Imagination, Joy, and Abolition: Self-Care and Professional Growth in Anti-racist Clinics

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand

Room: Majestic C

Floor: Second Floor, Conference Plaza

The goal of this session is to instruct participants on the ways clinicians might engage students in self-care to build and preserve the resiliency necessary to move forward with both clinical and professional work. We will also offer tangible ways to teach and model self-care for the individual as well as the ways the entire classroom can engage in community self-care. We will model how to build up the student resilience that is necessary to imagine and fight for a path toward justice by drawing from the communities that face oppression and examining how they remain resilient despite the oppression. Participants will also learn that the construct of trauma-informed lawyering can be applied to clinic students, not as secondary or vicarious trauma survivors, but as survivors of primary trauma caused by the discussions surrounding inherent and structural racism and the inevitable conflict that will arise in a classroom dedicated to eradicating it.