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Shouldering Each Other Up Amidst Death by Bad Policy and Structural Abandonment pdf

Published August 23, 2023 at 850 × 1100 in Workshops

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Shouldering Each Other Up Amidst Death by Bad Policy and Structural Abandonment/Violence Virtual session - Tuesday, August 22, 2023 5-7pm EST People in our community are dying each day due to failed policies and structural violence. In the midst of this, peers, outreach teams and care workers are trying to respond to these crises as best they can. How can we, as supervisors, community supports or team leaders respond and hold people up (including ourselves) in the midst of this? Join us for a special virtual session with Vikki Reynolds related to responding to death and heartbreak in the streets of Rochester. Putting people’s deaths in the context of what Vikki calls “necropolitics” (policies that kill people) or leaving them to die in structural violence, Vikki strives to help teams respond to these crises while maintaining connection and humanity. During our time together, Vikki will address: • How tragic death lands differently in body and relationships • How we might respond to the grief AND rage that accompany this work • Maps she has developed for responding to these atrocious deaths (individual and collective) and maps developed for debriefing with connection and solidarity (resisting trauma) • How we might further develop collective care and mutual aid in and across organizations responding to these crises • How we might stay human in the face of inhuman policies and violence and develop a revolutionary love and solidarity • Witnessing our dead: how do we hold the dead alongside the living Vikki Reynolds PhD, RCC is an activist/therapist and a white settler on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. For the past decade she has been responding to the to daily loss of life related to the opioid crisis in downtown Vancouver, BC. Her work these days is focused primarily on helping frontline workers and peer teams develop collective care, resistance and “mourning amidst atrocity.” Check out her extensive work at www.vikkireynolds.ca To register, please send name and email to Mike Boucher at mboucher@sjncenter.org and you will be sent a link for the event.

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