—@EvanJacques if anyone was in any doubt

I know, right!!? —-@maxmorris

I need to show this to Kat bc she also has autoimmune conditions and loves dogs. It's the tiniest picture of the goodness of body and brain responses. Even if they're misguided, unwanted, painful, or outright harmful, all responses are doing their best to serve the good of the organism and all life. You can't break down a person and find secret badness at the cellular level, the more closely you look the more clearly you see that everything is puppies — @EvanJacques

Begins 1pm Eastern today:
'Join Victor Lee Lewis for "An Exploration of EFT and Human Liberation." Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping workshop. Gift Economy.
About this event
We invite you to join nationally-recognized social justice educator and EFT trainer Victor Lee Lewis along with special guests for this transformational 5-hour workshop.
Together we will focus on learning and exploring how EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can be used specifically for topics of Human Liberation, Social Justice, and Community Care.
As we learn tools and frameworks to support community health (beyond the common "personal health" paradigms), together our bandwidth grows. This supports us in engaging with the complex challenges of late-stage capitalism, structural and interpersonal and internalized oppression, and the trances of seperation and supremacy.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) incorporates tapping select points from the Meridian system of Traditional Chinese Medicine (acupoints), additional somatic techniques, and strategic words for a combined effect that is transformative, liberatory, and able to support many of the complexities we face when engaging in change work and community care.
Context around the history and use of EFT will be shared as part of this liberation-focused workshop.
We welcome those new to EFT along with advanced practitioners seeking to apply EFT to the intersections described here. If you are interested in this topic and/or are already a big fan of Victor, you are in the right place.
This introductory workshop teaches people to use the EFT tool for a variety of circumstances, all within liberation-based frameworks. Victor's workshops typically include demonstration and community practices on using EFT for a variety of topics and challenges, inviting in ways of being and knowing that we perhaps didn't know were possible.
Victor exclusively offers workshops, trainings, consultation, mentorship, and coaching through the gift economy or tiered pricing models. This workshop is offered via the gift economy and options for giving (at any level) will be shared upon registration. You may also directly contribute to Victor before or after the workshop thorugh Venmo or PayPal @VictorLeeLewis.
Victor Lee Lewis (they/he) is a EFT Advanced Practitioner. Victor has been certified to teach EFT by the world’s two largest certification bodies. Victor also has advanced training in NLP, hypnotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and other modalities. You may recognize Victor from their inspiring leadership role in the "The Color of Fear" (1994) documentary on racism, or their many keynote speeches and embodied, relational approach to liberation-based trainings that address racism with an intersectional lens. You can find out more about Victor here or sign up for one of their powerful "Hard Conversations" courses here.
Cori Woodland is part of a team that is supporting Victor in being able to show up and offer workshops such as this. Please direct questions/comments/accessibility needs regarding this workshop to connect@coriwoodland.com
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Well this is pretty handy!
Found a cycling timer app for high intensity interval training (HIIT) and it works great. This one is called "Tabata Timer" for Android.

I think physically and socially, in bodies and in communities, people are starting to get to grips with the fact that we can face the inconvenience of bothering with healthy behaviours now or face a disaster later. I'd be interested to hear your take on that

Epistemic violence: reflections between the invisible and the ignorable

https://www.aacademica.org/moira.perez/84.pdf

"Among the forms of violence that affect socially marginalized identities, epistemic violence is probably one of the least addressed, in favor of more direct or spectacular ones.

However, it is a political, ethical and epistemic phenomenon that affects everything from day-to-day relationships to professional practice, from grassroots activism to international law.

Epistemic violence threatens the integrity of individuals and communities and plays a key role
in power systems such as sexism, colonialism, ableism, among others. This work offers a characterization of the phenomenon as a type of "slow violence", and an analysis of some of the ways in which it is presented. Subsequently, it analyzes the link between epistemic violence and identity, and considers the possibility of a violence-free epistemic system.

The paper seeks to offer tools to understand this form of violence more deeply and comprehensively, and to address it in the different spaces in which it is expressed."

"We know from a recent body of research on social responses that there are major barriers to healing in the aftermath of violence [and a range of other traumas.] One such barrier is the response of others upon disclosing violence.

Many individuals have reported receiving a negative or unsupportive response from family, friends and professionals. These responses range from a victim-blaming tone (“What were you doing in that part of town anyway?”), to mitigating the responsibility of the perpetrator (“he is trapped in a cycle, he was a victim himself ”,“he has alcohol issues”), to being disbelieved (“she is a good person and would never do that to you”).

Language use plays an important part in casting the position and responsibility of the victim and perpetrator. Research conducted by Coates and Wade (2007) demonstrated four operations of language used to 1) conceal violence, 2) conceal resistance, 3) mitigate the responsibility of the perpetrator and 4) to shift the blame onto the victim.

These four operations are often found together in legal and human service settings and exert a profound influence
on social responses and victims’ recovery. "

"When violence [and a variety of traumas, including epistemic trauma] has never been properly acknowledged, redressed and safety restored, the suffering of the victim is perpetuated and enhanced (Andrews & Brewin, 1990; Brewin & Brewin, ; Andrews, Brewin & Rose, 2003).

Alternatively, language can be used to clarify responsibility and bring into the light the ways that the person responded to the violence, while never consenting to what was being done to them, even if overt demonstrations of resistance were not possible due to the danger.

Making clear what has happened and what is necessary to repair or make whole what was once whole, is part of an orchestrated positive social response to the victim of violence.

Islands of Safety aims to create safety by orchestrating positive responses to children and to adults at risk in the context
of their families, including concrete and workable safety plans."