Liberation Tea and Anti-Oppressive Practice Skills Group
Are you a justice seeker who would like more tools, support, community, and mentorship in your anti-oppressive human service work?
Who we are: Liberation Tea is a monthly gathering for Portland-based social workers (and other human service workers) to meet in supportive community with the opportunity to learn, practice and develop different skills and tools in justice-centered practice. We offer tea, community and a safe, supportive space to share and grow in our practice. Join us monthly as we meet to explore a different area of anti-oppressive social work, offering relevant, useful and meaningful tools to support our work.
About Liberation Tea: This ongoing community skills
group offers the opportunity for folks to deepen their understanding of,
and skill with, the tools of anti-oppressive human 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 out relationship
with them)…and much more. Skillful use of these tools are some of the
many ways for human 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.
This is an open group. New friends and allies are warmly welcome.
Anchored by Social Work Activists and Educators Heather Horizon Greene and Sheila Walker. To be added to the Liberation Tea mailing list (a fairly low traffic list) email: heather.joyfulawakening@gmail.com
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May Liberation Tea: The Contours of Justice
For our May Liberation Tea, we’ll be exploring the concept of Justice. What does it mean to have a Justice Centered Practice, how can we root our practice in justice? And, importantly, what is it that we actually mean when we talk about justice.
At this gathering we'll be articulating and examining our working definition(s) of justice. We'll find the places where we agree and differ, and notice how our unique and collective beliefs inform and influence the contours of our practice. We'll build on this shared understanding of justice to explore the connection (and, perhaps, disconnection) between our beliefs, values and practice. Please bring a journal and pen with you.
When: May 25, 10am-11:30am
Where: 12555 SW 1st St, Beaverton, 97005 (in the community room of the Sage Center)
Energy Exchange: $10 with a commitment to having this community be physically and financially accessible to all who feel called to participate
What to bring: We will have cups available, but ask folks to bring their own to support our commitment to being environmentally kind & sustainable. Please bring a journal and pen with you.
