About Reflecting on justice,

You’ve committed to justice-oriented practice, but it’s just so isolating. // You know that therapy-as-usual, just isn’t an option. // You know your commitment to justice-oriented practice means interrupting the damaging and unjust ways we relate to one another. // You want to commit to accountability in a world that would much rather have us pretend to be perfect. // You want to confront the most misaligned parts of ourselves to find our way back to something bigger than us.

You’re in it, we see you, and you are not alone.

“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.”

– Mariame Kaba

Reflecting on Justice was made for you if you want your life + practice to be grounded in anti-oppression, if you feel isolated in justice-doing, and if you want to be part of a community that just gets it.

Sparked from a series of 'wouldn’t-it-be-greats'...

hey! I'm abby,

From friends to students, to colleagues to comrades, I just kept hearing again and again how great it would be to have a community of therapists all trying to do the work of unlearning together – to have a community that can hold each other in radically loving accountability, all the while recognizing the impact and responsibilities we have as therapists.

And at some point, I just thought:

“Okay, well, I can do this! I should do this!”

hi! I'm abby!
this is linda!

when abby met linda,

Through our co-envisioning, ROJ started to take shape. Linda came up with our name, got us started with socials and visuals and we were off gathering the amazing practitioners that became our founding members. What was supposed to be a one time summit-like event, turned into a long term commitment to community through our collective excitement.

when abby met bhupie,

From the very beginning we had gotten so much feedback about wanting a structured and comprehensive training program, but it just felt so weird to do it on my own. We are all about community, after all. So when Bhupie and I connected through teaching in academic clinical graduate programs, Justice Fundamentals finally became possible.

this is bhupie!

at the end of the day,

ROJ is here to build community,​to be your solidarity besties in the work of unlearning systemic oppression in and out of our therapy rooms. To do that we’ve built membership programs, comprehensive and transformative curriculums, and free resource guides to support your work. Together doesn’t have to wait. As bell hooks says, “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

Reflecting on Justice occupies the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples. Part of our commitment to disrupting the colonial project we benefit from and the duty inherent in our relationship with these lands is to redistribute 50% of proceeds from the living practice membership to Indigenous organizing efforts, independent anti-oppression educators, + mutual aid efforts.

ROJ projects offered by donation contributes 100% of the proceeds towards mutual aid efforts in our communities so our unlearning immediately gives back. As our community grows, the percentage of redistribution will also grow.

Your tuition for the Justice Fundamentals program goes towards supporting lower cost counselling services in so-called BC.

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  • therapists pursuing collective liberation, together. therapists pursuing collective liberation, together.  
  • therapists pursuing collective liberation, together. therapists pursuing collective liberation, together.  
  • therapists pursuing collective liberation, together. therapists pursuing collective liberation, together.  
  • therapists pursuing collective liberation, together. therapists pursuing collective liberation, together.  
  • therapists pursuing collective liberation, together. therapists pursuing collective liberation, together.  
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Abby Chow (she/her) is a cisqueer, working-turned-middle class, half-gen, currently non-disabled, straight-sized settler on the stolen, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples. She is from Hong Kong and lives with chronic pain and ADHD.

For the last decade, she’s had the privilege of working with folx resisting multiple systems of oppression, which often manifests as being impacted by the criminal punishment system, addictions, and relational trauma. Her work now primarily revolves around providing clinical supervision and business consulting services from a justice-grounded perspective.

Above all else she loves being an explorer of wonder and possibilities, witnessing and co-creating with the magic that still manages to survive this dumpster fire world, and aspiring to be a human database and connective force for our revolutionary resistance. Her ancestors come from roots in Chaozhou and Nanjing, and a lineage of creating sneaky practices to survive necropolitics, poverty, and refugeeism.

 

When I discovered this work, my life turned upside down. Sure, I experienced my fair share of systemic harms, but I was so entrenched in the colonial, ableist, cis/mono/heteronormative kool-aid that I believed everything I experienced was just my fault. Naturally, I built my life around it like compulsory armor.

But then I was shown something different. After spending a decade unraveling my conditioning to be more vocal about my politics, I connected with a community that made the imagination of a different world possible. I can’t stress enough how much being in community fundamentally transformed me. This hyper-individualistic society isn’t the world we’re trying to create.

I’m not a thought leader, I’m not a visionary, but I can create community. I firmly believe that if enough of us shift, the world will shift with us. We can’t leave each other behind.

So come join us in the lived imagination of collective liberation. ‘Cause you’re not really meant to do this alone. We’re all still learning too.

Hi I’m Linda! I’m a cis-gendered, able-bodied, hetero-ish racialized settler, born and raised in so-called Vancouver. I am a child of first-generation immigrants from the Nakhi/Naxi ancestry of China.

In my work, people recognize me as a registered clinical counsellor, an art therapist and someone who is into all things creative including envisioning a better world for us all.

I did not come from the world of mental health and justice work growing up, yet my heart has always been there. I am quite a HSP and would feel this surge of empowerment whenever I witness and be part of goodness in the world.

There weren’t words to describe what I had been experiencing, so diving into art making and working with my imagination was the meta-verbal way I worked with to navigate through sticky situations in life.

Getting into justice and liberation work has been like an itch that continues to grow. The more I unlearn the harmful narratives and approaches that I once had me chained, the more questions of curiosity and wonder I come up with. Why do things have to be this way? Who has the authority to say this about my identity and my experiences?

I am continuously coming up with creative ways to reclaim power back, to be in reciprocity with other folks, and to intervene, using my voice to advocate for marginalized folks, collaborating and helping them figure out what this work can look like for themselves.

Bhupie Dulay (she/her) is a settler who was born and raised on the stolen unceded, ancestral territories of the Semiahmoo, sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), Kwantlen, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, and sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen) Nations; and her ancestors are from India. Bhupie is a cis, non-disabled, middle class, small fat woman.

 

Currently, Bhupie works as a therapist, supervisor, professor, and consultant. Her work is informed by social justice and collaborative principles. She is honoured to work alongside people who are navigating and resisting multiple systems of oppression individually, within relationships, and in communities. As a clinical supervisor, Bhupie supports teams providing health care services and counselling services, practicing counsellors and student counsellors. Supervision is an enriching experience for Bhupie—a space where she can engage in a collaborative dialogue about best practices and ethics alongside the critique and feedback.

 

Bhupie also provides workshops, trainings, and consultations to organisations, teams, and boards. She is an adjunct faculty at Adler University and City University, and an instructor at Vancouver Community College. And she is a board member at Healing in Colour.