Are you a justice
seeker who would like more tools, support, community, and mentorship in your anti-oppressive
humyn service work? Beginning this
August, Social Work Activists and Educators, Heather Horizon Greene and Sheila
Walker will be anchoring a monthly gathering for Portland-based social workers (and
other humyn service workers) to meet in supportive community with the opportunity to learn, practice and
develop different skills and tools in justice-centered practice. We’ll offer tea, community and a safe,
supportive space to share and grow in our practice. Each month we plan to explore a different area
of anti-oppressive social work, offering relevant, useful and meaningful tools
to support our work. The Liberation Tea
& Anti-Oppressive Skills group will meet monthly for 1.5 hours. Energy exchange will be $10 with a commitment to
having this community be physically and financially accessible to all who feel
called to participate.
Your Feedback
Requested: Liberation Tea will meet monthly at the very beautiful Heartsong Yoga in Beaverton. We will likely be meeting either Saturday afternoon
or evening or Sunday evening—we would love your active feedback about a weekend
day/time that would work best for you;
please let us know if you have a preference by emailing: bosque.de.heather@gmail.com. We would also love to hear from you if this
group interests you and we’re very open to hearing about the areas of your
practice you would most want support around.
About the Skills
Group: Those of us committed to a justice-based practice acknowledge that
traditional social work systems, policies and interventions can and do
contribute to the perpetuation of inequality. In light of this understanding,
we strive to actualize our persynal and professional commitment to co-creating
meaningful healing in all communities, and aspire to utilize social work tools
and interventions in ways that minimize, interrupt and dismantle oppression.
This ongoing community skills group offers the opportunity for folks to deepen
their understanding of, and skill with, the tools of anti-oppressive humyn
service work: sharpening ourselves as tools of justice, anti-oppressive
language (using language to shift consciousness), intentional communication,
radical theories and culturally diverse wisdom that brings justice to the
center of our work, deconstructionism and consciousness raising, critical
dialogue, activism, embodiment, power-with, justice centered mentorship, peer
supervision/allyship, self-reflection, an
evolving understanding of justice, oppression and privilege (and our relationship with them)…and much more. Skillful use of these tools is a direct way
for humyn service workers to actively co-create justice, challenge injustice
and ultimately support the crucial, imperative work of transformation and
liberation so deeply needed in our world.
