“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Many of us are aware that there are interpersonal and structural issues that maintain patterns of oppression and pain in our communities. But how do we interrupt them to build resilience and create something new? This full-day workshop explores the ways that the dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression present internally, through the body, and externally, in group dynamics.
Through facilitated activities, you will explore tools to increase awareness of your body’s messages about power differentials. We will be curious together about somatic patterns related to fight, flight, freeze, avoidance, numbness, and control. With practice, you will use sensation, emotion, and cognition as cues to build greater capacity to recognize and respond to injustice personally and professionally, individually and in community.
Join us to explore themes of:
· Justice
· Dynamics of Bypassing
· Intercultural Communication
· Self-Reflection & Self-Awareness
· Discovering & Engaging Nuance in Personal Resilience and Resource
· Allyship, In-Solidarity & Intersectionality
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
This workshop is designed with interdisciplinary professionals in mind. Educators, administrators, mental health professionals, etc.
6 CEUs available via the Wisconsin Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (WAMFT)
Location: The Atrium in Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, WI
Cost: $175 plus fees (including catered lunch) ($100 plus fees for students)
Register by Monday, March 30th!
About the Presenters:
Carla Sherrell, Ed.D.
has been a social justice leader for over 30 years as a consultant and facilitator, counselor, and educator. She is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Counseling and Psychology, Somatic Counseling Program at Naropa University where her work is focused on the infusion of social justice throughout all aspects of counselor education and institutional policies, practices, and procedures. As a consultant and scholar, Dr. Sherrell teaches, studies, and explores with others, the salience of somatic, cognitive, and emotional awareness in transforming oppression, and in co-creating and sustaining vibrant, socially just groups, communities, and institutions. She is author of The Oppression of Black Bodies: The Demand to Simulate White Bodies and White Embodiment (in C. Caldwell & L. Leighton, Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions, North Atlantic, 2018) and, with Judith Simmer-Brown, Spiritual Bypassing in the Contemporary Mindfulness Movement (in The Initiative for Contemplation, Equity, & Action Journal, Vol. 1, 2017).
Jessica Dallman, MA LPC NCC
is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado and Wisconsin, and the founder of Natural Wisdom
Counseling LLC and the Wisconsin Hawthorn Project. They provide mental health consultation and trauma-informed trainings throughout the country. Jess works to integrate social justice, body awareness, and nature (including horses) into mental health, consulting, and educational contexts in order to pursue truly transformative relationships that are capable of reciprocity, authenticity, intimacy, and accountability.
