikkireynolds.ca an online workshop