Anti-oppression and mental health: What’s the relationship?

In this 3-hour session aimed at mental healthcare providers, we first explore some basic concepts such as unconscious bias and microaggressions, as well as what white supremacy looks like in our daily lives. We then focus on topics such as racial, colonial, and immigration trauma, the dehumanization of BIPOC peoples with mental health struggles, criminalization of BIPOC mental health, and exclusion of BIPOC people’s experiences in mental health care.  As always we ask difficult questions but we promise to give participants space, within reason, to explore difficult questions and concepts.