Past 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).
2011 British Columbia Society of Transistion Homes
Annual Training Forum Keynote:
Who Will do the Hard Things?: Working with Women struggling with Violence, Mental Illness & Substance Abuse
October 19-21,
Radisson Hotel Vancouver Airport
Richmond BC
Conference Information
The BC Association of Social Workers
2011 Fall Conference
 November 11-12
Keynote -
Amazingly Alive: More Than Resisting 'Burnout'
November 12 8:30 a.m.
Workshop - Witnessing Resistance in Our Work With People Who Have Suffered Physical and Structural Violence
November 12 10:15 am to 3:30 pm
Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside
1133 West Hastings
Conference Registration
Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture
Trauma And Resistance :Working With People Who Have Experienced Political Violence And Torture
The Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture (VCST) invite you to join us for an experiential workshop with Vikki Reynolds, who will present an alternative approach to working with trauma, which focuses on the resistance of victims of violence and oppression, as opposed to attending primarily to the details of the trauma, which can be re-traumatizing for both the person and the front-line worker
Monday, November 14
8:30am – 4:30pm
Woodward Room - Begbie Hall
Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, BC
Cost: $50 Students; $100 Regular;
$75 Early Bird – by November 1st
(Includes resources, lunch and refreshments).
For more information or to register, contact:
vcst.info@gmail.com, 778.678.4903
Hate Kills: Responding to “Suicide” with Justice-Doing
The Vancouver Island Narrative Collective is proud to host
Vikki Reynolds, therapist and activist, as she speaks on how we as a society can take a stand alongside folks struggling against hate stigma and oppression. Reflection discussion to follow featuring Jennifer White and Jonny Morris, faculty members from the UVic School of Child and Youth Care.
Ideas Discussed Include:
- Human Rights
- Social Justice
- How using the language of “suicide” masks heart-wrenching suffering and daily indignities
- How we can demand accountability and change the conditions that promote suicide
November 15, 2011; 4:30 – 6:30pm
University of Victoria Campus, Room TBD
Suggested donation $10/$20
RSVP: dsegal@uvic.ca
and
 Comox Valley Transistion Society
Resisting Burn Out
November 17
10:00am—3:00pm
Lower Native Sons Hall
For more information call Rhonda:
250 338-7793 ext.222
2011 National Conference
October 3 - 5, 2011
Plenary Session:
Hate Kills: A Social Justice Response to “Suicide”
October 5 8:30 a.m.
Learning Objectives:
- Consider an anti-oppression analysis of “suicide”, specifically addressing social contexts of injustice
which allow for the violence of “suicide” to occur
- Engage with critical language practices in order to reveal the power and violence in play around the
language of “suicide”
- Reflect on wider social responses required to address the social context in which “suicide” occurs
Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites
1763 Comox Street,
Vancouver, BC
Conference Brochure
Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy
October 12 – 16 2011
Faculty: Christine Dennstedt PhD, Stephen Madigan PhD, David Nylund PhD, Vikki Reynolds PhD, Colin Sanders MA, and friends
Peak House
Pacific Youth & Family Services Society
presents
June 10, 2011
8:30am - 4:30pm
City University ,
789 W.Pender, Room #350,
Vancouver
Cost: $120
Burnaby Mental Health & Substance Use
Continuing Education
Trauma and Resistance: Therapeutic Witnessing with People Who Have Experienced Violence
May 20, 2011
0900-1100 hrs
Burnaby Hospital
(3935 Kincaid St, Burnaby)
Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy
Week Long Narrative Therapy Intensive Training (Certificate Programs)
May 11 -15, 2011
Granville Island Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
Contact: Meredith_Woolley@vancity.com
Faculty: Stephen Madigan, David Nylund, Vikki Reynolds, Colin Sanders and community guests.
Limited to 40 participants
Cost: $710.00 (flat rate)
PEERS Victoria Resources Society
Presents
Trauma and Resistance:
A witnessing approach to community work
Vikki Reynolds, PHD, RCC
Thursday April 28th,
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Cost: $120 regular & at the door, $100 earlybirds (April 15th, 2011), $85 Students
Queen of Peace Church
851 OLD Esquimalt Road,
Victoria, BC
British Columbia Teachers' Federation
Conference:
Keynote address
Being Imperfect Allies: Addressing power and being accountable
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Exercise: An Inquiry into Ally Work (2011)
Peak House
Pacific Youth & Family Services Society
presents
Trauma and Resistance:
A witnessing approach to community work
February 15, 2011
8:30am - 4:30pm
City University ,
789 W.Pender, Room #350,
Vancouver,
conversations with activists :: 2011 series
Being Imperfect and Fluid Allies :: Informed by Queer Theory & the Criminalization of Dissent
Tuesday January 18, 2011
Cornett Building,
UVic Campus, Room B143
7 - 9 pm
Preview article in The Martlet
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