Many of us were trained in Western mental health systems that:

• center privileged identities while extracting and repackaging marginalized healing practices
• normalize harm while calling it “best practice”
• ask us to be welcoming without changing structures
• leave us isolated, burned out, or questioning ourselves

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Community Liberation Sessions are a pause from that.
This is a space to slow down, reorient, connect with others, practice differently, and to:

• ask the questions you don’t get to ask at work, supervision, or peer spaces
• reconnect with forms of being and knowing that were sidelined and devalued by Western training
• practice liberation inside and beyond the therapy room
• sit with grief, uncertainty, and the ongoing work of unlearning
• practice being in community while disrupting colonial ways of working
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This is not about having the right language or the right answers.
It’s about practicing differently together.

What you’ll walk away with

✔️ Clearer answers to common (and often unspoken) questions about decolonizing your practice

✔️ Ways to protect yourself and clients who hold marginalized identities while working inside oppressive systems

✔️ Practical shifts to move from “inclusive” or “affirming” toward liberation-centered care

✔️ Greater awareness of where unintended harm happens — and how to interrupt it without collapsing into shame

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This isn’t about doing it perfectly.
It’s about letting practice be shaped by community.
​Stop performing your values. Start practicing them in real time.

This space is for mental health professionals who are:

• interested in practicing decolonial, anti-oppressive care
• navigating the mental health and wellness industrial complexes
• craving community where they don’t have to codeswitch or translate themselves
• ready to move from intention to practice
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Topics we often explore

• Building and sustaining a decolonial practice
• Decolonizing yourself as part of decolonizing your work
• Existing — and resisting — inside harmful systems
• Navigating political shifts that impact you and your clients
• Practicing liberation without burning out or hardening
• Exploring exit, refusal, or working differently — when staying inside the system is no longer the most ethical or viable option

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​Affinity spaces are used intentionally to reduce harm and prevent extraction.

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