September 9 to November 15, 2026

LIBERATION PSYCHOLOGY:
Roots, Memory, & Practice

Trimester I - Roots

Program Overview

Liberation Psychology is a nine-month participatory, interactive immersion designed for practitioners ready to engage healing work that addresses the actual scope of our current polycrises. Western psychotherapy has long operated from a fundamental misrecognition that suffering is primarily located inside the individual, amenable to individual repair. Liberation Psychology names what many practitioners have felt but lacked a framework to address: the clinical hour is too small a container for wounds born in history, carried in lineage, and reproduced by systems.

Trimester I - Roots

We begin by expanding the container of care, tracing how personal distress is intimately shaped by historical, systemic, and intergenerational forces. Together, we deconstruct mainstream diagnostic models to map a broader, decolonial understanding of pain and lineage.

Dates:

- Module 1: Genealogy of Suffering: Collective Trauma and the Work of Repair with Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Sep 9 & 16, 9am.

Integration session with Dr. Mays Imad, Sept 12 & 19, 10am.

- Module 2: The Wound That Travels: Working with Lineage and Context with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Oct 3 & 17, 10am.
Integration session with Iya Affo, Oct 10 & 24, 10am.

- Module 3: Decolonial Mental Health Practice with Dr. Samah Jabr, Nov 6 & 13, 9am.
Integration session with Dr. Samah Jabr, Nov 8 & 15, 8am.