Belonging to Each Other: Beyond Racial and Oppression-Based Trauma
A conversation between:
Nkem Ndefo
Rebekah Delsol
Dr Stephanie Davis
Camille Sapara Barton
25/10/2023
19:00 – 21:00
Online
Description
In this panel conversation between Nkem Ndefo, Rebekah Delsol, Dr Stephanie Davis and Camille Sapara Barton, panellists will discuss how communities who experience racial and oppression-based trauma can access healing, safety, connection and belonging. This event will explore approaches, pathways and techniques for healing from trauma, drawing from the wisdoms, technologies and genius of global majority peoples.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
Biographies
Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of the Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, and community strategist to innovative programs that address trauma and inequity, build resilience and shape liberatory change for individuals and organisations throughout the US and internationally. She is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalisation.
Camille Sapara Barton is a social imagineer who operates as a catalyst for social change, dedicated to creating networks of care, and liveable futures. They work as an artist, facilitator, consultant and curator across the realms of embodied social justice, grief, pleasure and drug policy. Rooted in Black feminism, ecology and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside embodied practices, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic-assisted therapy to arts education. In 2022, Camille launched the GEN Grief Toolkit – a collection of embodied grief rituals to support personal and community grief work. They are currently based in Amsterdam, where they recently finished working as the Director of Ecologies of Transformation; a temporary master programme at Sandberg Institute, researching how art-making and embodiment can create social change.
| Dr Stephanie Davis is Health Justice Researcher at Healing Justice London. Stephanie is a scholar-activist with expertise in critical and community psychology; a focus on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and Black feminist, anti-/de-colonial and queer theory/praxis; and a commitment to social transformation. Stephaniehas held lectureships at Nottingham Trent University, University of Brighton and University of East London. She has previously worked in a community development and activist capacity on issues of sexual health, gender and sexual diversity, and police harassment with young people and Black and brown communities. In 2013, she co-founded Rainbow Noir, a social support and organising space for queer, trans, and intersex people of colour (QTIPOC) in Manchester. She is excited by the possibilities of the margins, the borderlands and ancestral and spiritual connection. She is the author of ‘Queer and Trans People of Colour: Possibilities for Intersectional Richness’ (Routledge, 2023). |
Rebekah Delsol is Healing Justice Ldn’s Executive Co-Director, and has a focus on strategy. She has worked for 20 years on anti-discrimination and racial justice issues, focused on building community and civil society capacity to challenge racial profiling, and changing structures and cultures in police institutions globally. Rebekah managed the Open Society Justice Initiatives’ Fair and Effective Policing (FEP) project, working to improve police relations with diverse communities through dialogue, research, litigation and advocacy.
