To: s-acc@yahoogroups.com
From: "dis_course" <dis_course@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 11:21:21 -0700
Subject: [s-acc] ideation event
Hi
As "client/survivor" people we are not looking at "infant trauma" based on the intellectual excitement of the question. Rather we are facing damage from the behavioral critique of "ideation" that's commonly used to justify us being behaviorally controlled. What is the 'truth'? That's where the "rubber hits the road" and where MLK, Jr.'s Vision of "creative maladjustment" based on the values of "freedom and dignity" properly comes into play.
Yesterday, the Mental Health Clients Association of San Jose City College gave a (lightly attended) "community forum" on "Overcoming Trauma, Building Cultures of Peace." Because we are fighting such deep & 'dangerous' issues of truth, many people who helped with this couldn't even make it to the meeting (includes the MHCA President, an invited presenter, the MHCA representative to the student government, others).
We are trying to create "work spaces of creative maladjustment" with this list, and we did so with this event. Latika Mangrulkar, with
Psychologists for Social Responsibility brought a strong personal advocacy for creative maladjustment and the "path with heart." Delphine Brody, with the California Network, defended the people whose feelings of trauma were brought to the surface by this engaging dialogue. [They presented as individuals, not as representatives of their organizations.]"Real transformation" of the system involves constructing the social space for us to reach out from our "infant trauma" and become the selves we are capable of being. This event gave a glimpse of how the collaboration of "client/survivor" activism and "social justice" psychology could support the "paths with 'heart'."
Andrew Phelps
faculty advisor, MHCA of SJCC