April 8-9, 2021 – Justice-Doing in Private/Alternative Practice
April 8-9, 2021 – Justice-Doing in Private/Alternative Practice
Event Location:
This is an ONLINE EVENT, Hosted on Zoom, Eastern Time (CANADA & US)
Event Description
12 PM to 3 PM Eastern Time - Toronto & New York
9 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time – Vancouver & Los Angeles
10 AM to 1 PM Mountain Time – Calgary & Boise
11 AM to 2 PM Central Time – Winnipeg & Chicago
1 PM to 4 PM Atlantic Time – Halifax
5 PM to 8 PM – United Kingdom
7 PM to 10 PM – Tel Aviv, Israel
With Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC
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
Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC
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.
Download Vikki’s recent handbook co-created with Riel Dupuis-Rossi & Charlene Hellson titled Disrupting current colonial practices and structures in the immigration and non-profit sector.
Other articles & speaks free at: www.vikkireynolds.ca
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