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*Pricing is structured to increase access for grassroots and peer-led spaces while sustaining this work within larger funded institutions*
Reframing trauma-informed practice through abolition. Moving from charity-solidarity. With Practical tools for non-carceral care.
Reframing trauma-informed practice through abolition within harm reduction.
Moving from charity → solidarity.
With practical tools for non-carceral care.
I’ve always felt that mainstream trauma-informed practice (TIP) limits raw truths and context related to how trauma impacts folks. especially people who use drugs, unhoused neighbours and clients/patients and program participants within clinical, housing, and supportive environments.
Standardized TIP is stripped of politics.
Stripped of history.
Stripped of the material conditions that produce trauma in the first place.
We’re shown slide decks about “windows of tolerance” and nervous systems, while working inside systems shaped by colonialism, racial capitalism, prohibition, disposability politics, and carceral logic.
Trauma gets individualized.
Systems get overlooked.
And workers are left burnt out, trying to care for folks, and themselves inside institutions that routinely punish, surveil, and control.
That tension is rooted in the structure.
And this session is about widening the lens.
We will examine necropolitics, but naming it doesn’t impede how it functions, so we will explore tangible ways to put theory to practice. We will also unpack how deficit ideology and “personal responsibility” narratives serve power.
Examining how harm reduction and trauma language get absorbed into bureaucratic frameworks that neutralize their radical roots.
And then we will ask the harder question:
What does it actually look like to practice care without reproducing control?
Th goal is to move beyond buzz words and abstract concepts and orient ourselves for real moments, when policy, power, and people collide.
If you’ve ever felt that dissonance between what you know is right and what the system permits, this space is for you and I hope you will join us.
*Pricing is structured to increase access for grassroots and peer-led spaces while sustaining this work within larger funded institutions*
Reframing trauma-informed practice through abolition. Moving from charity-solidarity. With Practical tools for non-carceral care.
Reframing trauma-informed practice through abolition within harm reduction.
Moving from charity → solidarity.
With practical tools for non-carceral care.
I’ve always felt that mainstream trauma-informed practice (TIP) limits raw truths and context related to how trauma impacts folks. especially people who use drugs, unhoused neighbours and clients/patients and program participants within clinical, housing, and supportive environments.
Standardized TIP is stripped of politics.
Stripped of history.
Stripped of the material conditions that produce trauma in the first place.
We’re shown slide decks about “windows of tolerance” and nervous systems, while working inside systems shaped by colonialism, racial capitalism, prohibition, disposability politics, and carceral logic.
Trauma gets individualized.
Systems get overlooked.
And workers are left burnt out, trying to care for folks, and themselves inside institutions that routinely punish, surveil, and control.
That tension is rooted in the structure.
And this session is about widening the lens.
We will examine necropolitics, but naming it doesn’t impede how it functions, so we will explore tangible ways to put theory to practice. We will also unpack how deficit ideology and “personal responsibility” narratives serve power.
Examining how harm reduction and trauma language get absorbed into bureaucratic frameworks that neutralize their radical roots.
And then we will ask the harder question:
What does it actually look like to practice care without reproducing control?
Th goal is to move beyond buzz words and abstract concepts and orient ourselves for real moments, when policy, power, and people collide.
If you’ve ever felt that dissonance between what you know is right and what the system permits, this space is for you and I hope you will join us.