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Free Community workshops

Caring for Palestine, Caring for Ourselves: a free online workshop
7 pm PT Tuesday June 11 2024(BIPOC group) 7 pm PT June 18 2024(open group)

As the world bears witness, the genocide in Gaza continue. If you are engaging in solidarity work* with Palestine right now, you are likely struggling. You may be experiencing high anxiety, deep fatigue, numbness, dissociation, hyper-arousal, or other trauma responses that push you to overwork to the point of breaking, or leave you feeling frozen and unable to act.

No matter how you are affected, it’s important to take care of yourself through this time.

This free workshop is designed to offer gentleness and healing to those witnessing and experiencing ongoing trauma. I will offer some grounding exercises to help protect you from vicarious trauma and burnout. You will also have space to share and witness.

The workshop will run for one hour and will take place over Zoom.

BIPOC only group Tuesday June 11, 2025, 7 pm PT
This group is for participants who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour.

Open group Wednesday June 18, 2024, 7 pm PT
This group is open to all participants.

Registration is required. Please contact me at matsui@genderoo.com to register, with BIPOC group registration or Open group registration the subject line of your email. Registration will close 48 hours before the workshop start.

*Solidarity work looks different for everyone, and includes many forms of emotional labour, self and community care as well as direct action. Here are a few examples.

  • Honouring your own ancestral, familial, cultural and community ties to Palestine
  • Donating money, or volunteering time and skills
  • Sharing information through conversations, letter writing, phone calls and social media
  • Organizing or attending rallies and protests
  • Offering to support to others who are affected, including listening, sharing resources, making food, child care, household chores, and anything else that is needed

Or any other actions that keep your heart connected with the people of Palestine.


About the facilitator

I’m Matsui De Roo (they/them/theirs) and I’m a queer, trans, nonbinary neurodivergent person of colour with ancestors from Japan, Belgium, France and Ireland. I am grateful to live and work on the unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilw̓ ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) Nations.

I’m a registered clinical counsellor and clinical supervisor, with more than two decades experience working within my community, including workshop facilitation, counselling, and low barrier gender affirming care.

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