This workshop is for you if you:

• are a social worker, mental health counsellor, marriage & family therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist, committed to abolitionist & anti-carceral approaches to care.

• feel overwhelmed by resource lists of readings & webinar recordings and don’t want to do it alone.

• are looking to cultivate skills on how to assess & imagine possible alternatives vs. merely collecting answers on what to do.

• want to connect with other abolitionist practitioners with whom you can share ideas, concerns, hopes, and questions.

What we’ll cover:

Through teaching, reflections, exercises, and discussions, we will:

• Identify sites of anti-carceral resistance, beyond refusing mandated reporting.

• Assess your capacity for risk for non-normative practices that expand beyond the limitations of what we’re trained to do by the industry.

• Re-orient to a new ethical framework that allows for radical imagination of practices centered in care, consent, and accountability.

• Co-envision creative anti-carceral practices that are shaped by this new framework of ethics.

This will not be a lecture-style information-heavy workshop that gives you a list of practices. We will have space for reflection, discussion, and co-envisioning. Time to process and digest how all of this applies to you and your practice.