2017 Schedule
Event Title
Integral Scholarship
Location
Room 306
Start Date
21-4-2017 5:30 PM
End Date
21-4-2017 7:00 PM
Description
Monica Mody
The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture.
This Pesentation uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, abjected sacred feminine and, thereby, motherlines in South Asia. The borderlands is conceived of as an integrative consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression work. Creating self-affirming, complex images of female identity, and making revisionist myths—while engaging the self in relation to culture— constitutes a decolonial practice. It enables South Asian women—as the Others of colonial modernity and brahmanical patriarchy—to renew their relation to an episteme of the sacred that liberates their voices, vitality, and authority. The post-secular sacred locates as essential a critical interrogation of all forms of oppression. The researcher enacts this decolonial recovery at the edges of her South Asian/brown postcolonial feminist subjectivity. The borderlands framework makes possible a profoundly relational, integrative onto-epistemological praxis that forefronts the grandmothers, the foremothers, and the experiences of women of color on their own terms.
Penélope Mato Vilar
Integral Group Psychotherapy, a group therapy model to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in refugees.
In recent years, spirituality and religion have been incorporated within the psychotherapy process as a diversity variable when treating victims and survivors of trauma. Spirituality, however, is emerging as one of the core cultural elements that should be explored and considered when clinicians treat trauma in group psychotherapy. It is important that, at the time of clinical intervention for support and treatment of PTSD in refugees, the mental health professionals think about building adequate cultural containers. One possibility to build these cultural containers could be through group interventions. This presentation addresses Integral group therapy as a model for clinical group intervention to treat PTSD in refugees, based on the three principles of Integral T-groups and mindfulness practices adapted to the cultural profile of the members.
Event Type
Presentation
Integral Scholarship
Room 306
Monica Mody
The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture.
This Pesentation uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, abjected sacred feminine and, thereby, motherlines in South Asia. The borderlands is conceived of as an integrative consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression work. Creating self-affirming, complex images of female identity, and making revisionist myths—while engaging the self in relation to culture— constitutes a decolonial practice. It enables South Asian women—as the Others of colonial modernity and brahmanical patriarchy—to renew their relation to an episteme of the sacred that liberates their voices, vitality, and authority. The post-secular sacred locates as essential a critical interrogation of all forms of oppression. The researcher enacts this decolonial recovery at the edges of her South Asian/brown postcolonial feminist subjectivity. The borderlands framework makes possible a profoundly relational, integrative onto-epistemological praxis that forefronts the grandmothers, the foremothers, and the experiences of women of color on their own terms.
Penélope Mato Vilar
Integral Group Psychotherapy, a group therapy model to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in refugees.
In recent years, spirituality and religion have been incorporated within the psychotherapy process as a diversity variable when treating victims and survivors of trauma. Spirituality, however, is emerging as one of the core cultural elements that should be explored and considered when clinicians treat trauma in group psychotherapy. It is important that, at the time of clinical intervention for support and treatment of PTSD in refugees, the mental health professionals think about building adequate cultural containers. One possibility to build these cultural containers could be through group interventions. This presentation addresses Integral group therapy as a model for clinical group intervention to treat PTSD in refugees, based on the three principles of Integral T-groups and mindfulness practices adapted to the cultural profile of the members.
Comments
Presenters:
Monica Mody is a poet, writer, and transdisciplinary theorist born in Ranchi, India. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A., LL.B.(Hons.) from the National Law of India University. Monica received the postgraduate Sparks Prize in 2010 for her manuscript, KALA PANI, which was subsequently published by 1913 Press. She also has three chapbooks of poetry out, along with poems and essays in journals and anthologies. She has been a recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship at Naropa University, and the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing. At CIIS, she received the 2013 Social Justice and Community Service Grant. Through 2015-16, Monica participated in the Standing in Our Power Transformational Leadership Institute for women of color. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in East-West Psychology at CIIS. She recently presented her doctoral research at the American Academy of Religion, Western Region, and the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.
Penélope Mato Vilar is an MA student in the Integral Counseling Program at CIIS, currently doing her clinical practicum at Golden Gate Integral Counseling Center. Prior to her clinical training, she worked as an organizational development consultant and trainer for organizations in Spain and Venezuela, specializing in leadership and professional transitions. She has also worked for resettlement organizations as an instructor and mentor to immigrants and marginalized population, providing them with tools to help them integrate into mainstream society. She is passionate about researching and developing clinical holistic interventions that support people who experienced traumatic situations during complex migratory processes.