CARE in Community
Lab Lessons
Schedule of Events:
Allegiances & Liberated Care
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Time: 11:00am MT - 12:30pm MT (10am PT, 12pm CT, 1pm ET)
Location: Live, online webinar
Harm Reduction for Liberated Care
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Time: 11:00am MT - 12:30pm MT (10am PT, 12pm CT, 1pm ET)
Location: Live, online webinar
Transformative Justice in Liberated Care Environments & Practices
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2023
Time: 11:00am MT - 12:30pm MT (10am PT, 12pm CT, 1pm ET)
Location: Live, online webinar
Synthesizing Workshop
Date: Friday, January 13, 2023
Time: 11:00am MT - 1:00pm MT (10am PT, 12pm CT, 1pm ET)
Location: Live, online interactive workshop
Lab Lesson Descriptions:
Allegiances & Liberated Care
Identifying what our values, principles and intentions are when it comes to developing our personal and professional approach to liberatory care needs to inform how we show up to ourselves, our healership, our community and the movement. Part of this involves becoming firmly rooted in who and what we are committed to. What we are willing to risk for liberation. What we need in place to have enough safety and connection to release ourselves from white supremacist colonial constructs of care.
This Lab Lesson in Allegiances & Liberatory Care is designed to be a bit jolting to the scaffolds you have constructed. We are addressing this right from jump because our commitments and allegiances absolutely inform the decisions we make about who and what we protect, how we re-imagine CARE in Community, what we leave behind and what we carry forward into the next (r)evolution of care, support and healing.
Harm Reduction for Liberated Care
Liberatory Harm Reduction (created and utilized by generations of multiply marginalized BIPOC communities) described by Shira Hassan is “a philosophy and set of empowerment-based practices that teach us how to accompany each other as we transform the root causes of harm in our lives…Liberatory Harm Reduction is true self-determination and total body autonomy.” This Lab Lesson tells the story of the true origins and purpose(s) of harm reduction, why it’s an essential aspect of liberatory care in community and how to begin developing liberatory harm reduction ethics and strategies in your care/healing work.
Transformative Justice in Liberated Care Environments & Practices
Defensiveness, the tension of the innocence - guilty binary and fragility can impede true accountability, responsibility and agency measures. Our approach to implementing Transformative Justice (TJ) principles and strategies into our personal and healership endeavors provides a framework for remaining grounded in humanization, connected to process and oriented toward just and liberatory solutions. The truth is that we all play a role in the maintenance and abolition of oppressive ideologies, systems, structures and relational dynamics. We are all responsible. TJ helps us learn how to change the conditions that led to harms, violence and injustice in our communities, relationships and care/healing professions. This Lab Lesson illuminates a path forward for accountable, community-centered, decolonial care praxis. You will learn some TJ fundamentals and essentials to begin using immediately.
Bonus Healing Justice Content!
More details to come.
Important Details:
Registration fee: We offer a pay what you can pricing model for LAB WEEK of $75, $95 or $105. Our goal is to offer a high value and transformative service at a low barrier price. Those with greater access to wealth that wish to contribute toward the cost of someone else to join is welcome to pay the Redistribution Rate of $155. This would allow us to offer a $50 scholarship via mutual aid to those with lower access to wealth.
Each LAB WEEK! is capped at 60 participants
Cancellation policy: Full refund up to 7-days before the Open Lab Session begins. No refund is given if cancellation is made within 7 days of the session. However, we do know that emergencies and unexpected events do happen, so we are willing to allow people to transfer their payment (one time) to another LAB WEEK! for emergency situations if the refund deadline is missed. The cancellation policy supports the technology and labor of the LAB WEEK! facilitator, trainer, support team member(s) and other contributors leading up to the program, which is largely based on number, knowledge base and skill level of registrants.
Language access: Lab Lessons and Synthesizing Workshops are held on Zoom in spoken English with English automated captions and live ASL. Any pre-recorded video content created by Ominira Labs or our contributors will have closed captions. Specific access requests can be made on the registration form.
Recording & replay: Each live Lab Lesson is recorded. Participants are not required to leave their videos on. Lab Lesson replays will be made available to registered participants for 90-days.