Leticia Nieto
With Dr. Leticia Nieto
Open Dates
Love as activism, Trust as musculature.
Sunday, November 17th 2024
Through appreciative autobiography, we will explore experiences of sturdiness and stamina that have helped us build up the musculature of trust in life. Re-examining ideas of safer space in the context of trauma-informed engagement, we will invite a blueprint of love as activism.
When we choose to love we choose to move against fear – against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other. – (bell hooks, All about Love, p. 125)
We will be working with embodied enactment. Inviting emotions, ancestral wisdom, collective care. We will not be engaging in debate. But we will engage in introspective social analysis by incorporating the framework Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone. Participants will benefit from reading the book, but it is not required. This workshop is for participants who have a high degree of self-consent with work that is embodied, mythopoetic, and that can bring up a range of emotions.
Faculty
Born in Puebla, Mexico, Dr. Leticia Nieto moved to the US in 1978 and began working in social justice action with people who experienced incarceration, addiction, and displacement. Her focus was anti-racism, economic, immigrant, and disability justice. Leticia holds degrees in theatre, human development, and clinical psychology. For 33 years, she worked as a professor with Masters and Doctoral students with an intersectional model she developed to train counselors and leaders in anti-oppression theory and reflective practice incorporating gender justice, indigenous self-determination, children and elder rights, and queer justice. She now works primarily using action methods (psychodrama and expressive arts)…
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