Spring Series: Liberatory Support in Plural Communities

Our sliding scale for this series is between $50 – $110 for each workshop. We will have a limited number of scholarships available. If you do need a scholarship, see the link in the registration form.

Workshop 1. Creating Safer Spaces for Plural People

Plural people are often robbed of safety when supporters do not understand plurality and/or act in ways that increase stigma and trauma responses. Attend this workshop to learn more about the dangers faced by Plural people and those in dissociative communities. Understand from a lived-experience and non-carceral lens what is required for safer spaces.

Supporters: Learn the needs of those you’re supporting and how to uphold safer spaces for people in dissociative communities.

People with lived experience: Equip yourselves to create and/or thrive within community spaces that are by and for Plural people.

This interactive workshop will deepen your practice through discussions and relevant case scenarios!

Date: Sunday, March 9 at 2pm ET / 11am PT; 2 hours

Workshop 2. Supporting Plural People During Crises

Grossly few supporters are trained for Plural-affirming crisis support, which can increase the risk of escalation and harm or death when Plural people face crises. This workshop will dive into the complexities of crises in dissociative communities and examine the forms of traditional crisis support that can be harmful. We will teach non-carceral approaches and community care from a lived-experience and trauma-informed lens. Learn if intervention is warranted and how to support the agency and autonomy of system members. Practice the skills we teach through guided case studies and learn how to adapt quickly when required.

Date: Sunday, March 16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT; 2 hours

Click here to register for workshops.

Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Training Program

Ending Forced Hospitalization through Consensual Intervention

Are the support skills you were taught healing or harming? Are you confident about your ability to act consensually and promote agency during crises? Join us for this four-part training program, including reading and reflection, facilitated discussions, tough questions, and skills practice.

• Training 1: Non-Carceral Support and Harm Reduction Practices: This self-guided course prerequisite will help you to re-evaluate carceral approaches to suicide, self harm, psychosis, and other stigmatized mental health experiences, all from a trauma-informed and lived-experience lens.
  • Self guided, asynchronous, 3 – 5 hours
• Training 2: Reframing Healing through Harm Reduction: Non-carceral support can feel murky without comrades who understand and mentors who guide your practice. This session will deepen your knowledge and skills through facilitated peer discussions and case scenarios.
  • April 6; 3p – 6p ET (12p – 3p PT), requires Training 1 to attend
• Training 3: Consensual Harm Reduction Skills Practic:e Collaborate with your cohort to implement consensual, non-carceral harm reduction approaches into hypothetical case studies, rooted in common crisis experiences in multiply marginalized communities.
  • April 13; 3p – 6p ET (12p – 3p PT), requires Trainings 1 – 2 to attend
• Power-Up: Non-Carceral Collaborators Discussion Group. Deepen your non-carceral knowledge through 5 weeks of ongoing discussion
  • Sundays, 5p – 6p ET (2p – 3p PT), April 20 – May 18; closed to program cohort only
  • Fridays, 12p – 1p ET / 9a – 10a PT, April 25 – May 23; open to all non-carceral practitioners

Click here to register for the Non-Carceral Harm Reduction Training Program. Or, get more details about the program here. If you’re not sure yet, let us know that you’re interested!

Past Workshops

• People, Not Just Parts: Undoing the Pathology of Dissociative Experiences (speaker: kitty lu bear). Click here to buy workshop recording
• People, Not Just Parts: Redefining Peer Support for Dissociative Experiences (speaker: kitty lu bear). Click here to buy workshop recording
• Showing Up in Ways That Count: Creating Mental Health Safe Spaces (speakers: THRIVE Lifeline and Stronger U teams). Click here to buy full course workbook
• Showing Up in Ways That Count: Creating Suicide Safe Conversations (speakers: THRIVE Lifeline and Stronger U teams). Click here to buy full course workbook
• Disabled Realities: We need your help, but we don’t need saviors (speaker: Regina Hockert). Click here to buy workshop recording
• Disabled Realities: Crip Rage (speaker: Regina Hockert). Click here to buy workshop recording
• Liberatory Support: A Lived Experience Perspective on Eating Disorders (speaker: panelists). Click here to buy workshop recording
• Liberatory Support: A Lived Experience Perspective on OCD (speaker: panelists). Click here to buy workshop recording
• When we just don’t know: Safer suicide approaches in dissociative communities. Click here to purchase workshop recording. We also have the Suicidality in Dissociative Communities Mini-Course Materials.
• It’s On Us: Community Care for Living Essentials. Click here to purchase workshop recording.
• Very Real Pain: Lived Experiences with Chronic Suicidality. Click here to purchase workshop recording.