The Touchstone Institute

All times are listed in Eastern Time

Morning 1 - 12pm to 3pm (3 hours):

1) Introductions- statement of positionality- making community and dismantle hierarchy collaborative discussion & introduce expressive arts reflection (30 minutes)

2) Reviewing terms with anti-oppression work- (White supremacy, capitalism, Medical/Mental Health Industrial Complex, Colonization, Calling in, dismantle hierarchy, ableism,) (30 minutes)

3) Decolonizing therapy practices (Epistemicide, Semmelweis effect, client self-agency and empowerment) (based off Jennifer Mullan’s book and Resmaa Menakem's work)- (big group share) (30 minutes)

(15 min break)

4) Explore trauma through the anti-oppression lens- acknowledge trauma that is not recognized in the MH diagnostic criteria- (big group discussion) (45 minutes)

5) (30 min) Extra time- to work on expressive arts Reflection project: colleague, art picture, poem, songs, dance

Lunch break 3pm-4pm (EST)

Afternoon 4pm-7:30 pm (3.5 hours):

6) Examining phases 1 & 2 (fluid emphasis)- (60 min)

a) Phase 1- supplemental questions

b) Genogram- getting to know the history- transgenerational trauma/epigenetics

c) Go at the participants pace and desire of how much info they want to share (timeline/thematic targets)

d) Oppressive cognitions- Make sure the NC is not fact

e) Affect targeting

f) Implicitly held targets- trauma held implicitly in the nervous system (transgenerational, intergeneration, pre-verbal= trauma held in the body)

g) Ancestral phase 2 identification and honoring (big group share)

7) Practicum - phase 1- 120 min (break when switch roles- about 50 min in each role about 2:50 for break)

8) Wrap-up/reflection project/Q&A (30minutes)

Morning 2 (3 hours):

9) Welcome and reflection from the day before (30 min)

10) Phase 2- Advance application through the anti-oppression lens info (60 min)

a) Explore potential hurdles to phase 2 resourcing- grind culture

b) Ancestorial phase 2 identification and honoring

c) Phase 2 modification to avoid ableism

d) Other tasks in Phase 2

(15 min) Morning Break

11) Practicum of phase 2- (60 min)

12) Questions and Reflections (15 min)

Lunch break 3pm-4pm (EST)

Afternoon 2 4pm-6:30pm (EST) (3.5 hours):

13) Decolonizing phase 3-7- (60 min)

a) Reviewing decolonization - what do we mean specifically?

b) Common blocking beliefs to explore: people pleasing and I can’t show my emotions

c) Phase 3 - verbalizing NC’s

d) Ecological 0 explanation/humble 1

e) Being able to go with clts process (how much talking is ok), being able to be ok with pivots - dissociation and parts

f) Phase 7- think beyond container, calm space and ask what the client needs- the client is the expert to their system.

14) Reflection and check-in (15 min)

(break for 15 min)

15) Deeper connections in phase 8 -connecting the dots- (60 min)

a) Identifying shifts

b) Highlighting the adaptive pieces coming into the present

c) Re-evaluating based on what is shifting

d) Future template

e) Future template vs. future target

16) Noticing activity about overall implementation (creative art option) (30 min)

17) Continual commitment to anti-oppression and our MH work- intention setting (15 min)

18) Questions comments/feedback (15 min)