Facing Human Wrongs: Unsettling Wellness is an experiential, online course for care workers broadly defined, with an emphasis on mental health/psychology but also including medicine, bodywork, and other healing modalities, home and nursing health aides, etc.
Guided by four denials (e.g., denial of systemic violence, denial of unsustainability, denial of entanglement, and denial of the magnitude of the challenges), the course focuses specifically on how care work and care workers are complicit in each, and how psychology and wellness keep systems like modernity, capitalism, and colonialism on life support.
We end each session and the course with gestures toward a decolonial care work that rekindles our connection with the planetary metabolism rather than individual wellness, transforms our relationship to pain and grief, and supports us in becoming better elders and ancestors to our human and other-than-human relations.
Rather than centering individual wellness, the course explores how care work can rekindle connections with planetary metabolism, transform relationships to pain and grief, and cultivate responsibility toward future generations.
The course was developed and will be facilitated by mental health professionals and GTDF collaborators: Avery Fisher, Stacey Prince, Jaya Ramesh, and Chelsea Williams.
Course duration: April–July 2025
Live tutorial sessions: 2nd & 4th Saturdays of each month, starting April 12, 2025
More info & registration: FHW: Unsettling Wellness
