Join us for this 2-hour workshop where we'll be exploring how to cultivate ways to support ourselves and one another outside of traditional mental health care settings and without the involvement of the police.
We'll unpack what mutual aid and anti-carceral community support means, then begin exploring specific tools that you can use to begin building your own care webs. You'll come away with definitions, tools and the opportunity to put your learning into practice straight away.
This session is open to everyone who wants to learn more about alternative approaches to community care, but it's especially for people who have lived experience of being a 'service-user' in health and/or social care settings, and is more likely to come into contact with the police or criminal legal system.
About the faciliator:
Sage M Stephanou (they/them) is an abolitionist facilitator, educator, supervisor, and art psychotherapist.
Sage supports the development and implementation of alternative radical care practices across their work, which does not rely on policing, state-run services, or colonial therapy practices. They utilise disability justice, transformative justice, trauma-informed, and anti-colonial frameworks to map the emergence of robust mutual aid and community care practices. They simultaneously work with white people to interrogate and dismantle white body supremacy through somatic abolition.
They are the founder and director of the Radical Therapist Network, an organisation working to abolish white supremacy by building community care infrastructure, co-producing decolonial education and offering healing justice resources, by and for communities experiencing systemic oppression.
About Queer Minds:
Queer Minds is a peer support group for LGBTQIA+ people (aged 18+) who live, work or play in Lambeth and Southwark. This group is by us, for us and is for those who are looking to connect with others and get support for their mental health. We currently run two monthly peer support groups, a trans drop-in group, and various workshops and activities with partner organisations. You can find more information about the group on the Queer Minds website: selmind.org.uk/queermindsls.
Thank you to Lambeth Links for funding our Lambeth group and this series of psychoeducational workshops.
The 3Space ground floor is wheelchair accessible with step-free access. Ground floor toilets are gender neutral and wheelchair accessible.
If you have any questions or accessibility needs, please email queermindsls@selmind.org.uk.