Hearts Based #Education and #AntiColonial #Learning in #Healthcare (H.E.A.L) Project is using the #arts to combat #HealthcareBiases.

“The H.E.A.L. #HealthcareProject provides #SystemicChange that is long overdue. I often think about the extractive ways that we talk about #CulturalSensitivity and #CulturalCompetency,” said Nicole Halbauer, H.E.A.L. Healthcare Project Manager.

The project will use #poetry, #storytelling, and #VisualArts to better understand patient experiences with a goal of #humanizing the healthcare system by bringing together #FirstNations #creators and #activists based in #PrinceGeorge.

They will work to create #ArtsBased and #AntiOppressive learning materials for healthcare staff including #nurses and #doctors.

The #FreeLessons will be available on the H.E.A.L Healthcare website.

The program is being organized by the Health Arts Research Centre in partnership with the Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health.

The project is part of the federal government’s plan to create better and safer health systems for Indigenous people with $126.7 million being committed to the project over three years.

https://healhealthcare.ca/

#BCHealthCare #BCPublicHealth #IndigenousLed #MedicalCare #StopSystematicRacism #decolonialism

Today was one of those days where it was emphasised that so many of the challenges my clients face are systemic and made worse due to a lack of resources. It is frustrating because our society treats so many issues as problems for the individual rather than acknowledging the pressures that increased disconnection, cost-of-living pressures, and so many other social factors place on people.

#AntiOppressive #Counselling #Therapy #TherapistsConnect

Seeing a lot of people trotting out versions the often misattributed quote about trying the same thing and expecting different results.

As usual, XKCD has a relevant comic.

Apart from it being a trite cliche it is also ableist in terms of pathologising such behaviour. All kinds of people make choices that, when viewed from outside, seem pointless or flawed.

We can criticise behaviour but let's leave the ableist slurs out.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/insanity.png

#Ableist #AntiOppressive

People who use ableist and body shaming language to dunk on public figures are sending a message that they aren't allies to neurodivergent folk and people with body differences.

If someone is a shitty person, talk about their crappy beliefs, criticize their shitty behaviour. Using ableist slurs and body shaming language implies that those elements are the problem rather than the actual issue.

#SubToot #AntiOppressive #StopBodyShaming #Neurodiversity

@Resister

Depends on where you want to focus your analysis. When the entire centre is performing poorly I think that there are issues beyond the critical thinking of individuals. It's always tempting to lay blame onto the frontline practitioners but there's misalignment at the system or organization level and their focus is something other than client care.

#neoliberalism #capitalism #antioppressive #SocialJustice

Quote Calendar Day # 24

"When you disrupt the existing conditions and refuse to accept anything less than what you know you are worth, you start making those who oppress you so uncomfortable that they will try anything to discredit you."

- Malebo Sephodi (2017)

#Quotemas #Black #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiFascism #Authenticity #Disrupt #DisturbTheComfortable #ComfortTheDisturbed #Feminist

Quote Calendar Day # 20

"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."

- Susan Sontag

#Quotemas #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiRascist #Resist #IdealJustice #Community #Change #SocialJustice

Quote Calendar Day # 18

"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom..."

- Simone de Beauvoir (1947)

#Quotemas #Freedom #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #Equality

Quote Calendar Day # 17

"Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label."

- Irvin D. Yalom (1996)

#Quotemas #Counselling #Therapy #AntiOppressive #ExistentialPsychotherapy #Psychology #Compassion #MentalHealth