Hi!
Have you ever found that the frameworks of Western health care offered have not met your needs or have caused additional harm?
Are you interested in learning about, developing, and practicing alternative frameworks of justice in healthcare?
The Transformative Justice 101: Healthcare Edition workshop series will provide a broad overview of the basic principles and frameworks of transformative justice, with a deep dive into how it applies to the Western healthcare system and how transformative justice (TJ) can support our work as healers and community members as we create systems of safety that do not rely on policing (including but not limited to surveillance, gatekeeping, incarceration, violence, and unaccountability.) This workshop series is not intended to provide all the answers and will likely gift all of us with more questions than we started with, as well as a community of people to explore and practice with. Through engaging in the series, participants will have a better sense of what transformative justice is, understand how it applies to healthcare at an institutional and interpersonal level, and develop skills to explore and create alternatives to our current healthcare system.
Workshop Information:
The workshop series will be held via zoom on Wednesdays April 27th, May 11th, and May 25th, from 5:30-7:00 PDT.
- First session: Grounding and rooting in TJ (somatic practice, definitions, groundwork)
- Second session: Moving from punishment (exploring the roots of punitive justice in healthcare)
- Third session: Moving towards health (exploring alternatives, working through case studies, weaving TJ into healthcare)
Register for the series here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgOTTINt_yWGD8R4p0RWnZO2IjLyuFfMu9fIkLxF4277EPMQ/viewform
About the facilitator: Lina Khoeur is a 4th year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, and has been an apprentice with the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective for the past year. Through their research, they have been exploring what it means to provide care in a health system that is so deeply entangled with punitive justice and carcerality, as well as what it might feel like to create, practice, and connect with microcosms of healthcare that are centered in community, accountability, and mutual healing. They are also a member of the Do No Harm Coalition, SF DPH must Divest, and the UCSF REPAIR project, all of which have informed their development of this workshop series.
Hope to connect with you!
Warmly,
Lina Khoeur
MD Candidate, Class of 2023 University of California, San Francisco
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