Reader,

I recently polled participants who signed up for the Community Liberation Sessions.​

I asked a simple question:

The top response was not surprising.

Almost half of respondents said they want space to process burnout, moral tension, and frustration with restrictive systems.

That makes sense!

The moral injury is real. We’re holding other people’s stories while holding our own. We’re helping others heal while we still need healing ourselves. We’re teaching people to cope while we’re also trying to cope.

And often we’re doing all of that inside systems that actively limit what care can look like.

The second most common response also made perfect sense to me:

People want to deepen their liberatory practice in concrete, practical ways.

Of course!

Many of us have been reading about liberation, decolonization, and anti-oppression... For. Years.

At some point you don’t want another article, you want to practice. You want to think through real dilemmas with other clinicians who care about these things. You want to ask questions that don’t have neat answers.

And maybe most of all, you want to not feel alone in it.

To me, these results say something simple:

Clinicians need spaces where we can process the harm of the systems we work in and practice different ways of being inside (and outside) them.

That’s exactly what the Community Liberation Sessions are for:

These are free facilitated community spaces for therapists and healers who want to bring their questions, tensions, and contradictions into shared reflection.

💫 It is knowledge exchange.
💫 It is practice.

🗓 Upcoming sessions:
​BIPoC clinicians:
Mar 18 & Apr 20 (3pm PT / 6pm ET)
May 21 (2pm PT / 5pm ET) new date

White clinicians
Mar 19 & Apr 23 (2pm PT / 5pm ET)
May 22 (1pm PT / 4pm ET) new date

💻 Limited replay available.

Pick the group that fits you:

Unsure which group to join?
​Read more about affinity spaces here​

Or read more about the sessions if it’s your first time joining

Bring your questions. Bring your dilemmas. Bring your contradictions.
We’ll practice together. 💛

With liberatory care,

Silvana

​​Liberatory Letters | The Practice of Liberation | Decolonize Your Practice​

PS. You can read previous Liberatory Letters here.

PPS.
Here’s the full poll if you’re curious:
​What are you most hoping to bring into — or receive from — this session?

🔥 Process burnout, moral tension, or frustration with restrictive systems — 45.5%
​🌱 Deepen my liberatory practice in concrete, practical ways — 27.3%
​🤝 Be in community with clinicians who share liberatory values — 18.2%
​🫶 Listen, reflect, and hold space for others — 9.1%
​🗣 Ask my own clinical or ethical questions — 0%
​🧠 Think through real dilemmas inside oppressive systems — 0%

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⬆️ Let's connect!