Keynote Address
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.