Reader,
Not too long ago I shared with you my thoughts on safe spaces and brave spaces within community settings.
I mentioned that while my wish is to create a safe environment for people, I cannot guarantee that no harm will ever occur. Why?
I can do my best to establish a supportive framework for a group (one example here) and ask you to hold me accountable in regularly reviewing and refining that framework. However, I cannot control everyone’s actions and reactions, so harm may still occur.
But I also shared with you that my focus is on offering decolonized repair:
Communal repair takes place within an embodied brave space. A space where:
But an embodied brave space is also a space where the person who caused the rupture is:
What does this have to do with decolonizing your practice?
It has everything to do with it! You are at the core of your practice, and how you engage with your clients, either individually or in a group, is an aspect of the practice that we should all decolonize. How we engage in repair and how we acknowledge our role in causing a rupture (with clients, colleagues, friends, etc) should be a behavior that we constantly strive to decolonize.
How are you seek repair when someone has caused a rupture? How do you engage in repair when you have caused a rupture?
Hit reply and let me know. I would love to share your insights with this community!
Thanks for being here,
Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice
PS.
As some of you may know, my friend Ariana and I have been working on a project that combines our professional and personal interests. Ariana is focused on helping therapists build anti-oppressive private practices, while I'm all about helping therapists incorporate decolonized and liberation focused valued in their practices. And at the intersection we created Radical Practice Podcast, a podcast dedicated to creating strong, healthy, profitable, values-driven, untraditional, and decolonized practices.
We will be launching soon and would love it if you followed us on IG for now. Stay tuned for more announcements!
PPS.
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