You did all the reflection assignments + waded through all the roleplays. You went to all the recommended trainings and added book after book (…after book!) to your To-Read list.
But as you sit with clients, you just can’t shake how unequipped you feel when it comes to effectively responding to lived experiences of harm and oppression.
You know that ethical practice requires us to resist neutrality within oppressive systems, that it requires us to speak truth to power, and critique the colonial ways of being we’ve been trained up in…but how?
And why does it feel so lonely?
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Full program for $150/month
Based on $1800 bundle tuition (save $250!) Indigenous, Black, and POC participants can access up to $512.50 and $256.25 in tuition subsidies, respectively. Please use code IBSELFSTUDY or POCSELFSTUDY.
All tuitions are in CDN and subject to GST.
(Next live Cohort Starting Feb 2025)
Full program for $250/month
Based on $3000 bundle tuition (save $250!) Indigenous, Black, and POC participants can access up to $812.50 and $406.25 in tuition subsidies, respectively. Please use code IBCOMSTUDY or POCCOMSTUDY.
All tuitions are in CDN and subject to GST.
We are uninvited settlers occupying the stolen, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) peoples.
Our relationship with these lands dictates our commitment to understanding the ongoing impacts of colonization and decolonizing our practices in and out of the counselling room.
Imagine the systemic oppression course you’ve always wanted. A program that:
Step into the world of Justice Fundamentals! It’s the first of its kind, and one of a kind.
How do we know? We’ve taught the alternatives and struggled to find better options…so, we made it
Your trainers are justice-oriented therapists and/or activists/organizers working towards collective liberation. Your trainers are not only actively practicing in the field but are also practitioners with lived experience guiding their work.
Justice Fundamentals is part 1 of a two part training program. Part 2, Beyond the Fundamentals, involves community trainers who go in depth to discuss further self-reflexive practices. Tuition for both Justice Fundamentals and Beyond the fundamentals, is $8997+GST per seat. If you are interested in accessing our 201 program. Please email us and we can put you on the waitlist.
Justice-oriented therapy is not just knowledge or learning, it's about an embodiment of practice, creativity, and building community in the work. We've structured the course specifically with that in mind.
Turn theory into practice with our comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, 15-module program, complete with community-based learning materials, transcripts, resource lists, and learning guides.
The breakdown:
As therapists we are uniquely positioned to straddle the lines between healing and systemic change. By understanding systems of oppression and uncovering biases and assumptions that have been indoctrinated in us, we can collaboratively open up pathways of revolutionary care and resistance with our clients. We can support clients in recontextualizing their experiences of harm, reconstruct the normalization of othering, and resist the perpetuation of systemic oppression inherent in our profession.
This program is the culmination of our trial and error, commitment to liberation, and embodiment of the generous teachings that have been shared with us, all rolled up into one. We hope that this program is as transformative for you as it has been for us to make. Come learn and unlearn with us; come co-create and resist with us. We can’t wait to share space and connect with you!
And to support you in translating theory into practice, your training program should be built specifically for therapeutic work.
Unfortunately, most programs out there are focused on a single-issue and/or are non-therapy focused programs that cost up to $7,000.
So built what we wish we had - Our program highlights how systemic oppressions reinforce each other; a multi-politic, structured approach grounded in direct applications to therapeutic work and communities of resistance.
PLUS! In our decade+ of teaching, what we learned is that this work needs to be done in community. Relational unlearning holds a generativity that you just can’t get anywhere else. That's why our program is not only built with comprehensive material in mind, it’s built with an intentional process of learning in mind.
Although this program is specifically built with therapists in mind, its concepts apply broadly to many professions such as nursing, teaching, social and support work, medical and naturopathic doctors, lawyers, etc. You do not need any prerequisite courses or to be in postgraduate practice to enroll in this program.
All our self-study materials have transcripts, study guides, audio and video included in lessons. Our PDF materials should also be legible with a screen reader.
For the live portions of the event, there will be live captioning enabled via zoom and a note taker present for the event. If ASL interpretation will be useful to you, we can arrange for ASL interpreters to be present as well. Feel free to connect with us at hello@reflectingonjustice.com. Prior to our program, we will also be sending out a form for proactive assessment of how we can adjust accessibility considerations for each unique cohort.
To resist colonial + academic methods of evaluating understanding, we will be offering our community-study members reflection opportunities to integrate, ensure, and build on understanding generatively.
Yes - This program was designed in sequence and builds on each part and modules before it. You can take a break between parts of the training, deciding to do them across a longer period of time.
This ranges depending on the module. Generally we try to make this as accessible as possible, making sure that it is a manageable workload for folx who have an active caseload. You should expect to spend 1-4 hours per module, including recommended learning materials.
Yes! We are approved for 89 CE Credit Hours from the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. If your CE credits requires further documentation from us, please don’t hesitate to reach out at hello@reflectingonjustice.com
To qualify for CE credits, you cannot miss more than 3 live sessions.
Both self-study and community-study participants get 12-month access to the digital course materials. Community-study participants will also have access to Live Community Co-creation Sessions for during active program delivery.
The Live Co-Creation Call times will vary depending on cohort. We generally try to accommodate the most participants possible. Depending on registration, we may also open more debrief time slots.
Currently, we have live debriefs set for every other Monday from 11-1pm PST. If you are interested in the program but need a different co-creation session time, please email us at connect@prospectcounselling.ca to let us know.
To maintain the cohesiveness of community and the co-creation of safety within each group, each community-study cohort will be capped at 15 participants.
Absolutely. Please email connect@prospectcounselling.ca and we can add you to the waitlist for the next live cohort.
Prospect Counselling will first pay the community trainers for their labour in developing the training program; further funds will support lower cost counselling services and free community programming for SDQTBIPOC+ folx in so called British Columbia.
Got other questions? Email us at connect@prospectcounselling.ca
Liberation begins with an untangling of what is human from what oppresses us. The most insidious way systemic oppression survives is through well-meaning people, well-meaning professions, and well-meaning practices.
Though our profession was born out of colonial ideologies and methodologies, a more anti-oppressive way to practice is possible. And you don’t have to figure this out on your own. To paraphrase Mariame Kaba, collective liberation is built upon a tapestry of a million little experiments. A million little experiments that fundamentally change who we are and how we move through the world.
This program was not built to tell you the one answer to liberatory practice, but to invite you in transforming with us. Want to join us?
This module explores the importance of self-identification as a negotiation and rapport building skill crucial to autonomy and dignity-filled practice. After this module, you’ll have an opportunity to craft your own introduction practice and build familiarity with naming yourself in the work.
This module explores assessing various risks associated with counselling work and building respective plans for safety through a systemic lens. We also explore what it means to build collaborative safety and what collaboration actually is. After this module, you’ll have thorough, practical, and integrate-able practices to address harm within your therapeutic work.
Through this module, we explore and critique how white supremacy shows up in our education, practices and lives, impeding our ability to be with clients and our ethics in the work. Upon completion of this module, you’ll have the opportunity to redefine your practice through collective ethics.
In this module, we explore the applications of intersectionality and confluence as theories that guide our conceptualization of ethical, justice-oriented practice. Upon completion of this module, you’ll have a framework to build complexity and nuance associated with global implications and systematic erasure into your therapeutic analysis.
Both intersectional feminism and liberation psychology offer foundational conceptualizations of the roots of psychological harm and promote models of care that aim to facilitate the healing of both the affected individual and the communities and systems they belong to. After this module, you’ll be familiar with both these empirically validated theories and have a framework to integrate these theories into your working models of conceptualization.
Through this module, we develop a critique of psychology’s complicity a punitive logic that is empirically validated to be in opposition to wellness. After this module and in integrating abolitionist framework into counselling practice, you’ll be able to incorporate community-focused, dignity-centered ways of addressing power within counselling as well as ways to support clients in resistance to carceral logic.
Anti-colonial practice requires practitioners to be able to explore the process and impact of continual colonization on Turtle Island. Through this analysis we learn from Indigenous resistance and wisdom, deconstructing what has been normalized by the colonial roots of our profession. After this module, you’ll have a framework to support practice and continual learning from an anti-colonial lens.
I had a lot of preconceived notions about what this type of work may expect of me, how much I could give, and it felt daunting stepping into this space. What I found with the training is that Abby and Bhupie have created a wonderful, deep, and enriching program that is delivered with a lot of compassion and kindness balanced against topics that can be heavy and require, at times, difficult self-examination of how I show up in the world and in my practice.” - Nav K.
"I am incredibly inspired by the programs Bhupie & Abby have built at Prospect. This is the kind of wide ranging justice-oriented learning that I wish I had access to in graduate school, during my time as a student or a professor. I am excited for all those who take part in the programs, for all the clients who will benefit from encountering more competent and just practitioners, and for our field to benefit collectively from the Prospect's unique offerings and contributions to the practice of justice seeking therapy." - Sacha M.
“Not only is the JF Level 1 training helpful in my work with clients, they have also been healing for me as well. The discussions and learning materials help give me and my clients so much language to describe our experiences, and help point us onto a path towards holistic healing.” - Sophie H.
“The videos are so helpful, especially when you talk through examples - it feels fresher in my mind and inspires me to start thinking about different ways to have my practice grounded in justice.” - Esther J.
“I’m so excited that I’m part of this community and see what comes of it. Everything you’ve put out has been so compassionately thought provoking and ACTIONABLE. I’ve already started talking to clients about it and have printed them some of your newsletters.” - Will L.
“Thank you for your encouragement and support. Your passion for social justice is a source of inspiration and contribution to my growth in this profession.” - Eri N.
“To see it all put together like this is a different experience. There’s so much more to know than I thought. It’s complicated but you make it clear and thought-provoking.” - Melanie K.
“I love that it always comes back to action. People just talk about understanding too much. It’s time we do something about it and this tells us what we can do about it.” - Cassandra C.
“I always have the framework and the checklist on my phone. I use it to make sure justice is part of my day. I think it makes a big difference to have it set up like that.” - Janelle S.
“This was hands down my favourite course. It was the safest, most honest, brutal-yet-compassionate social justice environment I’ve ever experienced, and was a place for challenging discomfort as growth as well as the emotional support needed for that discomfort.” - Ricky T.
*Some names were changed to pseudonyms by request
Through this module we will discuss race as a social construct while identifying the reality of racism alongside the resistance, activism, and community healing within BIPOC communities. After completing this module, you’ll be able to describe the connections of racism on mental health; use anti-racist practices in relation to the self and within counselling practice; and support clients through a resistance-based framework.
An in-depth consideration of spirituality and religion is often ignored in counselling programs even though they are fundamental aspects of client experience. An unfamiliarity in exploring these concepts further compounds the specific oppression experienced by folx holding non-colonial faiths. After completing this module, you’ll be able to invite spiritual/religious practices within counselling practices; become aware of your own biases around religion/spirituality; and recognize the impact of spiritual/religious practices on mental health and healing.
This module was designed to support practitioners in beginning to examine cisgenderism, patriarchy, and queer theory with a particular focus on the importance of language, social constructs, and how they impact the ways we understand gender and sex. It will also describe the ways that queer theory impacts counselling outside of gender and sex through an intersectional lens. Upon completing this module, you’ll be able to apply queer theory beyond your understanding of gender and sex, recognizing the ways social constructs and language limit counselling work.
Exploring the impact of sexuality and relationship structures are often neglected clinical programs, largely due to the stigma associated with exploring sexuality and the normalization of purity culture. In this module, we will explore different relationship structures and the spectrum of sexual identities/expressions. Upon completing this module, participants will be able to use appropriate language when talking about sexuality and relationships in their counselling practices and unpack biases and assumptions of relationships and sexual identities/expressions that are non-cis-het-mononormative.
Through this module we will explore the intergenerational impacts of classism and class mobility, examine classism through an intersectional lens - with special attention to capitalism, race, health, criminal legal system, access - and how this impacts mental health. Upon completing this module, participants will be able to identify the ways that counselling can be classist; implement practices that are more just to those with financial barriers; and understand the ways that mental health struggles are related to class through an intersectional lens.
Through this module, we will examine the impacts of ageism of biological health in relation to the medical system model within therapeutic practice. Upon completing this module, you’ll be able to weave an age analysis in relation to previous modules; identify the impacts of perceived age and access; and demonstrate knowledge of ethical considerations such as consent and autonomy.
Healthism can erase contextual factors (including race, poverty, capitalism, and food deserts) and choice/autonomy. Through this module, we will explore the ways in which healthism and anti-fat bias intersect and its impacts on mental health, while naming the history around anti-fatness in relation to anti-Black racism and colonialism. After this module, you’ll be able to integrate a contextual approach to “health” and anti-fat bias that focuses on dignity and autonomy, recognizing the impact of anti-fatness in counselling and health settings.
Ableism is commonly the least explored -ism when speaking of anti-oppressive practice. In this module we will examine the deconstruction of ableist language and practices common in counselling, as well as describe the intersections of disability justice in relation to class and the criminal legal system. After this module, participants will be able to implement aspects of disability justice into their counselling practice; begin to distinguish counselling interventions through a disability justice lens; and co-create counselling practices that resist problematic, individualizing, and deficit-based narratives.
10-Week Training [ Self-Study: $850+GST CDN / Community Study: $1250+GST CDN ]
8-Week Training [ Self-Study: $600+GST CDN / Community Study: $1000+GST CDN ]
8-Week Training [ Self-Study: $600+GST CDN / Community Study: $1000+GST CDN ]
