Four questions from the Inclusive Therapists community
Inclusive Therapists is a liberation movement in the form of an online coaching and therapy directory. To join, I had to answer four very deep questions about liberation, justice, and embodiment in my coaching practice. Here are my answers.
Inclusive Therapists is a liberation movement in the form of an online coaching and therapy directory.
When my friend and colleague Augustin Kendall set up a profile there, just a few minutes of poking around showed me a community of clinicians and practitioners I very much wanted to belong to. He encouraged me to apply for membership, though he warned me cryptically that the process might be a bit intense.
That turned out to be an understatement. The process wasn’t at all contemplated: after describing my scope of practice as a coach and uploading my credentials, I just had to provide written answers to four open-ended questions. But the questions were humdingers. Answering them made me think in new ways about the land I live on and the body I live in, my identities in the social and material world, my moral values and my justifications for them, and the deep, unstated stories about harm and healing that underwrite my work.
It took me months of inquiry and fitful writing to answer all the questions, then less than a day for the zippy Inclusive Therapists team to approve my application. As a proud new member of the Inclusive Therapists community, I want to share the inquiries the four application questions provoked in me:
1. Social justice
Community safety from the inside out
2. Racial justice
How do you integrate racial justice values personally and professionally?
What I’ve been learning about racism
3. Gender and sexuality justice
How do you integrate gender and sexuality justice values personally and professionally?
Queerness and liberation
4. Disability and healing justice
How do you integrate disability and healing justice values personally and professionally?
How I am learning to be embodied
