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Walking with Difficulty: Practical Skills for Challenging Times

Tue, May 12

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Zoom Webinar

Presented by Jo La Torre

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Walking with Difficulty: Practical Skills for Challenging Times
Walking with Difficulty: Practical Skills for Challenging Times

Time & Location

May 12, 2020, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT

Zoom Webinar

About This Event

Covid 19 has highlighted significant injustices that disproportionally impact Filipinos and other Black and Brown poeple around the world. In order to strategically address this imbalance, we must apply an exceptional ethic of love and care to ourselves and, in turn, our kapwa. As we learn to tend ourselves, we become more able to craft the world in which we wish to live and design communities that we can rely on. This workshop offers practical skills for strengthening our ability to provide impeccable love and care to ourselves and therefore our communities. Add these skills to your existing care practices; take a moment to ground in your nourishment; or investigate if these practices could work for you.

About Jo La Torre

Joanna La Torre, MSW, ASW, a cis-gender, queer, multi-ethnic Filipina, currently practices medical social work in Ohlone territory (Oakland, California). Joanna specializes in child and family practice and has focused on work with teens and adolescents for over 20 years. As a scholar, Jo has written about the movement of decolonizing and re-/indigenizing Filipinos in diaspora, LGBTQ+ affirmative social work practice, and social work’s responsibility to the #blacklivesmatter movement. Her ongoing research focuses on framing mental / health disparities of diasporic Filipinos within emerging historical trauma and colonial mentality lenses and brings focus to the movement of Filipinos decolonizing and re-/indigenizing. Joanna currently serves the leadership core of the Center for Babaylan Studies (CfBS), the seminal organization of the Filipino decolonizing movement. Joanna, has been transformed, inspired, and healed through attending CfBS events. Joanna loves the mixture of scholars, artists, leaders, culture bearers, seekers, community-makers, dreamers, and many more that she has encountered at CfBS. Additional interests include qualitative and mixed methods, community-based research, LGBTQ+ affirmative practice, climate crisis and environmental racism, restorative justice, disproportionate minority contact / confinement, and embodied practices. 

Instagram: @marunggay_medicine

Email: jlatorre@babaylan.net

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    If you have the capacity to give an offering, you may select this ticket option. Offerings will support the time and labor of our guest speakers/facilitators, as well as CfBS's ongoing work toward strengthening our communities.

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Check or money order donations can be made out to Center for Babaylan Studies. Please mail to: 

CfBS, c/o Justine Villanueva, 2724 Ottowa Ave., Davis, CA 95615

To decolonize is a daily & radical pursuit for liberation.

It is part of all of us.

It is part of how we rise in the morning, and lay our heads down at night. It is in the way we raise our children, and in how we relate to others. It is in how we pray, and how we see the natural world. It is in how we work and create our livelihood. It is also in how we invest in our communities, our futures, and our world. Every day, you are doing some of the most radical work of self love and self care, and we are on this journey together.

 

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