Sustainability In Community Work
Vikki has a deep commitment to social justice and her work is based on an anti-oppression framework. She plays a leading role in building communities in a spirit of solidarity, putting ethics at the forefront. Vikki contributes to collective sustainability to help community workers be of authentic use to their clients by making change happen.
Vikki Reynolds is a Consultant, Instructor and Supervisor specializing in issues of Addiction, Substance Misuse, Diversity, Homelessness, Trauma and Violence.
Upcoming Events
 Presents
"Collaborative Therapy Training Series"
A Supervision of Solidarity: Solidarity Groups.
Monday January 30th
6:30-9:00pm
Concordia Office
#720-999 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C
The cost of the workshop is $40 plus HST
Register by email
info@concordiacounselling.ca or phone (778) 331-0965.
Registration closes on Monday January 23rd.
A Supervision of Solidarity is informed by a spirit of solidarity and social justice activism. I created Solidarity Groups as a response to supervising therapists who work alongside clients who are victims and survivors of torture, political and interpersonal violence, sexualized exploitation, extreme poverty, and other attacks on the safety of their lives and dignity of their identities.
- How can we hold onto a sense of aliveness and engage a spirit of solidarity within contexts of social injustice and marginalization?
- How can we do this difficult work in ways that are congruent with collective ethics and how can we all experience sustainability and transformation collectively across time?
The ethics of Justice-doing that inform Solidarity Groups include:
- centering ethics,
- doing solidarity
- addressing power
- fostering collective sustainability
- critically engaging with language
- structuring safety
In this workshop I'll lay out these ethics and we'll engage in the practice of a Solidarity Group, then critique the practice with a hopeful skepticism to see if the ethics are enacted. It will be helpful to read A Supervision of Solidarity (2010), and Supervision of Solidarity Practices: Solidarity Teams & People-ing-the-room (2011).
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