• Practical ways to bring learnings to teams & communities of struggle• Resources: videos, articles, exercises • Structuring Safety for difficult conversations • Approaches to unsettle-settlers & resist replicating colonization • Resisting Burnout & Vicarious Trauma with Justice-doing • Centering Connection & resisting Disconnection & Enmeshment: The Zone of Fabulousness • Creating Cultures of Critique • Debriefing with Collective Care & Connection • Resisting traumatizing each other • Responding to Tragic Death • Strategies for Loss & Grief: Holding On & Letting Go

Vikki will be presenting alongside a fiercely dedicated and skilled group of community workers/activists including:

Allan Lindley Cori Kelly Sasha Médiné Lana Fox Tara Taylor

LearningsNOVEMBER 21 & 22 • 2019 Time

Location

Tickets

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8:30 gather & connect9:00 am - 4 pm run timeMorning and afternooncoffee and snacks povided

312 Main St (enter on Cordova)on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəyəm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Cost•$250 - $300 sliding scale•Please contact the organizer for reduced cost admissions, with priority given to Indigenous, POC, peers, & other marginalized & minority community members. •All proceeds go towards responding to the opioid catastrophe

Who Should Come?•Anyone commited to team/community collective care & capacity building •Team Leads, change-agents, folks who shoulder others up•Folks who provide care, counselling, supervision for “First”-First responders•Those who complete the 2 day training will receive a certification of attendance

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vikki-reynolds-resisting-vicarious-trauma-burnout-tickets-72343508381

RESISTING VICARIOUS TRAUMA & BURNOUT: a training the trainers workshop The

Zone ofFabulousness

Connection & Solidarity amidst

the darkness of our work

Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC is an activist/therapist living on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəyəm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, who works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism and therapy. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with peers, activists, and other workers responding to the opioid epidemic/poisonings, torture and political violence, sexualized violence, mental health and substance misuse, homelessness and legislated poverty and working alongside gender and sexually diverse communities. Vikki is an Adjunct Professor and has written, keynoted and presented internationally, her articles and keynotes are available free on her website: www.vikkireynolds.ca