Comprehensive Online Course + Community


Justice Fundamentals

Root your therapy practice in a nuanced and transformative understanding of systemic oppression, in 6 months.

PLUS! Get 6 additional months of integration support with your enrollment.

Let’s just call it what it is –

Our clinical graduate programs barely scratched the surface of preparing us for this work.

You did all the reflection assignments + waded through all the roleplays. You went to all the recommended trainings and added book after book (…after book!) to your To-Read list.

As you sit with clients, and even throughout your program, you start to realize how unprepared our training has been when it comes to addressing systemic oppression.

You were committed to this, you trusted in the process, and you did learn lots - you were just waiting for a fundamental critique of the oppressive systems underlying our work…a fundamental critique that never came.

Imagine what it would be like
if you could…

  • Gain an intersectional and nuanced, foundational understanding of systemic oppression, all in one place;

  • Develop the crucial self-reflexive practices necessary for liberatory, justice-oriented work;

  • Confidently conceptualize and engage concerns brought into therapeutic spaces from an anti-oppressive lens;

  • Examine the impact of oppression in societal contexts, lived experiences, ethics, assessment, and research; 

  • Implement justice-oriented and liberatory counselling practices in working across difference;

  • Be supported in community and generative dialogue as you move through this work; and

  • Access a foundational course created by therapists for therapists

Justice Fundamentals was created specifically
to help you to embody and integrate intersectional, anti-oppressive, and liberatory perspectives into your therapy practice!

Click through to see what’s included

  • The Program

    Turn theory into practice with our comprehensive 18-module program complete with community-based learning materials, transcripts, resource lists, and learning guides. ($31,800 value).

  • Co-Creation

    Co-Creation Video Conversations: Each of our modules includes generative conversations (rather than dry lectures) so you stay engaged and reflect with us at your own pace. ($13,500 value).

  • Curated Learning

    Curated, Community Learning Materials: Access a variety of materials ranging from grassroots to academic, took years to curate (save your years!), and prioritize accessibility. ($1,500 value).

  • Guides + Accessibility

    Transcripts and Learning Guides: Transcripts, learning guides, and image descriptions to promote accessibility and support your learning. ($4,500 value).

  • Resource List

    Continuously Updating Resource List: There’s so much more amazingness to share! Get our resource list to support your continual growth beyond the program. ($1,500 value).

  • Community Learning

    Bi-weekly LIVE debrief sessions: for the full 6 months AND 6 live Post Training Integration Calls monthly so you can access generative community learning not available elsewhere. ($10,800 value).

  • 89 CE Credits

    89 CE Credits: Our community-study program is approved for 89 CE credits upon completion with the CCPA! Self-study cohorts can register for CE credits pending individual approval.

The Program
at a Glance

Plus these bonuses!

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  • A guided 4-part program to help you navigate the most common barriers to justice-oriented practice so you can bring your whole self in living your ethics.

  • Get access to our moderated, always accessible Discord + Peer Group platform where you can build relationships with fellow practitioners, share wins, and ask questions.

 

Meet your community Meet Your community meet your community meet your community meet your community

Relational Unlearning:
Meet Your Facilitators

 

Hey! I’m Abby

(She/Her; MA, RCC-ACS)

I’m a cisqueer, half-gen, racialized settler, currently occupying the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), S'ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples. I navigate the world in a neurodivergent, straight-sized body and am working-turned-middle class. My ancestors and I are from Hong Kong, with roots in Chaozhou and Nanjing.

When I was doing my clinical training, the only official mention of systemic oppression was isolated to one course at the very end of the program, complete with trauma-porn and overly conceptual, intellectualized conversations of structural violence. The one and only representation of me and my people was in this one course - and the only story being told was one of massive exploitation within a global context. 


  • Struggling to understand the emotional impact I was experiencing from this, my body recontextualized my experiences and began to language what I didn’t know I knew.

    For the next almost decade, I poured over activists’ blogs, books, and trainings - so much so that I started teaching at clinical graduate programs. Determined not to replicate my experience for my students, I spent 100s of hours every year to curate and revamp my syllabus, the learning materials, and the conditions for exploring these complex and often confronting realities of our work. 

    But even then, I couldn’t shake the limitations that came with teaching institutionally. Limitations that made generative conversation outside the threat of academia impossible. Limitations that restricted the safety of the space required to have fiercely transformative and lovingly challenging conversations.

    Through solidarity + dreaming, Bhupie and I connected to co-conspire a more radical way to resist the colonialism and capitalism of our profession, a more radical way to teach that actually works.

    There were just too many of us experiencing the same thing. So, we got together and made the program we needed.

Hi, I’m Bhupie

(She/her; MA, RCC-ACS)

I’m 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 my ancestors are from India. I am a cis, non-disabled, middle class, small fat woman. 

Being in spaces where we learn relationally has been the most meaningful experiences for me. I feel privileged to do this not only in my personal life but also in the ways I engage in my counselling practice and in academic/’professional’ spaces. 

  • For almost two decades, I brought what I could to create space within academic/professional settings so that we could engage in work that would be more radical and laboratory.

    Recognising that what I was doing in academia wasn’t enough nor sustainable, I began to fantasize about a more liberatory space—

    A space where we had shared ethics but different lived and living experiences; where we could invite each other into critique and feedback without backlash; where we could build more accountability practices; where we could name power, where we could shake up things if we wanted to; where honesty and vulnerability were honoured and witnessed, not fetishized; where we could dream of what would come next;

    And where we were in connection and community. 

    Abby and I connected and that was the beginning of these ideas taking a form and shape. Her solidarity and commitment to ethics made space for us to dream together about what more liberatory spaces could look like.

    And as we engaged with community, we grew and I felt more at ease knowing that we could do this together.

    I am so honoured to be a part of such an amazing group of people and so look forward to having you join us.

 

Thoughts From
Your Fellow Therapists

*Some names have been changed for anonymity

What if I don’t know enough to learn in a community setting?

What if I make a mistake or say something wrong? What if I’m harmed in community again?

The difference that actually makes a difference

Justice Fundamentals is a joint collaboration between Reflecting on Justice and Prospect Counselling. Prospect Counselling occupies the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations. 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.

Prospect Counselling is committed to providing lower-cost counselling services, disrupting capitalist values, and funding projects for collective healing within communities. Reflecting on Justice is committed to disrupting the colonial project we benefit from where 50% of their proceeds are redistributed to Indigenous organizing efforts, independent anti-oppression educators, + mutual aid efforts. So, this collaboration is in support of each other’s commitments to justice doing and collective healing. All proceeds from Justice Fundamentals are distributed between Prospect Counselling (75%), and Reflecting on Justice (25%).

Is Justice Fundamentals
right for you?

 

You’ll love the Justice Fundamentals programming if…

  • You value learning relationally and through the work of community members/activists rather than pure academia

  • You’re looking for a multi-politic program that is made specifically for the self-reflexivity needed in therapeutic work

  • You want to build foundational knowledge + skills in dismantling oppression within society, ourselves, and therapy

  • You’re looking for a community to unlearn with and the generativity that comes with it

  • You have the capacity for the vulnerability and the emotional processing that this transformative work might spark

  • You’re committed to changing the way you may be unconsciously perpetuating systemic harms.

  • You want your unlearning to support communities in direct action, right now.

You might want to pass on this program if…

  • You prefer to learn in structures of academia (aka. through lectures, research articles, tests)

  • You’re looking to deep-dive into a single-politic issue

  • You want to work through previous, specific systemic / interpersonal transgressions.

    (A therapeutic context might be more beneficial for that deep work)

  • You’re hoping to learn one-on-one outside of community (our self-study option might be a better fit)

  • You’ve got a lot going on in your life right now and are not sure if you can go through this type of work at this time (Our Resisting Collusion workshop series might be a better fit)

 

Ready to Enroll?
You’ve Got Options.


 
 

Self-Study
Tuition

(Instant Access)


  • 18x Comprehensive Co-Creation Video Modules and Slide Decks ($13,500 value);

  • Specifically Curated, Community-Based Learning Materials ($1,500 value);

  • Continuously Updating Resource Lists ($1,500 value);

  • 18x Downloadable Transcripts and Corresponding Learning Guides ($4,500 value); and

  • A certificate of completion, self-study edition

  • Opportunity for CE credits, to be approved by your regulatory body

  • PLUS! Access to our Justice in Action Discord Community


$183.34 CDN/month

for the duration of the program. Total program cost for this 6 month curriculum + 6 months post training integration: $2200 CDN+tax.

Indigenous + Black participants and POC participants can access $800 and $400 in tuition subsidies, respectively. Please use code IBSELFSTUDY or POCSELFSTUDY.

This works out to $116.67/month or $1400+tax total program cost and $150/month or $1800+tax total program cost, respectively.

Community-Study
Tuition

(Next live Cohort Starting Jan 2025)


  • 18x Comprehensive Co-Creation Video Modules and Slide Decks ($13,500 value);

  • Specifically Curated, Community-Based Learning Materials ($1,500 value);

  • Continuously Updating Resource Lists ($1,500 value);

  • 18x Downloadable Transcripts and Corresponding Learning Guides ($4,500 value);

  • 12x LIVE Bi-Weekly Community Debriefing Sessions ($10,800 value);

  • 6x LIVE Monthly Post Training Integration Calls ($5,400);

  • Individual, 1hr Consultation and Integration Call with Bhupie + Abby ($500 value); and

  • A certificate of completion, immersive Community-Study program edition

  • 89 CE credits approved by CCPA

  • PLUS! Access to our Justice in Action Discord Community;

  • AND Resisting Collusion: The Accountability Series 4-part Workshop ($450 value)


$333.33 CDN/month

for the duration of the program. Total program cost for this 6 month curriculum + 6 months post training integration: $4000 CDN+GST.

Indigenous + Black participants and POC participants can access $1000 and $500 in tuition subsidies, respectively. Please use code IBCOMSTUDY or POCCOMSTUDY.

This works out to $250/month or $3000+GST total program cost and $291.67/month or $3500+GST total program cost, respectively.

 
 

Frequently asked questions

 

 

Ready to join us?

Transforming the world starts with transforming ourselves.

Liberation begins with an untangling of what is human from what oppresses us.

Though our profession was born out of colonial ideologies and methodologies, a more anti-oppressive way to practice is possible. And you don’t have to figure this out on your own.

To paraphrase Mariame Kaba, collective liberation is built upon a tapestry of a million little experiments. A million little experiments that fundamentally change who we are and how we move through the world. 

This program was not built to tell you the one answer to liberatory practice, but to invite you in transforming with us. Want to join us?