Are you passionate about creating community based responses to violence? Are you ready to explore creative ways to build wellness and health in our communities? Do you want to connect with LGBTQ and anti-violence programs from across the country? If so, then this is the training for you!
CAVP is proud to host the 2011 National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' Annual Regional Training Academy on May 7th in Denver. The day will include workshops on transformative justice and healing justice as well as regional meet ups. This is an excellent opportunity to gain access to trainers from around the country who are experts in their fields. The training is FREE and lunch will be provided. Details on time and location are at the end of this e-mail.
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(available for Colorado residents outside of the Denver-Metro area)
Workshop Descriptions
Safety Lab: What's the Deal with Shame?
Community United Against Violence, San Francisco
CUAV's Safety Labs are
a place to practice healing responses to being hurt and hurting others. In our desire to create ways of dealing with violence outside of imprisonment and policing, many of us have embodied those systems' same tactics--such as punishment, humiliation, and isolation - in our own efforts to respond to violence. In this Lab, we will explore the tendency to shame ourselves and others in the wake of harm, practice moving towards compassionate responses as well as examine the intersections of individual and collective trauma that contribute to the norms for how we deal with harm in our communities.
Healing & Health Justice: Collective Wellness & Safety Strategies
Kindred Southern Healing Collective Co-Coordinator Cara Page and Kindred Member TBA
What are the myths that we have been told about our individual and collective bodies through spiritual, faith based and medical institutions and notions of who is 'healthy' and who is a 'perfect' body?
The Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective is building a network of grassroots healers, organizers and health justice workers and practitioners in the South, alongside a national collaboration for Healing & Health Justice at the United States Social Forum (2007 and 2010) to create and regenerate community based responses that intervene, respond and transform generational trauma and violence in our communities and movements. Particular to the political climate of hyper-vigilantism (eg. the Tea Party-ers) and an exponential increase of state surveillance and social control on immigrant, people of color and l/b/g/t/i/q/gnc communities under the guise of national security inside a disaster based economy, we are at a critical juncture of needing to build capacity for strategic responses for our collective well being and safety. We are seeking to align with the transformative justice and harm reduction movements that have laid critical groundbreaking work around well-being and safety for decades especially for our l/b/g/t/i/q/gnc communities.
This interactive workshop will be an opportunity to 1) unpack the long legacy of the public health systems, scientific exploitation and eugenic practices that have defined healthcare in our country 2) a closer look at myths and conditions of the medical industrial complex and its impact on our individual and collective bodies 3) explore the levels of generational physical/spiritual/emotional/ and environmental trauma and unsustainable practices in our social justice movements 4) to highlight resiliency models that are building collective resiliency and safety through an economic, racial, transformative & disability justice lens 5) a deeper dialogue on the framing of 'healing justice' in relationship to wellness strategies for organizing with the current climate and conditions of our lives (eg. emergency preparedness, natural and unnatural disasters)
Come join us in lifting up wellness for all bodies and transforming myths of who can be 'healthy' and mapping the stories and memory of our own legacies of resiliency despite attempted displacement, cooptation and criminalization of our collective practices and traditions of wellness.
Cara Page is a founding member Co-Coordinator of Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, a collective of grassroots healers and health justice organizers seeking to intervene and transform the physical, emotional, spiritual, environmental and psychic impact of generational violence and trauma in the South. She is based in Atlanta, GA as a Black queer artist, organizer and healing arts practitioner she works for queer liberation, reproductive, environmental and economic justice. She also organizes with Project South, Southerners on New Ground and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
Kindred's Mission: is to resource healing traditions as tools for liberation and individual / collective transformation within our southern movements and to build a healing justice framework that transforms generational trauma and violence in our movements and lives.
Regional Meet-Ups
The Regional Meet-ups will give folks from the West Coast, Southwest, South, Midwest and Northeast a space to come together to talk about questions like: What does LGBTQ anti-violence work look like in our region and communities? What are the strengths and challenges that are particular to doing work in this region? Where do we or could we work together? How could the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs support our work? Please join us to represent your communities in these important talks!
