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Creating a justice-informed DBT resource: Call for participants

Creating a justice-informed DBT resource: Call for participants

by | May 1, 2021 | BPD Superpowers, Calls for Participants, Collaborations, DBT project

The BPD Superpowers group has set our sights on an important new project, and we’re launching it in May for BPD Awareness Month!

We want to create an accessible DBT resource that is informed by our deeply held values of disability justice rather than ableism, decolonization rather than colonialism, collective action rather than individualism, and neurodiversity rather than pathology.

We recognize that DBT has been an incredibly helpful framework and set of skills for so many folks, many of whom identify with borderline personality disorder (and many who don’t!). We also recognize that many of the existing resources and many of the established ways of teaching the skills are ableist, individualist, and expensive, which means it has often been most accessible to white folks with financial privilege. In this project, we hope to honour what is valuable about this set of skills, and stand against what has been harmful.

Does this sound like a project you would like to be involved in?

Have you had experience with DBT resources, either through group or individual therapy, or self-directed using books or other resources?

We would love to hear from you!

Please note: Although this project is going ahead, the scheduled community conversations are going to be postponed. Individual conversations can still be arranged, and community conversations will be rescheduled.

We will be hosting two facilitated community conversations, through Zoom, in May.

Register to attend below:

Register for May 15, 1-2:30 pm Mountain time.

Register for May 18, 5-6:30 pm Mountain time.

If neither of these times work for you and you would like to be involved, email Tiffany to set up an individual conversation.

If you do not have lived experience with accessing DBT resources, but you do want to be involved in our BPD Awareness Month events, you can join us for a webinar on the topic of Distress Tolerance: Stories, Skills, and Strategies for Hard Times on May 22 from 1-2:30 pm Mountain time. Register for the zoom link, or read more about the webinar here.

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