Decolonizing Clinical Practice Workshop Series
Deepening the work together
Decolonizing therapy practice is not a single step or a new set of techniques. It is a lifelong process of reflection, unlearning, and remembering. Many clinicians have already begun this journey, questioning traditional frameworks, integrating relational and land-based understandings, and inviting humility into their practice.
The Decolonizing Clinical Practice Workshop Series is a three-part process for therapists, social workers, and supervisors who have already started this work and are ready to go deeper. Each two-hour session offers space to reflect, learn, and dialogue in community. This is a live, experiential series and sessions are not recorded in order to protect the depth and integrity of the process. This approach supports those who are committed to decolonizing your therapy practice with presence and intention.
About the Series
This series is designed for experienced practitioners who want more than theory. Together, we explore how decolonial practice moves through our relationships, our language, and our daily therapeutic work. This is an opportunity to look closely at how decolonizing your therapy practice shows up in real time.
Each session includes guided reflection, small-group dialogue, and embodied exploration. These processes help you connect the conceptual with the personal. Participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions because each one builds on the last, weaving a fuller understanding of decolonial clinical practice.
Session breakdown
Session 1: Decolonizing Our Perspectives of Relational Therapeutic Processes
In our opening session, we begin by looking at how colonial worldviews have shaped what helping and healing have meant within mental health systems. We explore questions such as:
How do power and hierarchy show up in our therapeutic relationships?
How can we reimagine relational processes through cultural humility and reciprocity?
Through reflective dialogue and shared inquiry, participants begin identifying where colonial patterns still live within their practice and how to create space for more relational, co-created forms of care.
Session 2: Decolonizing Therapeutic Processes, Recognizing Sacredness
In this session, we turn toward the sacred, the often-overlooked dimension of therapy that exists beyond diagnosis, theory, or technique. We explore:
What it means to move from helping to mutuality
How to recognize sacredness in clinical spaces without appropriating spiritual traditions
How to invite reverence, stillness, and ceremony into therapeutic encounters
This session is grounded in respect for cultural boundaries and guided by facilitators who bring experience in both clinical and community settings. The goal is not to replace one framework with another. Instead, it invites deeper awareness of how to hold healing as a sacred and relational act while decolonizing your therapy practice in a grounded and ethical way.
Session 3: Continuing the Journey
In this session, we turn toward what it means to carry decolonial practice forward in a sustainable and embodied way. We look at how healing is supported when practitioners reconnect with body, land, community, and spirit, and how these connections strengthen the integrity of our clinical work.
We explore practices that help you root your work in balance and relational accountability. Together, we reflect on:
Ways to restore connection between body, land, and spirit in healing work
Mino bimaadiziwin, the good life, living in balance, harmony, and well-being
Centering collective processes to safeguard individual healing
This closing session supports participants in integrating their learning and continuing this path with clarity, intention, and care.
Who This Workshop is for
This series is for practitioners who already have foundational knowledge in cultural humility, anti-oppressive frameworks, or decolonizing theory. It is ideal for:
Therapists and counsellors committed to deepening relational practice
Social workers who want to embody decolonial values within systems and communities
Clinical supervisors fostering decolonial reflection in their teams and organizations
If you are newer to these ideas, we recommend beginning with an introductory workshop on decolonizing your therapy practice before joining this series.
Our Approach
At Wiidookodaadiwin, our work is rooted in relationship with self, with others, with land, and with culture. The word Wiidookodaadiwin comes from the Anishnaabe (Ojibwe) language and means helping one another. That teaching lives at the heart of this series.
Our facilitators bring together diverse cultural and clinical perspectives. We invite curiosity, honesty, and humility. We do not promise answers. Instead, we create space for authentic exploration and collective accountability. Learning in this space is slow, relational, and grounded. It asks for your full presence and supports the ongoing commitment of decolonizing your therapy practice.