Talk: Joining Hands in Solidarity: Mutual Accompaniment & Affective Conviviality [] Center for Global Justice

Centuries of colonial and capitalist oppression and exploitation not only threaten global ecocide but – some indigenous groups aside – have diminished humanity’s powers to collectively save our earthly home.  To strengthen those powers a group of psychologists and their students are spreading horizontal relationships that liberate needed but repressed capacities. Mary Watkins and Nuria Ciofalo, psychologists at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California present and discuss their respective work on mutual accompaniment and affective conviviality

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What we do The Center engages in local community support and outreach to promote and advance initiatives and movements toward social justice, grassroots empowerment and democracy, and environmental sustainability.  It is also devoted to critical analysis of the processes and impacts of globalization, both local and international. The Center works to develop alternative socio-economic systems that conserve and share the world’s cultural, economic, and environmental resources for the benefit of humankind.