Workshop: How EFT can help you

I'll be giving an educational talk about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
on Tuesday evening February 9th. Let me know if you want me to send a
flyer by attachment to you individually. This talk is appropriate for both the general public and therapists. Please post or forward this announcement.

Tuesday evening February 9th, 7:30pm - 9:30pm Mandana Community Recovery Center
3989 Howe Street in Oakland
FREE for Mandana members
$5 donation to Mandana requested for non-members No one turned away for lack of funds Wheelchair accessible Please refrain from wearing scented products

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is a powerful new discovery that can be described as psychological acupressure. It is a form of energy healing that has been used successfully by thousands of people for a very wide range of psychological and somatic concerns. It can be applied to just about everything, from phobias to headaches, using the same basic procedure. EFT often brings relief where other techniques have failed, and it's extremely effective, with a success rate near 90%. I will be doing a live demonstration, and also teaching you the basic EFT procedure. Once learned, it is a great self-help technique. You will have a chance to practice using it on yourself, focusing privately on the issue of your choice, without having to share the details verbally with others unless you choose to. This workshop is a condensed version of EFT, and is not meant to replace the complete official EFT training at emofree.com.

Other ways to learn more about EFT:
- Get my FREE print brochure about EFT by emailing me your name and full
postal address, and where you saw this offer.
- View my online brochure about EFT at
http://www.FeministTherapyAssociates.com/EFT.html
- Call me at 510-527-5662 x3 for a FREE half-hour phone consultation
about how EFT can help you


VALERIE IGL, MFT
www.FeministTherapyAssociates.com
VALIGL@earthlink.net
510-527-5662 x3

Bilingual Self Defense

@ the Women's Building

Monday, January 25th

Ri Molnar presents…

Bilingual Self Defense

Bilingual Self-Defense: We're hoping to create a safe space for LBGTQ and/or women of color, Spanish or English speaking (or both) to address self-defense ideology and physicality.

Auto-Defensa Bilingüe: Queremos crear un espacio seguro para mujeres de color y/o la comunidad LGBTQ o que hablan ingles o español (o los dos idiomas) abordar la ideología y físicalidad de auto-defensa.

Auditorium | 11:30a.m.-2:00 p.m. | Free, Donations Welcomed

Panel: Recognizing and Combating Human Trafficking in San

Not in Our Backyards:
Recognizing and Combating Human Trafficking in San Francisco

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
San Francisco Public Library
Koret Auditorium, Lower Level
30 Grove Street, San Francisco
(Note: This is not a Library-sponsored event.)

Tens of thousands of people are trafficked into and around the U.S. each
year. San Francisco is a hub for this criminal activity. Women, men, and
children are trafficked for forced labor, domestic servitude, prostitution,
and more. We cannot let this continue! The San Francisco Collaborative
Against Human Trafficking (SFCAHT) is hosting an Expert Panel to raise
awareness. You should attend if you want to:

§ Learn more about domestic and international human trafficking,
§ Become more aware of potential victims of trafficking in our
community, and
§ Find out what you can do to help.

Expert panelists include:

§ Nola Brantley, MISSSEY
§ Annie Fukushima, The SAGE Project
§ Cindy Liou, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
§ Lt. Mary Petrie, San Francisco Police Department

“Not in Our Backyards” will be the closing celebration for San Francisco’s
observance of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, begun
on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, January 11, 2010. The event
will also include a ceremony to announce the winner and honor the nominees
for the 1st Annual Modern Day Abolitionist Award. Don’t miss it!

For more information about SFCAHT, or to find out about other Awareness
Month events in San Francisco, visit
http://www.sf-hrc.org/index.aspx?page=58.
For questions about Not in Our Backyards, contact:
Laura Marshall, Department on the Status of Women
(415) 252-2578, laura.marshall@sfgov.org

Article: Slavery in US Prisons --An interview with Robert Hillary King and Dr. Terry Kupers

An 18,000-acre former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is the largest prison in the U.S. Today, with African Americans composing over 75% of Angola's 5,108 prisoners, prison guards known as "free men," a forced 40-hour workweek, and four cents an hour as minimum wage, the resemblance to antebellum U.S. slavery is striking. In the early 1970s, it was even worse, as prisoners were forced to work 96-hour weeks (16 hours a day/six days a week) with two cents an hour as minimum wage. Officially considered (according to its own website) the "Bloodiest Prison in the South" at this time, violence from guards and between prisoners was endemic. Prison authorities sanctioned prisoner rape, and according to former Prison Warden Murray Henderson, the prison guards actually helped facilitate a brutal system of sexual slavery where the younger and physically weaker prisoners were bought and sold into submission. As part of the notorious "inmate trusty guard" system, responsible for killing 40 prisoners and seriously maiming 350 between 1972-75, some prisoners were given state-issued weapons and ordered to enforce this sexual slavery, as well as the prison's many other injustices. Life at Angola was living hell -- a 20th century slave plantation.

read more and watch the video here.

Happy Birthday January Volunteers!

Sending a late January Birthday Shout Out to Reyna, Miriam, Patricia, Mareyna, Vanessa, Erica, Therese, Cynthia and Madeline! We hope you enjoy your birthday month and are surrounded by people who love you! We're so glad you were born!

Workshop—Level I—Powerful Non-Defensive Communication™—Weekend Workshop—Oakland, CA

Date: 2010-02-26
Time: Friday 6:30 — 9:30 p.m.
Powerful Non-Defensive Communication™ (PNDC)

Introductory Weekend Workshop:
Friday Night: The "War Model"
Saturday: Questions & Statements
Sunday: Statements & Limit Setting

With Sharon Strand Ellison, author of the book:

"Taking the War Out of Our Words"

Producer of the CD Set:
"Taking Power Struggle Out of Parenting,"
—Benjamin Franklin Award Winner
______________________________________

The Introductory "Powerful Non-Defensive Communication" workshop provides information on how our traditional communication model has been based on the "rules of war" and thus causes people to get defensive easily and engage in needless power struggle. We will examine the six typical defensive modes people use daily. We will discuss how common ways of asking questions, making statements, and giving predictions actually create and accelerate conflict. This can cause us to become controlling and manipulative, even when we have good intentions.

Learn More Here.

Training:: SOUL SUNDAY SCHOOL :: Viva Haiti!

:: SOUL SUNDAY SCHOOL :: Viva Haiti!

3 to 5pm
Sunday, January 31st
at SOUL: 287 17th Street, Suite 225 (@ Harrison)
Oakland

SOUL, the School of Unity & Liberation, invites you to a Sunday School on the current crisis in Haiti, and the call for solidarity from the Haitian people.

Nearly two weeks have passed since the devastating earthquake of January 12th. More than 150,000 Haitians have died, and hundreds of thousands more are injured and displaced. Thousands of foreign troops have now landed, and there are consistent reports of relief efforts to the poorest communities delayed because of the growing military presence. We will look at the history of un-natural disasters in Haiti, a century of US military & political interventions as well as decades of neo-liberal economic policies which spread mass destruction long before the earthquake hit. We'll discuss the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism, the history of Haitian popular resistance, and emerging demands in the solidarity movement.

We will be joined by Pierre Labossiere of Haiti Action Committee, a network of activists dedicated to supporting the movement for democracy in Haiti. Pierre is a Haitian-born activist and former trade unionist who has spent decades in the international Haitian solidarity movement; he maintains close contact with democracy activists and popular organizations in Haiti.


Light refreshments will be provided. Spanish interpretation available upon request; please request by Wednesday January 27. For more information and to RSVP, please contact info@schoolofunityandliberation.org or find SOUL at www.facebook.com/schoolofunityandliberation

Article: When Partner Abuse Leads to Pregnancy

When Partner Abuse Leads to Pregnancy
Men Who Abuse Their Partners Often Sabotage Birth Control, New Research Suggests

In some abusive relationships, men may use strategies to force women to become pregnant, including sabotaging their birth control, researchers say.
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Nearly 20 percent of women at family clinics across northern California reported that their partner tried to coerce them into having a child, sometimes using methods such as poking holes in condoms or flushing birth control pills down the toilet, Dr. Elizabeth Miller of the University of California Davis and colleagues reported online in the journal Contraception.

"It was stunning to have this many women seeking reproductive health services saying, 'this has happened to me,'" lead study author Miller said. She added that the reasons men would want their partners to bear children vary "from things like wanting to leave a legacy, to a straightforward desire for attachment, to having absolute control over her body... There are all of these elements to it."

Read More Here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/domestic-abuse-abusive-men-sabotage-birth-control/story?id=9639340&page=1

Jobs

Mission Housing

Resident Services Coordinator

Youth Empowerment Fund Advisory Board

Assistant Coordinator

People Skool at The Race, Poverty, Media Justice Institute

PeopleSkooL at The Race, Poverty, Media Justice Institute is focused on teaching non-colonizing,
community-based and community-led media, art and organizing with the goals of creating access
for silenced voices, preserving and de-gentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the
debate on poverty, homelessness, disability, migration, incarceration and race locally and globally.

See upcoming seminars here: http://www.poormag.info/RPMJ/programSeminar.html

See the flyer here: http://www.poormag.info/RPMJ/pdf/peopleSkoolScheduleEnSp.pdf

Day of Action for Reproductive Justice

Day of Action for Reproductive Justice

Stop the War on Women

Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 10am Justin Herman Plaza's Music Concourse, San Francisco

RALLY & MARCH: Against the Right Wing "Walk for Life - West Coast".

10 am: Gather at Music Concourse outside of Embarcadero BART (click HERE for a map) for music, speakers and rally

11:30 to 12noon: Prepare to march

OUR DEMANDS:

-- Affordable, accessible abortion without apology
-- No insurance companies, no restrictions: universal healthcare now.
-- An end to sexual violence and rightwing terrorism
-- Protection for pro-choice doctors, our heroes. RIP Dr. Tiller
-- Civil rights for queers, immigrants and women

Activists, Volunteers and Endorsers NEEDED for the upcoming Jan. 23, 2010 Day of Action for Reproductive Justice. Please call 415-864-1278 and ask for Anita for more information, or email bacorrinfo.yahoo.com.

Free Massage!

Contact Lisa if you want to get hooked up with a free massage!!! They're filling up fast!

Resource Spotlight: El/La

El/La

El-La program is based in beautiful San Fran and was developed to reach out to the trans-latina community in and around the mission neighborhood. We provide services for hiv prevention, counseling and referrals for all services available to transgender girls and those in transition as well. Feel free to call 415-864-7278 for an appointment or you can always e-mail el.latgprogram@yahoo.com


El/La was defunded! Watch this video to learn more about their mission and what they're doing to stay alive as a resource for trans latinas.

Energy Healing Intro night 01/24/10 6:30-8:30 pm

January 24, 6:30-8:30 pm

Location: Temescal in North Oakland

Suggested donation: $20.00

Hi folks:

Here is an opportunity to get a taste of how I practice and teach energy healing;

to help you decide if you want to participate in:

a new Energy Healing class beginning January 31st

and/or

a Monday night drop-in clinic

for this Intro night, we will:

* do a guided meditation to clear your energy channels & awaken the hand chakras

* answer your Qs about energy healing and the upcoming course

* have the opportunity to experience some energy healing

For directions, please RSVP with your Name & contact info to Vanissar:

vanissar@cs.com or (510) 594-6812

About the instructor:

Vanissar Tarakali, Ph.D. is a teacher and healer who has provided energywork to beings for pain, stress relief and life transitions for over 27 years. Her commitment is to provide a compassionate space within which pain, stress, trauma, oppression, transitions and spiritual concerns can be witnessed and transformed. Inspired by her sexual abuse recovery and spiritual emergence process, she is dedicated to healing intimate and social oppression and cultivating allyship. She has studied Reiki, polarity, chakra balancing, and meditation, and is an ongoing student of Tibetan Buddhism, intuitive reading with Phyllis Pay, and Generative Somatics with Staci Haines and Denise Benson.

workshop: Undoing Oppression Through the Body

Our bodies store information. Anyone who has relied on "muscle memory" to drive a car or use a keyboard knows it is true. Unfortunately, that means that our bodies also store trauma and the behaviors we learned for dealing with it, and then we repeat those behaviors in new situations, often to painful effect.

On Saturday, January 23, Victor Lee Lewis and Vanissar Tarakali will offer a one-day workshop designed to work with those embodiments of trauma related to oppression and offer empowering alternatives to them. Join us for

Undoing Oppression Through the Body
with Victor Lee Lewis and Vanissar Tarakali

Saturday, January 23, 2010 10am-5pm

This embodied workshop for both people of color and white people will explore the impact of trauma (personal, intimate, social) on our experiences of oppression, our participation in oppressive systems, and our efforts to free ourselves from both. Assuming that oppression traumatizes both targets and agents, we’ll work with trauma and shame as they live in the bodymind, introducing concrete practices for engaging consciously with adaptations that keep oppression and privilege in place and discovering empowering alternatives.

Participants will spend time in both joint sessions and POC/white caucuses. People of color will explore ways to recover resilience in addressing racism and internalized racism. White allies will become conscious of automatic behaviors that interfere with efforts to undo racism and learn effective ways of working with them. People in both groups will become more resourceful in managing feelings of anger, fear, overwhelm, discouragement, “burnout” and stress in themselves and others.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from two pioneers in the field of social justice education. Victor Lee Lewis, MA, is a social justice educator/healer with more than 25 years of experience. Best known for his role in the groundbreaking film The Color of Fear, he is pioneering new ways to bring fast, deep and lasting emotional healing into social justice education. Vanissar Tarakali combines intimate and social trauma expertise, anti-oppression education, a Ph.D. in East-West psychology, and a deep understanding of the body's intuitive, energetic, survival and healing mechanisms to design embodied educational programs.

Sliding scale: $80-180
Location: First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St. in Oakland
Email ntorbett@seminaryofthestreet.org to sign up.

Please forward this email to others you think might be interested.

Check out our other upcoming workshops and classes:

* Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself: A Laboratory for Cultivating the Love That Does Justice

* Who Is Jesus? A Dogma-Free Discussion of the Historical Jesus

* SIMPLIFY: Finding a Path Toward Greater Freedom and Creativity in an Era of Scarcity and Greed

* Be a Resource in Your Community (Free!)

* Shame and White Allies Working for Racial Justice

* Contemplative Practices for Lent

* Empathy in the Workplace (Free!)

Visit our website for more information on all of these offerings, and email me to register. (Advanced registration is requested.)

Love and blessings,

Nichola Torbett

Founding Director, Seminary of the Street

Job: Movement Building Manager @ Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice

http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/SiteIndex/Search/search?assetTypes=Job&keywords=ACRJ&keywordsAsString=ACRJ&languageDesignation=en

Article: Asian American Women Battle Depression

Asian American women are more likely than any other group to contemplate suicide, according to a recent University of Washington study. And this likelihood increases the longer they’ve lived in the U.S.

Read More Here.

Article: Captured by the Clueless

Last week, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report that revealed about 12 percent of youths nationwide held in state-run, privately run or local facilities reported some type of sexual victimization including forced sexual activity with other youth and staff. Staff sexual misconduct was higher in state-run facilities.

It was the first report of its kind by the Justice Department, and the prevalence of sexual abuse by staff, particularly female workers, shocked even advocates. At our offices, we drew a deep breath and acknowledged the report as an addition to a growing list of reminders that incarcerating youth - the majority of whom are locked up for nonviolent offenses - is expensive, unproductive and harmful.

Read More Here.

Article: Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans

http://colorlines.com/article.php?ID=673&p=1

Tabitha has been working as a prostitute in New Orleans since she was 13. Now 30 years old, she can often be found working on a corner just outside of the French Quarter. A small and slight white woman, she has battled both drug addiction and illness and struggles every day to find a meal or a place to stay for the night. These days, Tabitha, who asked that her real name not be used in this story, has yet another burden: a stamp printed on her driver’s license labels her a sex offender. Her crime? Sex work.

Read More at the link above.

Job Announcement: Fundraising Coordinator

Dolores Street Community Services works to prevent homelessness, create affordable housing, build community, and empower low-income residents of San Francisco. We accomplish this through culturally appropriate neighborhood-based services, education, advocacy, and community organizing. In addition to being a provider of direct services and doing advocacy on behalf of the communities we serve since our beginning in 1982, the organization has expanded its work over the past several years to include community organizing on important neighborhood issues including immigrant rights, land use planning, and improving conditions and empowering tenants in Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels. Find out more at www.dscs.org.

We are seeking a Fundraising Coordinator through the Federal stimulus Jobs Now program. To qualify for the program, you must be a San Francisco resident with an income over the past month that is less than 200% the federal poverty level, and be a parent of at least one child that is younger than 18 years of age. More information on the program can be found at www.sfhsa.org.

Resource Spotlight: Highland Sexual Assault Center

Highland is the equivalent of the Trauma Recovery Center in Alameda County. They have the same services with support groups, 24 hr crisis line, rape kits, etc. Keep them in mind for survivors in the East Bay! :)

Support the Trauma Recovery Center

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Where should victims of violence turn for hope?
Now more than ever, San Francisco needs the Trauma Recovery Center.

The Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) is an award-winning, nationally recognized program that has removed barriers to care and has helped victims recover from the devastating aftermath of interpersonal violence. The TRC serves some of San Francisco’s most vulnerable citizens: victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, gun shot injuries, stabbings and family members of homicide victims.

There is no other program in San Francisco that duplicates TRC services.

Without City and County funding, the TRC will be forced to close on March 1, 2010, and hundreds of victims will not have access to these services.

What you can do to help:

1) Please call and e-mail Mayor Newsom and members of the Board of Supervisors. The telephone numbers and e-mail addresses are attached.

Phone calls: A simple phone call message stating: “I am calling to urge the Mayor or Supervisor X to support the Trauma Recovery Center and to put it back into the City budget.”

E-Mail messages: Please e-mail the Mayor and members of the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee. It is fine to send one e-mail, addressed to all the Board of Supervisors at once. A simple message like the one above would be helpful.

Contacts:	Phone:	E-mail:
*Mayor Gavin Newsom	554-6141	gavin.newsom@sfgov.org
*Supervisor John Avalos (Budget Committee)	554-6975	john.avalos@sfgov.org
*Supervisor Carmen Chu (Budget Committee)	554-7460	carmen.chu@sfgov.org
*Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi (Budget Committee)	554-7630	ross.mirkarimi@sfgov.org
*Supervisor David Chiu (Board President)	554-7450	david.chiu@sfgov.org
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier	554-7752	michela.alioto-pier@sfgov.org
Supervisor David Campos	554-5144	david.campos@sfgov.org
Supervisor Chris Daly	554-7970	chris.daly@sfgov.org
Supervisor Bevan Dufty	554-6968	bevan.dufty@sfgov.org
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd	554-6516	sean.elsbernd@sfgov.org
Supervisor Eric Mar	554-7410	Eric.L.Mar@sfgov.org
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell	554-7670	sophie.maxwell@sfgov.org

2) If you can only make a few phone calls, names with an * are the most important contacts to call.

I know how busy you are, but it should take about 5 minutes to make these calls or to send an email and yet your help will have a huge impact.

For more information, please see the attached TRC Fact Sheet. Thank you for your help and support. It is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Stacey Wiggall

Stacey Wiggall, LCSW
Trauma Recovery Center
(415) 437-3010

Mas Vale Prevenir Que Lamentar

¿Quiere ahorrar su dinero
y/o establecer su crédito?
¡Venga a “Mas Vale Prevenir Que Lamentar”
y aprenda sobre los servicios de
EL FONDO POPULAR DE LA MISSION!
Jueves 21 de Enero
11:00am-12:30pm
En el Salón 301 del
Centro Familiar El Buen Samaritano
1294 Potrero Ave (entre 24 y 25), San Francisco
INFORMESE AL 415-401-4251
Habrán refrescos, bocadillos y cuidado de niños (1-4 ½ años, espacio limitado)

Undoing Oppression Through the Body

Undoing Oppression Through the Body
with Victor Lee Lewis and Vanissar Tarakali

Saturday, January 23, 2010 10am-5pm

This embodied workshop for both people of color and white racial justice allies will explore the impact of trauma (personal, intimate, social) on our experiences of oppression, our participation in oppressive systems, and our efforts to free ourselves from both. By employing concrete tools and practices, we’ll work with trauma and shame as they live in the bodymind, helping participants engage consciously with adaptations that keep oppression and privilege in place.

Participants will spend time in both joint sessions and POC/white caucuses. People of color will explore ways to recover resilience in addressing racism and internalized racism. White allies will become conscious of automatic behaviors that interfere with efforts to undo racism and be allies to people of color. People in both groups will become more resourceful in managing feelings of anger, fear, overwhelm, discouragement, “burnout” and stress in themselves and others.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from two pioneers in the field of social justice education. Victor Lewis, best known for his role in the groundbreaking film The Color of Fear, is pioneering new ways to bring together education, bodymind healing, and leadership coaching. Vanissar Tarakali combines intimate and social trauma expertise, anti-oppression education, a Ph.D. in East-West psychology, and a deep understanding of the body's intuitive, energetic, survival and healing mechanisms to design embodied educational programs.

Saturday, January 23, 2010
10am-5pm
Sliding scale: $80-180
First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St. in Oakland
Email ntorbett@seminaryofthestreet.org to sign up.