My name is José Miguel Paez and I am a teacher in the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Master of
It’s with great pleasure to announce that this year the CSUN MSW Department is honored to co-host the 10th Annual Liberation Based Healing Conference (LBHC)—“Challenging Inequities: Decolonizing Practices and Social Action” on November 13-14, 2015.
You may be thinking, what is Liberation Based Healing and Decolonization, and how are they related to my social work practice.
We are in midst of a major social justice movement being led by the efforts of courageous leaders, activists, communities and organizations throughout the country.
This is a time where we need critical spaces to dialogue, reflect and develop social justice based action strategies. We need to rethink the way we have traditionally engaged and served Indigenous communities, communities of color, and other marginalized populations.
The LBHC aims to create space for dialogue and learning from a decolonizing perspective. What does decolonizing mean?
According to Dian Million, American Indian Studies professor at the University of Washington and the author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights, “To ‘decolonize’ means to understand as fully as possible the forms colonialism takes in our own times”. Developing our awareness about the historical trauma and present day effects of colonialism, offers an alternative social justice lens from which to practice.
Two more reasons to attend this year’s LBHC:
We hope that you will join us for this important two-day conference!
If you have any questions, please contact José Paez at jose.paez@csun.edu.
More information can also be found at this link:
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