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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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
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EVENT SOLD OUT
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.
