Our work in the gender-based violence movement is full of nuance and complexity. The daily challenges and joys are set against a backdrop of systems of oppression and intersect in countless ways with other social justice issues. In short, this work is not easy.

Join us for series of workshops with Dr. Leticia Nieto to find ways to better support yourself as advocate and in turn, deepen your advocacy skills to better support survivors. Together we will explore these questions:

• How can we better incorporate an anti-oppression lens in our advocacy practices?
• What are the ways to promote healing and liberation within our team and organizations?

Objectives

1. Participants will practice one strengths-based strategy in response to a real-life situation.
2. Participants will demonstrate the ability to analyze incidents at the behavioral, systemic, and transpersonal levels.

Dr. Nieto is internationally recognized for her expertise addressing social justice concerns from a developmental ecological perspective including orienting to systemic transformation, survivance, song and poetry, relational repair, joy, radical rest, intersectional coalition, and reparative and restorative justice. Dr. Nieto brings an enlivening approach to coaching, training and facilitation, drawing on expressive techniques and embodied practices to involve participants deeply and create opportunities for insight and change. Since 1980 she has successfully brought her skills to higher education and other learning communities (including three decades teaching in a graduate program in counseling), to service providers in helping agencies, to workplace teams, and to many community groups.

In this Skills Lab, Dr. Nieto will offer practical tools and strategies for working with specific situations that present challenges in our work. They will be strengths-based, action-oriented practice sessions based on Dr. Nieto’s book Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment.

Objectives

1. Participants will practice one strengths-based strategy in response to a real-life situation.
2. Participants will demonstrate the ability to analyze incidents at the behavioral, systemic, and transpersonal levels.

CEUs available.

More About the Trainer:

Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP is a leadership coach, psychotherapist, and educator specializing in liberation and equity, cultural responsiveness, motivational patterning, and evolutionary creativity. Her 2010 book, Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, is an accessible analysis of the dynamics of oppression and supremacy that offers readers ways to develop skills to promote social justice.

The Beyond Inclusion. Beyond Empowerment approach has a focus on clarifying complexities of working across significant differences and on understanding dynamics of oppression, supremacy, liberation, and healing. This approach enables participants to develop a common language and analysis about oppression and liberation while deepening commitment to social justice.