Vision Council member and Intersex Justice Project Co-Founder, Sean Saifa Wall, presents on intersex justice during a 2017 session of Understanding and Transforming the MIC.
Online Learning
Successful social change movements across the world are supported by popular education.
Our popular education model integrates a trans-disciplinary approach, making accessible complex western scientific ideas that we are often told can only be understood by experts. In doing so we create the space to more deeply understand, evaluate and critique these ideas while honoring the wisdom of our own experiences and other ways of knowing such as: the cultural and ancestral knowledge each participants brings, Indigenous Knowledge, and intersectional social justice perspectives.
People have the right and power to generate knowledge. Community generated knowledge is powerful and legitimate.
We believe community generated knowledge holds many of the keys we require to redesign healthcare systems so they truly meet human & planetary need.
Our core curriculum includes:
Understanding and Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex, Part 1 and Part 2
This two part online course digs deep to expose the historic roots of the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), enables participants to understand the interconnections of healthcare institutions with governmental bodies, big pharma, health insurers, and agribusinesses, and provides a foundation to understand and critique the role of systemic racism, sexism, ableism, fatphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism in the MIC. Begins September 12th. Contact us for enrollment!
Medical Apartheid, contested illnesses, disability justice, medical torture, environmental toxicology and the interconnections among climate and disability justice will be covered in this course from an intersectional social justice and people’s science lens.
This course begins September 12th, 2019! Participants can enroll for one or both parts. Scholarships and work exchanges will be available. Interested in enrolling, contact us and see the full course description in Upcoming Events!
Towards Solidarity and Resilience: The Neurobiology of the Social Nervous System and Transforming Trauma, Part 1 and Part 2
This two part online course provides a strong foundation in theories and concepts based in critical trauma studies rooted in an intersectional social justice and people’s science framework.
The course integrates emergent findings in neuroscience, epigenetics, and trans-disciplinary trauma studies highlighting the work of leading multi-racial scholars, activists, and healers such as Dr. Joy Degruy, Dr. Bonnie Duran, Dr. Eduardo Duran, and Resmaa Menakem. The course also covers the powerful Polyvagal Theory of Dr. Stephan Porges, and the work of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and Dr. Judith Herman.
Enrollment includes a learning goals survey so the curriculum can be tailored to the needs of participants. The course size will be capped to promote in-depth learning and is designed for healthcare professionals, healers, activists, students, and those of us healing from trauma.
This course will be offered in January 2020, participants can enroll for one or both parts. Opportunities for scholarships and work exchanges will be available. Interested in enrolling, contact us!
Medical Advocacy for Healers and Activists
This one session workshop provides foundational training in medical advocacy tools and techniques for diverse healthcare providers and activists rooted in intersectional health justice and people’s science.
Participants will learn:
- basic ‘know your rights’ information for medical institutions
- what advocacy is
- what advocacy can accomplish
- how to support clients, patients, and/or community members in identifying their needs and priorities
- and, how to identify and amplify your own natural strengths as advocates to strengthen your advocacy game and confidence!
We are excited to offer this training to our communities given the current healthcare crisis, and the attacks on reproductive and trans health, and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
Medical Advocacy: Know Your Rights
This one session workshop offers foundational ‘know your rights’ training for dealing with a range of medical institutions. The training is for people who use healthcare services frequently and/or for care providers, personal assistants, allies, loved ones and friends of frequent users of healthcare services. This training is grounded in intersectional health and disability justice.
Participants will:
- share their advocacy successes and challenges
- learn basic ‘know your rights’ information
- develop a new understanding of the power of advocacy and what it can accomplish, and
- how to support clients, patients, and/or community members in identifying their needs and priorities
- challenge ableism and transform internalized ableism by identifying and amplifying your own natural strengths as advocates to strengthen your advocacy game and confidence!
No prior advocacy experience is required for this training. This training can be tailored for community-based, faith-based and social justice organizations.
Understanding and Transforming the MIC Fall 2019 begins September 12th! Save the Date! Learn More or Enroll!
Want to join a course and help build our movements? Contact Us!