Resumen
"Social workers are bridge builders between groups, organizations, governments, countries with the potential to support setting limits, defining needs, and strengthening capacity for mutual understanding. Yet social work practice is infiltrated with echoes of colonialism, capitalism, ableism, and patriarchal thinking and relating in the world. Somatic social work practices seek to unravel our conditioned responses shaped by oppression and trauma. When social workers teach somatic practices to clients in clinical work, we co-regulate with and support our clients’ ability to regulate their own nervous system, and thus increase their ability to face challenging circumstances, set limits, and navigate the “triggers” from traumatic experiences.What might this look like on the macro level? How could traditions across the globe that align with natural cycles and celebrate interdependence be reflected in our policies and practices? How might our macro practices help stretch our social nervous system to hold more joy and connection, to help us more skillfully move through grief, fear and uncertainty as cultures and nations?Using art as a medium for exploration, we are creating a multisensory vision board to imagine what a macro somatic social work practice might look, feel, sound, smell and taste like. Through images, sounds and textures, we will imagine a social work practice that marries indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, organizing, and problem solving, in concert with the natural world. We will frame them within the language of neuroscience to contextualize these practices. "\
Palabras Clave (separar con comas)
Art as intervention, decolonial practices, somatic social work, macro social work, creative social work practices\