Shifting the Healing Paradigm: Reclaiming Our Collective Nature

We are ...a community of mental health workers, clinicians, psychiatrists, current and prior users of mental health services, advocates, artists, and survivors of trauma and adversity, who are interested in exploring the link between personal and societal transformation.

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Part of IDHA's Spring 2022 virtual training series CULTIVATING COMMUNITY

<h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/crisis-as-catalyst" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/cultivating-community" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/cultivating-community</a><a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/psychologies-of-liberation" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a></h3><h3>*ASL and live closed captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 2.75 CE credits are available for this class. Learn more about CE credits at IDHA <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/ce-information" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</h3><h2>Class Description</h2><p>Dominant healing paradigms are shaped by cultures of individualism. People are taught to value self care over community care, and celebrate personal success at the expense of community thriving. Two years into a mass environmental, economic, and health crisis, we ask: What does a society that cares for both individual people and communities look like, and how does it function? How can we seize this moment in time as an opportunity to uphold community, connection, and relationship? This process will require a radical cultural shift – a move away from the idealized individualism within neoliberal societies, and towards building communities of collectivism where no one is left behind to fend for themselves.</p><p>This class will discuss how we can transition from a paradigm of individualism to collectivism in the context of mental health care and healing. We will discuss how mental health workers and healers of all backgrounds can practice community-centered care while still honoring individual needs, interests, and differences. To do so, we will spotlight and honor Indigenous approaches that hold all relationships as sacred – including those to each other, ourselves, and to the earth. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in deep learning for deep change and gain new skills in a transformative approach to “decolonizing the heart.”</p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Compare the gift economy to the capitalist economy of white settler societies, and how each approach informs the creation and practice of relationships</li><li>Demonstrate how conflicts arise from scarcity and a failure to have needs met, and how  to practice a needs-based conflict analysis</li><li>Evaluate the ways in which self care has been commodified</li><li>Name how cultures of individualism and collectivism play out in mental health discourse, including diagnosis and treatment</li><li>Practice interpersonal co-regulation skills and how we can sync our nervous systems to connect in shared spaces or as support people for others (in contrast to the mainstream mental health framework’s heavy focus on self-regulation)</li></ul><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong>D.M. Marchand-Lafortune</strong> is an advocate, artist (musician, photographer, writer, film-maker) and educator. She is a certified Alternative Dispute Resolution Specialist trained in constitutional and appellate law. She is a leading voice in the development of the theory and practice of equity and inclusion policy. DM was taken from her Cree-Métis mother and Ashkenazi/Sephardic Jewish father and adopted by an Acadian/Mi&#x27;kmaq man and a Scottish woman. The many truths she&#x27;s learned about her inter-cultural identity have given her a deep understanding of Franz Fanon&#x27;s claim, “I must understand everything because I belong nowhere.”</p><p><strong>Eleni Zimiles</strong> is a social worker grounded at the cross-section of healing, education and organizing. Her work strives to build authentic community, foster creativity and critical consciousness, and disrupt harmful relationships and systems of power. Eleni is currently a School Mental Health Specialist for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She is one of the agency’s Race to Justice Trainers, facilitating staff workshops on how racism drives health disparities and inequitable workplace practices. Eleni is also a Therapist at the Critical Therapy Center, a relational, liberation-oriented psychodynamic practice. Her organizing work is currently focused on mobilizing social workers to transform the mandated reporting culture and laws that lead to the mass regulation and surveillance of families.</p><p><em>Agenda:</em></p><ul><li><em>Introductions, welcome, and check-in (15 min, 12-12:15)</em></li><li><em>Gift economy and needs-based conflict analysis (45 min, 12:15-1)</em></li><li><em>Breakout room and share backs (30 min, 1-1:30)</em></li><li><em>Break (15 min, 1:30-1:45)</em></li><li><em>Individualism and collectivism in mental health (30 min, 1:45-2:15)</em></li><li><em>Breakout room and experiential practice (30 min, 2:15-2:45)</em></li><li><em>Group reflection and closing comments (15 min, 2:45-3)</em></li></ul><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health forum on  Mighty Networks. Those who enroll at the General or Supporter Rate also have access to 2.75 complementary CE credits. This is our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty.</p><h3>Questions? Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</h3>

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