I help therapists, healers, and space-holders bring decolonial and liberatory values into their work—so you’re not just saying you’re aligned… you’re actually practicing it. ⬆️ More integrity, more connection, more liberation. ⬇️ Less burnout, less performative wokeness, less colonial residue. If you want a practice where marginalized clients feel safe, seen, and honored—and you want to feel more grounded and intentional in your work—subscribe and join a growing community of practitioners doing this work differently. You practice can be liberatory-- let's get you there!
The Work Beyond Sameness
|
Reader, Many of us understand the value of affinity spaces. We know how powerful it can be to gather with people who share aspects of our lived experience, where less energy is spent explaining and more energy can be spent reflecting, processing, and healing. But what happens when the work requires us to be in relationship across difference? What happens when we need to navigate power, accountability, discomfort, rupture, feedback, and repair with people whose identities and experiences are not the same as our own? Because the truth is, we do not live, work, or play in affinity spaces. We live in families, workplaces, communities, organizations, and relationships shaped by intersecting identities, power dynamics, and different lived experiences. And that means liberation work cannot only happen among people who are like us. In this month's blog post, I explore when we need to move beyond affinity spaces, and what cross-identity spaces can teach us about accountability, relationship, and practicing liberation in real time. Read the article: "When Affinity Spaces Aren't Enough" With liberatory care, Silvana Liberatory Letters | The Practice of Liberation | Decolonize Your Practice PS. One of the things we'll explore is how to move from understanding these dynamics intellectually to working with them inside our actual practices—without perfectionism, overwhelm, or needing to overhaul everything at once. We'll look at where change is possible, what gets in the way, and how to begin making liberatory shifts that are grounded in your real-life capacity. ⬆️ Let's connect! |
Liberatory Letters
I help therapists, healers, and space-holders bring decolonial and liberatory values into their work—so you’re not just saying you’re aligned… you’re actually practicing it. ⬆️ More integrity, more connection, more liberation. ⬇️ Less burnout, less performative wokeness, less colonial residue. If you want a practice where marginalized clients feel safe, seen, and honored—and you want to feel more grounded and intentional in your work—subscribe and join a growing community of practitioners doing this work differently. You practice can be liberatory-- let's get you there!
Reader, A quick update on what's here: 🌻 Community Liberation Sessions. The last meeting of the year. Sign up here. 📖 Off Script - Clinical Consultation for Clinicians Rewriting the Rules. This is clinical consultation that holds the conversations conventional supervision doesn’t make room for. Starting in the (northern) fall.If you're interested sign up here. One of the pieces of advice I received early in my career has stayed with me ever since.Your goal is to become obsolete. In other...
Reader, A quick update on what's here: 🌻 Community Liberation Sessions. Happening this week! Sign up here. 📖 Off Script - Clinical Consultation for Practitioners Rewriting the Rules. This is clinical consultation that holds the conversations conventional supervision doesn’t make room for. Starting in the (northern) fall.If you're interested sign up here. What does togetherness look like to you these days? In the summer sometimes togetherness looks like spending time with my cats or tending to...
July 2026 | issue #9 Reader, even though we work in a profession dedicated to healing, i’ve come to realize that the way therapy is often structured can be surprisingly isolating. and that has always struck me as odd. we tell clients that healing happens in relationship. we encourage them to build meaningful connections, strengthen their communities, ask for help, and move away from isolation. we know—both through research and through lived experience—that meaningful relationships influence...