Strange Fruit: Gender-In-Justice
Exploring the Tensions between Activism and Transformation - a free learning event open to all.
March 10, 2023, Online
Registrations will close on 3rd March.
8:00 AM -12:00 PM ET
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM UK
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM SA/EET
8.30 PM - 0:30AM IST
Registrations will close on 3rd March.
8:00 AM -12:00 PM ET
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM UK
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM SA/EET
8.30 PM - 0:30AM IST
Registrations will close on 3rd March.
This session offers the opportunity to explore the following two themes:
“Working with the intractability of violence against women.”
We will grapple with the questions of what is happening to women who face ongoing significant individual and social violence: including physical aggression, lack of access to economic, land and education opportunities as well as rights over women’s bodies.
“Gender-In-Justice”
We see women and men, feminine and masculine, femininities and masculinities, gender fluidity, queer-ness, non-binary as signifiers, as performances, as identifications and as ways for locating ourselves in the exploration of ‘gender’ and confronting violence.
It is anticipated that these explorations will be a prelude to designing a group relations conference on these themes.
This session offers the opportunity to explore the following two themes:
“Working with the intractability of violence against women.”
We will grapple with the questions of what is happening to women who face ongoing significant individual and social violence: including physical aggression, lack of access to economic, land and education opportunities as well as rights over women’s bodies.
“Gender-In-Justice”
We see women and men, feminine and masculine, femininities and masculinities, gender fluidity, queer-ness, non-binary as signifiers, as performances, as identifications and as ways for locating ourselves in the exploration of ‘gender’ and confronting violence.
It is anticipated that these explorations will be a prelude to designing a group relations conference on these themes.
Strange Fruit: Gender-In-Justice
Join us on March 10, 2023
As leaders, consultants, activists, clinicians and researchers we will have the opportunity to explore various questions that may include:
- What is happening concretely to women in our work?
- How do we experience our engendering?
- How do we understand the meanings associated with gender and the systems that perpetuate engendered subjugation?
- What are our own resistances to and complicities within gendered systems?
- What is our responsibility to others in the wider world?
- What are our shared responsibilities to understand and to stand against the ongoing violence towards women globally?
Registrations will close on 3rd March.
Location
Location
Online
Date & Time
March 10, 2023,
8:00 AM -12:00 PM ET
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM UK
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM SA/EET
8.30 PM - 0:30AM IST
8:00 AM -12:00 PM ET
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM UK
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM SA/EET
8.30 PM - 0:30AM IST
Convenors
The following individuals have planned this half day event and are committed to designing a group relations conference on this topic.
Jo-anne Carlyle
Jo-anne Carlyle PhD, Clin. Foren. Psychol., Org. Consultant, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Having worked as a clinician, researcher, teacher and consultant for over 30 years, she is transitioning to work with greater social impact for the final phase of her career.
Shareen Harneker
Shareen Harneker is a Psychiatrist with an MA (systems psychoanalytic approaches to organisations) from the Tavistock Clinic , London , UK . She has an avid interest in organisational /societal life and functioning and the application of these approaches to broader society.
Tanya Lewis
Tanya Lewis PhD is program director for leadership development at Bureau Kensington. Her work experience includes post secondary education, non profit community based settings. She is the coordinator of ICI and the Secretary of the CSGSS Board of Directors.
Barbara Williams
Barbara Williams, EdD, Director of Bureau Kensington (BKI), a consulting practice working with movement building and feminist networks and organizations internationally. She is a guest of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and founder of Impact for Community Insight (www.ici-ici.ca)
Drawing on open space technology and group relations methodologies, there will be an opportunity to identify specific themes to explore that are based on the hopes, desires and other motivations that brought people into this conversation.
Groups will then choose their working method. This could be by story-telling and/or using other applications of systems social/psycho-dynamic models to understand the archetypal dilemmas of gender and the intractability of gender based violence. Stories and other creative associative processes often allow us to see each other and ourselves through different lenses.
Thinking about the gendered nature of violence may help us join with the resistance to violence against women.
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