Re-Orienting to Emergency
A Slower Urgency
Description
What is crisis? Where does it come from? Who decides? We have all been socialized to embody a definition of, and reaction to, a “crisis.” While some of this conditioning is easily accessible, other parts live beyond our perceptions within our histories, cells, and ancestral knowings. What shaping forces have been part of our definitions and reactions to “crisis?” Could it be that how we have been taught to think and act in a crisis is itself part of the crisis?
This course serves as a pause, a reset, a provocation, and a deep dive into our body-spirit-minds. Participants will be invited to consider the forgotten etymology of the word “crisis” as an opportunity to sieve and document, rather than urgently react. We will reflect about how we live individually and collectively in relation to modern notions of crisis. What needs to be unearthed in us? What needs to be composted? In what ways might our inherited sense of crisis be reimagined as opportunity, awakening, even cracks through which new light emerges? The opposite of a question is not always an answer, but a story that leads to re-orientation. In that spirit, this class will sow seeds of new ways of thinking and being together in families, communities, and systems, resourcing us to create spaces where every member is held, honored, safe, connected, settled, and resourced.
What you’ll learn:
Inherited cultural understandings of what “crisis” is, and how crisis has shaped personal and communal experiences
What it means to be “ready” for crisis and how to apply this to particular contexts
How to understand power/positionality in relationship and connect this to the practice of determining crisis and the layers of relationship that support readiness for it
Body-based practices as a source of knowledge
How to incorporate new learnings into mind, body, and spirit
Faculty
Cara Page
Cara is a Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. For the past 30+ years, she has organized with Black, Indigenous and People of Color, Queer/Trans/Lesbian/Gay/ Bi/Intersex/Gender Non-Conforming liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, reproductive justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is leading a new project, Changing Frequencies, an archival/memory and cultural organizing project building power with communities who want to confront, heal from & transform the historical and contemporary exploitative practices and abuses of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). She is also co-founder of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective.
Susan Raffo
Susan is a writer, cultural worker and bodyworker who does much of her work through the Healing Histories Project, a national project focused on transforming the medical industrial complex, as well as locally as a core group member of REP, a Black-led network showing up to support others in moments of crisis or urgency, with care and respect for the full dignity and autonomy of those in crisis. Raffo is the author of Queerly Classed (1997), Restricted Access (1999), and Liberated to the Bone (2022). You can find her writing and other work at www.susanraffo.com.
Audience
This course is for:
Mental health and physical health professionals, including: clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, peer specialists, recovery support specialists, housing specialists, nurse practitioners, wellness support workers, coaches, holistic practitioners
Students
Activists
Family members and advocates
Anyone who works or plans to work with people experiencing mental health-related challenges
Pricing
We provide the option of enrolling for at the General ($20) or Supporter ($40) rate to ensure the sustainability of IDHA’s work and enable us to create more accessible, cutting-edge training content.
What you get: |
General $20 |
Supporter $40 |
| 90+ minutes of video content | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exclusive readings and resources | ✓ | ✓ |
| A reference and resource list to aid ongoing learning and exploration on the course topics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access to IDHA's virtual learning community on Mighty Networks | ✓ | ✓ |
Enroll
This self-paced course is hosted on Mighty Networks, home to IDHA's School for Transformative Mental Health. This virtual community space supports sustained learning, engagement with other students, access to supplemental resources, and opportunities to interact with your faculty.
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FAQ
When does the course start and finish?
This is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course, content, or platform?
We love hearing your feedback on what we can do to improve our efforts to bring transformative mental health to the public! Shoot us an email at contact@idha-nyc.org and let us know your thoughts. If you disagree with any of the perspectives shown in this course - that's great! We encourage differing perspectives, so feel free to leave a comment in the course - so long as your comments remain respectful and you speak from your own point of view.
I am a person struggling with mental health issues/a family member of someone who is struggling. Can I take the course?
Absolutely! Just note that this course is geared towards professionals in the field, and will speak mostly to those working in a formal support role. However, we welcome anyone who wants to join!
Are refunds available?
At this time, all sales are final, we cannot offer refunds after purchase.
Are Continuing Education (CE) credits available?
Unfortunately this course is not available for CE credits at this time. We encourage you to check out the rest of our self-paced course library to view which courses are currently available for CEs.