Grounding in Our Nature: Nurturing Relationships to Land and Liberation

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 2024 virtual training series  TOPOGRAPHIES OF (DIS)CONNECTION

<h3>*ASL and captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 2.75 CE credits are available for this class (click <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection-ce" title="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection-ce" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> for more information)</h3><h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection" title="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection</a></h3><p><br></p><h2>Class Description</h2><p>In a period of rapid displacement from climate change, resource extraction, gentrification and genocide, mental health systems have responded by pathologizing grief and distress rather than the oppressive conditions that create them. Although a growing body of literature recognizes the healing effects of connecting to nature, most studies bypass the reality that, for those mourning the most, access to land is often contested, policed and poisoned by racist state violence, occupation and war. How can we access and build true transformative care while our communities are constantly being disrupted and displaced? How do we align ourselves as care providers and community members onto the path to liberation and rematriation of care while the land and its caretakers are not yet free and sovereign?</p><p>This class will provide historical and present-day perspectives on the possibilities and limitations of re-membering and reclaiming connection to land and nature. From Turtle Island to Palestine, South Africa to Indonesia, we will explore practices that honor resistance to, and healing through, conditions as devastating as apartheid and ethnic cleansing. As both providers and individuals with lived experience, faculty will provide examples of nurturing indigenous guardianship of land, community and place through psychospiritual connection and ritual. Participants will be invited into gentle memory work and engagement with truly decolonial trauma work grounded in the liberation psychology of Frantz Fanon and his successors.</p><p><br></p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Identify the interrelated ecological and mental health impacts of events such as climate catastrophe and war</li><li>Review examples of land-based healing that honor and can help remedy the widespread discrimination, oppression, and inequity present in the current mental health system</li><li>Demonstrate the power of healing practices that uplift the connections between people, communities, land, and earth</li><li>Apply the theory and principles of liberation psychology to current practice</li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong><strong>Jude Clark</strong></strong> is a 53 year old Black South African woman, an independent practitioner within the social justice arena. She is a clinical psychologist and feminist with expertise in the area of trauma, gender and group process. She was an academic for 14 years and also has 25 years of experience in facilitating group processes on issues of transformation, anti-racism, diversity, inclusion and healing across various domains. She accompanies courageous conversations, particularly around justice, equity, wellness and well-being. She is deeply invested in the experience of being Black in the world and what a decolonised collective healing process might look like, particularly within activist and movement spaces.</p><p><strong><strong>Lara Sheehi </strong></strong>(she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is currently under contract with Pluto Press for her new book project, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures.</p><p><br></p><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, an optional 90-minute discussion group one week after the live class (Sunday, March 17, 2024 from 12-1:30 pm EST), and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health on Mighty Networks (our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty).</p><p><br></p><h2>Questions?</h2><p>Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</p>

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